Adaptive learning tracking control of robotic manipulators with uncertainties

An adaptive learning tracking control scheme is developed for robotic manipulators by a synthesis of adaptive control and learning control approaches. The proposed controller possesses both adaptive and learning properties and thereby is able to handle robotic systems with both time-varying periodic uncertainties and time invariant parameters. Theoretical proofs are established to show that proposed controllers ensure asymptotical tracking performance. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches is validated through extensive numerical simulation results.     

一类非参数不确定系统的自适应重复学习控制

本文针对一类非参数不确定系统提出一种全限幅自适应重复学习控制方法. 利用期望轨迹的周期特性, 构 造周期性期望控制输入, 并基于Lyapunov方法设计自适应重复学习控制器, 实现系统对周期性期望轨迹的高精度跟 踪, 且无需已知非参数不确定性的上界. 设计全限幅学习律估计未知的期望控制输入, 保证估计值被限制在指定的 界内. 同时, 通过构造完全平方式消除部分误差相关项, 控制器设计中可避免使用符号函数, 从而抑制控制器抖振问 题. 最后, 基于Lyapunov方法对误差收敛性进行了分析, 并通过仿真对比验证本文所提方法的有效性.     

A robust discrete‐time adaptive control approach for systems with almost periodic time‐varying parameters

A periodic adaptive control approach is proposed for a class of nonlinear discrete‐time systems with time‐varying parametric uncertainties which are almost periodic, and the only prior knowledge is the periodicity. The new adaptive controller updates the parameters and the control signal periodically in a pointwise manner over one entire period, in the sequel that achieves a bounded tracking convergence. The result is further extended to scenarios with unknown input gain, higher order dynamics, and tracking. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

控制方向未知非线性系统的自适应重复控制

针对控制方向未知的、存在周期性非参数不确定性的一类非线性系统,给出零误差跟踪的重复控制方法.引入Nussbaum函数设计自适应重复控制器,参数估计修正律采用完全饱和形式,将参数估计囿于预先给定的范围内.分析表明,闭环系统中所有信号本身有界,且跟踪误差本身趋于零.数值仿真结果验证了算法的有效性.     

用于永磁同步电机周期性转速脉动抑制的重复控制

本文针对电流测量误差、逆变器死区效应等非理想因素造成永磁同步电机转速周期性脉动的问题,在转速外环设计插入式转速自适应重复控制器,实现对电机转速的平滑稳定控制.首先,分析各种非理想因素引起永磁同步电机稳态转速周期性脉动的机理.其次,为保证附加转速自适应重复控制器后的系统稳定性,设计零相位FIR低通滤波器、线性相位补偿器和...     

An Adaptive Controller Dominant-Type Hybrid Adaptive and Learning Controller for Trajectory Tracking of Robot Manipulators

This paper proposes a new hybrid adaptive and learning control method based on combining model-based adaptive control, repetitive learning control (RLC) and proportional–derivative control to consider the periodic trajectory tracking problem of robot manipulators. The aim of this study is to obtain a high-accuracy trajectory tracking controller by developing a simpler adaptive dominant-type hybrid controller by using only one vector for estimation of the unknown dynamical parameters in the control law. The RLC input is adopted using the original learning control law, adding a forgetting factor to achieve the convergence of the learning control input to zero. We will improve and prove that the adaptive dominant-type controller could be applied for tracking a periodic desired trajectory in which adaptive control input increases and becomes dominant of the control input, whereas the other control inputs decrease close to zero. The domination of the adaptive control input gives the advantage that the proposed controller could adjust the feed-forward control input immediately and it does not spend much time relearning the learning control input when the periodic desired trajectory is switched over from the first trajectory to another trajectory. We utilize the Lyapunovlike method to prove the stability of the proposed controller and computer simulation results to validate the effectiveness of the proposed controller in achieving the accurate tracking to the periodic desired trajectory.     

