Adaptive discrete-time controller design with neural network for hypersonic flight vehicle via back-stepping

In this article, the adaptive neural controller in discrete time is investigated for the longitudinal dynamics of a generic hypersonic flight vehicle. The dynamics are decomposed into the altitude subsystem and the velocity subsystem. The altitude subsystem is transformed into the strict-feedback form from which the discrete-time model is derived by the first-order Taylor expansion. The virtual control is designed with nominal feedback and neural network (NN) approximation via back-stepping. Meanwhile, one adaptive NN controller is designed for the velocity subsystem. To avoid the circular construction problem in the practical control, the design of coefficients adopts the upper bound instead of the nominal value. Under the proposed controller, the semiglobal uniform ultimate boundedness stability is guaranteed. The square and step responses are presented in the simulation studies to show the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.     

高超声速飞行器的神经网络动态逆控制研究

针对通用的高超声速飞行器的纵向动力学设计一个神经网络动态逆补偿控制方法,并对其进行了分析;这种飞行器模型具有高度非线性、多变量、不稳定的特性,包括6个不确定参数;在4.5903km高度和15马赫的平衡巡航条件下的仿真研究,评价了飞行器对高度和空速的阶跃变化的响应;阶跃变化为速度30 m/s,高度40 m;通过仿真结果表明,采用神经网络补偿逆误差,弥补了非线性动态逆要求精确数学模型的缺点,而且可以简化动态逆控制律的设计,改善整个控制系统的性能。     

Neural adaptive appointed-time control for flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles: an event-triggered case

Neural Computing and Applications - This work investigates a neural adaptive appointed-time control for flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles subject to modeling nonlinearities, flexible...     

高超飞行器的再入非线性鲁棒控制

针对再入段高超飞行器非线性动力学模型存在不确定性和干扰,基于奇异摄动理论提出了鲁棒变结构+动态逆内外环解耦控制方法.为避免在线实时求逆,控制系统的外环基于简化的模型设计自适应滑模变结构控制律,通过反馈干扰观测器在线估计广义干扰量,实现角度的跟踪和闭环系统的稳定,抑止外来干扰.强耦合的姿态动力学内环采用动态逆跟踪角速度指...     

An approach to adaptive neural control of robot manipulators

An adaptive neural control scheme for mechanical manipulators is presented. The neural design has been developed basically following adaptive control design principles and taking into account a number of properties that adaptive schemes and neural controllers have in common. The control loop essentially consists of a neural network for learning the robot's inverse dynamics and online generation of the control signal. Some simulation results are provided to evaluate the design.     

Adaptive restricted trajectory tracking for a non-minimum phase hypersonic vehicle model

The design of a nonlinear robust controller for a non-minimum phase model of an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle is presented in this work. When flight-path angle is selected as a regulated output and the elevator is the only control surface available for the pitch dynamics, longitudinal models of the rigid-body dynamics of air-breathing hypersonic vehicles exhibit unstable zero-dynamics that prevent the applicability of standard inversion methods for control design. The approach proposed in this paper uses a combination of small-gain arguments and adaptive control techniques for the design of a state-feedback controller that achieves asymptotic tracking of a family of velocity and flight-path angle reference trajectories belonging to a given class of vehicle maneuvers, in spite of model uncertainties. The method reposes upon a suitable redefinition of the internal dynamics of a control-oriented model of the vehicle dynamics, and uses a time-scale separation between the controlled variables to manage the peaking phenomenon occurring in the system. Simulation results on a full nonlinear vehicle model that includes structural flexibility illustrate the effectiveness of the methodology.     

一个基于神经网络模型的鲁棒自适应控制算法

对于具有不确定因素的离散非线性动态系统,通过校正神经网络预报器的输出,运用加权预报控制性能指标和网络辨识器模型局部线性化的思想,提出了一个间接鲁棒自适应神经网络控制算法,仿真研究证实了该控制策略的鲁棒性和有效性.     

不确定机器人的自适应神经网络控制与学习

针对具有未知动态的电驱动机器人,研究其自适应神经网络控制与学习问题.首先,设计了稳定的自适应神经网络控制器,径向基函数(RBF)神经网络被用来逼近电驱动机器人的未知闭环系统动态,并根据李雅普诺夫稳定性理论推导了神经网络权值更新律.在对回归轨迹实现跟踪控制的过程中,闭环系统内部信号的部分持续激励(PE)条件得到满足.随着PE条件的满足,设计的自适应神经网络控制器被证明在稳定的跟踪控制过程中实现了电驱动机器人未知闭环系统动态的准确逼近.接着,使用学过的知识设计了新颖的学习控制器,实现了闭环系统稳定、改进了控制性能.最后,通过数字仿真验证了所提控制方法的正确性和有效性.     

Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Re-entry Attitude of Near Space Hypersonic Vehicle Based on Backstepping Design

Combining sliding mode control method with radial basis function neural network (RBFNN), this paper proposes a robust adaptive control scheme based on backstepping design for re-entry attitude tracking control of near space hypersonic vehicle (NSHV) in the presence of parameter variations and external disturbances. In the attitude angle loop, a robust adaptive virtual control law is designed by using the adaptive method to estimate the unknown upper bound of the compound uncertainties. In the angular velocity loop, an adaptive sliding mode control law is designed to suppress the effect of parameter variations and external disturbances. The main benefit of the sliding mode control is robustness to parameter variations and external disturbances. To further improve the control performance, RBFNNs are introduced to approximate the compound uncertainties in the attitude angle loop and angular velocity loop, respectively. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, the tracking errors are shown to be asymptotically stable. Simulation results show that the proposed control system attains a satisfied control performance and is robust against parameter variations and external disturbances.      

任意切换下高能随机系统的神经网络预设控制

针对一类不确定高能随机非线性系统,开展自适应神经网络backstepping控制研究,并保证在任意切换信号下的预设跟踪性能.该高能系统假定系统动态和任意切换信号未知.首先,利用预设性能控制,保证跟踪控制性能;其次,RBF神经网络用来克服未知系统动态,仅用到单一自适应更新参数,从而克服过参数问题;最后,基于公共的Lyapunov稳定性理论提出自适应神经网络控制策略,并减少了学习参数.最终结果表明所设计的公共控制器能保证所有闭环信号半全局最终一致有界,并能在任意切换下保证预设的跟踪性能.仿真结果进一步表明所提出方法的有效性.     

基于扰动观测器的机器人自适应神经网络跟踪控制研究

为解决机器人动力学模型未知问题并提升系统鲁棒性,本文基于扰动观测器,考虑动力学模型未知的情况,设计了一种自适应神经网络（Neural network,NN）跟踪控制器.首先分析了机器人运动学和动力学模型,针对模型已知的情况,提出了刚体机械臂通用模型跟踪控制策略;在考虑动力学模型未知的情况下,利用径向基函数（Radial basis function,RBF）神经网络设计基于全状态反馈的自适应神经网络跟踪控制器,并通过设计扰动观测器补偿系统中的未知扰动.利用李雅普诺夫理论证明所提出的控制策略可以使闭环系统误差信号半全局一致有界（Semi-globally uniformly bounded,SGUB）,并通过选择合适的增益参数可以将跟踪误差收敛到零域.仿真结果证明所提出算法的有效性并且所提出的控制器在Baxter机器人平台上得到了实验验证.     

Prescribed-performance fault-tolerant control for feedback linearisable systems with an aircraft application

This paper investigates fault-tolerant control (FTC) for feedback linearisable systems (FLSs) and its application to an aircraft. To ensure desired transient and steady-state behaviours of the tracking error under actuator faults, the dynamic effect caused by the actuator failures on the error dynamics of a transformed model is analysed, and three control strategies are designed. The first FTC strategy is proposed as a robust controller, which relies on the explicit information about several parameters of the actuator faults. To eliminate the need for these parameters and the input chattering phenomenon, the robust control law is later combined with the adaptive technique to generate the adaptive FTC law. Next, the adaptive control law is further improved to achieve the prescribed performance under more severe input disturbance. Finally, the proposed control laws are applied to an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle (AHV) subject to actuator failures, which confirms the effectiveness of the proposed strategies.     

Direct adaptive type-2 fuzzy neural network control for a generic hypersonic flight vehicle

A direct adaptive interval type-2 fuzzy neural network (IT2-FNN) controller is designed for the first time in hypersonic flight control. The generic hypersonic flight vehicle is a multi-input multi-output system whose longitudinal model is high-order, highly nonlinear, tight coupling and most of all includes big uncertainties. Interval type-2 fuzzy sets with Gaussian membership functions are used in antecedent and consequent parts of fuzzy rules. The IT2-FNN directly outputs elevator deflection and throttle setting which make the GHFV track the altitude command signal and meanwhile maintain its velocity. The parameter adaptive law of IT2-FNN is derived using backpropagation method. The deviation of the control signal from the nominal dynamic inversion control signal is used as the reference output signal of IT2-FNN. The tracking errors of velocity and altitude are used as inputs of IT2-FNN. Tracking differentiator is designed to form an arranged transition process (ATP) of the command signal as well as ATP’s high-order derivatives. Nonlinear state observer is designed to get the approximations of velocity, altitude as well as their high-order derivatives. Simulation results validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed controller especially under big uncertainties.     

