Adaptive global stabilization of nonholonomic systems with strong nonlinear drifts

A new input-to-state scaling scheme is first introduced to transform a class of nonholonomic systems in a chained form with strong nonlinear drifts and unknown constant parameters into a strict feedback form. The backstepping technique is then applied to design a global adaptive stabilization controller. A switching strategy based on the control input magnitude rather than the time is derived to get around the phenomenon of uncontrollability. Simulation examples validate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.     

Tracking control of second‐order chained form systems by cascaded backstepping

A design methodology is presented for tracking control of second‐order chained form systems. The methodology separates the tracking‐error dynamics, which are in cascade form, into two parts: a linear subsystem and a linear time‐varying subsystem. The linear time‐varying subsystem, after the first subsystem has converged, can be treated as a chain of integrators for the purposes of a backstepping controller. The two controllers are designed separately and the proof of stability is given by using a result for cascade systems. The method consists of three steps. In the first step we apply a stabilizing linear state feedback to the linear subsystem. In the second step the second subsystem is exponentially stabilized by applying a backstepping procedure. In the final step it is shown that the closed‐loop tracking dynamics of the second‐order chained form system are globally exponentially stable under a persistence of excitation condition on the reference trajectory. The control design methodology is illustrated by application to a second‐order non‐holonomic system. This planar manipulator with two translational and one rotational joint (PPR) is a special case of a second‐order non‐holonomic system. The simulation results show the effectiveness of our approach. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Finite-time output feedback stabilisation of chained-form systems with inputs saturation

This paper investigates the problem of finite-time stabilisation by output feedback for a class of non-holonomic systems in chained form with input saturation. Rigorous design procedure for saturated output feedback control is presented by using the homogeneous domination approach and the nested saturation technique. Together with a novel switching control strategy, the designed controller renders that the states of closed-loop system are regulated to zero in a finite time. A simulation example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive/robust time‐varying stabilization of second‐order non‐holonomic chained form with input uncertainties

Adaptive and robust time‐varying control schemes are constructed to stabilize second‐order non‐holonomic chained form in the presence of input uncertainties. The proposed control schemes guarantee that all the state variables converge to zero asymptotically in spite of input uncertainties, and are applied to the stabilization of a planar rigid body driven by active force and torque with unknown inertia and geometric parameters. The basic idea of the proposed stabilization schemes is to first convert the non‐holonomic system into a linear time‐varying form by time‐varying co‐ordinate transformation, and then design control laws to stabilize the converted linear time‐varying system. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stabilization of nonholonomic chained systems via nonregular feedback linearization

This paper addresses the problem of feedback stabilization of nonholonomic chained systems within the framework of nonregular feedback linearization. Firstly, the nonsmooth version of nonregular feedback linearization is formulated, and a criterion for nonregular feedback linearization is provided. Then, it is proved that the chained form is linearizable via nonregular feedback control, thus enable us to design feedback control laws using standard techniques for linear systems. The obtained discontinuous control laws guarantee convergence of the closed-loop system with exponential rates. Finally, simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the approach.     

Poincaré Normal Form for a Class of Driftless Systems in a One-Dimensional Submanifold Neighborhood

In this paper, motivated by the restrictive conditions required to obtain an exact chained form, we propose a quadratic normal form around a one-dimensional equilibrium submanifold for systems which are in a chained form in their first approximation. In the case considered here, in contrast to the case of approximated feedback linearization, not all the state and input components have the same approximation meaning. Because of this, we use a very simplified version of dilation, which is a useful way to design a homogeneous control law for driftless systems. Date received: December 2, 1999. Date revised: October 24, 2001.     

Underactuated ship tracking control: Theory and experiments

We consider complete state tracking feedback control of a ship having two controls, namely surge force and yaw moment. The ship model has similarities with chained form systems but cannot directly be transformed in chained form. In particular, the model has a drift vector field as opposed to the drift-free chained form systems. It is shown here that methods developed for tracking control of chained form systems still can be used for developing a tracking control law for the ship. Through a coordinate transformation the model is put in a triangular-like form which makes it possible to use integrator backstepping to develop a tracking control law. The control law steers both the position variables and the course angle of the ship, providing exponential stability of the reference trajectory. Experimental results are presented where the control law is implemented for tracking control of a model of an offshore supply vessel, scale 1:70. In the experiments the ship converges exponentially to a neighbourhood of the reference trajectory, and stays close with errors depending on factors as unmodelled dynamics, parameter uncertainty, measurement noise, thruster saturation, waves, currents and position measurement failures.     

Discontinuous exponential stabilization of chained form systems

In this paper a novel approach to exponential stabilization of chained form system is proposed. Provided that the control law fulfills mild assumptions, it is shown that a Brunovsky-like change of coordinates depending on the control transforms any chained form system into a system having a linearly bounded nonlinear part. Using linear tools, it is possible to exponentially stabilize a chained form system for any initial condition outside a submanifold containing the origin. This result is then generalized to global exponential stabilization. The so obtained static discontinuous feedback is bounded for bounded states and exponentially converges to zero along the closed-loop trajectories of the system.     

