Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Hypersonic Vehicles with Unknown Model Inertia Matrix and System Induced by Centroid Shift

In this paper, the fault-tolerant control problem of hypersonic vehicle (HSV) in the presence of unexpected centroid migration, actuator failure and external interference is studied in depth. First, the proposed dynamics for HSV with the aforementioned unexpected factors are modeled to demonstrate the peculiar nature of the subject under study. The adverse effects of accidental centroid migration are mainly reflected in the following aspects: (1) the change of inertia matrix of the system, (2) the uncertainty of the system and (3) the eccentric moment, which are coupled and unknown. Subsequently, to account for the effect of unexpected centroid shifts, a sliding-mode observer and an adaptive estimator are designed to obtain unknowns useful for subsequent FTC controller designs. Later, we derived an innovative adaptive FTC scheme by employing the observer in conjunction with a specific adaptive controller consisting of a sixth-order dynamic compensator, which can guarantee the achievement of the control objective without resorting to the exact knowledge of the inertial matrix. Moreover, the analysis of boundedness with respect to the entire signal in this closed system is performed by means of the Lyapunov stability theory. Ultimately, simulation results show that the proposed FTC strategy is efficient and powerful.