A feedback architecture for formation control

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2000, Pages 4087-4091

  Beard, Randal W ^a   Lawton, Jonathan ^a   Hadaegh, Fred Y ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION ARCHITECTURE; DEEP SPACE; FEEDBACK ARCHITECTURE; FORMATION CONTROL; LEADER FOLLOWING; MULTI-VEHICLE COORDINATION;

CONTROL; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETERS; SPACECRAFT; STATE SPACE METHODS; VECTORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SPACECRAFT; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

SPACECRAFT FORMATION CONTROL; SPACECRAFT INTERFEROMETER; VIRTUAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0034545011     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2000.876990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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