Adaptive quantized sliding mode attitude tracking control for flexible spacecraft with input dead-zone via Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy approach.

• Flexible spacecraft Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy attitude control system is studied. • The signal quantization is considered. • The external disturbance and actuator input dead-zone are considered. • A quantized adaptive fuzzy integral sliding mode control strategy is presented. This paper addresses the sliding mode control design problem for the flexible spacecraft attitude tracking control system with Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model based method. In this design, the external disturbance and actuator input dead-zone are considered simultaneously, and the signals between sensors and controller are quantized before transmission over digital communication channels. A quantized adaptive integral sliding mode control law is proposed to ensure that the sliding motion is globally asymptotically stable, and the effects of unknown external disturbances, actuator nonlinearity and quantization errors are compensated via the online adaptive mechanism simultaneously. Moreover, under the proposed digital control law the finite-time reachability of the designed sliding surface can be guaranteed strictly. Finally, simulation results are presented to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the developed quantized spacecraft attitude control method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]