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Decentralized adaptive sliding mode control for beam synchronization of tethered InSAR system

  • Jinxiu Zhang
  • , Zhigang Zhang
  • , Baolin Wu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Beam synchronization problem of tethered interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is addressed in this paper. Two antennas of the system are carried by separate satellites connected through a tether to obtain a preferable baseline. A Total Zero Doppler Steering (TZDS) is implemented to mother-satellite to cancel the residual Doppler. Subsequently attitude reference trajectories for the two satellites are generated to achieve the beam synchronization and TZDS. Thereafter, a decentralized adaptive sliding mode control law is proposed to track these reference trajectories in the presence of model uncertainties and external disturbances. Finally, the stability of closed-loop system is proved by the corollary of Barbalat's Lemma. Simulation results show the proposed control law is effective to achieve beam synchronization of the system.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)57-66
Number of pages10
JournalActa Astronautica
Volume127
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2016

Keywords

  • Beam synchronization
  • Decentralized adaptive control
  • Tethered InSAR system
  • Total zero Doppler steering

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