Constrained attitude control of flexible spacecraft with external
disturbances and stochastic uncertainties on SO(3)
Abstract
This paper addresses constrained attitude control problems of flexible
spacecraft on SO(3) subject to external disturbances and stochastic
uncertainties without modal variable measurement. To handle the attitude
constraints, an artificial potential function (APF) is constructed based
on the rotation matrix. By combining the super-twisting control
technique and the APF, a robust control law is proposed to achieve
constrained attitude control of flexible spacecraft with external
disturbances. Furthermore, an adaptive robust control law is developed
without prior information on the bound of the norm of flexible vibration
and external disturbances. The results are then extended to the case
that stochastic uncertainties exist and the adaptive robust control law
is modified by designing a Lyapunov-function-based control parameter.
Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of
the proposed control laws.