Onboard semianalytic approach to collision-free formation reconfiguration

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2638-2652

  Sauter, Luke ^a   Palmer, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; COLLISION-FREE PATHS; FORMATION RECONFIGURATIONS; SATELLITE FORMATIONS; SEQUENTIAL OPTIMIZATION;

GROUND OPERATIONS;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 84863923357     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2012.6237614     Document Type: Article

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