基于非线性L1自适应动态逆的飞行器姿态角控制

钊对常规动态逆控制器不能有效抵消系统中的不确定性这一缺点,提出了一种非线性L_1自适应动态逆控制方法.该方法能够克服常规动态逆的不足,在保证系统鲁棒性的前提下,提升飞行器姿态角控制效果.首先,采用时标分离原理,将姿态角控制系统分为内外两个回路:外回路采用常规动态逆控制器,用于姿态角的跟踪控制;内回路采用非线性L_1自适应控制器,用于角速率的控制.其中,L_1自适应控制器由静态反馈控制器和自适应控制器组成:静态反馈控制器通过状态反馈实现,用于保证内回路的稳定和具有期望的闭环特性;自适应控制器由状态观测器、自适应律和控制律组成,用于抵消系统中的不确定性.其次,对所提控制方法的稳定性进行了分析,结果证明了该控制方法能够保证内回路的稳定和外回路的误差有界.最后,在综合考虑多种不确定性的情况下,将本文提出的非线性L_1自适应动态逆控制方法用于某无人飞行器姿态角控制,仿真结果验证了该控制方法的有效性和鲁棒性.     

含正反馈振动主动控制系统的混合自适应控制

对于存在结构正反馈的振动主动控制系统,传统的基于有限冲击响应的自适应前馈控制器设计方法难以同时保证控制系统稳定与良好的控制性能.本文在分析正反馈对前馈控制系统影响的基础上,基于无限冲击响应控制器设计模式,提出一种结合前馈自适应控制器和反馈自适应控制器的混合自适应振动主动控制方法.其中前馈自适应控制器采用参考传感器采集到的扰动相关信号作为参考信号,反馈自适应控制器通过构建扰动的估计量作为参考信号,控制器参数更新采用Landau参数递推算法.以一典型的具有固有正反馈性质的机械振动系统为控制对象,给出了该混合自适应控制算法的详细推导过程以及稳定性和收敛性分析过程,得到了算法稳定与收敛的严格正实条件以及相应放松严格正实条件的要求.在此基础上,通过构建实时振动主动控制实验平台,针对多种振动扰动开展对比实验分析.相关实验结果验证了本文提出的混合自适应振动主动控制方法的可行性和有效性.     

An adaptive integral sliding mode FTC scheme for dissimilar redundant actuation system of civil aircraft

ABSTRACT

This paper proposed a new adaptive integral sliding mode FTC scheme to deal with the actuator faults and failure. The scheme combines integral sliding mode control, control allocation scheme and adaptive strategy. The unknown actuator faults are handled by adaptive modulation gain of nonlinear ISMC law. To cope with complete failure, control allocation scheme is integrated with the baseline controller to provide tolerance. The proposed strategy relies on the estimate of actuator effectiveness. Therefore, an adaptive sliding mode observer based fault reconstruction scheme is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme is implemented on dissimilar redundant actuation system driven by hydraulic and electro-hydraulic actuators. In nominal and faulty conditions, both actuators are contributing to achieving the desired control surface deflection. However, when the actuator failure occurs, the control signals are reallocated to the redundant actuator. The problem of dynamics mismatch is addressed using fractional order controller designed in an inner loop. The comparison with the existing literature is also conducted in the simulation to validate the dominant performance.     

Adaptive backstepping sliding mode control with tuning functions for nonlinear uncertain systems

An adaptive backstepping tuning functions sliding mode controller is proposed for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear uncertain systems. In this control design, adaptive backstepping is used to deal with unknown or uncertain parameters and the matching condition restricting the Lyapunov based design. The main drawback of the Lyapunov based adaptive backstepping which is the overparametrisation is eliminated by the tuning functions. The adaptive backstepping tuning functions design is combined with the sliding mode control in order to overcome quickly varying parametric and unstructured uncertainties, and to obtain chattering free control. The proposed controller not only provides robustness property against uncertainty but also copes with the overparametrisation problem. Experimental results of the proposed controller are compared with those of the standard sliding mode controller. The proposed controller exhibits satisfactory transient performance, good estimates of the uncertain parameters, and less chattering.     

