Robust attitude control with improved transient performance

This paper aims to present a robust attitude control strategy with guaranteed transient performance. Firstly, a Lyapunov-based control law is designed to achieve highperformance attitude control in the absence of disturbance and parameter variation. The proposed control law uses small feedback gains to suppress the control torque at large attitude error, and increases those gains with the convergence of attitude error to accelerate the system response. The overshooting phenomenon is also avoided by imposing a restriction on the parameter selection. Then, the integral sliding mode control technique is employed to improve the robustness, where the Lyapunov-based control law is used as the equivalent control part. Theoretical analysis and simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.