不匹配不确定性系统的近似变结构输出跟踪控制

针对一类具有不匹配不确定性的非线性系统,提出一种结合变结构控制方法及自适应控制方法输出跟踪控制器。首先提出一种保证不确定性系统跟踪误差指数稳定的近似变结构控制器;进而得到一种具有不确定性范数上界估计能力的自适应近似变结构控制器,并证明了所提出的自适应近似变结构控制器使跟踪误差在时间趋于无穷时收敛于零。     

一类不确定非线性系统的自适应支持向量回归建模与动态面控制

针对一类非线性严格反馈系统,提出一种基于自适应支持向量回归的动态面控制方法.首先,将支持向量回归的核函数在核宽度以及支持向量估计值处进行一阶泰勒展开,使其能够对核宽度和支持向量进行线性化表示;然后,利用支持向量回归对系统未知动态建模,并基于建模结果设计虚拟控制器和控制器,同时,为提高建模精度,在控制器设计中增加系统状态及其跟踪误差的预测变量,并根据预测误差设计参数自适应律;最后,基于李雅普诺夫定理给出系统一致最终有界的分析.仿真结果表明,所提出的方法能有效减小建模误差并提高跟踪精度.     

一类非线性系统的微分平滑反步自适应输出反馈控制

研究了一类含不确定参数且存在未知扰动的严反馈非线性系统输出反馈控制问题,设计了一种新型的反步递推(Backstepping)自适应控制器.为实现输出反馈,设计过程引入了虚拟的全维状态观测器.由于Backstepping的虚拟控制量与未知参数逼近值及其高阶导数有关,为此通过微分平滑算法对原系统进行相应的动态扩展.在稳定性分析中,利用Lyapunov定理,得到了系统全局一致有界稳定的条件,并求出系统的稳态跟踪误差.最后给出的仿真算例验证了本文方法的有效性和可行性.     

A New Approach for Vehicle Lateral Velocity and Yaw Rate Control with Uncertainty

In order to attain excellent stability and maneuverability to ensure safety and ride‐comfort, the lateral velocity and yaw rate of a vehicle are expected to be controlled at any desired values simultaneously. A basic manipulation model of a vehicle with two degrees of freedom which requires two independent control inputs (front and rear steering angle) is constructed. In this model, we consider the mass and the moment of inertia of the vehicle are the uncertain parameters which are (possibly) fast‐varying. However, no further information, except that the uncertainties are bounded, is assumed. Furthermore, the bound is unknown. An adaptive robust control methodology based on the Udwadia and Kalaba approach which guarantees uniform boundedness and uniform ultimate boundedness is proposed to drive the system to follow the pre‐specified constraints approximately. The adaptive law is of leakage type which can adjust itself based on the tracking error. The numerical simulation results conducted by MATLAB demonstrate the ease and effectiveness of implementation.     

Adaptive Neural Tracking Control for Unknown Output Feedback Nonlinear Time-delay Systems

An adaptive output feedback neural network tracking controller is designed for a class of unknown output feedback nonlinear time-delay systems by using backstepping technique.Neural networks are used to approximate unknown time-delay functions.Delay-dependent filters are intro- duced for state estimation.The domination method is used to deal with the smooth time-delay basis functions.The adaptive bounding technique is employed to estimate the upper bound of the neural network reconstruction error.Based on Lyapunov-Krasoviskii functional,the semi-global uniform ultimate boundedness(SGUUB)of all the signals in the closed-loop system is proved.The arbitrary output tracking accuracy is achieved by tuning the design parameters and the neural node number. The feasibility is investigated by an illustrative simulation example.     

