Formation flying: Accommodating non-linearity and eccentricity perturbations

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 112 II, Issue , 2002, Pages 985-1004

  Vaddi, Sesha S ^a   Vadali, Srinivas R ^a   Alfriend, Kyle T ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LINEARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPACE FLIGHT;

ECCENTRICITY PERTURBATION; FORMATION FLYING; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ORBIT DYNAMICS; QUADRATIC GRAVITATIONAL EFFECT; STATE TRANSITION MATRIX;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0036919671     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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