Distributed Coordination and Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1740-1745

  Tillerson, Michael ^a   Breger, Louis ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NAVIGATION; SATELLITES;

FLYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142169354     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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