Investigating virtual structure based control strategies for spacecraft formation maneuvers

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 925-930

  Hammer, Jennifer ^a   Piper, George ^a   Thorp, Owen ^a   Watkins, John ^a  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; EARTH (PLANET); MANEUVERABILITY; ORBITS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SPACE RESEARCH;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; MONOLITHIC SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT FORMATION; VIRTUAL STRUCTURE;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 19644388107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-4898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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