Volume 32, Issue 18 pp. 10162-10179
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Attitude tracking control of spacecraft with preset-time preset-bounded convergence

An-Min Zou

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An-Min Zou

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, College of Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou, China

State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing, Shantou, China

Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education, Shantou University, Shantou, China

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An-Min Zou, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, College of Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China.

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Yangyang Liu

Yangyang Liu

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, College of Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou, China

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First published: 26 September 2022
Citations: 5

Funding information: Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 2021A1515012016; Shantou University (STU) Scientific Research Foundation for Talents, Grant/Award Number: NTF18015

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of attitude tracking control of rigid spacecraft in the existence of bounded external disturbances. By introducing a smooth time-varying scaling function, a preset-time sliding mode surface is designed. Then, a nonsingular and continuous preset-time preset-bounded attitude tracking control scheme is developed. The distinctive feature of the present control law is that the size of the convergence region and the settling time can be prescribed a priori. In addition, the proposed control scheme exhibits superiority in reducing the magnitude of the applied control torques and saving energy. At last the feasibility of the derived control protocol is illustrated by numerical simulations including a comparative example.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

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