A fault tolerant control (FTC) design technique against actuator stuck faults is investigated using integral-type sliding mode control (ISMC) with application to spacecraft attitude maneuvering control system. The...A fault tolerant control (FTC) design technique against actuator stuck faults is investigated using integral-type sliding mode control (ISMC) with application to spacecraft attitude maneuvering control system. The principle of the proposed FTC scheme is to design an integral-type sliding mode attitude controller using on-line parameter adaptive updating law to compensate for the effects of stuck actuators. This adaptive law also provides both the estimates of the system parameters and external disturbances such that a prior knowledge of the spacecraft inertia or boundedness of disturbances is not required. Moreover, by including the integral feedback term, the designed controller can not only tolerate actuator stuck faults, but also compensate the disturbances with constant components. For the synthesis of controller, the fault time, patterns and values are unknown in advance, as motivated from a practical spacecraft control application. Complete stability and performance analysis are presented and illustrative simulation results of application to a spacecraft show that high precise attitude control with zero steady-error is successfully achieved using various scenarios of stuck failures in actuators.展开更多
This paper is devoted to adaptive attitude tracking control for rigid spacecraft in the presence of parametric uncertainties, actuator faults and external disturbance. Specifically, a dynamic model is established base...This paper is devoted to adaptive attitude tracking control for rigid spacecraft in the presence of parametric uncertainties, actuator faults and external disturbance. Specifically, a dynamic model is established based on one-tank spacecraft, which explicitly takes into account changing Center of Mass(CM). Then, a control scheme is proposed to achieve attitude tracking.Benefiting from explicitly considering the changing CM during the controller design process, the proposed scheme possesses good robustness to parametric uncertainties with less fuel consumption.Moreover, a fault-tolerant control algorithm is proposed to accommodate actuator faults with no need of knowing the actuators' fault information. Lyapunov-based analysis is provided and the closed-loop system stability is rigorously proved. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.展开更多
This paper investigates a fractional terminal sliding mode control for flexible spacecraft attitude tracking in the presence of inertia uncertainties and external disturbances. The controller is based on the fractiona...This paper investigates a fractional terminal sliding mode control for flexible spacecraft attitude tracking in the presence of inertia uncertainties and external disturbances. The controller is based on the fractional calculus and nonsingular terminal sliding mode control technique,and it guarantees the convergence of attitude tracking error in finite time rather than in the asymptotic sense. With respect to the controller,a fractional order sliding surface is given,the corresponding control scheme is proposed based on Lyapunov stability theory to guarantee the sliding condition,and the finite time stability of the whole close loop system is also proven. Finally,numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed scheme.展开更多
The characteristic modeling problem of flight vehicles'attitude dynamics is considered in this paper.In terms of the affine nonlinear system with triangle form of flight vehicles'attitude dynamics,a general me...The characteristic modeling problem of flight vehicles'attitude dynamics is considered in this paper.In terms of the affine nonlinear system with triangle form of flight vehicles'attitude dynamics,a general method is presented to compress the dynamics into the characteristic model parameters,by introducing the time scale of nonlinear systems and a class of system states related compress functions.The parameter region and limit of the characteristic model are also given.From the given parameter region it is seen that the bound of the characteristic model parameters is dependent on the sampling period,the modeling error,the system order and the system change rate.The modeling error of the established characteristic model can be arbitrarily small according to the control precision,showing the difference between the characteristic model and other model reduction methods,that is,no system information is lost using this approach.On the basis of this modeling approach,the characteristic model of the flexible satellite attitude is established,as well as the bound and limit of the parameters,which sets a theoretical foundation for characteristic model based control design of flight vehicles.展开更多
In this paper, the attitude stabilization problem of a rigid spacecraft described by Rodrigues parameters is investigated via a composite control strategy, which combines a feedback control law designed by a finite ti...In this paper, the attitude stabilization problem of a rigid spacecraft described by Rodrigues parameters is investigated via a composite control strategy, which combines a feedback control law designed by a finite time control technique with a feedforward compensator based on a linear disturbance observer (DOB) method. By choosing a suitable coordinate transformation, the spacecraft dynamics can be divided into three second-order subsystems. Each subsystem includes a certain part and an uncertain part. By using the finite time control technique, a continuous finite time controller is designed for the certain part. The uncertain part is considered to be a lumped disturbance, which is estimated by a DOB, and a corresponding feedforward design is then implemented to compensate the disturbance. Simulation results are employed to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach.展开更多
