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Attitude Control of Spacecraft Formations Subject To Distributed Communication Delays

Systems and Control 2017-07-06 v1

Abstract

This paper considers the problem of achieving attitude consensus in spacecraft formations with bounded, time-varying communication delays between spacecraft connected as specified by a strongly connected topology. A state feedback con- troller is proposed and investigated using a time domain approach (via LMIs) and a frequency domain approach (via the small-gain theorem) to obtain delay depen- dent stability criteria to achieve the desired consensus. Simulations are presented to demonstrate the application of the strategy in a specific scenario.

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@article{arxiv.1707.01185,
  title  = {Attitude Control of Spacecraft Formations Subject To Distributed Communication Delays},
  author = {Siddharth H. Nair and Kamesh Subbarao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01185},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Presented at the 27th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, February 2017, San Antonio, TX, USA