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Distributed fixed-time control for six-degree-of-freedom spacecraft formation with event-triggered observer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2023

J. Zhang Open the ORCID record for J. Zhang [Opens in a new window] ,
H. Xia Open the ORCID record for H. Xia [Opens in a new window]  and
Z. Li
J. Zhang
Affiliation:
Space Control and Inertial Technology Research Center, School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
H. Xia*
Affiliation:
Space Control and Inertial Technology Research Center, School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Z. Li
Affiliation:
Shanghai Aerospace Control Technology Institute, Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, Shanghai, China
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*Corresponding author. Email: hxia@hit.edu.cn
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Abstract

The paper addresses the six-degree-of-freedom coupled control problem for spacecraft formation flying subject to actuator saturation and input quantisation whilst considering limited communication resources. Firstly, a novel event-triggered distributed observer without continuous communications is presented to recover the information of the virtual leader. Remarkably, by embedding a hyperbolic tangent function-based nonlinear term into the triggering condition, the event-based observer realises a more reasonable trigger threshold. Subsequently, an adding-a-power-integrator-based fixed-time control algorithm is proposed for the follower spacecraft. Further, the control scheme ingeniously compensates for the actuator saturation and the input quantisation problems without embedding auxiliary systems. Finally, numerical simulations are carried out to highlight the advantages of the theoretical results.

Keywords

6-DOF leader-following spacecraft formationEvent-triggered fixed-time observerFixed-time controlActuator saturation and input quantisation
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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 127 , Issue 1317 , November 2023 , pp. 1968 - 1992
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal Aeronautical Society

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