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Reliable Gain Scheduling Output Tracking Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous

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This paper has proposed a discrete gain scheduling output tracking control method for the homing phase of the spacecraft rendezvous based on the parametric Lyapunov equation. Considering the actuator saturation, output tracking and the partial loss of thruster effectiveness, we establish a relative dynamic model based on C-W equation and transform the orbital transfer control problem into a stabilization problem. The proposed gain scheduling approach is to improve the state convergence rate by increasing the introduced parameters gradually and remove the affect of the partial loss of thruster effectiveness. To obtain the designed controller, we only need to solve a nonlinear equation. Numerical simulations illustrate the usefulness and effectiveness of the proposed method.

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  1. Institute of Information and Control, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310018, P. R. China

    Qian Wang

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    Anke Xue

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Recommended by Associate Editor Chang Kyung Ryoo in the direction of Editor Duk-Sun Shim. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61503105, the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant LY18F030005, the Open Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology under Grant ICT170309, the National Basic Research Program of China (National 973 Program) under Grant 2012CB821204, the National Natural Science Major Foundation of Research Instrumentation of China under Grant 61427808 and the National Natural Science Key Foundation of China under Grant 61333009.

Qian Wang received her Ph.D. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2014. Now she is a lecturer in Hangzhou Dianzi University. Her research interests include gain scheduling control, nonlinear system, constraint control.

Anke Xue received his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 1997. Now he is a professor in Hangzhou Dianzi University. His research interests include robust control, intelligent control and singular system control.

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Wang, Q., Xue, A. Reliable Gain Scheduling Output Tracking Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 16, 234–242 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-016-0678-2

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