@inproceedings{777368785c4b45ddbdaf1c775cb52f3c,
title = "Continuous-thrust cooperative guidance law for disaggregated satellites",
abstract = "The basic idea behind disaggregated satellites is to distribute the functionality of a single monolithic satellite among multiple physically-separated inter-communicating modules. The research described in this paper develops optimal guidance laws aimed at keeping the relative distances between the modules bounded for extended mission lifetimes while using constant-magnitude chemical low-thrust. A cooperative guidance law capable of cluster establishment and maintenance under environmental perturbations is proposed. The optimal guidance law is constructed using a bang-off-bang thrust profile. The cost functional is the total fuel consumption, and the constraints are maximum and minimum distances, balanced fuel utilization - so as to minimize differential drag - and stationkeeping about a nominal reference orbit.",
author = "Leonel Mazal and Giorgio Mingotti and Pini Gurfil",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the European Research Council Starting Independent Researcher Grant - 278231: Flight Algorithms for Disaggregated Space Architectures (FADER), the Ministry of Science of the State of Israel, and the Technion Graduate Fellowship Program.; AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference 2012 ; Conference date: 13-08-2012 Through 16-08-2012",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.2514/6.2012-4742",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
isbn = "9781624101823",
series = "AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference 2012",
booktitle = "AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference 2012",
}