TY - JOUR AU - Ma, Xi AU - Sun, Fuchun AU - Li, Hongbo AU - He, Bing PY - 2017 TI - Attitude Control of Rigid Body with Inertia Uncertainty and Saturation Input JO - Tsinghua Science and Technology SN - 1007-0214 SP - 83 EP - 91 VL - 22 IS - 1 AB - In this paper, the attitude control problem of rigid body is addressed with considering inertia uncertainty, bounded time-varying disturbances, angular velocity-free measurement, and unknown non-symmetric saturation input. Using a mathematical transformation, the effects of bounded time-varying disturbances, uncertain inertia, and saturation input are combined as total disturbances. A novel finite-time observer is designed to estimate the unknown angular velocity and the total disturbances. For attitude control, an observer-based sliding-mode control protocol is proposed to force the system state convergence to the desired sliding-mode surface; the finite-time stability is guaranteed via Lyapunov theory analysis. Finally, a numerical simulation is presented to illustrate the effective performance of the proposed sliding-mode control protocol. UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/TST.2017.7830898 DO - 10.1109/TST.2017.7830898