Finite-time attitude tracking control of air bearing table for spacecraft rendezvous and docking

This paper studies the problem of attitude tracking control for spacecraft rendezvous and docking based on a physical ground simulation system. Two finite-time controllers based on quaternion are proposed by using a novel fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface associated with the adaptive control, the novel fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface not only contains the advantages of the fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface, but also can eliminate unwinding caused by the quaternion. The first controller, which is continuous and chattering-free, can compensate unknown constant external disturbances, while the second controller can both compensate parametric uncertainties and varying external disturbances with unknown bounds without chattering. Lyapunov theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the two controllers can make the closed-loop system errors converge to zero in finite time and guarantee the finite-time stability of the system.

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