In this review, we discuss in detail the quaternion based methods for spacecraft attitude
determination and control. We summarize some recent developments on this research area …

Recent advances in miniaturizing of computing, communication, sensing, and actuation
have made it feasible to envision large numbers of autonomous vehicles (air, ground, and …

Rigid-body attitude control is motivated by aerospace applications that involve attitude
maneuvers or attitude stabilization. The set of attitudes of a rigid body is the set of 3 X 3 …

A general framework for the analysis of the attitude tracking control problem for a rigid body
is presented in this paper. In contrast to the approach that feedback linearizes the attitude …

In this paper, we propose a new quaternion-based feedback control scheme for exponential
attitude stabilization of a four-rotor vertical takeoff and landing aerial robot known as a …

We show that a continuous dynamical system on a state space that has the structure of a
vector bundle on a compact manifold possesses no globally asymptotically stable …

Built on the combined strength of decentralized control and the recently introduced virtual
structure approach, a decentralized formation scheme for spacecraft formation flying is …

It is well known that controlling the attitude of a rigid body is subject to topological
constraints. We illustrate, with examples, the problems that arise when using continuous and …

This work investigates the challenging problem of fast robust fault tolerant attitude control for
spacecraft to handle external disturbances, actuator failures and misalignments. More …

This brief describes robust adaptive tracking control systems for the attitude dynamics of a
rigid body. Both the attitude dynamics and the proposed control system are globally …