DEKC: Data-Enable Control for Tethered Space Robot Deployment in the Presence of Uncertainty via Koopman Operator Theory

TL;DR

This paper introduces DEKC, a data-driven control framework using Koopman operator theory to accurately model and compensate for uncertainties in tethered space robot deployment, enhancing robustness and performance.

Contribution

The work develops a novel Koopman-based proxy model for uncertainty, integrating deep neural networks and a receding-horizon scheme for online updates in space robot control.

Findings

High accuracy in capturing unknown uncertainties

Effective online adaptation of the proxy model

Demonstrated improved deployment performance through simulations

Abstract

This work focuses the deployment of tethered space robot in the presence of unknown uncertainty. A data-enable framework called DEKC which contains offline training part and online execution part is proposed to deploy tethered space robot in the presence of uncertainty. The main idea of this work is modeling the unknown uncertainty as a dynamical system, which enables high accuracy and convergence of capturing uncertainty. The core part of proposed framework is a proxy model of uncertainty, which is derived from data-driven Koopman theory and is separated with controller design. In the offline stage, the lifting functions associated with Koopman operator are parameterized with deep neural networks. Then by solving an optimization problem, the lifting functions are learned from sampling data. In the online execution stage, the proxy model cooperates the learned lifting functions obtained in the offline phase to capture the unknown uncertainty. Then the output of proxy model is compensated to the baseline controller such that the effect of uncertainty can be attenuated or even eliminated. Furthermore, considering some scenarios in which the performance of proxy model may weaken, a receding-horizon scheme is proposed to update the proxy model online. Finally, the extensive numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework. The implementation of proposed DEKC framework is publicly available at https://github.com/NPU-RCIR/DEKC.git.