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In this paper, an active fault tolerant control (FTC) design approach is proposed for the satellite attitude systems with exogenous disturbance and multiple actuator faults. Firstly, the nonlinear attitude system model of rigid satellite with multiple actuator faults is given. Next, an actuator fault diagnosis scheme, including a fault detection module and a fault estimation module, is given so as to detect the time of unknown actuator faults occurred and obtain their estimation values. Then, a terminal sliding mode-based fault tolerant attitude controller is designed using backstepping control technique, which guarantees that the closed-loop attitude systems of rigid satellite are asymptotically stable in the presence of multiple actuator faults. Numerical simulations illustrate the good performance of active FTC proposed in this study.
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Recommended by Associate Editor Jiuxiang Dong under the direction of Editor Suk-Sun Shim. This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61403195, 61473158, 61374180), the Graduate Innovation Research Foundation of Jiangsu Province (SJCX17-0241), the Post Doctoral Research Foundation of Jiangsu Province (1701140B), the Science Research Nurturing Foundation of Nanjing Tech University (201709).
Zhifeng Gao received the Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China in 2011. Currently he is an associate professor with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His research interests include fault diagnosis, fault tolerant control and their applications in aeronautics and astronautics.
Zepeng Zhou received the B. Eng degree from Tongda College, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China in 2015. He is now pursuing a Master degree in Control Engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His research interests include fault diagnosis, fault tolerant control and their applications in aeronautics and astronautics.
Guoping Jiang received the Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, China in 1997. He is currently the Vice-President and a Professor with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His research interests include chaos synchronization and and complex dynamical networks.
Moshu Qian received the Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China in 2016. She is currently an associate research fellow with Nanjing Tech University, China. Her research interests include fault tolerant control and its applications in UAV.
Jinxing Lin received the Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, China in 2008. Currently he is an associate professor with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His research interests include singular time-delay systems and switched systems.
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Gao, Z., Zhou, Z., Jiang, G. et al. Active Fault Tolerant Control Scheme for Satellite Attitude Systems: Multiple Actuator Faults Case. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 16, 1794–1804 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-016-0667-5
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