Ga based distance keeping for Formation flying of microsatellites

Abstract

In the last few years space vehicle formation flying technology has newlinegrown from a space oddity and a high risk one to a concept fully embraced newlineby earth and space scientists around the world The past decade has witnessed newlinea flurry of interest within the aerospace industry regarding artificial newlineintelligence technologies including neural networks fuzzy systems and newlinegenetic algorithms In many ways genetic algorithms offer an outstanding newlinecombination of flexibility robustness and simplicity The ability to model newlineproblems in a simple human oriented way and the ability to produce smooth newlinecontrol actions around the set points make fuzzy logic an especially suitable newlinecandidate for use in spacecraft control applications newlineThe topic of spacecraft formation flying has pervaded much of the newlinerecent work in the spacecraft dynamics and control field The reason for the newlinecurrent trend is the power and flexibility available to space system newlinearchitectures that use spacecraft formations newline newline