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Distributed attitude control for multiple flexible spacecraft under actuator failures and saturation

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This paper solves the problem of attitude consensus for flexible spacecraft formation under actuator failures and saturation constraints. Three insightful distributed consensus control laws are designed based on the Lyapunov’s stability theory and graph theory. The induced oscillations of the spacecraft’s flexible appendages are compensated online with adaptive update parameters. Attitude consensus for the multiple spacecraft system can be achieved with limited information transfer. The modal variables of the flexible appendages are avoided in the distributed controllers in order to reduce the payload of the spacecraft. In addition, the issue of actuator saturation is rejected by applying a switching control scheme. Numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate that the proposed controller can guarantee attitude consensus despite the presence of modeling uncertainties, external disturbances, and simultaneous loss of actuator effectiveness faults and additive faults.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61225013, 61673026, 61528301 and 11332001. The authors gratefully acknowledge Luke Barnwell’s help in revising this paper.

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    Di Huang, Qishao Wang & Zhisheng Duan

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Huang, D., Wang, Q. & Duan, Z. Distributed attitude control for multiple flexible spacecraft under actuator failures and saturation. Nonlinear Dyn 88, 529–546 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-016-3258-3

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