8 Cooperative Spacecraft Formation Flying: Model Predictive Control with Open-and Closed-Loop Robustness

Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Arthur Richards for his insights into the design of a computationally tractable closed-loop robust MPC. This work was funded under Air Force Grant F49620-99-1-0095, NASA Grant #NAG5-10440, and Cooperative Agreement NCC5-729 through the NASA GSFC Formation Flying NASA Research Announcement. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.