Model predictive control of spacecraft formations with sensing noise

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2385-2390

  Breger, Louis ^a   How, Jonathan ^a   Richards, Arthur ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Model Predictive Control; Sensor Noise; Spacecraft Formation Flying

Indexed keywords

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; SENSOR NOISE; SPACECRAFT FORMATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 23944446688     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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