Abstract Study results of developing formation control system for multi-spacecraft that requires avoiding obstacles and maintaining the formation configuration are presented. In particular, nonlinear adaptive feedback control law is developed by employing special potential functions and a kind of time-varying sliding manifold, to enable the spacecraft formation in a specific configuration by taking into account the obstacle avoidance requirement while tracking a moving target in a way of cooperation or not. Moreover, capability for handling multiple tasks by the proposed control system is demonstrated in the presence of disturbances and parametric uncertainties. The stability proof is based on a Lyapunov-like analysis and the properties of the proposed potential functions. Numerical simulation of the proposed method is presented to demonstrate the advantages with respect to obstacle avoidance, fast tracking and formation flying configuration reconstruction capability.


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    Title :

    Tracking control of spacecraft formation flying with collision avoidance


    Contributors:
    Hu, Qinglei (author) / Dong, Hongyang (author) / Zhang, Youmin (author) / Ma, Guangfu (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2014-12-23


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English