The dynamics of formation flight about a stable trajectory

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 269-287

  Hsiao, F Y ^a   Scheeres, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTERFEROMETRY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; SPACECRAFT; SYSTEM THEORY; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TRAJECTORIES; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; FLIGHT PATHS; INVARIANCE; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

FORMATION FLIGHT; HALO ORBIT; THEORY OF LINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

SPACE FLIGHT; ORBITS;

CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; FEEDBACK CONTROL GAINS; FORMATION FLIGHT; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATIONS; LINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MONODROMY MATRIX; SPACECRAFT INTERFEROMETRY; TIME INVARIANT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0041520959     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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