Overview of the SPHERES autonomous rendezvous and docking laboratory on the International Space Station

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 113, Issue , 2003, Pages 155-169

  Miller, David W ^a   Kong, Edmund M C ^a   Saenz Otero, Alvar ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DOCKING; GRAVITATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SATELLITES;

ZERO GRAVITY ENVIRONMENT;

SPACE STATIONS;

EID: 0141537382     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Alvar Saenz Otero, David W. Miller, and Mark Hilstad, SPHERES: Development of an ISS Laboratory for Formation Flight and Docking Research, IEEEAC paper #081, Big Sky, MT, March 2002.
2. David W Miller, et al, "SPHERES Design Document", MIT SSL internal document, v2.0, November 1999.
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5. Hilstad, M., A Multi-Vehicle Testbed and Interface Framework for the Development and Verification of Separated Spacecraft Control Algorithms, SM. Thesis, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2002.
6. Wilson, E., Lages, C., and Mah, R., "On-line, gyro-based, mass-property identification for thruster-controlled spacecraft using recursive least squares," Proceedings of the 45th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Aug 2002.
7. SPHERES Science Critical design Review, http://ssl.mit.edu/spheres/Docs/, MIT SSL internal document, November 2002.