Robust Tracking Control Of The Variable Stiffness Actuator Based On The Lever Mechanism

This paper is concerned with the design of a robust adaptive tracking control scheme for a class of variable stiffness actuators (VSAs) based on the lever mechanisms. For these VSAs based on the lever mechanisms, the AwAS‐II developed at Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) is chosen as the study object, and it is an enhanced version of the original realization AwAS (actuator with adjustable stiffness). Firstly, for the dynamic model of the AwAS‐II system in the presence of parametric uncertainties, unknown bounded friction torques, unknown bounded external disturbance and input saturation constraints, by using the coordinate transformations and the static state feedback linearization, the state space model of the AwAS‐II system with composite disturbances and input saturation constraints is transformed into an uncertain multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) linear system with lumped disturbances and input saturation constraints. Subsequently, a combination of the feedback linearization, disturbance observer, sliding mode control and adaptive input saturation compensation law is adopted for the design of the robust tracking controller that simultaneously regulates the position and stiffness of the AwAS‐II system. Under the proposed controller, the semi‐global uniformly ultimately bounded stability of the closed‐loop system has been proved via Lyapunov stability analysis. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness and the robustness of the proposed robust adaptive tracking control scheme.     

饱和输入下四旋翼无人机滑模轨迹跟踪控制

为解决四旋翼无人机在饱和输入下的轨迹跟踪控制问题,同时兼顾系统存在的参数不确定性和外部风力扰动影响,设计了一种改进的抗干扰自适应鲁棒滑模控制方法;基于六自由度架构,设计四旋翼无人机简化的系统模型,进而降低控制器设计的复杂程度;引入带有误差信号的滑模函数,设计带有误差信号的饱和补偿自适应控制律,同时增加鲁棒控制项,降低由于饱和输入问题带来的抖振影响,并减小参数不确定和外部风力扰动对系统稳定性的影响;系统模型与抗干扰自适应控制律相结合,形成了改进的抗干扰自适应鲁棒滑模控制策略,实现四旋翼无人机的位置轨迹和姿态轨迹的稳定跟踪;最后通过数值仿真与传统PD控制算法进行仿真比较,验证控制方法的有效性和优越性。     

Barrier function based finite-time tracking control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with input saturation

In this article, a novel robust finite-time tracking control scheme is proposed for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems subject to the model uncertainty, external disturbance, and input saturation. A barrier function based disturbance observer (BFDO) with finite-time convergence performance is developed to estimate the non-smooth nonlinear compound disturbance, which includes the uncertainty, disturbance of system and input saturation. In addition, an adaptive continuous nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller, based on the barrier function and the estimate of the BFDO is developed. The Lyapunov stability and finite-time convergence of the proposed control scheme are proved. The effectiveness and performance advantage of the proposed control scheme is demonstrated by numerical simulations and comparison with existing works.     

A robust constrained control approach for flexible air‐breathing hypersonic vehicles

This article investigates the robust adaptive control system design for the longitudinal dynamics of a flexible air‐breathing hypersonic vehicle (FAHV) subject to parametric uncertainties and control input constraints. A combination of back‐stepping and nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) is utilized for exploiting an adaptive output‐feedback controller to provide robust tracking of velocity and altitude reference trajectories in the presence of flexible effects and system uncertainties. The dynamic surface control is introduced to solve the problem of “explosion of terms.” A new NDO is developed to guarantee the proposed controller's disturbance attenuation ability and to performance robustness against uncertain aerodynamic coefficients. To deal with the problem of actuator saturation, a novel auxiliary system is exploited to compensate the desired control laws. The stability of the presented NDO and controller is analyzed. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented control strategy.     

Robust adaptive tracking control for a class of switched time-delay systems with application of vehicle roll dynamic control

The problems of stability and robust tracking control for a class of switched nonlinear systems with uncertain input and state delays are investigated in this study. In the presence of unknown functions and external disturbances, an adaptive fuzzy technique based on nonlinear disturbance observer is used to counteract the effects of external disturbances and approximate unknown functions. For this purpose, it is first assumed that a common Lyapunov function exists for the switched system, and then a new common Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional is built using the terms of the hypothetical common Lyapunov function. By employing this new function, the delay-dependent input-to-state stability (ISS) under an arbitrary switching signal is provided. The robust tracking control problem for this system is investigated next. Finally, to assure ISS and robust tracking performance, an adaptive control law is developed that ensures conditions of the aforementioned hypothetical common Lyapunov function. In addition, to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed strategy, the aforesaid method is applied to a vehicle roll dynamic as well as a mass-spring system.     

