Adaptive Finite-Time Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous under Unknown System Parameters

Abstract

In this study, we investigated the sliding mode control (SMC) technology for the spacecraft rendezvous maneuver under unknown system parameters and external disturbance. With no knowledge of the mass and inertial matrix of the pursuer spacecraft, an adaptive SMC approach was devised using the hyperbolic tangent function to realize the control objective of reducing the chattering problem. In addition, the finite-time stability of the relative dynamics and the boundedness of the signals in the closed-loop system were derived under proposed method. The effectiveness and advantages of the proposed method were verified through theoretical analysis and numerical simulations.