Dynamical Simulation of Tethered Net Capture of Space Debris

This repository contains the source code for my Bachelor's graduation thesis. The project focuses on simulating the dynamic behavior of a tethered net capturing space debris. I apologize for the messy undergraduate coding and am willing to address any issues via email or GitHub.

Project Structure

The main project is a C++ simulation environment located in the ./CPP directory. It includes:

1. Net Deployment Simulation (./CPP/Tether-net Deployment): Simulates the deployment of the tethered net.
2. Simple Capture Simulation (./CPP/Tether-net to Cylinder): Simulates the capture of a cylindrical object.
3. Complex Capture Simulation (./CPP/Capture Dynamics): Simulates the capture of arbitrarily shaped objects represented as triangle meshes.

Additionally, the repository provides simple examples of multi-body system simulations, such as:

• Damped Mass-Spring System
• Falling Ball to Ground

These examples can also be found in the ./CPP directory.

The project includes MATLAB scripts in the ./MATLAB directory for creating mass-spring systems and visualizing simulation results.

Requirements

The main simulations require the Eigen 3.3.8 library and are designed to run on Windows 10/11.

Simulation of Net Deployment

-- Net Deployment

-- Capture a cuboid