Parametric Analysis of Stability Conditions for a
Satellite with a Gravitation Stabilizer
Andrey V. Banshchikov
Abstract.
A software system elaborated on the basis of the computer algebra software
package "Mathematica" has been employed in investigations of stability of
a relative equilibrium position for an uncontrolled satellite having a
gravitation stabilizer on a circular orbit. Domains of various degrees of
Poincaré instability have been revealed in the space of introduced
parameters. Under the assumption that the potential system is unstable
(the degree of instability being even) the problem of possibility of its
gyroscopic stabilization is considered. Parametric analysis of stability
conditions has been conducted and two-parameter sections of the system
domains of gyroscopic stabilization have been constructed with the aid of
an applied program intended for graphic representation of the solution of
the system of algebraic inequalities.