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Sliding Mode Attitude Maneuver Control for Rigid Spacecraft without Unwinding

Systems and Control 2022-12-20 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

In this paper, attitude maneuver control without unwinding phenomenon is investigated for rigid spacecraft. First, a novel switching function is constructed by a hyperbolic sine function. It is shown that the spacecraft system possesses the unwinding-free performance when the system states are on the sliding surface. Based on the designed switching function, a sliding mode controller is developed to ensure the robustness of the attitude maneuver control system. Another essential feature of the presented attitude control law is that a dynamic parameter is introduced to guarantee the unwinding-free performance when the system states are outside the sliding surface. The simulation results demonstrate that the unwinding phenomenon is avoided during the attitude maneuver of a rigid spacecraft by adopting the constructed switching function and the proposed attitude control scheme.

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@article{arxiv.2004.07929,
  title  = {Sliding Mode Attitude Maneuver Control for Rigid Spacecraft without Unwinding},
  author = {Rui-Qi Dong and Ai-Guo Wu and Ying Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.07929},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

8 Pages, 8 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2004.07001

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