一种非线性多环递归自适应跟踪控制

针对控制输入有界的变参数广义高阶非线性系统跟踪控制问题,给出一种多环递归跟踪的鲁棒控制方法.通过分层引入虚拟跟踪器,将高阶系统分解为多个独立子系统;内环虚拟跟踪器使内环输出指数收敛于外环虚拟输入,最内环设计自适应控制器补偿参数摄动和外部干扰,并保证输出指数收敛于外环虚拟输入;多环递归跟踪实现系统输出精确跟踪期望输入,理论证明闭环系统的全局渐近收敛性.数值仿真验证了多环跟踪控制器的可行性和合理性.     

Adaptive dynamic surface control using disturbance observer for nonlinear systems with input saturation and output constraints

An adaptive dynamic surface control (DSC) approach using fuzzy approximation and nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) for uncertain nonlinear systems in the presence of input saturation, output constraint and unknown external disturbances is proposed in this paper. The issue of input saturation is addressed by introducing a lower bound assumption on the approximation function of saturation. The output constraint is handled by introducing an appropriate barried Lyapunov function. The nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) is employed to estimate the unknown unmatched disturbances. It is manifested that the ultimately bounded convergence of all the variables in the closed-loop system is guaranteed and the tracking error can be made farely small by tuning the design parameters. Finally, two simulation examples illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed approach.     

输入受限的多旋翼无人机轨迹跟踪鲁棒正定不变集设计

针对输入受限的多旋翼无人机轨迹跟踪问题设计了鲁棒正定不变集.考虑多旋翼无人机的非线性动力学模型、外部不确定干扰以及输入饱和约束等因素,首先设计带有干扰抵消项的非线性控制律以保证无人机轨迹跟踪的稳定性,进而基于线性矩阵不等式(LMIs)构造了鲁棒正定不变集.在所设计的控制律作用下,无人机轨迹跟踪误差一旦进入所构造的不变集则将始终处于该集合内,并最终趋于零.理论推导过程与仿真实验结果均验证了以上特性.     

Command filtered path tracking control of saturated ASVs based on time‐varying disturbance observer

This paper investigates the path‐tracking control problem for an autonomous surface vessel (ASV) with unknown time‐varying disturbances and input saturation. A robust nonlinear control law is proposed based on a disturbance observer and an auxiliary system in the context of command filtered control. The disturbance observer is constructed to estimate the unknown time‐varying disturbances, the auxiliary dynamic system is employed to handle input saturation, and the compensator based command filtered control technique makes the designed path‐tracking control law simple and easy to implement in practice. It is proved that the nonlinear control law can track the desired vessel's position and heading, while guaranteeing the uniform ultimate boundedness of all signals in the path‐tracking control system. Simulation results further demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.     

Automatic Train Operation Based on Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control

This paper presents an adaptive terminal sliding mode control(ATSMC) method for automatic train operation. The criterion for the design is keeping high-precision tracking with relatively less adjustment of the control input. The ATSMC structure is designed by considering the nonlinear characteristics of the dynamic model and the parametric uncertainties of the train operation in real time. A nonsingular terminal sliding mode control is employed to make the system quickly reach a stable state within a finite time, which makes the control input less adjust to guarantee the riding comfort. An adaptive mechanism is used to estimate controller parameters to get rid of the need of the prior knowledge about the bounds of system uncertainty. Simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller, which has robust performance to deal with the external disturbance and system parametric uncertainties. Thereby, the system guarantees the train operation to be accurate and comfortable.     

Robust adaptive fault-tolerant control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with multiple time delays

This study is concerned with the problem of robust adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with mismatching parameter uncertainties, external disturbances, multiple state time delays perturbations and actuator failures, which include loss of effectiveness, outage and stuck modes. A novel direct adaptive fuzzy tracking control scheme is developed to achieve the fault-tolerant control objective. First, by introducing a positive nonlinear control gain function, the effects of state time delays and actuator failures are effectively compensated. Then, a suitable fuzzy logic system (FLS), which is used to approximate the corresponding nonlinear function, is constructed to eliminate the influences on mismatched parameter uncertainty and external disturbance. Moreover, it is shown that all the closed-loop system signals are uniformly bounded and that the tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of the origin via Lyapunov–Krasovskii stability analysis. Finally, the proposed adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant tracking design approach is illustrated on a two stage chemical reactor system with delayed recycle streams.     