Visual sensors are used to measure the relative state of the chaser spacecraft to the target spacecraft during close range ren- dezvous phases. This article proposes a two-stage iterative algorithm based on an inverse...Visual sensors are used to measure the relative state of the chaser spacecraft to the target spacecraft during close range ren- dezvous phases. This article proposes a two-stage iterative algorithm based on an inverse projection ray approach to address the relative position and attitude estimation by using feature points and monocular vision. It consists of two stages: absolute orienta- tion and depth recovery. In the first stage, Umeyama's algorithm is used to fit the three-dimensional (3D) model set and estimate the 3D point set while in the second stage, the depths of the observed feature points are estimated. This procedure is repeated until the result converges. Moreover, the effectiveness and convergence of the proposed algorithm are verified through theoreti- cal analysis and mathematical simulation.展开更多
In this paper, we propose a novel anti-disturbance attitude control law for combined spacecraft with an improved closed-loop control allocation scheme. More specifically, a saturated approach is adopted to guarantee t...In this paper, we propose a novel anti-disturbance attitude control law for combined spacecraft with an improved closed-loop control allocation scheme. More specifically, a saturated approach is adopted to guarantee the global asymptotic stability under control input saturation.To enhance the robustness of the system, a nonlinear disturbance observer is constructed to compensate the disturbances caused by inertial parameter uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics. Next,the quadratic programming algorithm is used to obtain an optimal open-loop control allocation scheme, where both energy consumption and actuator saturation have been considered in the allocation of the virtual control command. Then, a modified closed-loop control allocation scheme is proposed to reduce the allocation error under the actuator uncertainty. Finally, stability analysis of the closed-loop system with the proposed allocation scheme is provided. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.展开更多
This paper studies the attitude synchronization tracking control of spacecraft formation flying with a directed communication topology and presents three different controllers. By introducing a novel error variable as...This paper studies the attitude synchronization tracking control of spacecraft formation flying with a directed communication topology and presents three different controllers. By introducing a novel error variable associated with rotation matrix, a decentralized attitude synchronization controller, which could obtain almost global asymptotical stability of the closed-loop system, is developed. Then, considering model uncertainties and unknown external disturbances, we propose a robust adaptive attitude synchronization controller by designing adaptive laws to estimate the unknown parameters. After that, the third controller is proposed by extending this method to the case of time-varying communication delays via Lyapunov-Krasovskii analysis. The distinctive feature of this work is to address attitude coordinated control with model uncertainties, unknown disturbances and time-varying delays in a decentralized framework, with a strongly connected directed information flow. It is shown that tracking and synchronization of an arbitrary desired attitude can be achieved when the stability condition is satisfied. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control schemes. (C) 2016 Production and hosting by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.展开更多
The attitude of spherical liquid-filled spacecraft is controlled based on the high-order fully actuated system approaches.The rigid-fluid coupling dynamic equation can be established in terms of the Euler angles of th...The attitude of spherical liquid-filled spacecraft is controlled based on the high-order fully actuated system approaches.The rigid-fluid coupling dynamic equation can be established in terms of the Euler angles of the spacecraft and the angular velocities of the liquid fuel.According to the dynamic equation,three kinds of input selections are presented.In the case of one control input,the dynamic equation is transformed into the third-order or the second-order differential equations of the Euler angle by the high-order fully actuated system approaches.Then a control law is designed to track the target.The effectiveness of the control law is demonstrated by numerical simulations.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(61004072)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(HIT.NSRIF.2009003)+1 种基金Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20070213061, 20102302110031)Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars of Harbin (2010RFLXG001)
文摘A fault tolerant control (FTC) design technique against actuator stuck faults is investigated using integral-type sliding mode control (ISMC) with application to spacecraft attitude maneuvering control system. The principle of the proposed FTC scheme is to design an integral-type sliding mode attitude controller using on-line parameter adaptive updating law to compensate for the effects of stuck actuators. This adaptive law also provides both the estimates of the system parameters and external disturbances such that a prior knowledge of the spacecraft inertia or boundedness of disturbances is not required. Moreover, by including the integral feedback term, the designed controller can not only tolerate actuator stuck faults, but also compensate the disturbances with constant components. For the synthesis of controller, the fault time, patterns and values are unknown in advance, as motivated from a practical spacecraft control application. Complete stability and performance analysis are presented and illustrative simulation results of application to a spacecraft show that high precise attitude control with zero steady-error is successfully achieved using various scenarios of stuck failures in actuators.
