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超大型多模块结构组装过程动力学与姿态控制

DYNAMICS AND ATTITUDE CONTROL OF THE ASSEMBLY PROCESS OF ULTRA-LARGE MULTI-MODULE STRUCTURES

  • 摘要: 机器人在轨自主组装是未来建造超大型航天结构最具潜力的方式. 超大型结构通常包含多个模块, 需要机器人在柔性结构上反复进行抓捕、安装和爬行等操作. 此外, 组装过程中结构还受到空间环境干扰力的影响, 需要经历构型的增长和参数的变化, 导致其动力学行为非常复杂. 为了研究机器人空间组装超大型多模块结构的过程, 提出了一套轨道−姿态−结构耦合动力学、规划与控制的仿真框架. 首先, 采用自然坐标法和绝对节点坐标法建立主结构、空间机器人和组装模块的轨道−姿态−结构耦合动力学模型, 采用Kelvin-Voigt线性弹簧阻尼模型描述机器人末端夹持机构和模块对接机构的接触碰撞. 然后, 对机器人进行运动规划、轨迹规划和关节轨迹跟踪控制研究. 最后, 采用不同的组装姿态和不同的姿态控制方案对组装过程进行动力学仿真. 仿真结果表明, 由于质心位置的改变和组装模块的轨道差异, 主结构在组装过程中可能会出现显著的轨道漂移(取决于组装姿态). 如果模块沿轨道半径方向组装到主结构, 将导致组装过程长半轴和离心率出现快速增长; 反之, 如果模块沿轨道切向组装, 长半轴和离心率基本保持不变. 此外, 即使采用了万有引力梯度稳定的组装姿态, 仍需进行姿态控制和结构振动控制, 以减小结构振动幅值, 降低机器人与结构的碰撞风险, 提高组装精度和组装效率.

     

    Abstract: Autonomous robotic assemble is the most promising approach to construct ultra-large space structures in the future. Ultra-large space structures usually is consisted of multiple modules, which requires the robot to perform repetitive tasks such as capturing, installing, and crawling on the flexible structure. In addition, the structure is affected by space environmental forces during the assembly process and experiences the growth in configuration and changes for parameters, which makes its dynamic behaviors very complicated. In order to study the assembly process of ultra-large multi-module structures in space, a simulation framework is proposed for the orbit-attitude-structure coupled dynamics, planning, and control. Firstly, natural coordinate formulation and absolute nodal coordinate formulation are used to establish an orbit-attitude-structure coupled model for the main structure, space robot, and assembly modules. The Kelvin-Voigt linear spring-damper model is employed to describe the contact and collision for the robot's gripper and the module's docking mechanism. Then, the motion planning, trajectory planning and joint trajectory tracking control of the robot are studied. Finally, dynamic simulations of the assembly process are carried out with different assembly attitude angles and attitude control schemes. Simulation results reveal that the main structure may experience significant orbital drift during assembly (depending on the assembly attitude) due to the change of the center of mass and the orbital difference between the main structure and assembly module. When the structural modules are assembled to the main structure in the radial direction, the semi-major axis and orbital eccentricity of the system will increase greatly. In contrast, the semi-major axis and orbital eccentricity remains unchanged when the structural modules are assembled in the tangential direction. In addition, even if the gravity-gradient-stability attitude is adopted, both attitude control and structural vibration control are necessary to reduce the vibration amplitude of the structures, minimize collision risk between the robot and structure, and improve assembly accuracy and assembly efficiency.

     

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