Citation:Control Applications, 2003. CCA 2003. Proceedings of 2003 IEEE Conference on Volume 2, Page(s):1463 - 1468 vol.2
Abstract:
In this paper’we present a solution to the formation initialization (FI) problem for N distributed spacecraft located in deep space. Our solution to the FI problem is based on a three-stage sky search procedure that reduces the FI problem for N spacecraft to the simpler problem of initializing a set of sub-formations. We demonstrate our FI algorithm in simulation using NASA’s five spacecraft Terrestrial Planet Finder mission as an example.