This course is part 2 of the specialization Advanced Spacecraft Dynamics and Control. It assumes you have a strong foundation in spacecraft dynamics and control, including particle dynamics, rotating frame, rigid body kinematics and kinetics. The focus of the course is to understand key analytical mechanics methodologies to develop equations of motion in an algebraically efficient manner. The course starts by first developing D’Alembert’s principle and how the associated virtual work and virtual displacement concepts allows us to ignore non-working force terms. Unconstrained systems and holonomic constrains are investigated. Next Kane's equations and the virtual power form of D'Alembert's equations are briefly reviewed for particles.
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Informações sobre o curso
Graduate course on Spacecraft Dynamics and Control, background in vector calculus, linear algebra, basic differential equations.
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Use virtual work methods to develop equations of motion of mechanical systems.
Understand how to use Lagrange multipliers to study constrained dynamical systems.
Be able to derive the equations of motion of a spacecraft with flexible sub-components.
Habilidades que você terá
- Lagrangian Dynamics
- holonomic constraints
- D'Alembert's Principle
- Hamilton's Extended Principle
- multi-body dynamics
Graduate course on Spacecraft Dynamics and Control, background in vector calculus, linear algebra, basic differential equations.
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Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
Generalized Methods of Analytical Mechanics
Energy Based Equations of Motion
Variational Methods in Analytical Dynamics
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