A Survey of Spacecraft Formation Flying Guidance and Control (Part I): Guidance

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1733-1739

  Scharf, Daniel P ^a   Hadaegh, Fred Y ^a   Ploen, Scott R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTION PLANNING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

FLYING GUIDANCE;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142169357     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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