In this paper we study the control of a formation of spacecraft in a leader-follower architecture. Two controller- observer schemes are presented, that guarantee uniform global exponential stability of the closed loop system. Because of this strong stability property, and the fact that the controller-observer design is based on passivity properties, the overall system is robust to modeling errors and orbital perturbations.
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American Control Conference, 2007. ACC '07
Date of Conference: 9-13 July 2007