Attitude and Orientation System (AOCS) Tasks on Rendezvous and Docking (RVD) (Docking-Undocking Phases). Architecture of the Whole Simulator. Volume 2

摘要

The architecture of a spacecraft docking simulator is described. The main functions are: geometrical definition of the spacecraft shape and of the interfacing docking mechanism; dynamic definition of the spacecraft in terms of mass, inertia, stiffness, damping, flexible eigenvectors, and eigenvalues; geometrical interference analysis, localization of the impact point, force or impulse exchanged, integration step control (PREP); preparation and manipulation of the input-output information flow between PREP and DCAP-1; motion simulation (DCAP-1); postelaboration of the output of DCAP-1, reconstruction of the whole geometry; and its visualization.