Robust Adaptive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous with Predefined-Time Prescribed Performance and Input Saturation
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 35, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper proposes a robust adaptive predefined-time control scheme for spacecraft rendezvous maneuvers with the consideration of input saturation and external disturbances. To ensure the rendezvous maneuver completing within a predefined time, a constructive performance function is utilized to impose time-varying constraints on system errors. Subsequently, a nonlinear mapping method is employed to transform the constrained problem into an unconstrained one, thus simplifying the design process significantly. Then, two compensation signals are introduced by the feat of an auxiliary system to optimize the steady-state performance of the system. With the combination of backstepping design and compensating signals, the input saturation constraint will be dealt with properly. All of the closed-loop signals are proved to be bounded under the proposed controller. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the validity of the proposed control scheme.
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No data, models, or code were generated or used during the study.
Acknowledgments
This study was co-supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (XK2010021018 and GK2010260338), Science and Technology on Underwater Vehicle Laboratory under Grant Nos. 6217905300000870562 and JCKYS2020SXJQR-03, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (No. 2020M681081), and the Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project of Heilongjiang province (No. LBH-Z20130).
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