Adaptive motion control using neural network approximations

In this paper, we present a new adaptive technique for tracking control of mechanical systems in the presence of friction and periodic disturbances. Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) are used to compensate for the effects of nonlinearly occurring parameters in the friction and periodic disturbance model. Theoretical analysis, such as stability and transient performance, is provided. Furthermore, the performance of the adaptive RBF controller and its non-adaptive counterpart are compared.     

A Discrete-Time Periodic Adaptive Control Approach for Time-Varying Parameters With Known Periodicity

A periodic adaptive control approach is proposed for a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems with time-varying parametric uncertainties that are periodic, and the only prior knowledge is the periodicity. The new adaptive controller updates the parameters and the control signal periodically in a point-wise manner over one entire period, and in the sequel, achieves the asymptotic tracking convergence. The result is further extended to a scenario with mixed time-varying and time-invariant parameters, and a hybrid classical and a periodic adaptation law is proposed to handle the scenario more appropriately. The extension of the periodic adaptation to systems with unknown input gain, higher order dynamics, and tracking problems is also discussed.     

Desired Compensation Adaptive Repetitive Control of Electrical‐Optical Gyro‐Stabilized Platform with High‐Precision Disturbance Compensation

In this paper, the influences of unknown disturbances are first analyzed, and the structural properties of the disturbances are given. By appropriately applying Fourier series approximation, a novel continuously differentiable nonlinear friction model is synthesized by modifying the traditional piecewise continuous LuGre model, then a desired compensation version of the proposed adaptive repetitive controller is developed for precise tracking control of servo systems to compensate for spatial periodic disturbance and random disturbance. To further reduce noise sensitivity and improve tracking accuracy, the desired compensation robust control term is also constructed to effectively attenuate the effect of approximation errors, and thus a theoretically asymptotic tracking performance is achieved by the proposed controller, which is very important for the high accuracy tracking control of servo systems. Extensive comparative experimental results are obtained to verify the high‐performance nature of the proposed control strategies.     

Position Control of a Flexible Manipulator Using a New Nonlinear Self-Tuning PID Controller

In this paper, a new nonlinear self-tuning PID controller(NSPIDC) is proposed to control the joint position and link deflection of a flexible-link manipulator(FLM) while it is subjected to carry different payloads. Since, payload is a critical parameter of the FLM whose variation greatly influences the controller performance. The proposed controller guarantees stability under change in payload by attenuating the non-modeled higher order dynamics using a new nonlinear autoregressive moving average with exogenous-input(NARMAX) model of the FLM. The parameters of the FLM are identified on-line using recursive least square(RLS) algorithm and using minimum variance control(MVC) laws the control parameters are updated in real-time. This proposed NSPID controller has been implemented in real-time on an experimental set-up. The joint tracking and link deflection performances of the proposed adaptive controller are compared with that of a popular direct adaptive controller(DAC). From the obtained results, it is confirmed that the proposed controller exhibits improved performance over the DAC both in terms of accurate position tracking and quick damping of link deflections when subjected to variable payloads.     

Adaptive uniform finite-/fixed-time convergent second-order sliding-mode control

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an adaptive gain algorithm for second-order sliding-mode control (2-SMC), specifically a super-twisting (STW)-like controller, with uniform finite/fixed convergence time, that is robust to perturbations with unknown bounds. It is shown that a second-order sliding mode is established as exact finite-time convergence to the origin if the adaptive gain does not have the ability to get reduced and converge to a small vicinity of the origin if the adaptation algorithm does not overestimate the control gain. The estimate of fixed convergence time of the studied adaptive STW-like controller is derived based on the Lyapunov analysis. The efficacy of the proposed adaptive algorithm is illustrated in a tutorial example, where the adaptive STW-like controller with uniform finite/fixed convergence time is compared to the adaptive STW controller with non-uniform finite convergence time.     

