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Event-triggered attitude tracking for rigid spacecraft

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This study aims to investigate the problem of attitude control for a spacecraft with inertial uncertainties, external disturbances, and communication restrictions. An event-triggered active disturbance rejection control approach is proposed for attitude tracking of the spacecraft. An event-triggered mechanism is introduced together with an extended state observer to jointly monitor the system states and total disturbances. The observation error is proved to be uniformly bounded. Based on the proposed control scheme, the integrated tracking system is shown to be asymptotically stable, implying successful attitude tracking of the spacecraft for the desired motion. Numerical results illustrate the effectiveness of the control strategy in achieving satisfactory tracking performance with a reduced data-transmission cost.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61503027, 51675041). The authors would like to thank the associate editor and the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions which have improved the quality of the work.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Control and Decision of Complex Systems, School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Deheng Cai, Hengguang Zou, Junzheng Wang, Yuan Huang & Dawei Shi

  2. China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, 100094, China

    Hengguang Zou

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Cai, D., Zou, H., Wang, J. et al. Event-triggered attitude tracking for rigid spacecraft. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 62, 222202 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-018-9844-3

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