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  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Control Systems
  • Robotics

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  • Space missions require reliable micro-low-gravity simulation systems.
  • Suspended Gravity Unloading (SGO) systems are crucial for testing spacecraft and training astronauts.
  • Existing SGO systems struggle with control accuracy due to model uncertainties and external disturbances.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an advanced control strategy for SGO systems.
  • To enhance the precision and reliability of micro-low-gravity simulations.
  • To overcome limitations in current SGO system control accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed an adaptive extended state observer (ESO)-based dynamic event-triggered robust model predictive control (MPC) strategy.
  • Utilized ESO to estimate unmodeled dynamics and external disturbances.
  • Implemented a dynamic event-triggered (ET) mechanism to reduce MPC computational load.

Main Results:

  • The adaptive ESO effectively estimated system uncertainties and disturbances.
  • The integrated approach yielded an improved predictive model for SGO systems.
  • The dynamic ET mechanism significantly reduced the computational burden of MPC.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed control framework demonstrates superior effectiveness and performance.
  • Validated through comparative numerical simulations and experimental results.
  • Offers a robust solution for precise micro-low-gravity simulation in space exploration contexts.