Resilient Neuroadaptive Distributed Fixed-Time Attitude Coordination Control for Multiple Spacecraft

This work studies the attitude coordination tracking problem for multiple spacecraft with consideration of unintended faults (communication link faults and actuator faults), inertial uncertainties, and external disturbances under a directed communication graph. A resilient neuroadaptive distributed fixed-time control scheme is investigated to solve this challenging problem. First, an improved adaptive distributed observer is established for followers to estimate the states of the leader when considering communication link faults. The proposed observer improves the resilience against communication link faults. Subsequently, to further cope with the problem of actuator faults, inertial uncertainties, and external disturbances, based on the proposed observer and the technique of adding a power integrator, a neuroadaptive distributed fixed-time attitude coordination controller is developed. Unlike the existing controllers, the proposed one requires less information when dealing with faults and lumped uncertainties, and has a lower-computational cost. Moreover, the fixed-time stability of the closed-loop system is ensured under the designed resilient neuroadaptive distributed control scheme. Finally, comparative simulations are carried out to manifest the effectiveness of the investigated coordination control method.