Jorge Cortés
Professor
Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair
Correctness analysis and optimality bounds of multi-spacecraft
formation initialization algorithms
M. Schuresko, J. Cortés
Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Int. Conf. Decision and Control, San
Diego, California, USA, 2006, pp. 5974-5979
Abstract
This paper considers formation
initialization for a class of autonomous spacecraft operating in
deep space with arbitrary initial positions and velocities.
Formation initialization is the task of getting a group of
autonomous agents to obtain the relative and/or global dynamic state
information necessary to begin formation control. We associate a
``worst-case total angle traversed'' optimality notion to the
execution of any formation initialization algorithm, and present
performance bounds valid for any correct algorithm. We design the
SPATIAL SPACECRAFT LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM and the WAIT AND CHECK
ALGORITHM, analyze their correctness properties and characterize
their performance in terms of worst-case optimality and execution
time.
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