Manoeuvring and vibration reduction of a flexible spacecraft integrating optimal sliding mode controller and distributed piezoelectric sensors/actuators

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 452-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinglei Hu ◽  
Guangfu Ma
Author(s):  
Philip T. Shimon ◽  
Yildirim Hurmuzlu ◽  
Edmond Richer

In this paper, we sought to develop an efficient controller for vibration reduction in a fully clamped plate. We investigated three control methodologies (positive velocity feedback, sliding mode control, and H∞ control) and two types of actuators (an inertial actuator and a distributed strain actuator). These were used to develop five control architectures (the sliding mode controller was not implemented for the inertial actuator). Both theoretical and experimental studies were undertaken with varying results. The best theoretical results were obtained when sliding mode and H∞ control were used in conjunction with a distributed strain actuator. Experimentally, the H∞ controller using the distributed strain actuator outperformed the others.


Author(s):  
Chengbao Zhou ◽  
Di Zhou

The nonlinear attitude motion equations of flexible spacecraft described by the Euler angles are expressed in the vector form. Based on dynamic surface control, a new robust dynamic surface sliding mode controller is proposed for the attitude tracking and active vibration suppression of flexible spacecraft in the presence of parameter uncertainty and external disturbances. Then, a novel robust dynamic surface finite time sliding mode controller is proposed with an extended state observer such that the uncertainties can be estimated. Lyapunov stability analyses show that the two controllers can guarantee the asymptotical stability of the attitude control system. The undesirable vibration of flexible spacecraft is also actively suppressed by the modal velocity feedback approach. Finally, simulation results verified the effectiveness of the presented control algorithms.


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