Abstract
Control method is studied in this paper for the deployment of space tether using a reel device facility. The reel device consists of a drum type reel, a "wheel to simulate space environment, and a measuring device of the tether tension. A filtering device is designed to reduce noise contained in the tether tension measurement The velocity of the tether deployment is employed as an input and numerically simulated forces acting through tether are put into the wheel to simulate environment A control algoriflim of the Mission-Function control is employed in the experiment to control the deployment of tether in the present experiment Results of the experimental and numerical analyses have obtained to provide an excellent insight into performance of the tether reel device.
