Distributed Attitude Coordination Control for Spacecraft Formation Flying

Author

Zou, An-Min ; Kumar, Krishna Dev

Author_Institution

Dept. of Aerosp. Eng., Ryerson Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

Volume

48

Issue

2

fYear

2012

fDate

4/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1329

Lastpage

1346

Abstract

A distributed attitude coordination control scheme using terminal sliding mode (TSM) is proposed for a group of spacecraft in the presence of external disturbances. A novel fast terminal sliding manifold is presented, and a robust control term based on the hyperbolic tangent function is employed to suppress bounded external disturbances. The finite-time stability of the overall closed-loop system is guaranteed by a Lyapunov-based approach, and numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed controller.

Keywords

Lyapunov methods; attitude control; closed loop systems; distributed control; numerical analysis; robust control; space vehicles; variable structure systems; Lyapunov-based approach; TSM; closed-loop system; distributed attitude coordination control; finite-time stability; hyperbolic tangent function; numerical simulations; robust control term; spacecraft formation flying; spacecraft group; terminal sliding mode; Asymptotic stability; Attitude control; Equations; Jacobian matrices; Manifolds; Space vehicles; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAES.2012.6178065

Filename

6178065