基于有向图的航天器编队飞行自适应姿态协同控制

在有向通信拓扑下研究了编队航天器自适应姿态协同控制问题。针对航天器编队飞行系统中存在外部扰动和模型不确定性的情况,通过选取包含相对姿态误差和绝对姿态误差的辅助变量,提出了一种鲁棒自适应控制策略。提出了自适应律估计转动惯量矩阵和扰动上界等未知参数,并且利用Lyapunov稳定性理论分析了闭环系统的渐近稳定性。与滑模控制等传统鲁棒控制不同,所设计的鲁棒自适应控制器是连续的,更便于航天器编队飞行系统的实现。最后通过仿真验证了该控制策略能够实现高精度的编队飞行跟踪控制。     

考虑执行机构误差的编队卫星姿态分布式时延滑模自适应协同控制

针对编队卫星姿态协同控制问题,在考虑到执行机构误差的前提下,提出一种将时延控制与滑模自适应控制相结合的鲁棒控制方法.该方法通过引入自适应更新律实现对执行机构小角度安装误差的在线估计,同时通过滑模控制完成对外界干扰和执行机构随机幅值误差等随机扰动的抑制.由于引入了时延环节,只需对上一时刻控制力矩进行单位时延,达到大大简化...     

基于终端滑模的航天器自适应预设性能姿态跟踪控制

针对航天器姿态跟踪控制的快速性需求,提出一类自适应终端滑模有限时间控制方法,通过引入饱和函数解决了终端滑模控制器的奇异问题,并结合实际有限时间稳定概念显式地给出了系统状态收敛时间和收敛范围之间的对应关系;为在提高系统鲁棒性的同时避免控制器抖振,设计了一种新型自适应律估计并补偿未知环境干扰。进一步地,针对如遥感卫星对地扫描成像等姿态跟踪任务中存在的状态约束问题,通过在控制器中引入具有对数形式的预设性能项,使系统滑模面响应具有期望的动态过程,约束了航天器姿态跟踪误差及其一阶导数的变化范围。仿真结果表明,设计的控制器具有较高的控制精度和响应速度,满足实际任务对状态约束的需求,且其控制输出不存在奇异和抖振,具备良好的工程应用价值。     

基于终端滑模的无人机编队协同控制

文章研究了具有输入受限及外部干扰的无人机编队有限时间协同控制问题。首先,引入抗饱和辅助系统来解决执行器的饱和问题,利用自适应方法对扰动上界进行估计和补偿;然后,设计新型全局快速终端滑模的控制器,使得编队内各无人机在有限时间内收敛到指定的编队位置,并通过李雅普诺夫稳定性分析方法,证明控制方法的有效性;最后,对提出的控制方法进行数字仿真,验证了实际可行性。     

编队卫星分布式鲁棒饱和姿态协同控制

研究跟踪时变参考姿态情况下控制输入饱和的编队飞行卫星姿态协同控制问题.针对不同情形,通过恰当地利用双曲正切函数,提出3种连续有界的协同控制器.首先,在无外部扰动和参数不确定性的情况下,提出一种理想的饱和协同控制器.进一步,考虑角速度不可测量的情况,利用无源滤波器设计无角速度反馈的饱和协同控制器.当外部扰动和参数不确定性...     

基于滑模的多无人机系统协同编队控制

针对具有非完整约束的多无人机系统编队控制问题,提出了一种基于滑模的协同编队控制算法。控制目标是使多无人机系统能够收敛到期望编队,并且能够跟踪上期望的运动轨迹。在领导-跟随结构中,编队的期望运动轨迹由一个动态的虚拟领导者来表示,仅部分跟随者先验已知虚拟领导者信息,并且所有跟随者之间只能局部交互信息。首先,采用分布式状态观测器,使所有跟随者能够在有限时间内估计出虚拟领导者的状态。然后,利用该观测器的估计状态,提出了基于滑模的协同编队控制算法。最后,基于李雅普诺夫稳定性理论证明了多无人机系统的稳定性,并且通过5架无人机的仿真验证了所提算法的有效性。     

基于扰动观测器的无人机固定时间编队协同控制

针对无人机的编队控制问题,基于虚拟领航者编队方法,提出了 1种基于固定时间超螺旋干扰观测器的反步控制策略。首先,设计了 1种固定时间超螺旋扰动观测器,以保证在固定时间内,对无人机编队机动所受扰动的快速观测;其次,针对编队控制问题,设计了基于超螺旋扰动观测器的反步控制策略,该控制器显著降低了抖振效应;然后,使用李雅普诺夫理论和固定时间理论,分析了控制策略的固定时间稳定性;最后,通过仿真算例验证了所提出的控制策略的有效性与可行性。     

