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Adaptive Sliding Mode Fault-tolerant Control for Attitude Tracking of Spacecraft With Actuator Faults

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In our study, an adaptive sliding mode fault-tolerant control scheme is proposed for attitude tracking of spacecraft with actuator faults. Two-power reaching laws are used for sliding mode control, which are designed not only to solve the chattering problem of the sliding mode variables near the sliding mode surface, but also to directly obtain more accurate convergence time expression of the sliding mode variables. At the same time, a redundant actuator configuration of spacecraft is considered especially, and it improves the fault tolerance of the system. Moreover, for unknown items in the system, an adaptive control technique is introduced to approximate them. Our proposed control strategy can ensure that the attitude error and the angular velocity error of spacecraft converge to a small area near zero even when some actuators fail completely. Finally, the effectiveness of our proposed approach is verified by a numerical simulation example.

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This work was supported by in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant U21A20483, in part by the Education Department Project of Liaoning Province of China under Grant 2019LNJC09 and LJKZ0291.

Yu Xuan Yang received his B.E. degree in University of South China in 2019. His research interests include nonlinear control, finite-time control, fixed-time control, quantized control, and spacecraft attitude tracking control.

Ming Chen received her B.Sc. degree in automation from Anshan Iron and Steel Institute, Anshan, China, an M.Sc. degree in control theory and control engineering from University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China, and a Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2000, 2004, and 2009, respectively. She is currently a professor with the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China. Her research interests include nonlinear control systems, robust control, and fault tolerant control.

Kai Xiang Peng received his B.E. degree in automation and his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Research Institute of Automatic Control, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, in 1995, 2002, and 2007, respectively. He is a Professor in the School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China. His research interests are fault diagnosis, prognosis, and maintenance of complex industrial processes, modeling and control for complex industrial processes, and control system design for the rolling process.

Man Yu received her B.S. degree in University of Science and Technology Liaoning in 2019. Her research interests include nonlinear control, finite-time control, fixed-time control, quantized control, and spacecraft attitude tracking control.

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Yang, Y.X., Chen, M., Peng, K.X. et al. Adaptive Sliding Mode Fault-tolerant Control for Attitude Tracking of Spacecraft With Actuator Faults. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 21, 2587–2594 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-021-1118-5

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