Adaptive Sliding-Mode Control of an Automotive Electronic Throttle in the Presence of Input Saturation Constraint

In modern vehicles, electronic throttle (ET) has been widely utilized to control the airflow into gasoline engine. To solve the control difficulties with an ET, such as strong nonlinearity, unknown model parameters and input saturation constraints, an adaptive sliding-mode tracking control strategy for an ET is presented. Compared with the existing control strategies for an ET, input saturation constraints and parameter uncertainties are adequately considered in the proposed control strategy. At first, the nonlinear dynamic model for control of an ET is described. According to the dynamical model, the nonlinear adaptive sliding-mode tracking control method is presented, where parameter adaptive laws and auxiliary design system are employed. Parameter adaptive law is given to estimate the unknown parameter with an ET. An auxiliary system is designed, and its state is utilized in the tracking control method to handle the input saturation. Stability proof and analysis of the adaptive sliding-mode control method is performed by using Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, the reliability and feasibility of the proposed control strategy are evaluated by computer simulation. Simulation research shows that the proposed sliding-mode control strategy can provide good control performance for an ET.      

输入受限四旋翼飞行器的模糊自适应动态面轨迹跟踪控制

针对输入受限条件下四旋翼飞行器的轨迹跟踪控制问题,考虑系统存在模型动态不确定和未知外界干扰的情况,提出一种模糊自适应动态面轨迹跟踪控制方法.该方法设计干扰观测器估计位置模型中复合扰动项,利用模糊系统逼近姿态模型中不确定项和外界干扰,并引入双曲正切函数和辅助系统处理输入受限问题,结合反演法和动态面技术设计轨迹跟踪控制器,以降低控制算法的复杂性,最后选取李雅普诺夫函数证明闭环系统所有信号一致最终有界.应用大疆M100飞行器模型进行仿真验证,结果表明所设计的控制器能够有效处理模型动态不确定和未知外界干扰问题,避免飞行器工作过程中因输入饱和导致执行器失效现象,精确地完成轨迹跟踪控制任务.     

Robust Finite-time Attitude Tracking Control of Rigid Spacecraft Under Actuator Saturation

This paper investigates the robust finite-time attitude tracking control problem for rigid spacecraft considering the modeling uncertainty, external disturbance and actuator saturation. An auxiliary system is proposed to directly compensate for the saturated control input. First, the basic controller is formulated based on the fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface (FNTSMS), the fast-TSM-type reaching law and the auxiliary system in the presence of upper bounded external disturbance. Then, when facing system uncertainty which consists of both modeling uncertainty and external disturbance and has upper bounded first derivative, the extended state observer (ESO) is associated with the first controller to improve the robustness of control system. Furthermore, to handle more general system uncertainty which is upper bounded by a polynomial function of the closed-loop system states, a continuous adaptive controller is designed to compensate for the total system uncertainty on line. The proposed controllers are able to deal with system uncertainty, input singularity and actuator saturation, while simultaneously providing fast finite-time convergence speed for the control system. And the problems of complex parameters selection process and repeated differentiations of nonlinear functions can be avoided. Rigorous stability analyses are given via the Lyapunov stability theory and digital simulations are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.     

Output feedback adaptive RISE control for uncertain nonlinear systems

In this article, committed to extending the robust integral of the sign of the error (RISE) feedback control to the working condition of output feedback, a novel output feedback controller with a continuously bounded control input which combines the adaptive control and integral robust feedback will be proposed for trajectory tracking of a family of nonlinear systems subject to modeling uncertainties. A novel adaptive state observer (ASO) with disturbance rejection performance is creatively constructed to derive real-time estimation of the unmeasured state signals. Moreover, a projection-type adaption law is integrated to handle parameter uncertainties and an integral robust term is employed to deal with external disturbances. It is shown that asymptotic estimation performance and meanwhile asymptotic tracking result can eventually be derived. Simulation validations are implemented to demonstrate the high tracking performance of the presented controller. Notably, the synthesized control algorithm can be readily extended to the Euler–Lagrange systems. Typically, it can be extended to practical electromechanical equipment such as three-dimensional vector forming robots to improve the real-time forming accuracy.     

