Title
On the non-robustness of inconsistent quaternion-based attitude control systems using memoryless path-lifting schemes
Abstract
The unit quaternion is a pervasive representation of rigid-body attitude used for the design and analysis of feedback control laws. Quaternion-based feedback control laws that are inconsistent (i.e. do not have a unique value for a given attitude) require an additional mechanism that lifts a continuous attitude trajectory to the unit quaternion space. Lifting mechanisms that are memoryless, for example, selecting the quaternion having positive scalar component, have a limited domain where they remain injective and, when used globally, introduce discontinuities into the closed-loop system. We show that such discontinuities can be exploited by an arbitrarily small measurement disturbance to stabilize attitudes far from the desired attitude and destroy "global" attractivity properties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ACC.2011.5991359
American Control Conference
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
attitude control,control system analysis,control system synthesis,feedback,attitude trajectory,feedback control law analysis,feedback control law design,inconsistent quaternion-based attitude control,memoryless path-lifting scheme,rigid-body attitude representation,feedback control,rigid body,lifting scheme
Conference
0743-1619
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4577-0080-4
4
0.73
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mayhew, C.G.112511.53
Ricardo G. Sanfelice221627.88
andrew r teel356671.55