Flexible satellite control via fixed-time prescribed performance control and fully adaptive component synthesis vibration suppression

In this work, the problems of active vibration suppression and high accuracy attitude control for a flexible satellite with piezoelectric actuators are studied. Firstly, the attitude error dynamic equation is developed. By utilizing a novel hyperbolic cosecant function and the error transformation equation, the attitude errors can be transferred into new prescribed performance state variables. In order to further ensure better convergence of the new variables, a fixed-time sliding mode control is proposed. Subsequently, a novel fully adaptive component synthesis vibration suppression method is presented to realize vibration suppression during the attitude maneuver by utilizing piezoelectric actuators. Stability analysis of the proposed prescribed performance control is given. Finally, abundant numerical simulation results demonstrate the excellent performances of the proposed control scheme.