A super-twisting sliding mode control in a backstepping setup for rendezvous with a passive target

Jazmín Zenteno Torres, Jérôme Cieslak, David Henry, Jorge Dávila

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Abstract

The general context of this paper is the assessment of Sliding Mode Control (SMC) techniques for rendezvous missions in space. Based on the so called block-controllable model form, a Super-Twisting SMC is proposed in a backstepping setup. The proposed methodology is applied to a high-fidelity benchmark that accurately simulates a rendezvous mission between a chaser spacecraft and a passive target onto a circular orbit around Earth, taking into account the coupling between attitude and translational motions, propellant sloshing, modes of the flexible appendages and the most dimensioning space disturbances (e.g. second zonal harmonic J2, atmospheric drag, magnetic disturbance). Nonlinear simulations demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)25-30
Number of pages6
JournalIFAC-PapersOnLine
Volume52
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2019
Event21st IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, ACA 2019 - Cranfield, United Kingdom
Duration: 27 Aug 201930 Aug 2019

Keywords

  • Backstepping
  • Rendezvous mission
  • Sliding mode control
  • Super-twisting

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