The application discloses a
spacecraft formation event-triggered attitude coordination control method considering communication time
delay, comprising the following steps: according to the communication topology structure of a
spacecraft formation
system, an attitude dynamics model of the
spacecraft formation is established, which can consider external disturbance, model uncertainty and communication time
delay; based on the attitude dynamics model, a
nonlinear observer is constructed, which can observe the collective nonlinear term of the
spacecraft formation system; based on the
nonlinear observer, an event-triggered attitude coordination control law and an event-triggering mechanism are designed; according to the event-triggered attitude coordination control law, the attitude and
angular velocity of the formation spacecraft are controlled, and according to the event-triggering mechanism, it is determined whether the corresponding event-triggered attitude coordination control law of the formation spacecraft needs to be updated and whether the state information of the formation spacecraft needs to be sent to the adjacent formation spacecraft. The application can consider the influence of disturbance, uncertainty and communication time
delay, save the energy, communication and computing resources of the
system while ensuring
good control performance.