Fault-Tolerant Attitude Control of Spacecraft

Book excerpt: Fault-Tolerant Attitude Control of Spacecraft presents the fundamentals of spacecraft fault-tolerant attitude control systems, along with the most recent research and advanced, nonlinear control techniques. This book gives researchers a self-contained guide to the complex tasks of envisaging, designing, implementing and experimenting by presenting designs for integrated modeling, dynamics, fault-tolerant attitude control, and fault reconstruction for spacecraft. Specifically, the book gives a full literature review and presents preliminaries and mathematical models, robust fault-tolerant attitude control, fault-tolerant attitude control with actuator saturation, velocity-free fault tolerant attitude control, finite-time fault-tolerant attitude tracking control, and active fault-tolerant attitude contour. Finally, the book looks at the future of this interesting topic, offering readers a one-stop solution for those working on fault-tolerant attitude control for spacecraft. - Presents the fundamentals of fault-tolerant attitude control systems for spacecraft in one practical solution - Gives the latest research and thinking on nonlinear attitude control, fault tolerant control, and reliable attitude control - Brings together concepts in fault control theory, fault diagnosis, and attitude control for spacecraft - Covers advances in theory, technological aspects, and applications in spacecraft - Presents detailed numerical and simulation results to assist engineers - Offers a clear, systematic reference on fault-tolerant control and attitude control for spacecraft