Adaptive Robust Tracking for Flexible Spacecraft in Presence of Disturbances

S. Di Gennaro
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S. Di Gennaro: Università di L'Aquila, Poggio di Roio

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 1998, vol. 98, issue 3, No 2, 545-568

Abstract: Abstract The paper deals with trajectory tracking for a flexible spacecraft, subject to a gravity-gradient disturbance, under parameter uncertainties. The controls are gas jets and reaction wheels, and the measured variables describe the attitude and angular velocity of the rigid part. The flexible dynamics is treated as an additional disturbance acting on a rigid structure. First, an adaptive control is designed with only the gravity-gradient disturbance acting on the spacecraft; second, it is proved to be effective also in the presence of disturbance due to the flexibility, provided that appropriate robustness conditions on the controller gains are satisfied. These conditions use partial knowledge of the parameters describing the elastic dynamics. Simulations show the good performance of such control scheme and demonstrate its applicability even in the presence of input saturation.

Keywords: Flexible spacecraft; gravity-gradient disturbance; adaptive control; robustness; tracking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1022667811792

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