Optimal guidance and decentralised state estimation applied to a formation flying demonstration mission in GTO

IET Control Theory and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 532-544

  Dumitriu, D ^a,b   Marques, S ^a   Lima, P U ^a   Bastante, J C ^c   Araujo J ^d   Penin L F ^d   Caramagno, A ^d   Udrea, B ^e  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID MECHANICS   (Romania)

^c DEIMOS SPACE S L U   (Spain)

^d DEIMOS ENGENHARIA   (Portugal)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; ORBITAL TRANSFER; SPACECRAFT; STATE ESTIMATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCE INTERSECTION (CI) ALGORITHM; GEOSTATIONARY TRANSFER ORBIT (GTO); GUIDANCE AND CONTROL (GC) SUBSYSTEM; GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION AND CONTROL (GNC);

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

EID: 33847609131     PISSN: 17518644     EISSN: 17518652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta:20050425     Document Type: Article

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