Adaptive Fuzzy Control for a Hybrid Spacecraft System With Spatial Motion and Communication Constraints

This article proposes an adaptive fuzzy control approach with an event-triggered mechanism and spatial motion constraint for a hybrid spacecraft system. The spacecraft system is composed of a rigid body and a slender flexible panel, with coupled dynamics captured by three ordinary differential equations and two partial differential equations. The overall control objective lies in utilizing an event-triggered control input to regulate the angular velocities of the rigid body and stabilize the vibrations of the flexible panel under unknown input disturbances and prescribed spatial motion performance. We collectively address the posture regulation and disturbance rejection purposes by introducing a barrier Lyapunov function and a fuzzy logic system. The event-triggered solution only updates the control signals at some discrete-time instants, and hence the communication burden is reduced significantly. The potential effectiveness and thrifty efficiency of the developed control strategy are theoretically demonstrated and numerically verified.