An optimal guidance law for formation flying and Stationkeeping

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  D'Souza, Christopher N ^a  

^a CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; VEHICLES;

ELLIPTICAL MOTION; FORMATION FLYING; GUIDANCE AND CONTROL LAWS; HILL-CLOHESSY-WILTSHIRE EQUATIONS; LINEAR QUADRATIC; OPTIMAL GUIDANCE LAW; OUT-OF-PLANE MOTION; TERMINAL CONSTRAINT;

AIR NAVIGATION;

EID: 85085776844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-4960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. Bryson, A.E. and Ho, Y.C., Applied Optimal Control, Hemisphere Publishing Company, 1975.
3. Battin, R.H., An Introduction to the Mathematics and Methods of Astrodynamics, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1987.
4. Gustafson, D.E. and Kreigsman, B.A., A Guidance and Navigation System for Automatic Stationkeeping in Earth Orbit, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 10, No. 6, June 1973, pp.369-367.