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With the increasing seriousness of the space debris environment, developing debris de-orbiting and removal techniques is imperative. Space debris rotates rapidly, so despinning must be performed before removal. The developing electromagnetic despinning techniques require the spacecraft to be close to the debris, which has a high risk of collision. This article aims at the long-range high-efficiency electromagnetic despinning of large-scale space debris such as failed spacecraft. Based on the characteristic that the magnetic freezing compact toroid generated by the magnetized coaxial gun can deliver the self-consistent magnetic field at a distance, a method for long-range magnetic field delivery and electromagnetic despinning of failed spacecraft is proposed. Firstly, the current variation law during the motion of the compact toroid is obtained by simplifying the coaxial gun and snow plow model. Secondly, based on the variation law of the angular velocity of the spherical shell conductor in the uniform magnetic field, a 1-DOF despinning model of the continuous actuation of the compact toroid is established. Finally, the feasibility of the method proposed in this article is verified by numerical simulation.
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Tian, M., Hong-Liang, Z., Peng-Lin, C., Yuan-Wen, Z., Huan, H. (2023). Long-Range Delivery and High-Efficiency Actuation of Magnetic Freezing Compact Toroid for Failed Spacecraft Despinning. In: Fu, W., Gu, M., Niu, Y. (eds) Proceedings of 2022 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems (ICAUS 2022). ICAUS 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1010. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0479-2_343
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