PID: ACC99-AIAA0017 An Adaptive Control Approach to Satellite Formation Flying With Relative Distance Constraints

An Adaptive Control Approach to Satellite Formation Flying With Relative Distance Constraints Jonathan Lawton Randal W. Beard Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Brigham Young University Fred Y. Hadaegh Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Abstract In this paper we present a spacecraft control for rigid eet rotations. This is done by creating a eet template which is slowly rotated to generate desired trajectories for each individual spacecraft. By rotating the template slow enough each spacecraft is able to track these trajectories to within a given tolerance in the presence of actuator saturation. Simulations for a three spacecraft eet are given.