Novel integrated guidance and control design for a three-stage satellite carrier using model-free adaptive control

A model-free adaptive control is proposed for suboptimal guidance correction and control of a prototypical three-stage satellite carrier. For this sake, we consider a nominal guidance for the model of the system and design the adaptive control for a single-input multi-output system exposed to wind disturbance and measurement noise in the rates of inputs and outputs. Then, subsequent to the guidance correction, a differentiation model of the system is estimated and the control policy is realized under some profitable performance constraints to set the satellite in a desirable circular orbit. The simulation results readily reveal the efficiency of the proposed method and its robustness to uncertainties in the system.