Title :
An adaptive control approach to satellite formation flying with relative distance constraints
Author :
Lawton, Jonathan ; Beard, Randal W. ; Hadaegh, Fred Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA
Abstract :
We present a spacecraft control for rigid fleet rotations. This is done by creating a fleet template which is slowly rotated to generate desired trajectories for each individual spacecraft. By rotating the template slowly enough each spacecraft is able to track these trajectories to within a given tolerance in the presence of actuator saturation. Simulations for a three spacecraft fleet are given
Keywords :
adaptive control; artificial satellites; attitude control; control nonlinearities; actuator saturation; adaptive control approach; relative distance constraints; rigid fleet rotations; satellite formation flying; Actuators; Adaptive control; Aerospace engineering; Extraterrestrial measurements; Interferometers; Propulsion; Satellites; Space exploration; Space vehicles; Trajectory;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4990-3
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.1999.786084
