Spacecraft coordination control in 6DOF based on Neural Network

We address the problem of 6DOF spacecraft formation control in a leader-follower architecture using Robust Integral of the Sign Error (RISE) based Neural Network (NN) technique. Based on 6DOF relative dynamic model of the spacecraft formation, RISE based NN is introduced to approximate the dynamics of the follower as well as various practical disturbances. It is shown that the errors of the entire formation closed-loop are guaranteed to be asymptotical stable (AS), which takes significant advantage over the typical Uniformly Upper Bounded (UUB) property of most NN controllers in high-precision formation tasks. Numerical simulation is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.