This paper considers the formation control and attitude control problems of networked spacecraft flying in deep space.The control objectives are to design a coupled controller under which each spacecraft can track its desired position and attitude and,simultaneously,the whole group move to the desired formation and achieve desired relative attitudes.The proposed controller obtained by graph approach,only requires information links with a spacecraft’s neighbors and therefore reduce the total communication costs of the whole formation compared to a previse study. In addition,the proposed controller requires no measurements of a spacecraft’s neighbor’s velocity and acceleration and therefore reduces the accumulative errors accompanying with measurements.Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
