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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (15): 232734.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2025.32734

• Solid Mechanics and Vehicle Conceptual Design •    

Physics-informed recurrent neural network enhanced model predictive control for large-scale flexible space structure attitude stabilization

Guoliang LYU1, Zhiqiang BIAN2, Yanning GUO1, Pengyu WANG1()   

  1. 1.School of Astronautics,Harbin Institute of Technology,Harbin 150001,China
    2.College of Astronautics,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 211106,China
    3.Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering,Shanghai 201109,China
  • Received:2025-08-31 Revised:2025-09-24 Accepted:2025-10-28 Online:2025-11-10 Published:2025-11-07
  • Contact: Pengyu WANG E-mail:wangpy@hit.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(U23B6001);Foundation of the National Key Laboratory of Space Intelligent Control Technology(HTKJ2025KL502014);National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFB3905301)

Abstract:

A novel model predictive attitude control method based on a Physics-informed Recurrent Neural Network (PI-RNN) is proposed for the attitude stabilization control problem of large-scale flexible space structures, which fully considers factors such as unknown vibration model parameters and unknown rigid-flexible coupling relationships. First, a PI-RNN predictive model for vibrations of flexible appendages is developed by embedding the prior physical vibration dynamics of large-scale flexible space structures into a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), which facilitates accurate online prediction of the vibration modes of large-scale space structures. Then, the proposed PI-RNN predictive model is further integrated into a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) framework to overcome the problem that traditional NMPC methods are highly dependent on model accuracy. Moreover, the stability and feasibility of the closed-loop control system are analyzed based on Lyapunov theory. Compared with traditional spacecraft attitude control methods, the proposed approach not only achieves the optimality of predefined performance metrics but also exhibits the potential to overcome vibration parameter drift through real-time data learning via the PI-RNN. Finally, numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.

Key words: large-scale flexible space structure, attitude stabilization control, physics-informed recurrent neural network, vibration mode prediction, nonlinear model predictive control

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