Rebuttal to “Fault-tolerant sliding mode attitude control for flexible spacecraft under loss of actuator effectiveness”

Abstract

A paper, "Fault-tolerant sliding mode attitude control for flexible spacecraft under loss of actuator effectiveness," was published in the journal Nonlinear Dynamics. The Lyapunov proof is flawed and does not prove stability for the system. It is also unclear how the simulation results in the paper were obtained using the control law. This rebuttal will demonstrate the flaws in the original paper.