Robust Attitude Control for Rapid Multi-Target Tracking in Spacecraft Formation Flying

YUAN Chang-qing; LI Jun-feng; WANG Tian-shu; BAOYIN He-xi

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YUAN Chang-qing, LI Jun-feng, WANG Tian-shu, BAOYIN He-xi. Robust Attitude Control for Rapid Multi-Target Tracking in Spacecraft Formation Flying[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2008, 29(2): 169-180.

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Robust Attitude Control for Rapid Multi-Target Tracking in Spacecraft Formation Flying

School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China

Received Date: 2007-01-17
Rev Recd Date: 2008-01-02
Publish Date: 2008-02-15

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A robust attitude tracking control scheme for spacecraft formation flying is presented.The leader spacecraft with a rapid mobile antenna and a camera was modeled.While the camera is tracking the ground target,the antenna is tracking the follower spacecraft.By an angular velocity constraint and an angular constraint,two methods were proposed to compute the reference attitude profiles of the camera and antenna,respectively.To simplify the control design problem,the desired inverse system(DIS),which can convert the attitude tracking problem of 3D space into the regulator problem,was derived.Based on DIS and sliding mode control(SMC),a robust attitude tracking controller was developed in the presence of mass parameter uncertainties and external disturbance.By Liapunov stability theory,the closed loop system stability can be achieved.The numerical simulations show that the proposed robust control scheme exhibits significant advantages for the multi-target attitude tracking of a two-spacecraft formation.
- attitude control,
- formation flying,
- multi-body spacecraft,
- robust control,
- multi-target tracking

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