Control of Chaos in Rotational Motion of a Satellite in an Elliptic Orbit

Abstract

This paper is concerned with control of chaos in rotational motion of a satellite in an elliptic orbit. We have investigated a very small robust control term (as compared to the perturbation) to the order of   for the Hamiltonian of rotational motion of a satellite in an elliptic orbit which is close to integrable. By adding the small and simple control term to the perturbation, the system of rotational motion of a satellite becomes more regular than the previous one. This control of chaos has been shown computationally through the Poincare surface of sections.
Key words: Chaos control; Satellite; Perturbation