空间多刚体系统编队及姿态的协同综合控制

针对由多个非线性系统组成的多子系统的协同控制问题,给出了一种基于输出反馈的协同控制律的设计方法,并将其应用于空间多个刚体的编队控制和姿态的协同控制系统中,给出了空间多刚体系统编队控制及姿态协同控制问题有解的充分条件,设计了多刚体编队及姿态稳定的协同综合控制律。仿真结果表明,这种控制方法是有效的、可行的,所设计的控制器能够使整个刚体系统在空间运行过程中保持一定的队形,并且同时稳定控制描述各个刚体系统姿态的四元数。     

基于预设性能的四旋翼无人机编队安全控制

针对四旋翼无人机编队系统存在模型不确定性、未知外部干扰与内部碰撞等问题,提出一种基于预设性能的安全控制方法。首先使用预设性能函数结合误差转换方法,将防止内部碰撞的不等式约束问题转换为无约束问题。同时针对模型中的不确定项,使用神经网络进行逼近;针对神经网络逼近误差与未知外部干扰组成的复合干扰,使用非线性干扰观测器进行估计,并分别设计位置与姿态子系统控制器,避免了编队内四旋翼无人机的碰撞。然后借助Lyapunov方法证明了闭环系统所有信号的收敛性。最后通过数值仿真验证了所提控制方法的有效性。     

均等通信时滞下多UAV协同编队控制

多无人机(UAV)系统编队控制中,时滞是无法回避的问题,研究时滞对多UAV编队形成和系统稳定性的影响,具有重要理论价值。重点研究均等通信时滞下多UAV协同编队控制问题,并获得系统的稳定性条件。首先,设计具有均等通信时滞的协同编队控制律,得到多UAV编队系统的闭环时滞状态方程;在恒定均等时滞下,考虑到系统模型不确定性,基于线性矩阵不等式(LMI)理论得到系统的时滞依赖稳定性条件;最后,进行仿真实验,结果表明多UAV编队系统是稳定的,期望的编队队形能够形成并保持。     

Robust attitude coordinated control for spacecraft formation with communication delays

In this paper,attitude coordinated tracking control algorithms for multiple spacecraft formation are investigated with consideration of parametric uncertainties,external disturbances,communication delays and actuator saturation.Initially,a sliding mode delay-dependent attitude coordinated controller is proposed under bounded external disturbances.However,neither inertia uncertainty nor actuator constraint has been taken into account.Then,a robust saturated delay dependent attitude coordinated control law is further derived,where uncertainties and external disturbances are handled by Chebyshev neural networks (CNN).In addition,command filter technique is introduced to facilitate the backstepping design procedure,through which actuator saturation problem is solved.Thus the spacecraft in the formation are able to track the reference attitude trajectory even in the presence of time-varying communication delays.Rigorous analysis is presented by using Lyapunov-Krasovskii approach to demonstrate the stability of the closed-loop system under both control algorithms.Finally,the numerical examples are carried out to illustrate the efficiency of the theoretical results.     

Decentralized attitude synchronization tracking control for multiple spacecraft under directed communication topology

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.     

Coordinated attitude control for flexible spacecraft formation with actuator configuration misalignment

This paper investigates the coordinated attitude control problem for flexible spacecraft formation with the consideration of actuator configuration misalignment. First, an integral-type sliding mode adaptive control law is designed to compensate the effects of flexible mode, environmental disturbance and actuator installation deviation. The basic idea of the Integral-type Sliding Mode Control (ISMC) is to design a proper sliding manifold so that the sliding mode starts from the initial time instant, and thus the robustness of the system can be guaranteed from the beginning of the process and the reaching phase is eliminated. Then, considering the nominal system of spacecraft formation based on directed topology, an attitude cooperative control strategy is developed for the nominal system with or without communication delay. The proposed control law can guarantee that for each spacecraft in the spacecraft formation, the desired attitude objective can be achieved and the attitude synchronization can be maintained with other spacecraft in the formation. Finally, simulation results are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm.     

