Trajectory tracking of under-actuated reentry vehicle based on time-varying SMC with RBF disturbance observer

In this paper, an effective guidance scheme and a control scheme are proposed to realize trajectory tracking of hypersonic reentry vehicle(HRV) subject to aileron stuck in some position. The overload is adopted as virtual control instead of lift and lateral force, then guidance order can be obtained by torque coefficient function. In attitude subsystem, attack of angle and sideslip angle are controlled to track guidance order. Time-varying sliding mode control method is adopted to design guidance law and attitude controller. Besides, a RBF observer is designed to estimate the unknown external disturbance to soften the chattering caused by TVSMC. Simulations verify the proposed schemes.