In this paper we present a time-varying sliding mode control (TVSMC) technique for reusable launch vehicle (RLV) attitude control in ascent and entry flight phases. In ascent flight the guidance commands Euler roll, pitch and yaw angles, and in entry flight it commands the aerodynamic angles of bank, attack and sideslip. The controller employs a body rate inner loop and the attitude outer loop, which are separated in time-scale by the singular perturbation principle. The novelty of the TVSMC is that both the sliding surface and the boundary layer dynamics can be varied in real time using the PD-eigenvalue assignment technique. This salient feature is used to cope with control command saturation and integrator windup in the presence of severe disturbance or control effector failure, which enhances the robustness and fault tolerance of the controller. The TV-SMC ascent and descent designs are currently being tested with high fidelity, 6-DOF dispersion simulations. The test results will be presented in the final version of this paper.


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    Title :

    Reusable Launch Vehicle Attitude Control Using a Time-Varying Sliding Mode Control Technique


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2002 AIAA GN and C Conference ; 2002 ; Monterey, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2002-01-09


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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