Formation establishment and reconfiguration using impulsive control

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 262-268

  Vaddi, S S ^a,c   Alfriend, K T ^b   Vadali, S R ^b   Sengupta, P ^b  

^a OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS INC   (United States)

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

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; SATELLITES; SPACE FLIGHT;

FORMATION FLYING; GAUSS'S VARIATIONAL EQUATIONS; IMPULSIVE CONTROL;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 15744378998     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.6687     Document Type: Article

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