Abstract
The authors establish a control method for space manipulators taking dynamical interaction between the manipulator arm and the base satellite into account. The kinematics of free-flying multibody systems is investigated by introducing the momentum conservation law into the formulation and a novel Jacobian matrix in generalized form for space robotic arms is derived. The authors develop a control method for space manipulators based on the resolved motion control concept. The proposed method is widely applicable in solving not only free-flying manipulation problems but also attitude-control problems. The validity of the method is demonstrated by computer simulations with a realistic model of a robot satellite.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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