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Formation Control Testbed

Published Technical Papers

  • Scharf, D. P., Açıkmeşe, B., Ploen, S. R., and Hadaegh F. Y., “Three-Dimensional Reactive Collision Avoidance with Multiple Colliding Spacecraft for Deep-Space and Earth-Orbiting Formations,” 4th Int. Conference Spacecraft Form. Flying Missions & Technologies, 2011.
  • Scharf, D., Keim, A., and Hadaegh, F., “Flight-Like Ground Demonstrations of Precision Maneuvers for Spacecraft Formation – Part I,” IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2010.
  • Scharf, D., Keim, A., and Hadaegh, F. , “Flight-Like Ground Demonstrations of Precision Maneuvers for Spacecraft Formation – Part II,” IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2010. 
  • Scharf, D., Keim, J., Hadaegh, F., Benowitz, E., and Lawson, R., “Flight-like Ground Demonstration of Precision Formation Flying Spacecraft,” Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6693, 2007.
  • J. Shields, H. Goldberg, J. Keim, M. Morales, D. Scharf, A. Ahmed, "Terrestrial Attitude Estimation for the Formation Control Testbed (FCT)," IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2007.
  • J. Keim, B. Acikmese, and J. Shields, "Spacecraft inertia estimation via constrained least squares," in Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2006.
  • J. Shields, "The Formation Control Testbed Celestial Sensor: Overview, Modelling, and Calibrated Performance," IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2005.
  • J. Shields, R. Bailey, B. Lytle, J. Schroeder, B. Lurie, B. Acikmese, G. Singh, J. Keim, A. Ahmed, "System Design, Modeling, and Tracking Filter for Bearings Only Analog Camera," Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2005.
  • M. W. Regehr, B. Acikmese, A. Ahmed, M. Aung, P. MacNeal, J. Shields, G. Singh, R. Bailey, C. Bushnell, A. Hicke, B. Lytle, and R. E. Rassmussen, "The formation control testbed," in Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, Vol. 1, March 2004.
  • D. Scharf, F. Hadaegh, Z. Rahman, J. Shields, G. Singh, M. Wette, "An Overview of the Formation and Attitude Control System for the Terrestrial planet Finder Formation Flying Interferometer," 2nd International Symposium on Formation Flying Missions and technologies, Washingtion, D.C., 2004.
  • U. Wehmeier, K. Liewer, J. Shields, "Fringe Tracking in the StarLight Formation Interferometer Testbed (FIT)," SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference, 2002.
  • J. Shields, S. Sirlin, M. Wette, "Starlight Pointing Subsystem for the Formation Interferometer Testbed (FIT)," IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2002.
  • J. Shields, S. Sirlin, M. Wette, "Metrology Sensor Characterization and Pointing Control for the Formation Interferometer Testbed (FIT)," IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2002.
  • J. Shields, U. Wehmeier, K. Liewer, "Wavefront Tilt Feedforward for the Formation Interferometer Testbed (FIT)," SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference, 2002.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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