8 Cooperative Spacecraft Formation Flying: Model Predictive Control with Open-and Closed-Loop Robustness

Elsevier Astrodynamics Series

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 237-277

  Breger, Louis ^a   Inalhan, Gokhan ^a   Tillerson, Michael ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge

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EID: 40849111651     PISSN: 18749305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1874-9305(07)80010-0     Document Type: Chapter

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