Title
Adaptive reaching law based sliding mode control for electromagnetic formation flight with input saturation.
Abstract
Electromagnetic formation flight utilizes electromagnetic forces to control the relative positions of satellites, and offers a promising alternative to a traditional propellant-based spacecraft formation flying due to no fuel expenditure. Since available electromagnetic forces generated on board are small, their efficient use is a challenging issue in the presence of saturation. This paper proposes a novel adaptive reaching law based sliding mode control for the trajectory tracking of electromagnetic formation flight with actuator saturation. The adaptive reaching law is characterized by a modulation function which combines a saturated term with a non-switching term. The saturated term makes the sliding variable converge as fast as possible under input saturation, while the non-switching term is used to guarantee a terminal tracking performance and remove chattering. Thus, the introduced modulation function enables a smooth transition of the reaching law between two terms and an adaptive decrease rate of sliding variable. The proposed control can achieve a fast convergence and offers the robustness against external disturbance with input saturation. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the performance of the presented method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.jfranklin.2016.04.004
Journal of the Franklin Institute
Field
DocType
Volume
Convergence (routing),Propellant,Saturation (chemistry),Control theory,Robustness (computer science),Modulation,Law,Mathematics,Trajectory,Spacecraft,Sliding mode control
Journal
353
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
0016-0032
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xianlin Huang17714.77
Chun Zhang210.37
Hongqian Lu3177.21
Mingming Li410.37