Adaptive practical output tracking control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive practical tracking control by output feedback for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems without zero dynamics. The uncertain nonlinear perturbed terms of the considered systems are assumed to satisfy a generalised condition which is more relaxed than the triangular-type condition. Furthermore, in contrast to the previous work in the literature, the upper bound of the nonlinearities is a polynomial function of the output, with an unknown growth rate, multiplied by some relaxed conditions of unmeasured states. Due to the presence of unknown parametric uncertainty, a dynamic output compensator with dynamically updated gains is explicitly constructed based on non-separation principle. In particular, we show that for any positive number γ, all the states of the closed-loop systems are globally bounded and the tracking error belongs to the interval [?γ, γ] after some positive finite time. A numerical example illustrates the efficiency of the method.     

Global output feedback control for uncertain nonlinear feedforward systems

This paper considers a class of uncertain nonlinear feedforward systems with unknown constant growth rate, output polynomial function growth rate and system input function growth rate. Under the most general growth rate condition, only one dynamic gain is used to compensate simultaneously these three types of growth rates, an output feedback controller is constructed to guarantee the boundedness of closed-loop system states and the convergence of original system states.     

Global practical tracking of a class of nonlinear systems by output feedback

In this paper we address the practical tracking problem for a class of nonlinear systems by dynamic output feedback control. Unlike most of the existing results where the unmeasurable states in the nonlinear vector field can only grow linearly, we allow higher-order growth of unmeasurable states. The proposed controller makes the tracking error arbitrarily small and demonstrates nice properties such as robustness to disturbances and universal property to reference signals.     

一类具有未知增长率非线性系统全局输出反馈实际跟踪

本文研究了一类仅跟踪误差可量测不确定非线性系统的全局输出反馈实际跟踪问题.不同于现有文献,该控制系统具有依赖于不可测状态的增长且增长率为未知常数,并且只要求被跟踪信号及其一阶导数有未知界,因此直接推广现有结果难以解决上述控制问题.受相关镇定结果的启发,并通过灵活运用广义控制(universal control)和死区(dead zone)的方法与技巧,本文设计了自适应输出反馈控制器.主要结果表明,所设计的控制器能够确保跟踪误差经有限时间后收敛于设定的原点的任意小邻域,同时闭环系统的所有信号皆有界.仿真算例验证了理论结果的有效性.     

Distributed adaptive output feedback tracking control for a class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems

This paper addresses the distributed output feedback tracking control problem for multi-agent systems with higher order nonlinear non-strict-feedback dynamics and directed communication graphs. The existing works usually design a distributed consensus controller using all the states of each agent, which are often immeasurable, especially in nonlinear systems. In this paper, based only on the relative output between itself and its neighbours, a distributed adaptive consensus control law is proposed for each agent using the backstepping technique and approximation technique of Fourier series (FS) to solve the output feedback tracking control problem of multi-agent systems. The FS structure is taken not only for tracking the unknown nonlinear dynamics but also the unknown derivatives of virtual controllers in the controller design procedure, which can therefore prevent virtual controllers from containing uncertain terms. The projection algorithm is applied to ensure that the estimated parameters remain in some known bounded sets. Lyapunov stability analysis shows that the proposed control law can guarantee that the output of each agent synchronises to the leader with bounded residual errors and that all the signals in the closed-loop system are uniformly ultimately bounded. Simulation results have verified the performance and feasibility of the proposed distributed adaptive control strategy.     

Finite-time output feedback stabilization of high-order uncertain nonlinear systems

This paper studies the problem of finite-time output feedback stabilization for a class of high-order nonlinear systems with the unknown output function and control coefficients. Under the weaker assumption that output function is only continuous, by using homogeneous domination method together with adding a power integrator method, introducing a new analysis method, the maximal open sector Ω of output function is given. As long as output function belongs to any closed sector included in Ω, an output feedback controller can be developed to guarantee global finite-time stability of the closed-loop system.     

A global state feedback output regulating control for uncertain systems in strict feedback form

A family of single-input, single-output, nonlinear systems in strict feedback form with uncertain constant parameters which appear linearly and belong to a known compact set Π is considered. A global robust output regulation problem via state feedback is addressed and solved under the assumptions that the regulator equations are solvable in Π, the output equation does not depend on uncertain parameters, no modelled disturbances affect the system and the output reference signal is generated by a known exosystem whose state is bounded and available for feedback. Robust adaptive techniques are used to guarantee closed loop boundedness and to achieve, without requiring persistency of excitation, global asymptotic output regulation for a class of feedback linearizable systems which may have unbounded uncertain tracking dynamics or may not have a well-defined global relative degree.     

Global adaptive tracking for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems

This paper aims to extend the newly developed global adaptive regulation scheme to adaptive tracking for a general class of nonlinear systems with both parameter uncertainties and unknown time delay for all the system states. With a simple yet novel decomposition of some coupling functions derived from the introduction of a reference signal, a backstepping tracking control strategy is proposed which possesses the feature that for each design step, a dynamic gain is introduced to generate an additional term to counteract the system nonlinearities and parameter uncertainties. As a result, a memoryless adaptive state-feedback controller is obtained to achieve the global adaptive tracking.