A Robust Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Rigid Robotic Manipulators

In this paper, a robust adaptive terminal sliding mode controller is developed for n-link rigid robotic manipulators with uncertain dynamics. An MIMO terminal sliding mode is defined for the error dynamics of a closed loop robot control system, and an adaptive mechanism is introduced to estimate the unknown parameters of the upper bounds of system uncertainties in the Lyapunov sense. The estimates are then used as controller parameters so that the effects of uncertain dynamics can be eliminated and a finite time error convergence in the terminal sliding mode can be guaranteed. Also, a useful bounded property of the derivative of the inertial matrix is explored, the convergence rate of the terminal sliding variable vector is investigated, and an experiment using a five bar robotic manipulator is carried out in support of the proposed control scheme.     

用于刚性机械手的无抖振快速终端滑模控制

提出一种用于刚性机械手的无抖振动终端滑模鲁棒控制器。快速终端滑模综合了终端滑模和传统线性滑模的优，能在有限时间内到达平衡点，并降低系统稳态误差。采用优化方法推导出系统的跟踪精度和用于消除抖振的饱和函数和函数宽度之间的数学关系。利用系统的参数化模型，可将参数的不确定部分从回归矩阵中分离出来.根据每个参数不确定范围设计鲁棒控制器。仿真结果证明了该方法的有效性。     

A robust MIMO terminal sliding mode control scheme for rigidrobotic manipulators

In this paper, a robust multi-input/multi-output (MIMO) terminal sliding mode control technique is developed for n-link rigid robotic manipulators. It is shown that an MIMO terminal switching plane variable vector is first defined, and the relationship between the terminal switching plane variable vector and system error dynamics is established. By using the MIMO terminal sliding mode technique and a few structural properties of rigid robotic manipulators, a robust controller can then be designed so that the output tracking error can converge to zero in a finite time, and strong robustness with respect to large uncertain dynamics can be guaranteed. It is also shown that the high gain of the terminal sliding mode controllers can be significantly reduced with respect to the one of the linear sliding mode controller where the sampling interval is nonzero     

Continuous finite-time control for robotic manipulators with terminal sliding mode

A continuous finite-time control scheme for rigid robotic manipulators is proposed using a new form of terminal sliding modes. The robustness of the controller is established using the Lyapunov stability theory. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that faster and high-precision tracking performance is obtained compared with the conventional continuous sliding mode control method.     

Full‐Order Sliding‐Mode Control of Rigid Robotic Manipulators

This paper proposes a full‐order sliding‐mode control for rigid robotic manipulators. The output signals of the proposed controller are continuous. Therefore, the controller can be directly applied in practice. A time‐varying gain is constructed to regulate the gain of the signum function in the sliding‐mode control so as to avoid the overestimation of the upper‐bounds of the uncertainties in the systems and reduce the waste of the control power. The chattering is attenuated by using a novel full‐order sliding manifold and establishing a novel ideal sliding motion. The proposed method is robust to the load disturbance and unmodeled parameters, especially to the unknown portion in the control matrix. Simulation results validate the proposed methods.     

Adaptive terminal sliding mode control for rigid robotic manipulators

In order to apply the terminal sliding mode control to robot manipulators, prior knowledge of the exact upper bound of parameter uncertainties, and external disturbances is necessary. However, this bound will not be easily determined because of the complexity and unpredictability of the structure of uncertainties in the dynamics of the robot. To resolve this problem in robot control, we propose a new robust adaptive terminal sliding mode control for tracking problems in robotic manipulators. By applying this adaptive controller, prior knowledge is not required because the controller is able to estimate the upper bound of uncertainties and disturbances. Also, the proposed controller can eliminate the chattering effect without losing the robustness property. The stability of the control algorithm can be easily verified by using Lyapunov theory. The proposed controller is tested in simulation on a two-degree-of-freedom robot to prove its effectiveness.     

