Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin, 1415 Johnson Drive, Madison, W1 53706, U.S.A.
Space Division, General Electric Co., Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, PA 19406, U.S.A.
Abstract:
This is the second part of the investigation, the first part being “stability”. It is demonstrated that by monitoring the deformations of the flexible elements of a satellite, the effectiveness of the satellite control system can be increased considerably with the same given control system. A simple model of a flexible satellite was analyzed in the first part of this work. The same model is used here for digital computer simulations.