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Robust non-aggressive three-axis attitude control of spacecraft: dynamic sliding mode approach

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Conventional sliding mode control (SMC) has been extensively applied in controlling spacecrafts because of its appealing characteristics such as robustness and a simple design procedure. Several methods such as second-order sliding modes and discontinuous controllers are applied for the SMC implementation. However, the main problems of these methods are convergence and error tracking in a finite amount of time. This paper combines an improved dynamic sliding mode controller and model predictive controller for spacecrafts to solve the chattering phenomenon in traditional sliding mode control. To this aim, this paper develops dynamic sliding mode control for spacecraft’s applications to omit the chattering issue. The proposed approach shows robust attitude tracking by a set of reaction wheels and stabilizes the spacecraft subject to disturbances and uncertainties. The proposed method improves the performance of the SMC for spacecraft by avoiding chattering. A set of simulation results are provided that show the advantages and improvements of this approach (in some sense) compared to SMC approaches.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Zanjan, University Blvd., Zanjan, Zanjan, 3879145371, Iran

    Javad Nikyar & Farhad Bayat

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical and Vocational University, Brazil St., Tehran, Tehran, 1435761137, Iran

    MohammadAli Mohammadkhani

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Nikyar, J., Bayat, F. & Mohammadkhani, M. Robust non-aggressive three-axis attitude control of spacecraft: dynamic sliding mode approach. Control Theory Technol. 21, 505–514 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11768-023-00176-5

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