Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Attitude-Tracking Control of Spacecraft With Quantized Control Torque

In this article, the problem of fault-tolerant attitude-tracking control of spacecraft with quantized control torque is addressed. Actuator faults/failures, an uncertain inertia matrix and unknown disturbances are considered in the attitude controller design of the spacecraft. A dynamical quantization strategy is developed to quantize the signals of the control torque, which can reduce the data transmission rate. An adaptive fault-tolerant controller based on sliding mode techniques is constructed to address the impacts of the actuator faults/failures, quantization errors, inertia matrix uncertainties and unknown disturbances. The developed control strategy with a quantizer can ensure that the entire closed-loop system is asymptotically convergent and achieves satisfactory attitude-tracking performance. Finally, simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.