The issue of attitude tracking control with finite-time convergence is investigated for spacecraft in the presence of external disturbance and uncertain actuator configuration as well. More specifically, in view of backstepping technique, the attitude quaternion can firstly track the demanded command in finite time under the virtual control law by introducing a novel terminal sliding manifold. Then, the finite-time convergence to the sliding mode of the angular velocity error will be achieved under the proposed novel finite-time control and a parameter updating law, even under uncertain actuator misalignment. In addition, the finite-time stabilization/convergence of the sliding surface and the spacecraft attitude tracking error have been proved and analyzed using the Lyapunov method theoretically. Finally, numerical simulation results are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed scheme.
TsiotrasP. Further passivity results for the attitude control problem. IEEE Transact Automat Contrl1998; 43: 1597–1600.
2.
KrsticMTsiotrasP. Inverse optimal stabilization of a rigid spacecraft. IEEE Transact Automat Contrl1999; 44: 1042–1049.
3.
GaoXYTeoKLDuanGR. An optimal control approach to robust control of nonlinear spacecraft rendezvous system with θ-D technique. Int J Innovative Comput Inform Contrl2013; 9: 2099–2110.
4.
XingGQParvezSA. Nonlinear attitude state tracking control for spacecraft. J Guidance Contrl Dynam2001; 24: 624–626.
5.
KristiansenRNicklassonPJGravdahlJT. Satellite attitude control by quaternion-based backstepping. IEEE Transact Contrl Syst Technol2009; 17: 227–232.
6.
SeoDAkellaMR. High-performance spacecraft adaptive attitude-tracking control through attracting-manifold design. J Guidance Contrl Dynam2008; 31: 884–891.
7.
HuQLLiBHuoX. Spacecraft attitude tracking control under actuator magnitude deviation and misalignment. Aerosp Sci Technol2013; 28: 266–280.
8.
HuQLLiBZhangYM. Robust attitude control design for spacecraft under assigned velocity and control constraints. ISA Transact2013; 52: 480–493.
9.
BoskovicJDLiSMMehraRK. Robust tracking control design for spacecraft under control input saturation. J Guidance Contrl Dynam2004; 27: 627–633.
10.
XiaoBHuQLShiP. Attitude stabilization of spacecraft under actuator saturation and partial loss of control effectiveness. IEEE Transact Contrl Syst Technol2013; 21(6): 2251–2263.
11.
ChenYPLoSC. Sliding-mode controller design for spacecraft attitude tracking maneuvers. IEEE Transact Aerosp Electron Syst1993; 29: 1328–1333.
12.
TongSCLiYShiP. Observer-based adaptive fuzzy backstepping output feedback control of uncertain MIMO pure-feedback nonlinear systems. IEEE Transact Fuzzy Syst2012; 20: 771–785.
13.
KrsticMKanellakopoulosIKokotovicPV. Nonlinear and adaptive control design, New York: Jone Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1995.
14.
AliIRadiceGKimJ. Backstepping control design with actuator torque bound for spacecraft attitude maneuver. J Guidance Contrl Dynam2010; 33: 254–259.
15.
DingSHLiSH. Stabilization of the attitude of a rigid spacecraft with external disturbances using finite-time control techniques. Aerosp Sci Technol2009; 13: 256–265.
16.
HuQLLiBZhangAH. Robust finite-time control allocation in spacecraft attitude stabilization under actuator misalignment. Nonlinear Dynam2013; 73: 53–71.
17.
DuHBLiSH. Finite-time attitude stabilization for a spacecraft using homogeneous method. J Guidance Contrl Dynam2012; 35: 740–748.
18.
WangJYSunZW. 6-DOF robust adaptive terminal sliding mode control for spacecraft formation flying. Acta Astronaut2012; 73: 76–87.
19.
JinEDSunZW. Robust controllers design with finite time convergence for rigid spacecraft attitude tracking control. Aerosp Sci Technol2008; 12: 324–330.
20.
LiSHWangZFeiSM. Comments on the paper: Robust controllers design with finite time convergence for rigid spacecraft attitude tracking control. Aerosp Sci Technol2011; 15: 193–195.
21.
SongZKLiHXSunKB. Finite-time control for nonlinear spacecraft attitude based on terminal sliding mode technique. ISA Transact2014; 53: 117–124.
22.
WangJLiangHSunZ. Finite-time control for spacecraft formation with dual-number-based description. J Guidance Contrl Dynam2012; 35: 950–962.
23.
ZhuZXiaYQFuMY. Attitude stabilization of rigid spacecraft with finite-time convergence. Int J Robust Nonlinear Contrl2011; 21: 686–702.
24.
DuHBLiSHQianCJ. Finite-time attitude tracking control of spacecraft with application to attitude synchronization. IEEE Transact Automat Contrl2011; 56: 2711–2717.
25.
ZouAMKumarKDHouZG. Finite-time attitude tracking control for spacecraft using terminal sliding mode and Chebyshev neural network. Syst Man Cybernet Part B: IEEE Transact Cybernet2011; 41: 950–963.
26.
WuSNRadiceGGaoYS. Quaternion-based finite time control for spacecraft attitude tracking. Acta Astronaut2011; 69: 48–58.
27.
SidiMJ. Spacecraft dynamics and control, London: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 88–97.
28.
RadiceGCasascoM. On different parameterisation methods to analyse spacecraft attitude manoeuvres in the presence of attitude constraints. Aeronaut J2007; 111: 335–342.
