@InProceedings{FagondeSantPrad:2022:AtCoSa,
               author = "Fagonde, Caio and Santos, Willer and Prado, Antonio Fernando 
                         Bertachini de Almeida",
          affiliation = "{Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)} and {Instituto 
                         Tecnol{\'o}gico da Aeron{\'a}utica (ITA)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Attitude-Based Control of Satellite Formations Using Aerodynamic 
                         Forces and Solar Radiation Pressure",
                 year = "2022",
         organization = "International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Forming 
                         Flying (IWSCFF), 11.",
             keywords = "Formation Flying missions, Constellation missions, Earth-bounded 
                         Missions.",
             abstract = "The exploitation of natural environmental forces as an alternative 
                         means of satellite control is an enabling technology that 
                         increases the feasibility range of small satellite operations when 
                         the performance of continuous station-keeping or reconfiguration 
                         maneuvers is required. On a Low Earth Orbit, for instance, 
                         differential atmospheric drag accelerations that arise due to 
                         small differences in attitude, mass or exposed surface area 
                         between satellites in otherwise nearly identical trajectories can 
                         be used as a phasing mechanism [1] or for implementing rendezvous 
                         maneuvers in satellite formations [2]. On higher orbits, forces 
                         such as those created by solar radiation pressure can be used to 
                         generate differential accelerations between the members of a 
                         satellite formation [3]. This work aims to analyze the 
                         simultaneous use of aerodynamic forces, including both 
                         differential lift and differential drag, and solar radiation 
                         pressure as a means of satellite formation control, including full 
                         attitude dynamics and a Lyapunov-based control system for 
                         reference tracking. Historically, the idea of using differential 
                         aerodynamic forces in satellite formations can be traced back to 
                         the work of Carolina L. Leonard [4], who proposed the use of 
                         differential drag for satellite formation control, using the 
                         linearized relative motion model of the Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire 
                         equations. In this case, the acting drag force was controlled by 
                         drag plates that could be rotated in order to adjust the magnitude 
                         of the acceleration. This idea would be further explored by 
                         various authors, such as Kumar and Ng [5], Bevilacqua and Romano 
                         [6], and Lambert et al. [7]. The use of differential lift, on the 
                         other hand, was often neglected due to the lift forces being 
                         orders of magnitude smaller than the atmospheric drag, in most 
                         circumstances. Horsley [8], however, proposed the use of lift in 
                         order to control the out-of-plane motion of each satellite, 
                         developing an algorithm for satellite rendezvous. Horsleys 
                         algorithm would be further improved by Shao et al. [9] and Smith 
                         et al. [10], removing certain collision risks present in the 
                         original algorithm. Other studies further contemplated the 
                         simultaneous use of differential lift and drag.",
  conference-location = "Milano, Italy",
      conference-year = "7-10 June 2022",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "03 maio 2024"
}