Distributed event-triggered fixed-time formation tracking control for
multi-spacecraft systems based on adaptive immersion and invariance
technique
Abstract
The problem of fixed-time formation tracking for multi-spacecraft
systems without internal collisions is investigated in this paper. A
novel adaptive immersion and invariance (I&I)-based control protocol is
designed to solve this technical problem, with the goal of driving
formation members to accurately realize and maintain the required
configuration within the user-given time. The novelty here lies in two
things. First and foremost, unlike the asymptotic convergence of the
traditional I&I related works, the proposed protocol guarantees the
fixed-time stability by integrating the prescribed performance control.
Secondly, the event-triggered mechanism is adopted to alleviate the
pressure of communication resources between formation members and reduce
unnecessary information interaction. Lyapunov stability analysis shows
that the proposed protocol can enable the defined implicit manifold to
converge to the origin for most initial conditions. Also, benefiting
from the prescribed performance techniques, the convergence time
eliminates the dependence of designed controller parameters or initial
system conditions, relying only on the actual mission requirements. In
addition, we adopt a linear extended state observer to deal with the
parameter uncertainties and external disturbances, and use the I&I
adaption to estimate the observer errors to further improve the system
performance. Moreover, a new exponential-type artificial potential
function is designed to avoid close proximity between formation members
and prevent internal collisions. Finally, numerical simulations are
provided to verify the theoretical results.