Magazine Article

Reconfigurable Software for Controlling Formation Flying

TBMG-1851

09/01/2006

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Software for a system to control the trajectories of multiple spacecraft flying in formation is being developed to reflect underlying concepts of (1) a decentralized approach to guidance and control and (2) reconfigurability of the control system, including reconfigurability of the software and of control laws. The software is organized as a modular network of software tasks. The computational load for both determining relative trajectories and planning maneuvers is shared equally among all spacecraft in a cluster. The flexibility and robustness of the software are apparent in the fact that tasks can be added, removed, or replaced during flight. In a computational simulation of a representative formation- flying scenario, it was demonstrated that the following are among the services performed by the software:

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"Reconfigurable Software for Controlling Formation Flying," Mobility Engineering, September 1, 2006.
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Sep 1, 2006
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TBMG-1851
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Magazine Article
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English