Evolution of Rotations of a Rigid Body Under the Action of Restoring and Control Moments

Author(s):  
L. D. Akulenko ◽  
D. D. Leshchenko ◽  
T. A. Kozachenko

Perturbed rotations of a rigid body close to the regular precession in the Lagrangian case under the action of a restoring moment depending on slow time and nutation angle, as well as a perturbing moment slowly varying with time, are studied. The body is assumed to spin rapidly, and the restoring and perturbing moments are assumed to be small with a certain hierarchy of smallness of the components. A first approximation averaged system of equations of motion for an essentially nonlinear two-frequency system is obtained in the nonresonance case. Examples of motion of a body under the action of particular restoring, perturbing, and control moments of force are considered.

Author(s):  
Andreas Müller ◽  
Shivesh Kumar

AbstractDerivatives of equations of motion (EOM) describing the dynamics of rigid body systems are becoming increasingly relevant for the robotics community and find many applications in design and control of robotic systems. Controlling robots, and multibody systems comprising elastic components in particular, not only requires smooth trajectories but also the time derivatives of the control forces/torques, hence of the EOM. This paper presents the time derivatives of the EOM in closed form up to second-order as an alternative formulation to the existing recursive algorithms for this purpose, which provides a direct insight into the structure of the derivatives. The Lie group formulation for rigid body systems is used giving rise to very compact and easily parameterized equations.


Author(s):  
X. Tong ◽  
B. Tabarrok

Abstract In this paper the global motion of a rigid body subject to small periodic torques, which has a fixed direction in the body-fixed coordinate frame, is investigated by means of Melnikov’s method. Deprit’s variables are introduced to transform the equations of motion into a form describing a slowly varying oscillator. Then the Melnikov method developed for the slowly varying oscillator is used to predict the transversal intersections of stable and unstable manifolds for the perturbed rigid body motion. It is shown that there exist transversal intersections of heteroclinic orbits for certain ranges of parameter values.


2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (06) ◽  
pp. 1250049 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. RASTI ◽  
S. A. FAZELZADEH

In this paper, multibody dynamic modeling and flutter analysis of a flexible slender vehicle are investigated. The method is a comprehensive procedure based on the hybrid equations of motion in terms of quasi-coordinates. The equations consist of ordinary differential equations for the rigid body motions of the vehicle and partial differential equations for the elastic deformations of the flexible components of the vehicle. These equations are naturally nonlinear, but to avoid high nonlinearity of equations the elastic displacements are assumed to be small so that the equations of motion can be linearized. For the aeroelastic analysis a perturbation approach is used, by which the problem is divided into a nonlinear flight dynamics problem for quasi-rigid flight vehicle and a linear extended aeroelasticity problem for the elastic deformations and perturbations in the rigid body motions. In this manner, the trim values that are obtained from the first problem are used as an input to the second problem. The body of the vehicle is modeled with a uniform free–free beam and the aeroelastic forces are derived from the strip theory. The effect of some crucial geometric and physical parameters and the acting forces on the flutter speed and frequency of the vehicle are investigated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Amer

In this paper, we will focus on the dynamical behavior of a rigid body suspended on an elastic spring as a pendulum model with three degrees of freedom. It is assumed that the body moves in a rotating vertical plane uniformly with an arbitrary angular velocity. The relative periodic motions of this model are considered. The governing equations of motion are obtained using Lagrange’s equations and represent a nonlinear system of second-order differential equations that can be solved in terms of generalized coordinates. The numerical solutions are investigated using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta algorithms through Matlab packages. These solutions are represented graphically in order to describe and discuss the behavior of the body at any instant for different values of the physical parameters of the body. The obtained results have been discussed and compared with some previous published works. Some concluding remarks have been presented at the end of this work. The importance of this work is due to its numerous applications in life such as the vibrations that occur in buildings and structures.


Author(s):  
Firdaus E. Udwadia ◽  
Aaron D. Schutte

This paper develops a unified methodology for obtaining both the general equations of motion describing the rotational dynamics of a rigid body using quaternions as well as its control. This is achieved in a simple systematic manner using the so-called fundamental equation of constrained motion that permits both the dynamics and the control to be placed within a common framework. It is shown that a first application of this equation yields, in closed form, the equations of rotational dynamics, whereas a second application of the self-same equation yields two new methods for explicitly determining, in closed form, the nonlinear control torque needed to change the orientation of a rigid body. The stability of the controllers developed is analysed, and numerical examples showing the ease and efficacy of the unified methodology are provided.


1974 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 1041-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Park ◽  
K. J. Saczalski

An energy rate balance is employed to develop the incremental equations of motion for a shock loaded, inelastically constrained rigid-body structural system. Lagrangian multipliers provide the coupling mechanism necessary to reduce the overall system of equations to a set of modified rigid-body equations which include the nonlinear geometric and structural material effects. Kinematic material hardening and a modified yield criteria are used. Examples illustrate the technique and are compared with experimental results.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
V. Tanriverdi

Euler derived equations for rigid body rotations in the body reference frame and in the stationary reference frame by considering an infinitesimal part of the rigid body.Another derivation is possible, and it is widely used: transforming torque-angular momentum relation to the body reference frame.However, their equivalence is not shown explicitly.In this work, for a rigid body with different moments of inertia, we calculated Euler equations explicitly in the body reference frame and in the stationary reference frame and torque-angular momentum relation.We also calculated equations of motion from Lagrangian.These calculations show that all four of them are equivalent.


2008 ◽  
Vol 112 (1137) ◽  
pp. 625-640
Author(s):  
K. Ro ◽  
J. W. Kamman ◽  
J. B. Barlow

Abstract The free-wing tilt-body aircraft refers to a vehicle configuration in which the wing, fuselage, and empennage are in a longitudinally articulated connection. This allows the main wing to freely rotate relative to the body, while the empennage, which is in the form of a long twin boom connected to the rear of the body, changes its incidence angle relative to the body in response to external commands. The principal advantages claimed for the configuration are short takeoff and landing capability, and reduced gust sensitivity. The aerodynamics of the free-wing tilt-body configuration has been previously studied, but analysis of its flight mechanics is limited. In this paper we present derivations of the flight dynamic equations of motion using multi-body dynamic modelling techniques, and combine the resulting equations of motion with experimental aerodynamic data to achieve a nonlinear mathematical model for flight simulation of a generic free-wing tilt-body vehicle. The mathematical model is suitable for the study of detailed dynamic characteristics as well as for model based control law synthesis. Key flight performance, and stability and control characteristics of a generic configuration are obtained from the mathematical model.


Author(s):  
Selima Bennaceur ◽  
Naoufel Azouz ◽  
Djaber Boukraa

This paper presents an efficient modelling of airships with small deformations moving in an ideal fluid. The formalism is based on the Updated Lagrangian Method (U.L.M.). This formalism proposes to take into account the coupling between the rigid body motion and the deformation as well as the interaction with the surrounding fluid. The resolution of the equations of motion is incremental. The behaviour of the airship is defined relatively to a virtual non-deformed reference configuration moving with the body. The flexibility is represented by a deformation modes issued from a Finite Elements Method analysis. The increment of rigid body motion is represented similarly by rigid modes. A modal synthesis is used to solve the general system equations of motion. Time constant matrices appears (i.e. mass and structural stiffness matrices), and we show a convenient technique to actualise the time dependant matrices.


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