Barrier Lyapunov Functions-Based Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control for Flexible Hypersonic Flight Vehicles with Full State Constraints

One of the key problems for space vehicles is how to deal with the contradiction between the control constraints and the disturbances from multiple resources. This paper focuses on the adaptive full state constrained controller design problem for the flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles with multisource uncertainties. In simultaneous presence of the aerodynamical uncertainties, the modeling errors, the external disturbances, and the contingent actuator failures, an adaptive fault-tolerant control scheme is put forward in the context of dynamic surface control. Then, the barrier Lyapunov functions are utilized to guarantee that the constraints on the velocity, the flight path angle, the altitude, and the pitch rate are never violated. In virtue of the bound estimation approach, the multisource disturbances are effectively dealt with. Finally, a number of illustrative examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.