Hypersonic Re-entry Vehicle Fault-Tolerant Control Against Actuator Failure via Integral Sliding Mode

Abstract

A fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme is proposed based on integral sliding mode(ISM) for attitude control of hypersonic re-entry vehicle (HRV) under partial loss of actuator effectiveness. First, the inner/outer loop mathematical model of HRV in the present of actuator failure is given with specific analysis on torque. Then prescribed performance approach is introduced to the ISM controller design by error transformation. Specifically, the transformation error rather than tracking error is chosen as the sliding variable to establish the sliding mode surface and reaching law. As a result, the attitude tracking error of HRV is limited into the expected range. Meanwhile, the transient process and the steady state behavior are both considered. Considering that the unknown fault information of actuator can cause adverse effect on HRV, an extended state observer(ESO) is adopted to estimate the unknown actuator failure. Thus the observer result is served as compensation for the loss of the controlled system performance. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can fulfil the tracking task with prescribed performance.

Keywords

hypersonic re-entry vehicle / fault-tolerant control / actuator failure / prescribed performance function / integral sliding mode