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access icon free Dynamic infinity-norm constrained control allocation for attitude tracking control of overactuated combined spacecraft

  • Author(s): Xiuwei Huang 1  and  Guang-Ren Duan 1, 2
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  • Source: Volume 13, Issue 11, 23 July 2019, p. 1692 – 1703
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-cta.2018.5707 , Print ISSN 1751-8644, Online ISSN 1751-8652
© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 07/07/2018, Accepted 25/04/2019, Revised 27/03/2019, Published 25/04/2019

In this study, a dynamic (infinity-norm) constrained control allocation scheme is designed for attitude tracking control of combined spacecraft with inertia uncertainties and external disturbances. A disturbance-observer-based constrained backstepping control law is developed to generate the control command signals considering non-symmetric constraints on control input, where the lumped disturbance containing inertia uncertainties and external disturbances is compensated by the output of stable non-linear disturbance observer. The control scheme can guarantee that the attitude and angular velocity tracking error converge to small neighbourhood of zero by appropriately tuning the control parameters. With the consideration of physical amplitude and rate constraints on actuators, the dynamic constrained control allocation problem is solved by linear programming technique. Numerical examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed disturbance-observer-based constrained backstepping control method and the dynamic constrained control allocation algorithm.

Inspec keywords: linear programming; actuators; uncertain systems; aircraft control; attitude control; control nonlinearities; nonlinear control systems; angular velocity control; observers; space vehicles; control system synthesis

Other keywords: nonsymmetric constraints; nonlinear disturbance observer; command signals; angular velocity; inertia uncertainties; attitude tracking control; backstepping control law; overactuated combined spacecraft; infinity-norm constrained control allocation; linear programming

Subjects: Simulation, modelling and identification; Spatial variables control; Control system analysis and synthesis methods; Velocity, acceleration and rotation control; Optimisation techniques; Aerospace control; Nonlinear control systems

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