Spacecraft power system controller based on neural network

Neural control is a branch of the general field of intelligent control, which is based on the concept of artificial intelligence. This work presents the spacecraft orbit determination, dimensioning of the renewable power system, and mathematical modeling of spacecraft power system which are required for simulating the system. The complete system is simulated using MATLAB-SIMULINK. The NN controller outperform PID in the extreme range of non-linearity. Well trained neural controller can operate at different conditions of load current at different orbital periods without any tuning such in case of PID controller. So an artificial neural network (ANN) based model has been developed for the optimum operation of spacecraft power system. An ANN is trained using a back propagation with Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm. The best validation performance is obtained for mean square error is equal to 9.9962×10−11 at epoch 637. The regression between the network output and the corresponding target is equal to 100% which means a high accuracy. NNC architecture gives satisfactory results with small number of neurons, hence better in terms of memory and time are required for NNC implementation. The results indicate that the proposed control unit using ANN can be successfully used for controlling the spacecraft power system in low earth orbit (LEO). Therefore, this technique is going to be a very useful tool for the interested designers in space field.

► Spacecraft power system control using artificial neural network (ANN).
► MATLAB–SIMULINK is developed.
► Artificial neural network is carried out using the back-propagation.
► High degree of confidence for control strategy using ANN.