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Indexed by: Journal Article

Date of Publication: 2016-03-01

Journal: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES

Included Journals: Scopus、EI、SCIE

Volume: 63

Issue: 1

Page Number: 47-59

ISSN: 0021-9142

Key Words: Reconfiguration; PSO; Coulomb satellite formation

Abstract: The paper studied reconfiguration of Coulomb formation from three-craft system to four-craft system. Assumed that three-craft Coulomb system already formed a triangle configuration, then, the fourth Coulomb craft is scheduled to join the existing system so as to form a new static configuration. New possible configurations such as quadrilateral in 2-dimension and tetrahedron in 3-dimension for four-craft Coulomb formation are discussed in the paper. The processing of reconfiguration will not change the original origin and triangle formation. Through the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, the mass, the charge and the position of the fourth Coulomb craft can be calculated for these configurations.