Extension of the cucker-smale control law to space flight formations

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 526-536

  Perea, Laura ^a,c   Gömez, Gerard ^b,d   Elosegui, Pedro ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Physics and Earth Observation Department   (Norway)

^d Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada i Anàlisi   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FUELS; ORBITS; SPACE FLIGHT;

EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; FORMATION KEEPING; LIBRATION POINT ORBITS; MAXIMUM VARIATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; RADIAL ACCELERATION; SPACECRAFT CONTROL;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 65949101894     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.36269     Document Type: Article

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