Analysis and design of a tilted rotor hexacopter for fault tolerance

JI Giribet, RS Sanchez-Pena… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A proof is presented of how a hexagon-shaped hexacopter can be designed to keep the
ability to reject disturbance torques in all directions while counteracting the effect of a failure …

Omnidirectional aerial vehicles with unidirectional thrusters: Theory, optimal design, and control

M Tognon, A Franchi - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a theoretical study on omnidirectional aerial vehicles with body-frame
fixed unidirectional thrusters. Omniplus multirotor designs are defined as the ones that allow …

Anti-disturbance fault-tolerant control with flexible performance for combined spacecraft attitude tracking under limited thrusts

Y Xu, X Shao, Q Hu, B Song - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel anti-disturbance fault-tolerant control scheme for prescribed
performance attitude tracking of combined spacecraft equipped with thrusters. In practice …

Neural-network-based optimal attitude control using four impulsive thrusters

JD Biggs, H Fournier - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper tackles the problem of optimal attitude control using a minimal number of attitude
thrusters. Three possible control solutions to this problem are presented: 1) a logic-based …

Coupled Dynamics and Integrated Control for position and attitude motions of spacecraft: a survey

F Zhang, G Duan - IEEE/CAA journal of Automatica sinica, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by the integrated guidance and control design for endo-atmospheric aircraft, the
integrated position and attitude control of spacecraft has attracted increasing attention and …

Integrated translational and rotational finite-time maneuver of a rigid spacecraft with actuator misalignment

F Zhang, GR Duan - IET control theory & applications, 2012 - IET
This study deals with the problem of integrated translation and rotation finite-time maneuver
of a rigid spacecraft with actuator misalignment. In view of the system natural couplings, the …

Spacecraft thruster control allocation problems

PA Servidia, RS Pena - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the control allocation problem in a spacecraft thruster configuration. It consists
on the determination of the force command to be sent to each thruster in order to point the …

Post-capture attitude control with prescribed performance

X Huang, JD Biggs, G Duan - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The capture or docking of a spacecraft with a target spacecraft is an important component of
future space debris capture and orbit servicing missions. One proposed concept includes …

Robust adaptive integrated translation and rotation finite-time control of a rigid spacecraft with actuator misalignment and unknown mass property

F Zhang, GR Duan - International Journal of Systems Science, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This paper tackles the problem of integrated translation and rotation finite-time control of a
rigid spacecraft with actuator misalignment and unknown mass property. Due to the system …

Self-learning complex neuro-fuzzy system with complex fuzzy sets and its application to adaptive image noise canceling

C Li, T Wu, FT Chan - Neurocomputing, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose a new self-learning complex neuro-fuzzy system (CNFS) using
complex fuzzy sets (CFSs). We design a class of Gaussian complex fuzzy sets for the …