Event-triggered adaptive control for attitude tracking of spacecraft

Plug-and-play technology is an important direction for future development of spacecraft and how to design controllers with less communication burden and satisfactory performance is of great importance for plug-and-play spacecraft. Considering attitude tracking of such spacecraft with unknown inertial parameters and unknown disturbances, an event-triggered adaptive backstepping controller is designed in this paper. Particularly, a switching threshold strategy is employed to design the event-triggering mechanism. By introducing a new linear time-varying model, a smooth function, an integrable auxiliary signal and a bound estimation approach, the impacts of the network-induced error and the disturbances are effectively compensated for and Zeno phenomenon is successfully avoided. It is shown that all signals of the closed-loop system are globally uniformly bounded and both the attitude tracking error and the angular velocity tracking error converge to zero. Compared with conventional control schemes, the proposed scheme significantly reduces the communication burden while providing stable and accurate response for attitude maneuvers. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Stabilization of the attitude of a rigid spacecraft with external disturbances using finite-time control techniques

In this paper, we consider the attitude stabilization problem for a rigid spacecraft with external disturbances. To obtain a better disturbance rejection property, we employ finite-time control techniques. In the absence of disturbances, by employing continuous finite-time control method, a continuous finite-time controller is designed such that the attitude of the rigid spacecraft will converge to the origin in finite time. In the presence of disturbances, by employing terminal sliding mode method, a discontinuous finite-time control law is proposed such that the states will eventually converge to a small region of the origin, which can be rendered as small as desired. Numerical simulation results show the effectiveness of the method.     

Adaptive finite-time backstepping control for attitude tracking of spacecraft based on rotation matrix

This paper investigates two finite-time controllers for attitude control of spacecraft based on rotation matrix by an adaptive backstepping method. Rotation matrix can overcome the draw- backs of unwinding which makes a spacecraft perform a large-angle maneuver when a small-angle maneuver in the opposite rotational direction is sufficient to achieve the objective, With the use of adaptive control, the first robust finite-time controller is continuous without a chattering phenom- enon. The second robust finite-time controller can compensate external disturbances with unknown bounds. Theoretical analysis shows that both controllers can make a spacecraft following a time-varying reference attitude signal in finite time and guarantee the stability of the overall closed-loop system. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control schemes.     

Attitude coordination for spacecraft formation with multiple communication delays

Communication delays are inherently present in information exchange between spacecraft and have an effect on the control performance of spacecraft formation. In this work, attitude coordination control of spacecraft formation is addressed, which is in the presence of multiple communication delays between spacecraft. Virtual system-based approach is utilized in case that a constant reference attitude is available to only a part of the spacecraft. The feedback from the virtual systems to the spacecraft formation is introduced to maintain the formation. Using backstepping control method, input torque of each spacecraft is designed such that the attitude of each spacecraft converges asymptotically to the states of its corresponding virtual system. Furthermore, the backstepping technique and the Lyapunov–Krasovskii method contribute to the control law design when the reference attitude is time-varying and can be obtained by each spacecraft. Finally, effectiveness of the proposed methodology is illustrated by the numerical simulations of a spacecraft formation.     

Autonomous attitude coordinated control for spacecraft formation with input constraint,model uncertainties,and external disturbances

To synchronize the attitude of a spacecraft formation flying system, three novel autonomous control schemes are proposed to deal with the issue in this paper. The first one is an ideal autonomous attitude coordinated controller, which is applied to address the case with certain models and no disturbance. The second one is a robust adaptive attitude coordinated controller, which aims to tackle the case with external disturbances and model uncertainties. The last one is a filtered robust adaptive attitude coordinated controller, which is used to overcome the case with input con- straint, model uncertainties, and external disturbances. The above three controllers do not need any external tracking signal and only require angular velocity and relative orientation between a spacecraft and its neighbors. Besides, the relative information is represented in the body frame of each spacecraft. The controllers are proved to be able to result in asymptotical stability almost everywhere. Numerical simulation results show that the proposed three approaches are effective for attitude coordination in a spacecraft formation flying system.     

Fixed-time position coordinated tracking control for spacecraft formation flying with collision avoidance

In this paper, the fixed-time stability of spacecraft formation reconfiguration (position tracking) is studied. Firstly, a novel nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface is designed and based on which a fixed-time coordinated controller is designed to keep the closed-loop system states have a finite settling time bounded by some predefined constants. Secondly, another nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface is designed by combining the artificial potential function and the aforementioned sliding surface, which meets the mutual distance constraint during transition process among spacecraft when it is bounded. Then another coordinated controller with fixed-time observer considering mutual distance constraint is presented, which guarantees the closed-loop system states stable also in bounded settling time. Finally, simulation results are shown to validate the correctness of the proposed theorems. It is worth mentioning that the control schemes also work even though there is a properly limit on the control input.     

Composite control method for stabilizing spacecraft attitude in terms of Rodrigues parameters

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.