Application of synchronization to formation flying spacecraft: Lagrangian approach

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 512-526

  Chung, Soon Jo ^a,c   Ahsun, Umair ^b,d   Slotine, Jean Jacques E ^b,e  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Aerospace Engineering Department   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e Brain and Cognitive Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; SPACECRAFT;

DECENTRALIZED TRACKING; FORMATION FLYING SPACECRAFT; GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL CONVERGENCE; LA-GRANGIAN APPROACHES; NON-LINEAR STABILITIES; SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEM; TIME-VARYING TRAJECTORIES; TRANSLATIONAL DYNAMICS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 65949093962     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.37261     Document Type: Article

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