This paper highlights the role of the rank of a differential one-form in the solution of such nonlinear control problems via measurement feedback as disturbance decoupling problem of multi-input single output (MISO) systems. For the later problem, some necessary conditions and sufficient conditions are given.
This paper presents a composite controller that combines nonlinear disturbance observer and second order sliding mode controller for attitude tracking of flexible spacecraft. First, a new nonsingular sliding surface is introduced. Then, a second order sliding mode attitude controller is designed to achieve high-precision tracking performance. An extended state observer is also developed to estimate the total disturbance torque consisting of environmental disturbances, system uncertainties and flexible...