未知输出反馈非线性时滞系统自适应神经网络跟踪控制

An adaptive output feedback neural network tracking controller is designed for a class of unknown output feedback nonlinear time-delay systems by using backstepping technique. Neural networks are used to approximate unknown time-delay functions. Delay-dependent filters are introduced for state estimation. The domination method is used to deal with the smooth time-delay basis functions. The adaptive bounding technique is employed to estimate the upper bound of the neural network reconstruction error. Based on Lyapunov-Krasoviskii functional, the semi-global uniform ultimate boundedness (SGUUB) of all the signals in the closed-loop system is proved. The arbitrary output tracking accuracy is achieved by tuning the design parameters and the neural node number. The feasibility is investigated by an illustrative simulation example.     

Adaptive fuzzy tracking control of nonlinear time-delay systems with unknown virtual control coefficients

In this paper, a novel adaptive fuzzy control scheme is proposed for a class of uncertain single-input and single-output (SISO) nonlinear time-delay systems with the lower triangular form. Fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate unknown nonlinear functions, then the adaptive fuzzy tracking controller is constructed by combining Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals and the backstepping approach. The proposed controller guarantees uniform ultimate boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop system, while the tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of the origin. An advantage of the proposed control scheme lies in that the number of adaptive parameters is not more than the order of the systems under consideration. Finally, simulation studies are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design scheme.     

Adaptive synchronisation of unknown nonlinear networked systems with prescribed performance

This paper proposes an adaptive tracking control with prescribed performance function for distributive cooperative control of highly nonlinear multi-agent systems. The use of such approach confines the tracking error within a large predefined set to a predefined smaller set. The key idea is to transform the constrained system into unconstrained one through the transformation of the output error. Agents’ dynamics are assumed unknown, and the controller is developed for a strongly connected structured network. The proposed controller allows all agents to follow the trajectory of the leader node, while satisfying the necessary dynamic requirements. The proposed approach guarantees uniform ultimate boundedness for the transformed error as well as a bounded adaptive estimate of the unknown parameters and dynamics. Simulations include two examples to validate the robustness and smoothness of the proposed controller against highly nonlinear heterogeneous multi-agent system with uncertain time-variant parameters and external disturbances.     

Robust adaptive trajectory tracking control of underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles with prescribed performance

In this paper, a novel robust adaptive trajectory tracking control scheme with prescribed performance is developed for underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) subject to unknown dynamic parameters and disturbances. A simple error mapping function is proposed in order to guarantee that the trajectory tracking error satisfies the prescribed performance. A novel additional control based on Nussbaum function is proposed to handle the underactuation of AUVs. The compounded uncertain item caused by the unknown dynamic parameters and disturbances is transformed into a linear parametric form with only single unknown parameter called virtual parameter. On the basis of the above, a novel robust adaptive trajectory tracking control law is developed using dynamic surface control technique, where the adaptive law online provides the estimation of the virtual parameter. Strict stability analysis indicates that the designed control law ensures uniform ultimate boundedness of the AUV trajectory tracking closed‐loop control system with prescribed tracking performance. Simulation results on an AUV in two different disturbance cases with dynamic parameter perturbation verify the effectiveness of our adaptive trajectory tracking control scheme.     

Robust tracking and model following of uncertain dynamic delaysystems by memoryless linear controllers

A linear memoryless controller is developed for a class of uncertain linear time-delay systems to track dynamic inputs of a non-delay reference model. For matched uncertainties, the controller designed guarantees uniform ultimate boundedness of the tracking error, and the error bound can be made arbitrarily small. For mismatched uncertainties a condition is derived under which the controller designed ensures ultimate boundedness of the tracking error. However, in this case there is no control over the tracking error bound. Finally, examples are included to illustrate the results developed in this paper     

Adaptive control for an uncertain robotic manipulator with input saturations

In this paper, we address the control problem of an uncertain robotic manipulator with input saturations. For this purpose, a model reference adaptive control like (MRAC-like) approach is proposed to solve the problem. The model reference enjoyed input to state stable (ISS) property and driven by the current control signal is introduced. A combination of the regressor and non-regressor based approaches is used to estimate the uncertain parameters. The resulting controller ensures that the control signals satisfy the input saturations. In addition, the semi-global uniform ultimate boundedness of the closed-loop system is guaranteed and the tracking error converges to the compact set which depends on the predetermined bound of the control inputs. Simulation on a planar elbow manipulator with two joints is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control design.     

