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The drag-free satellites, being space-borne ultrahigh precise measurement platforms, have played irreplaceable roles in a great number of space science missions such as navigation, earth science, fundamental physics, and astrophysics. Most of these missions have to be performed based on the satellites placed with double cube test-masses, which makes the satellite layout and control strategy be more complex. This paper investigates the orbit keeping control problem of a class of low Earth orbit drag-free satellites with double cube test masses. A disturbance observer-based composite control method is proposed, which consists of an extended sliding mode observer and the tube-based robust model predictive control approach. In this design, the observer is proposed to estimate the relative position and velocity of the satellite and the external space disturbance force. A tube-based robust model predictive control scheme is then developed to stabilize the satellite orbit control systems in the presence of actuator saturation, state constraints, and additive stochastic noises. Finally, a simulation example is presented to demonstrate the efficacy and superiority of the proposed orbit control method.

Relative Position Model Predictive Control of Double Cube Test-Masses Drag-Free Satellite with Extended Sliding Mode Observer