Controlling lunar lander in powered descending phase

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Abstract

The requirement for controlling lunar lander in the powered descending phase is analyzed in the paper. With sub-optimal minimum fuel considered first, the expected non-iterative calculation formulas of the attitude angles are accquired. The explicit guidance project in relevance with the state variables and terminal restrict are deduced. According to deflection between the real attitude angles and the desired attitude angles, the attitude tracking system is designed by adopting the method of exponent reaching law and chattering reducing of boundary layers based on variable structure control with sliding mode. The simulation results show that the control system can complete flying mission in the powered descending phase, and has good robustness and adaptability as well.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09
Pages1506-1510
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09 - Dearborn, MI, United States
Duration: 7 Sep 200910 Sep 2009

Publication series

Name5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09

Conference

Conference5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDearborn, MI
Period7/09/0910/09/09

Keywords

  • Explicit guidance law
  • Lunar lander
  • Powered descension phase
  • Variable structure control

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