Keyword

formation flying

Description: Coordinated flight of multiple spacecraft in a controlled relative configuration, studied in spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control.

Primary topic: Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (46%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q624824

OpenAlex ID: keywords/formation-flying

Analytical Mechanics Of Space Systems

2003 · Hanspeter Schaub, John L. Junkins · American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics eBooks · 1,577

Consensus strategies for cooperative control of vehicle formations

2007 · W. Ren · IET Control Theory and Applications · 931

Decentralized Scheme for Spacecraft Formation Flying via the Virtual Structure Approach

2004 · Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 739

A survey of spacecraft formation flying guidance and control. Part II: control

2004 · D.P. Scharf, F.Y. Hadaegh, et al. · Proceedings of the ... American Control Conference/Proceedings of the American Control Conference · 541

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of Complex Systems

1999 · Alexander L. Fradkov, Iliya V. Miroshnik, et al. · Springer eBooks · 508

Relative Dynamics and Control of Spacecraft Formations in Eccentric Orbits

2002 · Gokhan Inalhan, Michael Tillerson, et al. · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 443

Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics, Control and Navigation

2009 · Kyle T. Alfriend, Srinivas R. Vadali, et al. · 408

Survey of Inter-Satellite Communication for Small Satellite Systems: Physical Layer to Network Layer View

2016 · Radhika Radhakrishnan, William W. Edmonson, et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 369

Coordination and control of multiple microspacecraft moving in formation

1996 · P. K. C. Wang, Fred Y. Hadaegh · The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences · 354

J2 Invariant Relative Orbits for Spacecraft Formations

2001 · Hanspeter Schaub, Kyle T. Alfriend · Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy · 348

Proximity Operations of Formation-Flying Spacecraft Using an Eccentricity/Inclination Vector Separation

2006 · Simone D'Amico, Oliver Montenbruck · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 346

Integrated Optimal Formation Control of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2012 · Jianan Wang, Ming Xin · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology · 337

A review of cooperative and uncooperative spacecraft pose determination techniques for close-proximity operations

2017 · Roberto Opromolla, Giancarmine Fasano, et al. · Progress in Aerospace Sciences · 329

Formation Flying Control of Multiple Spacecraft via Graphs, Matrix Inequalities, and Switching

2001 · Mehran Mesbahi, Fred Y. Hadaegh · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 322

Kalman Filtering for Relative Spacecraft Attitude and Position Estimation

2005 · Son-Goo Kim, John L. Crassidis, et al. · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 320

CloudSat and CALIPSO within the A-Train: Ten Years of Actively Observing the Earth System

2017 · Graeme Stephens, David Winker, et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 319

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Formation Keeping and Attitude Alignment for Multiple Spacecraft Through Local Interactions

2007 · Wei Ren · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 301

The Stanford testbed of autonomous rotorcraft for multi agent control (STARMAC)

2005 · G. Hoffmann, D.G. Rajnarayan, et al. · IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) · 289

An overview of emerging results in cooperative UAV control

2004 · A. Ryan, M. Zennaro, et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, including the Symposium on Adaptive Processes · 281

Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics and Control

2000 · Vikram Kapila, Andrew G. Sparks, et al. · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 274

Spacecraft formation flying: A review and new results on state feedback control

2009 · Raymond Kristiansen, Per Johan Nicklasson · Acta Astronautica · 272

Application of Synchronization to Formation Flying spacecraft: Lagrangian Approach

2013 · Soon-jo Chung, Umair Ahsun, et al. · 270

Outdoor flocking and formation flight with autonomous aerial robots

2014 · G. Vasarhelyi, Cs. Viragh, et al. · IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 268

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Application of Synchronization to Formation Flying Spacecraft: Lagrangian Approach

2009 · Soon-Jo Chung, Umair Ahsun, et al. · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics · 263

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Review of Formation Flying and Constellation Missions Using Nanosatellites

2016 · Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, Rebecca Foust, et al. · Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets · 257

Works count: 7,739

Citation count: 76,210