Time‐varying linear controllers for exponential tracking of non‐holonomic systems in chained form

In this paper, the authors address the tracking problem for non‐holonomic systems in chained form with target signals that may exponentially decay to zero. By introducing a time‐varying co‐ordinate transformation and using the cascade‐design approach, smooth time‐varying controllers are constructed, which render the tracking‐error dynamics globally ??‐exponentially stable. The result shows that the popular condition of persistent excitation or not converging to zero for the reference signals is not necessary even for the globally ??‐exponential tracking of the chained‐form system. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is validated by simulation of two benchmark mechanical systems under non‐holonomic constraints. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

不校准视觉参数的非完整运动学系统的鲁棒指数镇定

基于视觉反馈和非完整（1,2）型移动机器人的标准链式形式,探讨了具有不校准视觉参数的机器人的鲁棒镇定问题,得到了这种机器人在图像平面内新的非完整运动学系统的不确定链式模型.借助于状态缩放和切换技术,对非完整不确定链式模型提出了新的指数镇定的时变反馈控制器,并给出了指数镇定的严格证明.仿真结果验证了控制器设计的有效性.     

Iterative design of time-varying stabilizers for multi-input systems in chained form

This paper proposes an alternative solution to the global stabilization of nonholonomic multi-input chained form systems investigated in recent contributions [13, 18]. A systematic design, which is reminiscent of integrator backstepping methods, is presented to generate a new class of smooth time-varying dynamic stabilizers. The proof of stability is straightforward and the algorithm finds its application in adaptive control of nonholonomic systems and tracking control of mobile robot.     

Stabilization of uncertain chained nonholonomic systems using adaptive output feedback

In this paper, adaptive output feedback control is presented to solve the stabilization problem of nonholonomic systems in chained form with strong nonlinear drifts and uncertain parameters using output signals only. The objective is to design adaptive nonlinear output feedback laws which can steer the closed‐loop systems to globally converge to the origin, while the estimated parameters remain bounded. The proposed systematic strategy combines input‐state scaling with backstepping technique. Motivated from a special case, adaptive output feedback controllers are proposed for a class of uncertain chained systems. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Variable structure exponential stabilization of chained systems based on the extended nonholonomic integrator

In this paper, a new variable structure control strategy for exponentially stabilizing chained systems is presented based on the extended nonholonomic integrator model, the discontinuous coordinate transformation and the “reaching law method” in variable structure control design. The proposed approach converts the stabilization problem of an n-dimensional chained system into the pole-assignment problem of an (n−3)-dimensional linear time-invariant system and consequently simplifies the stabilization controller design of nonholonomic chained systems.     

基于输出反馈的非完整链式系统跟踪控制研究

针对非完整链式系统设计了基于输出反馈的全局跟踪控制律. 首先, 利用时变坐标变换和非自治系统的级联控制方法构造了状态观测器;然后对于时变坐标变换以后的误差系统继续利用非自治系统的级联控制方法设计了输出跟踪控制律. 区别于已有文献对于非完整链式系统跟踪控制问题的研究, 设计得到的输出跟踪控制律放松了参考轨迹所必需满足的不趋于零条件或持续激励条件. 结论表明在非完整链式系统跟踪控制问题 的研究中, 参考轨迹所必须满足的不趋于零的条件或者持续激励条件是不必要的. 最后的仿真结果验证了所给控制方法的有效性.     

Feedback linearization and stabilization of second-order non-holonomic chained systems

This paper presents a theoretical framework for non-regular feedback linearization and stabilization of second-order non-holonomic chained systems. By giving a new criterion for the problem of non-smooth non-regular feedback linearization, it is proved that second-order chained systems are non-regular static state feedback linearizable. A discontinuous control law is obtained based on linear system theory and the inversion technique. The design mechanism is generalized to higher-order non-holonomic chained systems. Simulation studies are carried out to show the effectiveness of the approach.     

Discontinuous control of high-order generalized chained systems

The stabilization problem for nonlinear systems in a generalized high-order chained form is solved by means of discontinuous state feedback control laws. The proposed controllers yield exponential convergence of the states to the origin. Moreover, the design does not require the precise knowledge of the system parameters. The method is applied to an underactuated surface vessel and a mobile robot moving on an uneven surface and its effectiveness is demonstrated through simulations.     

一类二阶非完整系统的镇定

研究一类二阶非完整系统的镇定问题. 通过状态和输入反馈变换将系统模型转换为二阶链式标准型, 并对标准型给出一种时变光滑指数镇定控制律. 所得结果应用于欠驱动平面刚体的镇定.     

Time Varying Deadbeat Control Of High Order Chained Systems

A new digital control method for a time varying sampled data system called a time varying deadbeat control is proposed for the control of high order nonholonomic chained systems with drift terms. This control law has the potential to avoid excessive overshoot and prevent trajectories from getting close to the singular manifolds of the transformation needed to obtain the chained forms.     

离轴式拖车移动机器人的反馈镇定

由于离轴式拖车移动机器人的模型不能转化为非完整链式模型, 因而无法采用针对非完整链式模型的控制方法. 针对有多节离轴式拖车的移动机器人, 给出了一种基于时间–状态能控形的反馈镇定控制算法. 首先推导出系统的线性化时间–状态模型, 并证明了其能控性; 进而设计了一种线性切换反馈镇定控制律, 该控制律可以保证系统的状态在有限时间内收敛到原点的任意小邻域内. 仿真结果证实了所提控制算法的有效性.     

A recursive technique for tracking control of nonholonomic systemsin chained form

The authors address the tracking problem for a class of nonholonomic chained form control systems. A recursive technique is proposed which appears to be an extension of the currently popular integrator backstepping idea to the tracking of nonholonomic control systems. Conditions are given under which the problems of semiglobal tracking and global path-following are solved for a nonholonomic system in chained form and its dynamic extension. Results on local exponential tracking are also obtained. Two physical examples of an articulated vehicle and a knife edge are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm through simulations