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Guidance and Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft

2008
A key element of NASA’s future space exploration is high precision formation flying (FF) for space interferometry. Precision FF has never been attempted before and poses new and significant challenges to the underlying control system. While the guidance and control (G&C) methodologies of single spacecraft for traditional planetary flyby and orbiter ...
Fred Y. Hadaegh, Singh Gurkirpal, Behcet Açikmeşe, Daniel P. Scharf, Milan Mandić   +4 more
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Spacecraft formation flying in the port-Hamiltonian framework

Nonlinear Dynamics, 2020
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Najmeh Javanmardi, Abolfazl Yaghmaei, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah   +2 more
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Spacecraft formation flying: dynamics and control

Proceedings of the 1999 American Control Conference (Cat. No. 99CH36251), 1999
A concept of a distributed array of small, low-cost, cooperative, and highly coordinated microspacecraft is vigorously being pursued for several future space missions. Implementation of the distributed coordinated spacecraft concept will require tight control of the relative distances and phases between the participating spacecraft. We review nonlinear
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6-DOF mutual synchronization of formation flying spacecraft

Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2006
In this paper we present a 6 degrees of freedom (6-DOF) synchronization scheme for a deep space formation of spacecraft. In the design, which is referred to as a mutual synchronization scheme, feedback interconnections are designed in such a way that the spacecraft track a time varying reference trajectory while at the same time keep a prescribed ...
Thomas R. Krogstad, Jan Tommy Gravdahl
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Local Estimators for Multiple Spacecraft Formation Flying

AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit, 2008
In this work, we propose an approach to formation estimation that is based on local estimators for multiple spacecraft systems. In this avenue, we proceed to relax some of the assumptions in the existing research literature pertaining to feasible estimation architectures for formation flying.
Marzieh Nabi, Mehran Mesbahi, Nanaz Fathpour, Fred Hadaegh   +3 more
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Review on cyclic pursuit in Spacecraft Formation Flying

Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies - RAST2011, 2011
This paper proposes a creature behaviour-based pursuit strategy named cyclic pursuit for Spacecraft Formation Flying. Cyclic Pursuit Problem is one of the most popular decentralized control methods. However, the applications in space mission are limited.
Huixin Yang, Tao Yang, Weihua Zhang
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On Distributed Control Strategies for Spacecraft Formation Flying

2016
In this paper we consider the problem of designing control strategies for formation flying. Although stemming from particular goals and controls, the analysis performed here outlines several aspects independent from the dynamics or the control objective.
Fabrizio Paita, Gerard Gómez, Josep J. Masdemont   +2 more
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Distributed attitude alignment in spacecraft formation flying

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 2006
AbstractIn this paper, we consider a distributed attitude alignment problem for a team of deep space formation flying spacecraft through local information exchange. We propose control laws for three different cases. In the first case, multiple spacecraft converge to their (possibly time‐varying) desired attitudes while maintaining the same attitude or ...
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Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics and Control

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2000
Vikram Kapila, Andrew G. Sparks, James M. Buffington, Qiguo Yan   +3 more
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Real-Time Navigation of Formation-Flying Spacecraft [PDF]

, 2005
Spacecraft formation flying is commonly considered a key technology for advanced space missions. Compared with large individual spacecraft, the distribution of sensor systems to multiple platforms offers improved flexibility and redundancy, shorter times
Leung, S., Montenbruck, O.
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