Attitude stabilization of rigid spacecraft with finite-time convergence

Zheng Zhu, Yuanqing Xia*, Mengyin Fu

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Abstract

The problem of attitude control for a spacecraft model which is nonlinear in dynamics with inertia uncertainty and external disturbance is investigated in this paper. Two sliding mode controllers are proposed to force the state variables of the closed-loop system to converge to the origin in finite time. Specially, the second control design consists of the estimation of the uncertainty and disturbance by adaptive method and thus it achieves the decrease of undesired chattering effectively. Also, simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the control strategies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)686-702
Number of pages17
JournalInternational Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
Volume21
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2011

Keywords

  • adaptive control
  • attitude stabilization
  • finite-time stability
  • sliding mode control

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