Robust attitude predictive control design for reentry vehicle

Abstract

Aiming at the robust attitude control issue on reentry vehicle subject to uncertainties and disturbances. A novel optimal predictive attitude control method integrating with a high order sliding mode observer is proposed in this paper. On the one hand, the proposed optimal one-step predictive control approach can guarantee good dynamic performance of the control system, on the other hand, a high order sliding mode observer is applied to estimating the uncertainties and disturbances exactly, which can strengthen the robustness of the control system. System stability is strictly proved by Lyapunov theory and the domains of convergence are given exactly with/without the observer. Finally, an attitude predictive control law is presented for a reentry vehicle with dynamic characteristic of the actuators. Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control law.