2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Constant Rate Tether Deployment and its Development

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24760662
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Aerospace engineering
Research Institution	Nagoya University
Principal Investigator	TAKEICHI Noboru 名古屋大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (90371153)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	テザーシステム / 伸展機構 / 信頼性
Research Abstract	It is aimed to develop a tether deployment strategy that is able to assure the successful deployment. Through the numerical simulation on the tether behavior during the deployment, it is clarified that the constant rate deployment can achieve the reliable deployment because it eliminates the deployment resistance that is practically impossible to estimate in advance. Through the experiment using the prototype constant rate deployment mechanism, it is confirmed that the mechanism can perform the constant rate deployment even subject to the tether tension fluctuation or the motor single-failure.

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