A model predictive decentralized control scheme with reduced communication requirement for spacecraft formation

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 268-278

  Lavaei, Javad ^a   Momeni, Ahmadreza ^b   Aghdam, Amir G ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative systems; Distributed control; Predictive control; Robustness; Space vehicle control

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPACECRAFT;

COOPERATIVE SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 40949096572     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2007.903389     Document Type: Article

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