机器人的非奇异终端神经滑模轨迹跟踪控制

针对具有不确定性的机器人系统,为提高系统的稳态跟踪精度,提出一种非奇异终端神经滑模轨迹跟踪控制方案.控制器采用改进的非奇异终端滑模面,并基于径向基函数神经网络自适应调整控制律的切换项,不但克服了在设计中需要知道系统不确定性的上界的限制,而且平滑了控制信号.可应用Lyapunov稳定性理论证明了系统的渐近稳定性和跟踪误差的渐近收敛性.仿真结果验证了控制方法不仅能够保证机器人系统轨迹跟踪控制的快速性和鲁棒性,而且有效地削弱了抖振,可见方案是可行且有效的.     

二阶动态滑模控制在移动机械臂输出跟踪中的应用

针对移动机械臂的输出跟踪问题,结合高阶滑模控制和动态滑模控制的设计思想为其设计了一种二阶动态滑模控制器.首先给出了包括驱动电机动态特性的移动机械臂的简化动态模型,然后通过微分同胚和输入变换将其分解为四个低阶子系统,并给出了其输出跟踪的二阶动态滑模控制器的设计方法.仿真结果表明,所设计的二阶动态滑模控制器不仅能很好地跟踪给定轨迹,而且能有效地削弱滑模控制系统的抖振.     

基于终端滑模的机械手鲁棒自适应控制

对于不确定的机械手系统,提出一种鲁棒自适应控制方法,用自适应控制来估计系统的未知参数,用终端滑模控制来减少不确定因素的影响,为了避免因干扰的存在使自适应的估计参数发生漂移,引入死区自适应控制．仿真表明,滑模控制不仅抑制了误差,而且消除了死区自适应算法的局限性,该算法在取得较好控制效果的同时,具有很强的鲁棒性．     

Comments on ‘A new terminal sliding mode control for robotic manipulators’

In this article, we give some comments on the article ‘A new terminal sliding mode control for robotic manipulators’. The article presents a new terminal sliding mode control approach for global finite-time tracking of robotic manipulators. We point out a serious error occurred through the article, leading to the ineffectiveness of the proposed approach. A correction is proposed. Comparisons are presented.     

Robust control of robotic manipulators based on integral sliding mode

For rigid body robot manipulators, the computed torque approach provides asymptotic stability for tracking control tasks. However, the state dependent matrices needed to complete the computed torque algorithm are normally unknown and possibly too complex for a real-time implementation. This paper proposes a simple controller with computed-torque-like structure enhanced by integral sliding mode, having pole-placement capability. For the reduction of the chattering effect generated by the sliding mode part, the integral sliding mode is posed as a perturbation estimator with quasi-continuous control action provided by an additional low-pass filter. The time-constant of the latter tunes the controller functionality between the perturbation compensation and a pure integral sliding mode control, as well as between chattering reduction and system robustness. A comparative simulation study between conventional sliding mode control, integral sliding mode control, and integral sliding mode in form of a perturbation estimator for a two-link robot arm validates the proposed design.     

A new terminal sliding mode control for robotic manipulators

In this study, a new terminal sliding mode control approach is developed for robotic manipulators based on finite-time stability theory and differential inequality principle. The corresponding stability analysis is presented to lay a foundation for theoretical understanding to the underlying design issue as well as safe operation for real system. An illustrative example of a two-link rigid robotic manipulator is presented to validate effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

High-speed Nonsingular Terminal Switched Sliding Mode Control of Robot Manipulators

This paper proposes a high-speed nonsingular terminal switched sliding mode control (HNT-SSMC) strategy for robot manipulators. The proposed approach enhances the control system performance by switching among appropriate sliding mode controllers according to different control demands in different regions of the state space. It is shown that the highspeed nonsingular terminal switched sliding mode (HNT-SSM) which is the representation of different control demands and enforced by the HNT-SSMC has the property of global highspeed convergence compared with the nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode (NFTSM), and provides the global non-singularity. The simulation study of an application example is carried out to validate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.      

