Coordinated orbit transfer for satellite clusters

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1017, Issue , 2004, Pages 112-137

  Zhang, Fumin ^a   Krishnaprasad, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Control Lyapunov function; Formation control; Momentum map; Orbit transfer

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SIMULATION;

EID: 3042754842     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1311.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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