Sampled-data mixed H∞ and passive control for attitude stabilization and vibration suppression of flexible spacecrafts with input delay

This paper deals with the problem of mixed [Formula: see text] and passive control for flexible spacecrafts subject to nonuniform sampling and time-varying delay in the input channel. An impulsive observer-based controller is introduced and the resulting closed-loop system is a hybrid system consisting of a continuous time-delay subsystem and an impulsive differential subsystem. As a first result, we derive a generalized bounded real lemma (GBRL), that is, a generalized [Formula: see text] performance criterion, for the impulsive differential subsystem by constructing a time-varying Lyapunov functional. Then, on the basis of this GBRL and utilizing the Lyapunov–Krasovskii approach, a sufficient condition is derived to asymptotically stabilize the closed-loop system and simultaneously guarantee a prescribed mixed [Formula: see text] and passivity performance index. A design method is proposed for the desired controller, which can be readily constructed by solving a convex optimization problem with linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) constraints. Finally, numerical experiments are provided to support the theoretical results, and comparisons with former approaches are also discussed.