一类非线性不确定系统的神经网络控制

针对一类非线性不确定系统,提出了一种自适 应神经网络控制方案．被控系统是部分已知的,其中系统已知的动态特性被用来设计保证标 称模型稳定的反馈控制器,而基于神经网络的动态补偿器则用于补偿系统的非线性不确定性 ,从而可以保证系统输出跟踪误差渐近收敛于0．     

Adaptive neural control and learning of affine nonlinear systems

This paper presents deterministic learning from adaptive neural network control of affine nonlinear systems with completely unknown system dynamics. Thanks to the learning capability of radial basis function, neural network (NN), stable adaptive NN controller is designed for the unknown affine nonlinear systems. The designed adaptive NN controller is rigorously shown that learning of the unknown closed-loop system dynamics can be achieved during the stable control process because partial persistent excitation condition of some internal signals in the closed-loop system is satisfied. Subsequently, neural learning controller using the knowledge obtained from deterministic learning is constructed to achieve closed-loop stability and improve control performance. Numerical simulation is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Neural networks-based adaptive control for a class of nonlinear bioprocesses

The paper studies the design and analysis of a neural adaptive control strategy for a class of square nonlinear bioprocesses with incompletely known and time-varying dynamics. In fact, an adaptive controller based on a dynamical neural network used as a model of the unknown plant is developed. The neural controller design is achieved by using an input–output feedback linearization technique. The adaptation laws of neural network weights are derived from a Lyapunov stability property of the closed-loop system. The convergence of the system tracking error to zero is guaranteed without the need of network weights convergence. The resulted control method is applied in a depollution control problem in the case of a wastewater treatment bioprocess, belonging to the square nonlinear class, for which kinetic dynamics are strongly nonlinear, time varying and not exactly known.     

Adaptive Neural Control of a Hypersonic Vehicle in Discrete Time

The article investigates the discrete-time controller for the longitudinal dynamics of the hypersonic flight vehicle with throttle setting constraint. Based on functional decomposition, the dynamics can be decomposed into the altitude subsystem and the velocity subsystem. Furthermore, the discrete model could be derived using the Euler expansion. For the velocity subsystem, the controller is proposed by estimating the system uncertainty and unknown control gain separately with neural networks. The auxiliary error signal is designed to compensate the effect of throttle setting constraint. For the altitude subsystem, the desired control input is approximated by neural network while the error feedback is synthesized for the design. The singularity problem is avoided. Stability analysis proves that the errors of all the signals in the system are uniformly ultimately bounded. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed controller.     

Nonlinear Robust Adaptive Deterministic Control for Flexible Hypersonic Vehicles in the Presence of Input Constraint

A nonlinear deterministic robust control scheme is developed for a flexible hypersonic vehicle with input saturation. Firstly, the model analysis is conducted for the hypersonic vehicle model via the input‐output linearized technique. Secondly, the sliding mode manifold is designed based on homogeneity theory. Then an adaptive high order sliding mode control scheme is proposed to achieve tracking for the step change in altitude and velocity for hypersonic vehicles where the uncertainty boundary is unknown. Furthermore, the control input constraint is investigated and another new adaptive law is proposed to estimate the uncertainties and to guarantee the stability of the system with input saturation. Finally, the simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Adaptive neural model-based decentralized predictive control

This paper considers the problem of developing an adaptive neural model-based decentralized predictive controller for general multivariable non-linear processes, where the equations governing the system are unknown. It derives a method for implementing a neural network model for unknown non-linear process dynamics for adaptive control. The performance of this controller is demonstrated and evaluated using a simulated chemical process: multivariable non-linear control of distillation column. The simulation results indicate that the proposed control strategies have good practical potential for adaptive control of multivariable non-linear processes.     

Control Surface Faults Neural Adaptive Compensation Control for Tailless Flying Wing Aircraft with Uncertainties

A neural adaptive compensation tracking control scheme considering the prescribed tracking performance bound is proposed for a flying wing aircraft with control surface faults, actuator saturation and uncertainties of aerodynamic parameters. Second-order command filters are introduced to avoid the saturation of the actuators, prescribed performance bound strategy is designed to characterize the convergence rate and maximum overshoot of the tracking error, uncertainties of aerodynamic parameters are approximated by online RBF neural networks, and control allocation law is designed to reduce the coupling of the flight dynamics. The closed-loop control law is given based on adaptive backstepping compensation control scheme, and the stability of the closed-loop system is proved by Lyapunov based design. Simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed neural adaptive compensation control scheme.