A Review on Recent Development of Spacecraft Attitude Fault Tolerant Control System

• Published in: IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) Vol. 63; no. 5; pp. 3311 - 3320
• Main Authors: Shen Yin, Bing Xiao, Ding, Steven X., Donghua Zhou
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.05.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Actuators; Aircraft components; Attitude control; attitude control system; Control systems; Design engineering; Failure; fault detection and diagnosis (FDD); Fault diagnosis; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant; fault tolerant control; Fault tolerant systems; Faults; Observers; Space vehicles; Spacecraft; Spacecraft attitude control; spacecraft; Attitude control system; fault detection and diagnosis (FDD); fault-tolerant control (FTC)
• ISSN: 0278-0046; 1557-9948
• DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2016.2530789

Motivated by several accidents, attitude control of a spacecraft subject to faults/failures has gained considerable attention in a wider range of aerospace engineering and academic communities. This paper is concerned with industrial practices and theoretical approaches for fault tolerant control (FTC) and fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) in spacecraft attitude control system. An overview on recent development of spacecraft attitude FTC system design is presented. The basis of a FTC system is introduced. The existing engineering FTC techniques and theoretical methodologies, including their advantages and disadvantages, are discussed. Moreover, closely associated with the reliability-relevant issues, recent progress in attitude FTC design strategies is reviewed. A brief review of some open problems in the general area of spacecraft attitude control design subject to components faults/failures is further concluded.