Piecewise attitude tracking control of a gravity gradient microsatellite for coplanar orbital transfer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Sun ◽  
Zelin Zhao ◽  
Guowei Zhao ◽  
Hai Huang ◽  
Lingxuan Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tracking Control ◽  
Gravity Gradient ◽  
Orbital Transfer ◽  
Attitude Tracking ◽  
Attitude Tracking Control

Magnetic attitude tracking control of gravity gradient microsatellite in orbital transfer

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (1269) ◽  
pp. 1881-1894
Author(s):  
Liang Sun ◽  
Zhiwen Wang ◽  
Guowei Zhao ◽  
Hai Huang
Keyword(s):  
Tracking Control ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Tracking Error ◽  
Gravity Gradient ◽  
Control Torque ◽  
Orbital Transfer ◽  
Attitude Tracking ◽  
Lyapunov Stability Analysis ◽  
Attitude Tracking Control ◽  
The Magnetic Field

ABSTRACTThe problem of the magnetic attitude tracking control is studied for a gravity gradient microsatellite in orbital transfer. The contributions of the work are mainly shown in two aspects: (1) the design of an expected attitude trajectory; (2) a method of the magnetic attitude tracking control. In orbital transfer, the gravity gradient microsatellite under a constant thrust shows complicated dynamic behaviours. In order to damp out the pendular motion, the gravity gradient microsatellite is subject to the the attitude tracking problem. An expected attitude trajectory is designed based on dynamic characteristics revealed in the paper, which not only ensures the flight safety of the system, but also reduces the energy consumption of the controller. Besides, the control torque produced by a magnetorquer is constrained to lie in a two-dimensional plane orthogonal to the magnetic field, so an auxiliary compensator is proposed to improve the control performance, which is different from existing magnetic control methods. In addition, a sliding mode control based on the compensator is presented, and the Lyapunov stability analysis is performed to show the global convergence of the tracking error. Finally, a numerical case of the gravity gradient microsatellite is studied to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed tracking control.

Robust fault-tolerant flight control of quadrotor against faults in multiple motors

2021 ◽  
pp. 095441002199954
Author(s):  
Dinesh D Dhadekar ◽  
S E Talole
Keyword(s):  
Flight Control ◽  
Tracking Control ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
External Disturbances ◽  
Detection And Identification ◽  
Attitude Tracking ◽  
Fault Detection And Identification ◽  
Attitude Tracking Control ◽  
Disturbance Estimator

In this article, position and attitude tracking control of the quadrotor subject to complex nonlinearities, input couplings, aerodynamic uncertainties, and external disturbances coupled with faults in multiple motors is investigated. A robustified nonlinear dynamic inversion (NDI)-based fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme is proposed for the purpose. The proposed scheme is not only robust against aforementioned nonlinearities, disturbances, and uncertainties but also tolerant to unexpected occurrence of faults in multiple motors. The proposed scheme employs uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE) technique to robustify the NDI-based controller by providing estimate of the lumped disturbance, thereby enabling rejection of the same. In addition, the UDE also plays the role of fault detection and identification module. The effectiveness and benefits of the proposed design are confirmed through 6-DOF simulations and experimentation on a 3-DOF Hover platform.

Adaptive attitude-tracking control of spacecraft considering on-orbit refuelling

2020 ◽  
pp. 014233122097313
Author(s):  
Yiqi Xu
Keyword(s):  
Tracking Control ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Closed Loop System ◽  
Tracking Errors ◽  
Attitude Tracking ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Inertia Model ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Attitude Tracking Control ◽  
The Stability

This paper studies the attitude-tracking control problem of spacecraft considering on-orbit refuelling. A time-varying inertia model is developed for spacecraft on-orbit refuelling, which actually includes two processes: fuel in the transfer pipe and fuel in the tank. Based upon the inertia model, an adaptive attitude-tracking controller is derived to guarantee the stability of the resulted closed-loop system, as well as asymptotic convergence of the attitude-tracking errors, despite performing refuelling operations. Finally, numerical simulations illustrate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed control scheme.

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