未知时变惯量航天器自适应姿态跟踪容错控制

针对存在未知时变惯量不确定性、执行机构衰退故障和外部干扰力矩的非刚体航天器系统,研究了航天器自适应姿态跟踪容错控制问题,结合非线性鲁棒控制方法、自适应方法、容错控制理论和参数估计方法,提出了一种鲁棒自适应姿态跟踪容错控制器。所设计的控制器克服了执行器故障、惯量不确定性以及外界干扰对系统稳定性的影响,保证了航天器姿态及角速度能够跟踪上时变的期望状态,实现了跟踪误差系统最终一致有界稳定。最后通过数字仿真验证了所提方法的有效性,并且与已有方法进行了对比,说明了所提方法的优越性。     

Robust adaptive tracking control for a class of mechanical systems with unknown disturbances under actuator saturation

A robust adaptive tracking control scheme is presented for a class of multiple‐input and multiple‐output mechanical systems with unknown disturbances under actuator saturation. The unknown disturbances are expressed as the outputs of a linear exogenous system with unknown coefficient matrices. An adaptive disturbance observer is constructed for the online disturbance estimation. An actuator saturation compensator is introduced to attenuate the adverse effects of actuator saturation. The adaptive backstepping method is then applied to design the robust adaptive tracking control law. It is proved that the designed control law makes the system outputs track the desired trajectories and guarantees the global uniform ultimate stability of the closed‐loop control system. Simulations on a two‐link robotic manipulator verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

具有外部扰动的PMSM系统的无模型自适应预测控制

针对于一类具有强耦合、负载不确定性和外界干扰的永磁同步电机(PMSM)系统,本文研究了基于无模型自适应预测控制(MFAPC)问题,并提出了一种新颖的MFAPC方案来实现有外界扰动的PMSM系统的速度追踪任务.所提出控制方案的主要优势在于仅使用了被控系统的输入/输出数据,并且对外界干扰具有较强的鲁棒性.此外,还讨论了闭环系统跟踪误差的收敛性以及有界输入有界输出的稳定性.最后,通过与传统的PI控制方案、原型无模型自适应控制(MFAC)方案的仿真结果相比较,验证了所提出MFAPC方案的有效性和优越性.     

具有输入饱和的近空间飞行器鲁棒控制

针对近空间飞行器这一类存在外部扰动,输入饱和和参数不确定的多输入多输出线性系统,提出了一种基于干扰观测器的抗饱和鲁棒控制方案.将干扰观测器与抗饱和控制技术相结合,从而消除系统存在的未知外部扰动、输入饱和和不确定性对系统控制的影响.首先,设计干扰观测器对线性外部系统产生的未知扰动进行估计.然后根据干扰观测器输出,通过超前抗饱和方法设计抗饱和补偿器,并将其加入到鲁棒控制器的设计中,保证闭环系统存在输入饱和、未知外部扰动和参数不确定情况下的稳定性.为便于设计,干扰观测器、抗饱和补偿器和控制器设计矩阵均通过求解线性矩阵不等式得到.最后,将提出的鲁棒抗饱和控制方法应用于近空间飞行器,仿真结果验证了该控制方案的有效性.     

Approximation-based disturbance observer approach for adaptive tracking of uncertain pure-feedback nonlinear systems with unmatched disturbances

This paper presents an approximation-based nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) methodology for adaptive tracking of uncertain pure-feedback nonlinear systems with unmatched external disturbances. Compared with existing control results using NDO for nonlinear systems in lower-triangular form, the major contribution of this study is to develop an NDO-based control framework in the presence of non-affine nonlinearities and disturbances unmatched in the control input. An approximation-based NDO scheme is designed to attenuate the effect of compounded disturbance terms consisting of external disturbances, approximation errors and control coefficient nonlinearities. The function approximation technique using neural networks is employed to estimate the unknown nonlinearities derived from the recursive design procedure. Based on the designed NDO scheme, an adaptive dynamic surface control system is constructed to ensure that all signals of the closed-loop system are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded and the tracking error converges to a neighbourhood of the origin. Simulation examples including a mechanical system are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical result.