Spacecraft formation flying with connectivity maintenance under directed spanning tree
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explores control strategies for spacecraft formation flying under directed communication constraints with limited transmission ranges. Traditional approaches often face challenges in simultaneously maintaining persistent connectivity and achieving formation convergence in directional networks. To overcome these issues, a hierarchical control framework is proposed, combining edge-consensus algorithms with adaptive artificial potential functions (APFs). By formulating an edge-centric dynamic model that explicitly captures directional interactions, the method addresses the limitations inherent in conventional node-based approaches. A novel APF design introduces adaptive gradient terms, enabling real-time trade-offs between collision avoidance and connectivity preservation without imposing restrictive assumptions. The framework integrates feedback linearization with backstepping control, effectively mitigating external disturbances while achieving velocity synchronization. Simulation results confirm asymptotic convergence of the formation, with position root-mean-square error maintained below 0.15 m and velocity errors under 0.05 m/s. Furthermore, connectivity is preserved within 10 m of the upper safe limit under J 2 perturbations. Overall, the proposed methodology offers a scalable and reliable solution for multi-agent coordination in constrained orbital settings.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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