A coordination architecture for spacecraft formation control
Beard, R.W.; Lawton, J.; Hadaegh, F.Y.
Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on
Volume 9, Issue 6, Nov 2001 Page(s):777 - 790
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/87.960341
Summary:This paper addresses the problem of coordinating multiple spacecraft to fly in tightly controlled formations. The main contribution of the paper is to introduce a coordination architecture that subsumes leader-following, behavioral, and virtual-structure approaches to the multiagent coordination problem. The architecture is illustrated through a detailed application of the ideas to the problem of synthesizing a multiple spacecraft interferometer in deep space

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