학술논문

Appointed-Time Control for Flexible Hypersonic Vehicles with Conditional Disturbance Negation
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 59(5):6327-6345 Oct, 2023
Subject
Aerospace
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Vehicle dynamics
Convergence
Control systems
Aerodynamics
Closed loop systems
Actuators
Mathematical models
Appointed-time control
conditional disturbance negation
hypersonic vehicle
input saturation
prescribed performance control
Language
ISSN
0018-9251
1557-9603
2371-9877
Abstract
This article investigates the antidisturbance control design for flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles (FAHVs) with appointed-time prescribed tracking performances. The challenging issues include multisource disturbances, cross-coupling effects of the vehicle dynamics, and asymmetric amplitude and rate saturations. To address these issues, we propose an appointed-time prescribed performance control scheme for FAHVs via conditional disturbance negation technique. In contrast to existing disturbance rejection approaches, the proposed control scheme not only estimates the disturbances first in a fixed time but also evaluates the estimated disturbances and selectively conducts compensation actions according to the insight of the FAHV dynamic characteristics. To further enhance convergence rate, the composite appointed-time prescribed performance controllers are designed for FAHVs via time-varying barrier Lyapunov function and nonsmooth backstepping technique, which ensure satisfactory transient response and steady-state performances. In addition, the asymmetric amplitude and rate saturation problem of actuators are dealt with by introducing unified approximation dynamics. It is rigorously proved that the practical appointed-time convergence of the tracking errors and the fixed-time convergence of all signals in the resultant FAHV closed-loop system can be achieved under the proposed control scheme. Finally, extensive comparative simulations are provided to demonstrate the feasibility and superiority of the proposed approach.