Adaptive tracking control of manipulators: Theory and experiments

This paper considers the trajectory tracking problem for uncertain robot manipulators and proposes two adaptive controllers as solutions to this problem. The first controller is derived under the assumption that the manipulator state is measurable, while the second strategy is developed for those applications in which only position measurements are available. The adaptive schemes are very general and computationally efficient since they do not require knowledge of either the mathematical model or the parameter values of the manipulator dynamics, and are implemented without calculation of the robot inverse dynamics or inverse kinematic transformation. It is shown that the control strategies ensure uniform boundedness of all signals in the presence of bounded disturbances, and that the ultimate size of the tracking errors can be made arbitrarily small. Experimental results are presented for a PUMA 560 manipulator and demonstrate that accurate and robust trajectory tracking can be achieved by using the proposed controllers.     

Robust control of robot manipulators with parametric uncertainty

This paper proposes a robust control law for n-link robot manipulators with parametric uncertainty whose upper bound is not assumed to be known. The proposed robust control based on the Corless-Leitmann approach includes a simple estimation law for the upper bound on the parametric uncertainty and an additional control input to be updated as a function of the estimated value. Using the Lyapunov stability theory, the uniform ultimate boundedness of the tracking error is proved     

Robust Adaptive Control of Feedback Linearizable MIMO Nonlinear Systems With Prescribed Performance

A novel robust adaptive controller for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) feedback linearizable nonlinear systems possessing unknown nonlinearities, capable of guaranteeing a prescribed performance, is developed in this paper. By prescribed performance we mean that the tracking error should converge to an arbitrarily small residual set, with convergence rate no less than a prespecified value, exhibiting a maximum overshoot less than a sufficiently small prespecified constant. Visualizing the prescribed performance characteristics as tracking error constraints, the key idea is to transform the ldquoconstrainedrdquo system into an equivalent ldquounconstrainedrdquo one, via an appropriately defined output error transformation. It is shown that stabilization of the ldquounconstrainedrdquo system is sufficient to solve the stated problem. Besides guaranteeing a uniform ultimate boundedness property for the transformed output error and the uniform boundedness for all other signals in the closed loop, the proposed robust adaptive controller is smooth with easily selected parameter values and successfully bypasses the loss of controllability issue. Simulation results on a two-link robot, clarify and verify the approach.     

卫星编队飞行的鲁棒自适应控制方法

研究了主从式框架下编队飞行的相对控制问题.首先推导了描述主从星相对运动的完整非线性动力学模型, 利用完整模型的无摄动形式提出了最优参考轨迹生成问题,并应用高斯伪谱法将此问题转换成非线性规划问题,使其可以数值求解; 基于Lyapunov 方法设计了闭环系统的鲁棒自适应控制器,在存在未知干扰、未知主星轨道参数与控制以及未知从星质量的情况下, 仅利用相对状态测量即能够保证闭环系统的参考轨迹跟踪误差和参数估计误差全局一致最终有界,并证明了跟踪误差的最终界可以 通过选取合理的控制器参数使其任意小;最后给出了具体的仿真场景验证了本文主要结果的有效性.     

