A Decentralized Scheme for Spacecraft Formation Flying via the Virtual Structure Approach

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1746-1751

  Ren, Wei ^a   Beard, Randal W ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ROBOTS; SPACECRAFT; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

VIRTUAL STRUCTURES;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 0142138640     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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