Formation flying: Accommodating nonlinearity and eccentricity perturbations

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 214-223

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

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SATELLITES;

ECCENTRICITY; HILL-CLOHESSY-WILTSHIRE EQUATIONS; MOTION DYNAMICS; SATELLITE MOTION;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037352111     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.5054     Document Type: Article

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