Title
Stable Spinning Deployment Control of a Triangle Tethered Formation System
Author
Zhang, Fan (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Zhou, He (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Huang, Panfeng (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Guo, J. (TU Delft Space Systems Egineering) 
Date
2021
Abstract
The tethered formation system has been widely studied due to its extensive use in aerospace engineering, such as Earth observation, orbital location, and deep space exploration. The deployment of such a multitethered system is a problem because of the oscillations and complex formation maintenance caused by the space tether's elasticity and flexibility. In this article, a triangle tethered formation system is modeled, and an exact stable condition for the system's maintaining is carefully analyzed, which is given as the desired trajectories; then, a new control scheme is designed for its spinning deployment and stable maintenance. In the proposed scheme, a novel second-order sliding mode controller is given with a designed nonsingular sliding-variable. Based on the theoretical proof, the addressed sliding variable from the arbitrary initial condition can converge to the manifold in finite time, and then sliding to the equilibrium in finite time as well. The simulation results show that compared with classic second sliding-mode control, the proposed scheme can speed up the convergence of the states and sliding variables.
Subject
Mathematical model
Orbits
Sliding mode control
Space missions
Space stations
Space vehicles
Spinning
Stable and spinning deployment
tethered satellites system
triangle formation
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2021.3074981
Embargo date
2023-07-01
ISSN
2168-2267
Source
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52 (11), 11442-11452
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
journal article
Rights
© 2021 Fan Zhang, He Zhou, Panfeng Huang, J. Guo