Title :
Relative equilibria and stability of rings of satellites
Author :
Krishnaprasad, P.S.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Syst. Res., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
The problem of control of rings of satellites is of current interest driven by applications in telecommunications and space science. The problem of stability of a ring is the subject of the paper. We use methods from geometric approaches to Hamiltonian systems to treat this problem
Keywords :
aerospace control; artificial satellites; many-body problems; stability; Hamiltonian systems; geometric approaches; relative equilibria; satellite rings; Artificial satellites; Control systems; Earth; Educational institutions; Equations; Lagrangian functions; Motion control; Saturn; Stability; Telecommunication control;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2000. Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6638-7
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2000.912032
