Distributed Consensus-Based Kalman Filter Estimation and Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft: Simulation and Validation
Thanh Trung Vu, Amir Reza Rahmani · 2015
By implementing a distributed consensus-based Kalman Filter, this paper illustrates the dynamics and control of several satellites under the Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire equations. Through the use of local communication within a connected network, the satellites were able to move themselves to a desired formation by successfully estimating the states and control of the entire formation. This control scheme was shown to exhibit resilience to possible disturbances despite the environment’s sensitivities to initial conditions.