Data-driven game-based control of microsatellites for attitude takeover of target spacecraft with disturbance

This paper investigates the problem of using multiple microsatellites to control the attitude of a target spacecraft losing control ability. Considering external disturbance and unknown system dynamics, a data-driven robust control method based on game theory is proposed. Firstly, the attitude takeover control of the target using multiple microsatellites is modeled as a robust differential game among disturbance and multiple microsatellites, in which microsatellites can obtain the worst-case control policies. Subsequently, policy iteration algorithm is put forward to acquire the robust Nash equilibrium control policies of microsatellites with known dynamics, which is a basis of data-driven algorithm. Then, by employing off-policy integral reinforcement learning, a data-driven online controller without information about system dynamics is developed to get the feedback gain matrices of microsatellites by learning robust Nash equilibrium solution from online input-state data. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed control method, numerical simulations are provided. (C) 2021 ISA. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.