Formation keeping and attitude alignment for multiple spacecraft through local interactions

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 633-638

  Ren, Wei ^a,b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MANEUVERABILITY; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

CONTROL LAWS; FORMATION KEEPING; INFORMATION EXCHANGE; LOCAL INTERACTIONS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 33947711281     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.25629     Document Type: Article

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