Finite time position synchronised control for parallel manipulators using fast terminal sliding mode

A new finite time position synchronised control approach for parallel manipulators is proposed using a fast terminal sliding mode (TSM). By developing a novel synchronisation and coupling position error, a non-singular fast TSM is proposed in coupling position error space. The proposed controller can guarantee position error and synchronisation error converge to zero in a finite time simultaneously without requiring the explicit using system dynamic model. The corresponding stability analysis is presented to lay a foundation for theoretical understanding to the underlying issues as well as safe operation for real systems. An illustrative example is demonstrated in support of the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive non-singular fast terminal sliding mode based on prescribed performance for robot manipulators

A fast convergent non-singular terminal sliding mode adaptive control law based on prescribed performance is formulated to solve the uncertainties and external disturbances of robot manipulators. First, the tracking error of robot manipulators is transformed by using the prescribed performance function, which improves the transient behaviors and steady-state accuracy of robot manipulators. Then, a novel fast convergent non-singular terminal sliding mode surface is brought up according to the transformed error, and the control law is derived to meet the stability requirements of robot manipulators. In practice, the upper boundary of the lumped disturbances cannot be accurately obtained. Therefore, an adaptive prescribed performance control (PPC) controller to lumped disturbances is brought up to ensure the stability and finite-time convergence of robot manipulators. Finally, the system stability of robot manipulators is proved by the Lyapunov theorem. Simulation results and comparative analysis demonstrate the superiority and robustness of the raised strategy.     

Synthesized sliding mode control of a single-link flexible robot

This paper proposes a synthesized sliding mode controller using frequency shaping and terminal attractor methods for single-link r-mode flexible robotic manipulators. The frequency shaping technique is used to suppress the inherent resonance modes of the flexible manipulator, while terminal attractor is used to expedite the convergence of the sliding mode near the equilibrium and to reduce steady state error. The asymptotical stability of the synthesized sliding mode is proven by using Popov's criterion. Numerical simulations confirm the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed sliding mode controller.     

Decentralized adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control for reconfigurable modular manipulators

A stable decentralized adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control scheme is proposed for reconfigurable modular manipulators to satisfy the concept of modular software. For the development of the decentralized control, the dynamics of reconfigurable modular manipulators is represented as a set of interconnected subsystems. A first‐order Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy logic system is introduced to approximate the unknown dynamics of subsystem by using adaptive algorithm. The effect of interconnection term and fuzzy approximation error is removed by employing an adaptive sliding mode controller. All adaptive algorithms in the subsystem controller are derived from the sense of Lyapunov stability analysis, so that resulting closed‐loop system is stable and the trajectory tracking performance is guaranteed. The simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed decentralized control scheme. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Design of an adaptive tracker for n-link rigid robotic manipulators based on super-twisting global nonlinear sliding mode control

This paper develops an adaptive super-twisting global nonlinear sliding mode control technique for n-link rigid robotic manipulators. A novel control law is designed to guarantee elimination of the reaching phase and existence of the sliding mode around the surface right from the initial time. Furthermore, the adaptive tuning law eliminates requirement of the knowledge about the upper bounds of external disturbances. By using the proposed method, a robust controller is designed so that the tracking error of rigid manipulator is convergent to the global nonlinear sliding surface in a finite time, and strong robustness with respect to large uncertainties and disturbances is guaranteed. Illustrative simulations on a two-link elbow robot manipulator and a three degree of freedom rigid manipulator are presented to show the robustness and effectiveness of the suggested design compared to other method. Moreover, a simulation as well as experimental study of a rotary inverted pendulum system demonstrates the applicability of the proposed method.     

Global finite-time attitude consensus tracking control for a group of rigid spacecraft

The problem of finite-time attitude consensus for multiple rigid spacecraft with a leader–follower architecture is investigated in this paper. To achieve the finite-time attitude consensus, at the first step, a distributed finite-time convergent observer is proposed for each follower to estimate the leader's attitude in a finite time. Then based on the terminal sliding mode control method, a new finite-time attitude tracking controller is designed such that the leader's attitude can be tracked in a finite time. Finally, a finite-time observer-based distributed control strategy is proposed. It is shown that the attitude consensus can be achieved in a finite time under the proposed controller. Simulation results are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

机器人操作器的自适应模糊滑模控制器设计

针对机器人动力学系统提出了一种基于模糊逻辑的自适应模糊滑模控制方案.根据滑模控制原理并利用模糊系统的逼近能力设计控制器,基于李雅谱诺夫方法设计自适应律,证明了闭环模糊控制系统的稳定性和跟踪误差的收敛性.控制结构简单,不需要复杂的运算.该设计方案柔化了控制信号,减轻了一般滑模控制的抖振现象.仿真结果表明了所提控制策略的有效性.