Distributed spacecraft formation flight using limited information exchange

Project Detail: The aims of this project may be summarized below: 1. To design stable formation control laws, and attitude synchronization laws for spacecrafts using bearing-only information from its neighbours within a given time. 2. To design stable formation control laws, and attitude synchronization laws for spacecrafts using distance-only information from its neighbours within a given time. 3. To design stable formation control laws, and attitude synchronization laws for spacecrafts using a mix of distance-only and bearing-only information from its neighbours within a given time. 4. To analyze the kind of rigid formations achievable with the proposed control law for different types of communication topology. 5. To be able to decouple the attitude synchronization and the formation control laws. 6. To explore potential applications of the proposed laws to space debris management, remote sensing, docking, etc. 6. To provide some form of proof of concept for the proposed control laws.