Robust adaptive fuzzy controller for non‐affine nonlinear systems with dynamic rule activation

This paper describes the design of a robust adaptive fuzzy controller for an uncertain single‐input single‐output nonlinear dynamical systems. While most recent results on fuzzy controllers considers affine systems with fixed rule‐base fuzzy systems, we propose a control scheme for non‐affine nonlinear systems and a dynamic fuzzy rule activation scheme in which an appropriate number of the fuzzy rules are chosen on‐line. By using the proposed scheme, we can reduce the computation time, storage space, and dynamic order of the adaptive fuzzy system without significant performance degradation. The Lyapunov synthesis approach is used to guarantee a uniform ultimate boundedness property for the tracking error, as well as for all other signals in the closed loop. No a priori knowledge of an upper bounds on the uncertainties is required. The theoretical results are illustrated through a simulation example. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Neuro-Adaptive Output Feedback Control for a Class of Nonlinear Non-Minimum Phase Systems

This paper presents an adaptive output-feedback control method for non-affine nonlinear non-minimum phase systems that have partially known Lipschitz continuous functions in their arguments. The proposed controller is comprised of a linear, a neuro-adaptive and an adaptive robustifying control term. The adaptation law for the neural network weights is obtained using the Lyapunov’s direct method. One of the main advantageous of the proposed method is that the control law does not depend on the state estimation. This task is accomplished by introducing a strictly positive-real augmented error dynamic and using the Leftshetz–Kalman–Yakobuvich lemma. The ultimate boundedness of the error signals will be shown analytically using the extension of Lyapunov theory. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme will be shown in simulations for the benchmark problem Translational Oscillator/Rotational Actuator (TORA) system.     

Robust tracking designs for both holonomic and nonholonomicconstrained mechanical systems: adaptive fuzzy approach

Adaptive fuzzy-based tracking control designs are proposed in the paper for both holonomic mechanical systems as well as a large class of nonholonomic mechanical systems with plant uncertainties and external disturbances. A unified and systematic procedure is employed to derive the controllers for both holonomic and nonholonomic mechanical control systems, respectively. First, a fuzzy logic system is introduced to learn the behavior of unknown (or uncertain) mechanical dynamics by using an adaptive algorithm. Next, the effect of approximation error on the tracking error must be efficiently eliminated by employing an additional robustifying algorithm. Consequently, hybrid adaptive-robust controllers can be constructed such that the resulting closed-loop mechanical systems guarantee a satisfactorily transient and asymptotic performance. Furthermore, a partitioned procedure with respect to the above developed adaptive fuzzy logic approximators is introduced such that the number of fuzzy IF-THEN rules is significantly reduced and the developed control schemes can be easily implemented from the viewpoint of practical applications. Finally, simulation examples are presented to illustrate the tracking performance of a two-link constrained robot manipulator and a vertical wheel rolling on a plane surface by the proposed adaptive fuzzy-based control algorithms     

Adaptive neural control of nonlinear MIMO systems with unknown time delays

In this paper, a novel adaptive NN control scheme is proposed for a class of uncertain multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear time-delay systems. RBF NNs are used to tackle unknown nonlinear functions, then the adaptive NN tracking controller is constructed by combining Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals and the dynamic surface control (DSC) technique along with the minimal-learning-parameters (MLP) algorithm. The proposed controller guarantees uniform ultimate boundedness (UUB) of all the signals in the closed-loop system, while the tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of the origin. An advantage of the proposed control scheme lies in that the number of adaptive parameters for each subsystem is reduced to one, triple problems of “explosion of complexity”, “curse of dimension” and “controller singularity” are solved, respectively. Finally, a numerical simulation is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed scheme.     

A Saturating Extension of an Output Feedback Controller for Internally Damped Euler‐Lagrange Systems

In this research, a novel extension of the passivity‐based output feedback trajectory tracking controller is developed for internally damped Euler‐Lagrange systems with input saturation. Compared with the previous output feedback controllers, this new design of a combined adaptive controller‐observer system will reduce the risk of actuator saturation effectively via generalized saturation functions. Semi‐global uniform ultimate boundedness stability of the tracking errors and state estimation errors is guaranteed by Lyapunov stability analysis. An application of the proposed saturated output feedback controller is the stabilization of a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot with saturated actuators towards desired trajectories. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed controller in dealing with the actuator saturation.