Publication Date:
2018-06-06
Description:
The Terrestrial Planet Finder formation flying Interferometer (TPF-I) will be a five-spacecraft, precision formation operating near the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point. As part of technology development for TPF-I, a formation and attitude control system (FACS) is being developed that achieves the precision and functionality needed for the TPF-I formation and that will be demonstrated in a distributed, real-time simulation environment. In this paper we present an overview of FACS and discuss in detail its formation estimation, guidance and control architectures and algorithms. Since FACS is currently being integrated into a high-fidelity simulation environment, component simulations demonstrating algorithm performance are presented.
Keywords:
Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance
Type:
Proceedings from the 2nd International Symposium on Formation Flying Missions and Technologies; NASA/CP-2005-212781
Format:
application/pdf
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