Dynamic sliding mode-based attitude stabilisation control of satellites with angular velocity and control constraints

Abstract

This work presents a novel control approach to the attitude stabilisation problem of rigid satellites with external disturbance, control constraint, and angular velocity constraint. The controller is developed in the framework of dynamic sliding mode control. A dynamic sliding mode surface is preliminarily chosen, and then a structure-simple sliding mode control law is synthesised. It is proved that the proposed control law can successfully accomplish the attitude stabilisation manoeuvre. The attitude is exponentially stabilised, and the angular velocity is stabilised with an exponential rate to a ball with a small radius. In comparison with the static sliding mode surface-based controllers, the proposed approach can provide a fast convergence rate. The system convergence time can be shortened by dynamically updating the control parameters in the sliding mode. Simulation results are presented to examine the feasibility of the presented solution.