Nutation Damper Animation
Symbolic derivation of the equations of motion of a viscous nutation damper and a function for animating the resulting motion.
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Nutation dampers are passive devices that can damp out distrubances on spinning symmetric rigid bodies that are frequently used on spinning spacecraft. This package includes a symbolic derivation of the equations of motion of a viscous damper (based on the development in Kasdin & Paley, 2009), along with a function to generate an animation of the motion of a suddenly perturbed, spinning spacecraft. An example of the generated animation can be seen here:
https://youtu.be/9K2NdXZFmbI
Cite As
Dmitry Savransky (2026). Nutation Damper Animation (https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/129304-nutation-damper-animation), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
General Information
- Version 1.1.0 (224 KB)
MATLAB Release Compatibility
- Compatible with R2017a and later releases
Platform Compatibility
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
