Formation establishment and reconfiguration using impulsive control Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We analyze spacecraft formation establishment and reconfiguration problems for two-body orbits. The desired formations are characterized by nonsingular orbital-elemental differences. An analytical, two-impulse solution is proposed for achieving the desired orbital-elemental differences. Gauss's variational equations are used to compute the corresponding impulse magnitudes analytically and the resulting solutions can be easily implemented using onboard computational resources. It is also shown that the cost obtained from the analytical solution differs by less than 1% from that obtained by numerical optimization. Copyright 2004 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Vaddi, S. S., Alfriend, K. T., Vadali, S. R., & Sengupta, P.

citation count

  • 146

complete list of authors

  • Vaddi, SS||Alfriend, KT||Vadali, SR||Sengupta, P

publication date

  • March 2005