Distributed attitude control for multiple spacecraft with communication delays

The work presented here considers the attitude synchronization problem for a group of spacecraft in the presence of communication delays. Based on the backstepping control and finite-time control techniques, a novel nonsmooth distributed cooperative attitude control algorithm is proposed for multipl...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems 2014-07, Vol.50 (3), p.1765-1773
Main Authors: Li, Shihua, Du, Haibo, Shi, Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Angular velocity
Attitude control
Delays
Kinematics
Space vehicles
Synchronization
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Summary:The work presented here considers the attitude synchronization problem for a group of spacecraft in the presence of communication delays. Based on the backstepping control and finite-time control techniques, a novel nonsmooth distributed cooperative attitude control algorithm is proposed for multiple spacecraft with attitude described by quaternion. Rigorous proof shows that attitude synchronization can be achieved asymptotically under the proposed control law if the communication topology graph among the spacecraft is strongly connected. Finally, a simulation example is given to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.
ISSN:0018-9251
1557-9603
DOI:10.1109/TAES.2014.120572