Spacecraft Attitude Pointing Control under Pointing Forbidden Constraints with Guaranteed Accuracy
Jiakun Lei, Tao Meng, Weijia Wang, Shujian Sun, Heng Li, Zhonghe Jin

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel switching control scheme for spacecraft attitude pointing that ensures accuracy, rapid adjustment, and forbidden direction avoidance by integrating artificial potential fields and prescribed performance control.
Contribution
It proposes a new control framework combining APF and PPC with a switching strategy to handle pointing constraints and performance requirements simultaneously.
Findings
Effective avoidance of forbidden directions demonstrated in simulations.
Guaranteed control accuracy and rapid attitude adjustment shown.
Stable switching control achieved with the proposed method.
Abstract
This paper focuses on the attitude pointing control problem under pointing-forbidden constraints and performance constraints. The spacecraft is expected to align its sensor's boresight to a desired direction, while the terminal control accuracy and the attitude adjustment rapidity should also be guaranteed simultaneously. To resolve this problem, a switching controller structure is proposed in this paper based on the reduced-attitude representation, fusing the artificial potential field (APF) methodology and the Prescribed Performance Control (PPC) scheme together. Firstly, a novel artificial potential field is presented, and a particular function is designed for the mollification of the switching process, aiming at providing a smooth transition for the system status. Subsequently, we propose a special performance function, which can freeze the PPC part when necessary. In this way, the…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems · Inertial Sensor and Navigation · Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
MethodsALIGN
