Video 1: For those of you who don't have the time or patience to read through my last two blog entries, this video will serve as a short (10 minute) summmary of the content that follows in the blog.
Introduction
Howdy Again All,
So in my last blog, I discussed the process of modeling and analyzing the attitude dynamics of a rigid, orbital spacecraft via a linearized approximation model. At the end of that blog I remarked on the necessity of modeling the entire spacecraft properly, in a nonlinear fashion. Well, that modeling and analysis is what I hope to discuss in this blog. Essentially, I will be modeling the same spacecraft, with the same moment input at approximately 15 seconds in time while utilizing the three nonlinear equations of motion of our spacecraft. If this sounds interesting to you, or if you just want to numb your brain with some abstract mathematical goodness, feel free to read on.
So in my last blog, I discussed the process of modeling and analyzing the attitude dynamics of a rigid, orbital spacecraft via a linearized approximation model. At the end of that blog I remarked on the necessity of modeling the entire spacecraft properly, in a nonlinear fashion. Well, that modeling and analysis is what I hope to discuss in this blog. Essentially, I will be modeling the same spacecraft, with the same moment input at approximately 15 seconds in time while utilizing the three nonlinear equations of motion of our spacecraft. If this sounds interesting to you, or if you just want to numb your brain with some abstract mathematical goodness, feel free to read on.