基金supported partially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61522301,61633003)
文摘This paper is devoted to adaptive attitude tracking control for rigid spacecraft in the presence of parametric uncertainties, actuator faults and external disturbance. Specifically, a dynamic model is established based on one-tank spacecraft, which explicitly takes into account changing Center of Mass(CM). Then, a control scheme is proposed to achieve attitude tracking.Benefiting from explicitly considering the changing CM during the controller design process, the proposed scheme possesses good robustness to parametric uncertainties with less fuel consumption.Moreover, a fault-tolerant control algorithm is proposed to accommodate actuator faults with no need of knowing the actuators' fault information. Lyapunov-based analysis is provided and the closed-loop system stability is rigorously proved. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61174037)the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61021002)the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (Grant No. F201307)
文摘This paper investigates a fractional terminal sliding mode control for flexible spacecraft attitude tracking in the presence of inertia uncertainties and external disturbances. The controller is based on the fractional calculus and nonsingular terminal sliding mode control technique,and it guarantees the convergence of attitude tracking error in finite time rather than in the asymptotic sense. With respect to the controller,a fractional order sliding surface is given,the corresponding control scheme is proposed based on Lyapunov stability theory to guarantee the sliding condition,and the finite time stability of the whole close loop system is also proven. Finally,numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed scheme.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.60736023,60704014)
文摘The characteristic modeling problem of flight vehicles'attitude dynamics is considered in this paper.In terms of the affine nonlinear system with triangle form of flight vehicles'attitude dynamics,a general method is presented to compress the dynamics into the characteristic model parameters,by introducing the time scale of nonlinear systems and a class of system states related compress functions.The parameter region and limit of the characteristic model are also given.From the given parameter region it is seen that the bound of the characteristic model parameters is dependent on the sampling period,the modeling error,the system order and the system change rate.The modeling error of the established characteristic model can be arbitrarily small according to the control precision,showing the difference between the characteristic model and other model reduction methods,that is,no system information is lost using this approach.On the basis of this modeling approach,the characteristic model of the flexible satellite attitude is established,as well as the bound and limit of the parameters,which sets a theoretical foundation for characteristic model based control design of flight vehicles.
基金Natural Science Foundation of China(61074013,61203011)Specialized Research Fundfor the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(20090092110022)+1 种基金New Century Excellent Talents in University(NCET-10-0328)the Scientific Research Foundation of Graduate School of Southeast University
文摘In this paper, the attitude stabilization problem of a rigid spacecraft described by Rodrigues parameters is investigated via a composite control strategy, which combines a feedback control law designed by a finite time control technique with a feedforward compensator based on a linear disturbance observer (DOB) method. By choosing a suitable coordinate transformation, the spacecraft dynamics can be divided into three second-order subsystems. Each subsystem includes a certain part and an uncertain part. By using the finite time control technique, a continuous finite time controller is designed for the certain part. The uncertain part is considered to be a lumped disturbance, which is estimated by a DOB, and a corresponding feedforward design is then implemented to compensate the disturbance. Simulation results are employed to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
基金Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT0520)Ph.D.Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (20070213055)
文摘Visual sensors are used to measure the relative state of the chaser spacecraft to the target spacecraft during close range ren- dezvous phases. This article proposes a two-stage iterative algorithm based on an inverse projection ray approach to address the relative position and attitude estimation by using feature points and monocular vision. It consists of two stages: absolute orienta- tion and depth recovery. In the first stage, Umeyama's algorithm is used to fit the three-dimensional (3D) model set and estimate the 3D point set while in the second stage, the depths of the observed feature points are estimated. This procedure is repeated until the result converges. Moreover, the effectiveness and convergence of the proposed algorithm are verified through theoreti- cal analysis and mathematical simulation.
基金co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61627810, 61320106010, 61633003, 61661136007, 61603021)the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team (No. IRT_16R03)Innovative Research Team of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61421063)
文摘In this paper, we propose a novel anti-disturbance attitude control law for combined spacecraft with an improved closed-loop control allocation scheme. More specifically, a saturated approach is adopted to guarantee the global asymptotic stability under control input saturation.To enhance the robustness of the system, a nonlinear disturbance observer is constructed to compensate the disturbances caused by inertial parameter uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics. Next,the quadratic programming algorithm is used to obtain an optimal open-loop control allocation scheme, where both energy consumption and actuator saturation have been considered in the allocation of the virtual control command. Then, a modified closed-loop control allocation scheme is proposed to reduce the allocation error under the actuator uncertainty. Finally, stability analysis of the closed-loop system with the proposed allocation scheme is provided. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61573115 and 61333003)
文摘This paper studies the attitude synchronization tracking control of spacecraft formation flying with a directed communication topology and presents three different controllers. By introducing a novel error variable associated with rotation matrix, a decentralized attitude synchronization controller, which could obtain almost global asymptotical stability of the closed-loop system, is developed. Then, considering model uncertainties and unknown external disturbances, we propose a robust adaptive attitude synchronization controller by designing adaptive laws to estimate the unknown parameters. After that, the third controller is proposed by extending this method to the case of time-varying communication delays via Lyapunov-Krasovskii analysis. The distinctive feature of this work is to address attitude coordinated control with model uncertainties, unknown disturbances and time-varying delays in a decentralized framework, with a strongly connected directed information flow. It is shown that tracking and synchronization of an arbitrary desired attitude can be achieved when the stability condition is satisfied. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control schemes. (C) 2016 Production and hosting by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
基金This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.62188101 and 12132002.
文摘The attitude of spherical liquid-filled spacecraft is controlled based on the high-order fully actuated system approaches.The rigid-fluid coupling dynamic equation can be established in terms of the Euler angles of the spacecraft and the angular velocities of the liquid fuel.According to the dynamic equation,three kinds of input selections are presented.In the case of one control input,the dynamic equation is transformed into the third-order or the second-order differential equations of the Euler angle by the high-order fully actuated system approaches.Then a control law is designed to track the target.The effectiveness of the control law is demonstrated by numerical simulations.