Autonomous and distributed motion planning for satellite swarm

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 449-459

  Izzo, Dario ^a   Pettazzi, Lorenzo ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MOTION PLANNING; SLIDING MODE CONTROL; SPACECRAFT;

EQUILIBRIUM SHAPING; LATTICE STRUCTURES; SATELLITE SWARM;

SATELLITES;

EID: 33947726484     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.22736     Document Type: Article

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