Space subsystems design: (navigation, control, structure and…)
Mohammad Chiniforoushan; Mahdi Mortazavi; kamran raissi
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2021, , Pages 77-92
Abstract
The problem of jointly controlling relative attitude and position of spacecraft in the presence of actuator fault is investigated in this paper. Following a description about drawbacks and limitations of the existing models and the control approaches based on them, a new formulation of the spacecraft ...
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The problem of jointly controlling relative attitude and position of spacecraft in the presence of actuator fault is investigated in this paper. Following a description about drawbacks and limitations of the existing models and the control approaches based on them, a new formulation of the spacecraft relative motion is provided. Subsequently, the subspace predictive control framework, which is a powerful model-free approach, is extended in several dimensions, that is, adaptive nonlinear control, tolerance against abrupt faults and control allocation. Based on this generalized framework, three distinct data-driven fault-tolerant controllers for coupled, nonlinear and time-variant plants are developed. From the viewpoint of fault diagnosis, the only requirement of the control structure is to detect the occurrence time of faults. Furthermore, an internal data-driven fault diagnosis capability is introduced, which makes the control structure completely self-sufficient. The three controllers are then designed to solve the aforementioned problem, and their efficiency are verified via a multidimensional simulation scenario.
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi; Ali Reza Alikhani
Volume 8, Issue 1 , April 2015, , Pages 27-41
Abstract
This paper presents a suitable technique for nonlinear control of a flexible spacecraft in proximity operations. To do proximity operations well, the pursuer spacecraft must place itself in a pre specified location relative to target and align its docking port to target’s docking port while keeping ...
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This paper presents a suitable technique for nonlinear control of a flexible spacecraft in proximity operations. To do proximity operations well, the pursuer spacecraft must place itself in a pre specified location relative to target and align its docking port to target’s docking port while keeping their attitude compatible. This procedure usually needs large, fast and accurate manoeuvres which can cause flexible structure vibrations. In addition, external disturbances, actuator saturation and model uncertainties increase difficulties of achieving such a goal. Consequently it is necessary to utilize an effective and nonlinear controller design approach to overcome these challenges. To perform considered scenario successfully, in this paper we use a method in nonlinear optimal control called State Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE). Simple formulation and tuning as well as good performance and satisfactory robustness are some advantages of this approach in unified control of the spacecraft position, attitude and flexible motion during a proximity operation. 6DoF simulations show good performance of controller in presence of structure flexibility, parametric uncertainties, input uncertainty and saturation and external disturbance.
