Advanced Attitude Control of Satellite: A Modeling Error Compensation Approach

This book focuses on the high-accuracy attitude control system design and approaches for satellite with modeling error including system uncertainties, actuator faults, and disturbances. It presents a systematically and almost self-contained description of the many facets of envisaging, designing, implementing, or experimentally exploring modeling error compensation-based attitude control of satellites. The advanced treatment of practical issues in satellite attitude compensation control is one of the major features of the book, which is particularly suited for readers who are interested to learn the latest solutions in attitude control system design of satellites. The book intends to provide a unified platform for understanding and applicability of the modeling error compensation-based attitude control for different purposes in aerospace engineering and some related fields. It can benefit researchers, engineers, and graduate students in the fields of attitude control of satellites and other unmanned systems, aerospace engineering, etc.

Dr. Xiao received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, China, in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control science and engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. From 2013 to 2014, he was a visiting scholar with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Between May 2014 and August 2017, he was a professor with the College of Engineering, Bohai University, China. From September 2018 to October 2021, he was an associate professor with the School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University. Since November 2021, he has been the Professor of that university. His research interests include spacecraft attitude control and its fault-tolerant control design.

Dr. Chen received the B.S. and the Ph.D. degree in aeronautical and astronautical science and technology from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2014 and 2021, respectively. From 2018 to 2019, he was a visiting Ph.D. student with KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. From March 2023 to February 2024, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology. Since March 2024, he has been with the Beihang University, where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests include the dynamics of spacecraft, the structural dynamics, the advanced structure design, and their application to spacecraft.

Jingwen Xu received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in computer science from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. From 2018 to 2023, she worked as an engineer of the tracking and telecommand system of satellite in China Xi'an Satellite Control Center. From October 2023, she has been with the Northwestern Polytechnical University, where she is currently as an assistant research fellow. Her research interests include fault diagnosis and fault tolerant-control of satellite, attitude control engineering of satellite, and state estimation of satellite control system.

Dr. Cao received the B.S., the M.S., and the Ph.D. degrees in navigation, guidance, and control of spacecraft from the National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, in 2007, 2010, and 2014, respectively. From 2013 to 2014, he was a visiting Ph.D. student with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Canada. From 2014 to 2017, he was a senior engineer of the State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, China Xi'an Satellite Control Center, China. Since 2018, he has been a research fellow with the National Innovation Institute of Defense Technology, Beijing, China. He has more than fifteen years’ engineering experience in nanosatellite and designed attitude determination and control systems for eight in-orbital micro/nano satellites. His research interests include the areas of satellite navigation, control and dynamics, and state estimation.