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Coupled Orbit-attitude Saturated Control for Solar Sail in Earth-Moon 3-body System

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This paper aims to investigate a coupled orbit-attitude control strategy for a kind of novel spacecraft, solar sail, to track the given orbit in Earth-Moon 3-Body dynamic environment in presence of the matched and mismatched disturbances, attitude control saturation, orbital modeling error and parametric uncertainties. A cascaded triple-loop control structure is proposed to deal with the strong couplings between the orbit and attitude systems. The inner loop focusing on the orbital effects on attitude dynamics, an adaptive saturation controller is proposed to achieve attitude angular tracking, where the uncertain inertia, unknown matched disturbance and saturated attitude control torque are compensated by combining the unknown knowledge. The middle loop is to handle the orbit effects on attitude kinematics facing the mismatched disturbance. In the outer loop, the effects of attitude system on orbit dynamics are deal with, where an adaptive orbit controller is designed considering the uncertain optical parameter and orbital modeling error. The proposed control structure efficiently simplifies the coupled orbit-attitude control design for solar sail. In contrast to traditional coupled controllers for solar sail, the proposed control laws do not require exact knowledge of parametric uncertainties, disturbances and orbit modeling errors. The combination of unknown information reduces the number of estimated parameters as well. The numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

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    Zhihao Zhu

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Recommended by Associate Editor Yingmin Jia under the direction of Editor Fumitoshi Matsuno.

This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (61973167).

Liping Wu is a Ph.D. candidate in control science and engineering of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. Her main research interests include attitude control of spacecraft, orbit and attitude control of solar sail, adaptive control and so forth.

Yu Guo received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in automation, both from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and her Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology. In 1987, she joined the faculty of the School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and is currently a Professor of Automatic Control there. Her main research interests include intelligent robot control, optimization for complicated systems and so forth.

Zhihao Zhu received his B.S. degree in automation and an M.S. degree in system engineering from Yanshan University, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology. In 2020, he joined the faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology. His main research interests include spacecraft formation flying control, coordination control, robot control, multi-agent control and nonlinear control.

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Wu, L., Guo, Y. & Zhu, Z. Coupled Orbit-attitude Saturated Control for Solar Sail in Earth-Moon 3-body System. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 19, 3631–3641 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-020-0215-1

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