An evolutionary robotics approach for the distributed control of satellite formations

Evolutionary Intelligence

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-118

  Izzo, Dario ^a   Simões, Luís F ^b   de Croon, Guido C H E ^c  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolutionary robotics; Neural networks; Particle swarm optimization; Satellite swarm control

Indexed keywords

MOTION PLANNING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); ROBOTICS;

CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; FORMATION FLYING CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; SATELLITE FORMATIONS; SATELLITE SWARM;

SATELLITES;

EID: 84906066676     PISSN: 18645909     EISSN: 18645917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12065-014-0111-9     Document Type: Article

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