基于模糊树模型的自适应模糊滑模控制方法

本文针对单输入–单输出仿射非线性系统提出了一种基于模糊树模型的具有监督控制器的模糊滑模控制方法. 该方法用模糊树模型逼近非线性系统中的未知非线性函数, 得到初始的控制器, 然后在线调节模糊树模型中的线性参数, 改善控制器的性能, 实现对有界参考输入信号的跟踪控制. 模糊树辨识方法自适应划分输入空间, 大大减少模糊规则的数目, 在一定程度上可以缓解困扰模糊控制中的”规则爆炸”问题. 该方法通过监督控制器保证闭环系统所有信号有界. 通过理论分析, 证明了跟踪误差收敛到零. 用倒立摆进行仿真验证, 结果表明该方法用较少的模糊规则, 就能得到满意的控制效果, 有推广应用价值.     

Robust adaptive fuzzy tracking control for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems based on backstepping technique

In this paper, the robust adaptive fuzzy tracking control problem is discussed for a class of perturbed strict-feedback nonlinear systems. The fuzzy logic systems in Mamdani type are used to approximate unknown nonlinear functions. A design scheme of the robust adaptive fuzzy controller is proposed by use of the backstepping technique. The proposed controller guarantees semi-global uniform ultimate boundedness of all the signals in the derived closed-loop system and achieves the good tracking performance. The possible controller singularity problem which may occur in some existing adaptive control schemes with feedback linearization techniques can be avoided. In addition, the number of the on-line adaptive parameters is not more than the order of the designed system. Finally, two simulation examples are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Adaptive fault‐tolerant control for a nonlinear flexible aircraft wing system

Fault‐tolerant control problems have been extensively studied in all kinds of control systems. However, there is little work on fault‐tolerant control for distributed parameter systems. In this paper, a novel adaptive fault‐tolerant boundary control scheme is proposed for a nonlinear flexible aircraft wing system against actuator faults. The whole system is regarded as a distributed parameter system, and the dynamic model of the flexible wing system is described by a set of partial differential equations (PDEs) and ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The proposed controller is designed by using the Lyapunov's direct method and adaptive control strategies. Based on the online estimation of actuator faults, the adaptive controller parameters can update automatically to compensate the actuator faults of the system. Besides, a fault‐tolerant controller is also developed for this system in the presence of external disturbances. Differing from existing works about adaptive fault‐tolerant control, the adaptive controller presented in this paper is designed for a distributed parameter system. Finally, numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Rejection of nonharmonic disturbances in a class of nonlinear systems with nonlinear exosystems

This paper proposes an asymptotic rejection algorithm for rejecting exotic disturbances in nonlinear systems. The disturbances, which are produced by nonlinear exosystems, are nonharmonic and periodic. A new internal model is proposed to deal with the disturbances. Further, an adaptive output feedback controller is designed to ensure that the system's state variables can asymptotically converge to zero, and the disturbances can be completely rejected. The proposed algorithm can be used in many applications, e.g. active vibration control, and the avoidance of nonharmonic distortion in nonlinear circuits. An example is performed to demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can completely reject the nonharmonic periodic disturbances produced by nonlinear exosystems. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Robust adaptive fuzzy tracking control for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems based on backstepping technique

In this paper, the robust adaptive fuzzy tracking control problem is discussed for a class of perturbed strict-feedback nonlinear systems. The fuzzy logic systems in Mamdani type are used to approximate unknown nonlinear functions. A design scheme of the robust adaptive fuzzy controller is proposed by use of the backstepping technique. The proposed controller guarantees semi-global uniform ultimate boundedness of all the signals in the derived closed-loop system and achieves the good tracking performance. The possible controller singularity problem which may occur in some existing adaptive control schemes with feedback linearization techniques can be avoided. In addition, the number of the on-line adaptive parameters is not more than the order of the designed system. Finally, two simulation examples are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.