New formation flying testbed for analyzing distributed estimation and control architectures

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Ferguson, Philip ^a   Yang, Trent ^b   Tillerson, Michael ^a   How, Jonathan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MIT Draper   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATLAB; NASA; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT; TESTBEDS;

CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FORMATION FLYING SPACECRAFT; HARD-WARE-IN-THE-LOOP; INTER-SPACECRAFT COMMUNICATION; SIMULATION AND VALIDATION; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 85088722032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-4961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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