The invention relates to a finite-time posture fault-tolerant control method for a
spacecraft formation and belongs to the technical field of multi-
spacecraft formation flying. In order to reduce communication paths and avoid resource waste, a directional communication topological structure with small communication traffic is adopted between
spacecraft formation members; in addition, in order to make a
spacecraft formation posture
control system achieve
synergy more quickly and stably, the finite-time posture fault-tolerant control method for the
spacecraft formation is provided on the basis of a finite-time
algorithm with high robustness and fast convergence, a redundant fault-tolerant
algorithm with better fault-tolerant performance and an self-
adaptive algorithm with a good suppressioneffect on
system uncertainty and interference. According to the method, a limited-capacity self-adaptive posture cooperative tracking fault-tolerant control strategy is perfected, a redundant fault-tolerant control method is achieved through reasonable
torque distribution, and at the same time, a self-adaptive law is designed for reducing the influence of
inertia variation and interference; moreover, fast convergence of a spacecraft cooperative
tracking error system can be realized, and the robustness and practicability of the
control system are further improved.