Development and Evaluation of an Order-N Formulation for Multi-Flexible Body Space SystemsThis paper presents development of a generic recursive Order-N algorithm for systems with rigid and flexible bodies, in tree or closed-loop topology, with N being the number of bodies of the system. Simulation results are presented for several test cases to verify and evaluate the performance of the code compared to an existing efficient dense mass matrix-based code. The comparison brought out situations where Order-N or mass matrix-based algorithms could be useful.
Document ID
20130009745
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Ghosh, Tushar K. (L-3 Communications Corp. Houston, TX, United States)
Quiocho, Leslie J. (NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)