A coordination architecture for spacecraft formation control

2001/01/01 by R.W. Beard, Randal W. Beard, J. Lawton +3 · 11 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems #Mobile Agent-Based Network Management #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

paper · doi:10.1109/87.960341

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Abstract

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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