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In this contribution we consider a chain of two coupled Lagrange gyrostats moving about a fixed point in a non-homogeneous gravitational field and show the existence of the following stabilization effect: for a gyrostat that is in its unstable equilibrium position, there is another gyrostat such that, when the two of them are coupled to form this chain, the rotation of the latter gyrostat can be used to stabilize the equilibrium of the former one. We establish and analyze stabilization conditions in the space of mechanical parameters characterizing the chain.
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Support for this project was provided by a PSC-CUNY Award, jointly funded by The Professional Staff Congress and The City University of New York (Award # 68091-00 46). The work of the second and third authors was supported by the NASA New York Space Grant CCPP Program.
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The coefficients μ 6, μ 5, …, μ 0 of \(\varLambda _{3}\) in (8) admit the following representation in terms of the dimensionless parameters κ 1, κ 2, κ 3, κ 4.
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Chebanov, D., Mosina, N., Salas, J. (2016). On Stabilization of an Unbalanced Lagrange Gyrostat. In: Bélair, J., Frigaard, I., Kunze, H., Makarov, R., Melnik, R., Spiteri, R. (eds) Mathematical and Computational Approaches in Advancing Modern Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30379-6_6
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