Actuators (Sep 2024)

Research on Landing Dynamics of Foot-High Projectile Body for High-Precision Microgravity Simulation System

  • Zhenhe Jia,
  • Yuehua Li,
  • Weijie Hou,
  • Libin Zang,
  • Qiang Han,
  • Baoshan Zhao,
  • Bin Gao,
  • Haiteng Liu,
  • Yuhan Chen,
  • Yumin An,
  • Huibo Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/act13090361
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 9
p. 361

Abstract

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A high-precision ground microgravity simulation environment serves as the prerequisite and key to studying landing dynamics in microgravity environments. However, the microgravity level accuracy in traditional ground simulation tests is difficult to guarantee and fails to precisely depict the collision behavior of massive spacecraft. To solve such problems, this paper takes the microgravity simulation system based on quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) mechanism as the research object, and simulates a high-precision and high-level microgravity environment. Then, the collision contact force model of the planar foot and high elastic body rubber is established, the landing dynamics research under different microgravity environments is carried out, the influence of different microgravity environments on the landing behavior of large mass spacecraft is analyzed in depth, and ground microgravity simulation experiments are carried out. The results show that the microgravity simulation level reaches 10−4 g, the error of gravity compensation for each working condition is not more than 4.22%, and the error of sinking amount is not more than 4.61%, which verifies the superior compensation performance of the QZS mechanism and the accuracy of the dynamic model.

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