Reset and prescribed performance approach to spacecraft attitude regulation

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to investigate the attitude regulation for spacecraft in the presence of time-varying inertia uncertainty and exogenous disturbances.

Design/methodology/approach

The high gain approaches are typically used in existing researches for theoretical advantages, bringing better performance but sensitive to parameter selection, making the controller conservative. A reset-control policy is presented to achieve the spacecraft attitude control with easy control parameter tuning.

Findings

The reset-control policy guarantees satisfying control performance despite using performance tuning function and saturation function besides reducing the conservativeness of the controller, thus reducing the effort in tuning control parameters.

Originality/value

Notably, the adaptive function owns a reset mechanism, which is reset to a preset condition when the controlled variable crosses zero. The mathematical analysis also shows the system trajectory can converge to a set centered at the origin.

Citation

Zhang, C., Dong, P., Leung, H., Wu, J. and Shen, K. (2021), "Reset and prescribed performance approach to spacecraft attitude regulation", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 93 No. 10, pp. 1573-1581. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-02-2021-0046