High-performance adaptive attitude control of spacecraft with sliding mode disturbance observer

U Javaid, H Dong, S Ijaz, T Alkarkhi, M Haque - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new disturbance observer-based control method is presented in this paper to address the
attitude tracking problem of rigid-body spacecraft in the presence of external disturbances …

Distributed adaptive fixed-time formation control for second-order multi-agent systems with collision avoidance

Q Li, J Wei, Q Gou, Z Niu - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, the distributed fixed-time formation control problem for a group of second-order
multi-agent systems is investigated with consideration of collision avoidance, external …

Adaptive saturated control for spacecraft rendezvous and docking under motion constraints

X Zhao, S Zhang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the problem of position tracking and attitude synchronization for
spacecraft rendezvous and docking with a tumbling target, in which kinematic couplings …

Fully actuated system approach for 6DOF spacecraft control based on extended state observer

Q Zhao, GR Duan - Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 2022 - Springer
This paper deals with the problem of position and attitude tracking control for a rigid
spacecraft. A fully actuated system (FAS) model for the six degree-of-freedom (6DOF) …

Spacecraft orbital pursuit–evasion games with J2 perturbations and direction-constrained thrust

M Shi, D Ye, Z Sun, W Zhong, H Deng - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study spacecraft orbital pursuit–evasion games under J 2 perturbations. We
consider that situation where the thrust of each player is constrained and the control …

Satellite proximate pursuit-evasion game with different thrust configurations

D Ye, M Shi, Z Sun - Aerospace science and technology, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the proximity satellite pursuit-evasion game where the pursuer
carries three orthogonal thrusters, each of which can exert a magnitude-limited force along …

Finite-time attitude set-point tracking for thrust-vectoring spacecraft rendezvous

J Zhang, JD Biggs, D Ye, Z Sun - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the optimal orbit rendezvous problem for thrust-vectoring spacecraft.
In this scenario, the chaser spacecraft is equipped with only one impulsive thruster fixed in …

Continuous constrained attitude regulation of multiple spacecraft on SO (3)

T Chen, J Shan - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, both the centralized and distributed attitude regulation of multiple flexible
spacecraft are studied on SO (3) with attitude constraints in the absence of the …

Finite-time control for autonomous rendezvous and docking under safe constraint

Y Guo, D Zhang, A Li, S Song, C Wang, Z Liu - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The finite-time controller under safe constraint is designed for the non-cooperative space
autonomous rendezvous and docking by using the artificial potential function. To facilitate …

Adaptive sliding mode disturbance observer-based control for rendezvous with non-cooperative spacecraft

X Zhu, J Chen, ZH Zhu - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the tracking and control problem of a spacecraft rendezvous with a
non-cooperative and tumbling space target subject to parametric uncertainty and unknown …