Decentralized Fault Tolerant Formation Control For a Class of Tethered Spacecraft

Abstract This paper investigates attitude stabilization problem of three-inline array tethered spacecraft formation. A simplified nonlinear model around the equilibrium point is presented under which a novel decentralized formation control scheme is proposed, where the coupling among spacecraft is fully considered by using interconnected system approach and plays an important role in the control design. It is shown that the formation stability can be achieved by using both individual control laws of spacecraft and coupling effects. The issues of decentralized fault tolerant control and fault propagation behaviors are further addressed. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method and the performance improvement by using the new control scheme instead of a distributed control.

[1]  Krishna Dev Kumar,et al.  Fault-Tolerant Stabilization of a Tethered Satellite System Using Offset Control , 2008 .

[2]  Insu Chang,et al.  Nonlinear Attitude Control of a Tether-Connected Multi-Satellite in Three-Dimensional Space , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

[3]  Eduardo Sontag,et al.  New characterizations of input-to-state stability , 1996, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control..

[4]  Per Johan Nicklasson,et al.  Spacecraft formation flying: A review and new results on state feedback control , 2009 .

[5]  Claudio Bombardelli,et al.  Retargeting Dynamics of a Linear Tethered Interferometer , 2003 .

[6]  Fabian R. Wirth,et al.  Small gain theorems for large scale systems and construction of ISS Lyapunov functions , 2009, 2012 IEEE 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).

[7]  Khashayar Khorasani,et al.  Hierarchical Fault Diagnosis and Fuzzy Rule-Based Reasoning for Satellites Formation Flight , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

[8]  Vinod J. Modi,et al.  Tether - Platform coupled control , 1999 .

[9]  Youmin Zhang,et al.  Fault-Tolerant Attitude Control for Flexible Spacecraft Without Angular Velocity Magnitude Measurement , 2011 .

[10]  Jonathan P. How,et al.  Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics, Control and Navigation , 2009 .

[11]  Youmin Zhang,et al.  Bibliographical review on reconfigurable fault-tolerant control systems , 2003, Annu. Rev. Control..

[12]  Soon-Jo Chung,et al.  Nonlinear Model Reduction and Decentralized Control of Tethered Formation Flight , 2007 .

[13]  Saburo Matunaga,et al.  Formation and Attitude Control for Rotational Tethered Satellite Clusters , 2007 .

[14]  Bin Jiang,et al.  Spacecraft formation stabilization and fault tolerance: A state-varying switched system approach , 2013, Syst. Control. Lett..

[15]  Marcel Staroswiecki,et al.  Fault Accommodation for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems , 2006, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

[16]  Mogens Blanke,et al.  Passivity-Based Control of a Rigid Electrodynamic Tether , 2011 .

[17]  Qi Zhang,et al.  Distributed fault diagnosis in a class of interconnected nonlinear uncertain systems , 2012, Int. J. Control.

[18]  K. Khorasani,et al.  A Hierarchical architecture for cooperative fault accommodation of formation flying satellites in deep space , 2009, 2009 American Control Conference.