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Adaptive set stabilization of the attitude of a rigid spacecraft without angular velocity measurements

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The global adaptive set stabilization problem of the attitude of a rigid spacecraft is addressed in this paper. Two different cases are considered. First, by using adaptive backstepping method, the authors design a global adaptive control law for the attitude control system with unknown inertia matrix such that the attitude and the angular velocities can be globally asymptotically stabilized to a set consisting of two equilibria. And then, based on the obtained backstepping adaptive law, the authors consider the case that the angular velocities are not measurable. By introducing an auxiliary state, a semi-global adaptive set stabilization law without angular velocity measurements is also designed. It is rigorously proved that, for the two cases, both of the closed loop systems satisfy the set stability. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is verified by simulation results.

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  1. School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Shihong Ding, Shihua Li & Qi Li

  2. College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China

    Shihong Ding

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This research is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60504007 and 61074013, Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Micro-Inertial Instruments and Navigation Technology, Ministry of Education under Grant No. 201004, Initial Research Fund of Highly Specialized Personnel from Jiangsu University under Grant No. 10JDG112, and 973 Sub-project under Grant No. 2009CB724002.

This paper was recommended for publication by Editor Jifeng ZHANG.

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Ding, S., Li, S. & Li, Q. Adaptive set stabilization of the attitude of a rigid spacecraft without angular velocity measurements. J Syst Sci Complex 24, 105–119 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11424-011-8214-1

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