Finite-time fault-tolerant attitude tracking control for spacecraft without unwinding

Author(s):  
Bing Huang ◽  
Ai-jun Li ◽  
Yong Guo ◽  
Chang-qing Wang ◽  
Jin-hua Guo

This paper investigates the finite-time attitude tracking control problem for spacecraft in the presence of external disturbances and actuator faults. Two anti-unwinding attitude tracking control schemes have been proposed based on the rotation matrix and sliding mode control technology. Utilizing a fast terminal sliding mode surface, the first controller can fulfill the finite-time attitude tracking control task with disturbance rejection ability. The second controller can improve the system reliability when the actuator fault occurs. Rigorous mathematical analysis and proof concludes that the proposed controllers can make a spacecraft track the desired attitude command in finite time. Numerical simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.

Author(s):  
Cheng Huang ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Xing-lin Chen

This paper studies the problem of attitude tracking control for spacecraft rendezvous and docking based on a physical ground simulation system. Two finite-time controllers based on quaternion are proposed by using a novel fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface associated with the adaptive control, the novel fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface not only contains the advantages of the fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface, but also can eliminate unwinding caused by the quaternion. The first controller, which is continuous and chattering-free, can compensate unknown constant external disturbances, while the second controller can both compensate parametric uncertainties and varying external disturbances with unknown bounds without chattering. Lyapunov theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the two controllers can make the closed-loop system errors converge to zero in finite time and guarantee the finite-time stability of the system.


Author(s):  
Qun Zong ◽  
Xiuyun Zhang ◽  
Shikai Shao ◽  
Bailing Tian ◽  
Wenjing Liu

In this paper, finite-time fault-tolerant attitude tracking control is investigated for rigid spacecraft system with external disturbances, inertia uncertainties and actuator faults. A novel finite-time disturbance observer combined with a nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller is developed. Using an equivalent output error injection approach, a finite-time disturbance observer with simple structure is firstly designed to estimate lumped uncertainty. Then, to remove the requirement of prior knowledge about lumped uncertainty and reduce chattering, an adaptive finite-time disturbance observer is further proposed, and the estimations converge to the neighborhood of the true values. Based on the designed observer, a unified finite-time attitude controller is obtained automatically. Finally, both additive and multiplicative faults are considered for simulations and the results illustrate the great fault-tolerant capability of the proposed scheme.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (13) ◽  
pp. 2050212
Author(s):  
Zhi Gao ◽  
Zhihao Zhu ◽  
Yu Guo

For multi-spacecraft with actuator saturation, inertia uncertainties and external disturbances, a distributed finite-time coordinated attitude tracking control problem for the spacecraft with the communication topology containing fewer information paths is investigated. Aiming at reducing the communication path, a class of distributed finite-time state observers is designed. To speed up the convergence rate of the multiple spacecraft system, a fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode function is proposed. Moreover, an adaptive control term is proposed to suppress the impact of the external state-dependent disturbances and unknown time-varying inertia uncertainties. Further considering the actuator saturation owing to its physical limitations, a saturation function is designed. With the distributed finite-time observers, the fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode function, the adaptive update law and the saturation function, a distributed finite-time coordinated attitude tracking saturation controller is designed. Using the proposed controller, the follower can synchronize with the common leader with time-varying trajectory in finite time. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the designed controller.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Guo ◽  
Shen-Min Song ◽  
Xue-Hui Li

Two finite-time controllers without unwinding for the attitude tracking control of the spacecraft are investigated based on the rotation matrix, in which a novel modified nonsingular fast terminal sliding manifold is developed to keep tr(R~)≠-1. The first terminal sliding mode controller can compensate external disturbances with known bounds, while the second one can compensate external disturbances with unknown bounds by using an adaptive control method. Since the first terminal sliding mode controller is continuous, it is able to avoid chattering phenomenon. Theoretical analysis shows that both the two controllers can make spacecraft follow a time-varying reference attitude signal in finite time. Numerical simulations also demonstrate that the proposed control schemes are effective.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitao Chen ◽  
Shenmin Song ◽  
Xuehui Li

This paper studies the finite time spacecraft attitude tracking control problem, while considering modeling uncertainty, external disturbances and control input saturation. A novel integral terminal sliding mode surface (ITSMS) is designed by combining the fast terminal sliding mode surface (FTSMS) with a low pass filter to achieve a fast finite time convergence rate for the control system, without input singularity. An auxiliary signal is used to compensate for the effects of actuator saturation. The basic controller is first formulated based on the ITSMS, fast-TSM-type reaching law and auxiliary system, in the presence of an external disturbance and input saturation. Then, an adaptive control procedure is introduced, which simultaneously handles modeling uncertainty and external disturbance, thereby creating an adaptive attitude tracking controller. The proposed controller provides a fast finite time convergence rate for the control system, based on the newly designed ITSMS, while simultaneously compensating for modeling uncertainty, external disturbances and input saturation, without restricting the parameter selection process nor requiring repeated differentiation of nonlinear functions. Finally, digital simulation results are presented and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 175682932092356
Author(s):  
Li Ding ◽  
Yangmin Li

The robust control problem in attitude tracking of an unmanned aerial vehicle quadrotor is a challenging task due to strong parametric uncertainties, large nonlinearities and high couplings in flight dynamics. In this paper, a continuous nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode controller based on linear extended state observer is proposed for attitude tracking control of a quadrotor under lumped disturbances. The proposed control method requires no prior knowledge of the attitude dynamics. It can ensure rapid convergence rate and high tracking precision due to terminal sliding mode surface and fast reaching law. The controller uses the linear extended state observer to reject the influence of both parametric uncertainties and external disturbances. Meanwhile, the nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control strategy is designed to ensure the state variables to slide to desired points in finite time. To enhance the control performance, a self-adaptive fruit fly optimization algorithm is applied to parameters tuning of the proposed controller. The effectiveness of the proposed control approach is illustrated through numerical simulations and experimental verification.


2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueying Wang ◽  
Pingfang Zhou ◽  
Ji-An Chen ◽  
Dengping Duan

The problem of station-keeping attitude tracking control for an autonomous airship with system uncertainties and external disturbances is investigated. Adaptive laws are applied to estimate the upper bounds of uncertainties and disturbances, and a nonlinear finite time control scheme is proposed by combing input/output feedback linearization with integral sliding mode technique. Different from the existing works on attitude control of airship, the developed controller can guarantee the yaw, pitch and roll angle trajectories track the desired attitude in finite time in spite of uncertain system uncertainties and external disturbances. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the attitude tracking performance.


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