Discrete time sliding mode control with application to induction motors

This work deals with a sliding mode control scheme for discrete time nonlinear systems. The control law synthesis problem is subdivided into a finite number of subproblems of lower complexity, which can be solved independently. The sliding mode controller is designed to force the system to track a desired reference and to eliminate unwanted disturbances, compensating at the same time matched and unmatched parameter variations. Then, an observer is designed to eliminate the need of the state in the controller implementation. This design technique is illustrated determining a dynamic discrete time controller for induction motors.     

Decentralized sliding mode control design using overlapping decompositions

This paper discusses overlapping decentralized sliding mode controller design for large-scale continuous-time systems. Design issues, like connective reachability of the sliding manifold and the stability of the sliding mode equations in the expanded and original state spaces are examined. Application of the results to automatic generation control is also discussed briefly.     

Trajectory tracking for an autonomous airship using fuzzy adaptive sliding mode control

We present a novel control approach for trajectory tracking of an autonomous airship.First,the dynamics model and the trajectory control problem of an airship are formulated.Second,the sliding mode control law is designed to track a time-varying reference trajectory.To achieve better control performance,fuzzy adaptive sliding mode control is proposed in which the control gains are tuned according to fuzzy rules,and an adaptation law is used to guarantee that the control gains can compensate for model uncertainties of the airship.The stability of the closed-loop control system is proven via the Lyapunov theorem.Finally,simulation results illustrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control scheme.     

Robust control of delay systems: a sliding mode control design via LMI

This paper considers the sliding mode control of uncertain systems with single or multiple, constant or time-varying state-delays, submitted to additive perturbations. The sliding surface is designed so to maximize the calculable set of admissible delays. The conditions for the existence of the sliding regime are studied by using Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals and Lyapunov-Razumikhin functions. LMIs are used for the optimization procedure. Two examples illustrate the proposed method.     

Sliding mode control of wind-induced vibrations using fuzzy sliding surface and gain adaptation

Although fuzzy/adaptive sliding mode control can reduce the chattering problem in structural vibration control applications, they require the equivalent control and the upper bounds of the system uncertainties. In this paper, we used fuzzy logic to approximate the standard sliding surface and designed a dead-zone adaptive law for tuning the switching gain of the sliding mode control. The stability of the proposed controller is established using Lyapunov stability theory. A six-storey building prototype equipped with an active mass damper has been used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller towards the wind-induced vibrations.     

Robust sliding mode control of uncertain nonlinear systems

A dynamic sliding mode controller design method is proposed for multiple input-output systems with additive uncertainties. A previous result on the stability of triangular systems is generalised to the case of uniform ultimate boundedness of controlled triangular systems. This is used to prove the stability of the overall closed-loop system. The uncertain system with appropriately chosen sliding mode control is shown to be ultimately bounded if the zero dynamics of the nominal system are uniformly asymptotically (exponentially) stable. The design method is demonstrated with two examples.     

Dynamic sliding mode control design using attracting ellipsoid method

A methodology for the design of sliding mode controllers for linear systems subjected to matched and unmatched perturbations is proposed. It is considered that the control signal is applied through a first-order low-pass filter. The technique is based on the existence of an attracting (invariant) ellipsoid such that the convergence to a quasi-minimal region of the origin using the suboptimal control signal is guaranteed. The design procedure is given in terms of the solution of a set of Matrix Inequalities. A benchmark example illustrating the design is given.     

基于滑模观测器的永磁同步电机变结构鲁棒控制

提出一种由一个变结构控制器和一个滑模观测器组成的控制系统,用于永磁同步电机的无传感器鲁棒控制.首先利用Lyapunov稳定性原理分析得到观测器的收敛条件及自适应率,并证明了其稳定性,然后以转速误差为参量建立滑模面,构造出变结构速度控制器,推导出自适应速度控制律,并得到速度控制的参考电流和参考电压.该方案的控制性能不依赖于电机参数和干扰变化,具有较强的鲁棒性.仿真结果验证了该方案的有效性与正确性.     

New approaching condition for sliding mode control design with Lipschitz switching surface

In this paper, we concern the approaching condition of sliding mode control (SMC) with a Lipschitz switching surface that may be nonsmooth. New criteria on the relation between phase trajectories and an arbitrary Lipschitz continuous surface are examined firstly. Filippov’s differential inclusion is adopted to describe the dynamics of trajectories of the closed-loop system with SMC. Compared with Filippov’s criteria for only smooth surface, new criteria are proposed by utilizing the cone conditions that allow the surface to be nonsmooth. This result also yields a new approaching condition of SMC design. Based on the new approaching condition, we develop the sliding mode controller for a class of nonlinear single-input single-output (SISO) systems, of which the switching surface is designed Lipschitz continuous for the nonsmooth sliding motion. Finally, we provide a numerical example to verify the new design method.     

Adaptive cruise control of a HEV using sliding mode control

This paper presents adaptive cruise control of a hybrid electric vehicle. First, the mathematical model of the vehicle is formulated. Next, a classical controller is applied to the vehicle model. Swarm optimisation is implemented for self parameter tuning of the controller. The model is simulated and the result of the response to a variable speed is analysed. The results reveal that the controller is not a powerful means to manage the rapid transformation of the desire set point. Accordingly, a sliding mode controller is developed next. The performance of this controller is compared with the classical controller.     

