Synchronized multiple spacecraft rotations

Automatica

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1359-1364

  Lawton, Jonathan R ^a   Beard, Randal W ^b  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Attitude control; Formation flying; Spacecraft

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DAMPING; FEEDBACK CONTROL; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT; SYNCHRONIZATION;

SPACECRAFT ROTATIONS;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036681137     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-1098(02)00025-0     Document Type: Article

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