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TY - JOUR AU - Pan, Wei AU - Shen, Zitong AU - Fang, Tianshuo AU - Tang, Ruochen AU - Dai, Rui AU - Xia, Rui AU - Ni, Yiyang AU - Li, Quan PY - 2026 DA - 2026/01/25 TI - Adaptive Finite-Time Attitude Control Based on Time-Varying Sliding Mode JO - Aerospace Engineering Communications T2 - Aerospace Engineering Communications JF - Aerospace Engineering Communications VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 28 EP - 35 DO - 10.62762/AEC.2025.182476 UR - https://www.icck.org/article/abs/AEC.2025.182476 KW - spacecraft attitude control KW - finite-time control KW - time-varying sliding mode KW - adaptive control AB - This study investigates the finite-time attitude tracking problem of spacecraft. We employ finite-time control methods to develop a novel adaptive controller. The controller utilizes a time-varying non-singular adaptive fast terminal sliding mode. The time-varying sliding mode dynamically adjusts the sliding surface morphology. This adjustment enables precise control performance tuning. Additionally, adaptive methods estimate the upper bound of generalized disturbances. This estimation reduces the computational load of the controller. The proposed controller demonstrates high robustness against external disturbances and inertia uncertainties. Lyapunov methods prove the stability of the controller. Numerical simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm. The simulation results exhibit high precision and confirm the algorithm's performance. SN - pending PB - Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge LA - English ER -
@article{Pan2026Adaptive,
author = {Wei Pan and Zitong Shen and Tianshuo Fang and Ruochen Tang and Rui Dai and Rui Xia and Yiyang Ni and Quan Li},
title = {Adaptive Finite-Time Attitude Control Based on Time-Varying Sliding Mode},
journal = {Aerospace Engineering Communications},
year = {2026},
volume = {1},
number = {1},
pages = {28-35},
doi = {10.62762/AEC.2025.182476},
url = {https://www.icck.org/article/abs/AEC.2025.182476},
abstract = {This study investigates the finite-time attitude tracking problem of spacecraft. We employ finite-time control methods to develop a novel adaptive controller. The controller utilizes a time-varying non-singular adaptive fast terminal sliding mode. The time-varying sliding mode dynamically adjusts the sliding surface morphology. This adjustment enables precise control performance tuning. Additionally, adaptive methods estimate the upper bound of generalized disturbances. This estimation reduces the computational load of the controller. The proposed controller demonstrates high robustness against external disturbances and inertia uncertainties. Lyapunov methods prove the stability of the controller. Numerical simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm. The simulation results exhibit high precision and confirm the algorithm's performance.},
keywords = {spacecraft attitude control, finite-time control, time-varying sliding mode, adaptive control},
issn = {pending},
publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
}
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