Decentralized Scheme for Spacecraft Formation Flying via the Virtual Structure Approach

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-82

  Ren, Wei ^a   Beard, Randal W ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOBILE ROBOTS; TOPOLOGY; TRACKING (POSITION); VIRTUAL REALITY;

SPACECRAFT FORMATION FLYING APPLICATIONS; VIRTUAL STRUCTURES;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 1042298622     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.9287     Document Type: Article

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