Uncertainty Decomposition-Based Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Control of Flexible Spacecraft

A fault-tolerant adaptive control scheme is developed for attitude tracking of flexible spacecraft with unknown inertia parameters, external disturbance, and actuator faults. The uncertainties of flexibility and dynamics are parameterized, and the control gain matrix uncertainty is handled using an uncertainty decomposition. The control scheme, with adaptive laws of the overall system uncertain parameter estimates, guarantees the system stability and asymptotic attitude tracking properties. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.