Robust online roll dynamics identification of a vehicle using sliding mode concepts

This paper proposes a robust observer concept for joint estimation of system states and model parameters related to the roll dynamics of a vehicle. Using sliding mode concepts introduces robustness to parametric uncertainties and also allows reconstruction of the latter. These model parameters are of interest for vehicle dynamics assessment and estimation of the roll angle. A novel classification concept exploits these parameter estimates for assessing the roll dynamics. An additional benefit of the proposed method is the minimal requirement of measurement equipment as it only relies on cost-efficient angular rate and acceleration sensors. Evaluation of the framework is performed in simulations and real-world using an experimental vehicle.     

Sliding mode control for Itô stochastic systems with Markovian switching

This paper deals with the problem of sliding mode control (SMC) for a class of nonlinear uncertain stochastic systems with Markovian switching. By introducing some specified matrices, the connections among the designed sliding surfaces corresponding to every mode are established. Furthermore, the present sliding mode controller including the transition rates of modes can cope with the effect of Markovian switching. By means of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) with equality constraint, sufficient conditions are derived such that the sliding motions on the specified sliding surfaces are stochastically stable with γ-disturbance attenuation level. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the applicability of the present method.     

An LTR-observer-based dynamic sliding mode control for chattering reduction

Two important approaches to alleviation of control chattering in sliding mode control are the boundary layer control (BLC) and the dynamic sliding mode control (DSMC). The DSMC is superior to the BLC since in DSMC chattering is alleviated without sacrificing the control accuracy. However, the design of DSMC is more challenging because its sliding variable contains an unknown system uncertainty. This paper proposes a robust two-dimensional LTR observer for estimation of the state-dependent uncertainty in the sliding variable. This paper also shows, via simulation examples, that the DSMC can better reduce chattering than the BLC especially in noisy environments.     

Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode power system stabilizer using Nussbaum gain

Power system stability is enhanced through a novel stabilizer developed around an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode approach which applies the Nussbaum gain to a nonlinear model of a single-machine infinite-bus （SMIB） and multi-machine power system stabilizer subjected to a three phase fault. The Nussbaum gain is used to avoid the positive sign constraint and the problem of controllability of the system. A comparative simulation study is presented to evaluate the achieved performance.     

Robust decoupled sliding mode control for active suspension systems with prescribed tracking performance

In this paper, a robust decoupled sliding mode control (RDSMC) is proposed for active suspension system (ASS) to balance the trade-off between ride comfort and road holding. The ASS is decoupled into two subsystems: a sprung-mass subsystem (regarding ride comfort) and an unsprung-mass subsystem (regarding road holding), which correspond to two prescribed performance tracking problems. Subsequently, an integrated control law is designed by introducing the unsprung-mass sliding surface into the control of the sprung-mass one. To reduce chattering and stabilize the subsystems, a prescribed-time extended disturbance observer (PT-EDO) is designed, achieving the time-varying switching gain RDSMC (TVSG-RDSMC). Numerical simulations imply that the proposed TVSG-RDSMC can effectively improve ride comfort and road holding with a significantly reduced chattering.     

A robust reinforcement learning using the concept of sliding mode control

In this article, we propose a new control method using reinforcement learning (RL) with the concept of sliding mode control (SMC). Some remarkable characteristics of the SMC method are good robustness and stability for deviations from control conditions. On the other hand, RL may be applicable to complex systems that are difficult to model. However, applying reinforcement learning to a real system has a serious problem, i.e., many trials are required for learning. We intend to develop a new control method with good characteristics for both these methods. To realize it, we employ the actor-critic method, a kind of RL, to unite with the SMC. We are able to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control method through a computer simulation of inverted pendulum control without the use of inverted pendulum dynamics. In particular, it is shown that the proposed method enables the RL to learn in fewer trials than the reinforcement learning method. This work was presented in part at the 13th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January 31–February 2, 2008     

Discrete-time output feedback sliding mode control for spatial control of a large PHWR

This paper presents a novel approach to design a sliding mode control using a new computationally efficient formulation of Multirate Output Feedback (MROF), that applies to models in a special form in which some of the states of the system are directly available as outputs. The computation of the remaining states of the system requires matrices of lower dimension and thus the method is less susceptible to ill-conditioning. The proposed method has been successfully applied to the spatial control problem of a large Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR), in which the outputs are the 14 zonal power levels. Also, the zonal power levels are selected as state variables along with other variables. Thereby, the PHWR model is perfectly suitable for the application of this new formulation. The non-linear model of PHWR including xenon and iodine dynamics is characterized by 70 state variables and 14 inputs and outputs each. Linear nodal model is obtained by linearizing the non-linear dynamic equations of the reactor about the full power operating point. The non-linear simulation results in representative transients produced by the proposed method are found to be superior to other methods.     

A new sliding function for discrete predictive sliding mode control of time delay systems

The control of time delay systems is still an open area for research. This paper proposes an enhanced model predictive discrete-time sliding mode control with a new sliding function for a linear system with state delay. Firstly, a new sliding function including a present value and a past value of the state, called dynamic surface, is designed by means of linear matrix inequalities （LMIs）. Then, using this dynamic function and the rolling optimization method in the predictive control strategy, a discrete predictive sliding mode controller is synthesized. This new strategy is proposed to eliminate the undesirable effect of the delay term in the closed loop system. Also, the designed control strategy is more robust, and has a chattering reduction property and a faster convergence of the system s state. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control.     

PD with sliding mode control for trajectory tracking of robotic system

Good tracking performance is very important for trajectory tracking control of robotic systems. In this paper, a new model-free control law, called PD with sliding mode control law or PD–SMC in short, is proposed for trajectory tracking control of multi-degree-of-freedom linear translational robotic systems. The new control law takes the advantages of the simplicity and easy design of PD control and the robustness of SMC to model uncertainty and parameter fluctuation, and avoid the requirements for known knowledge of the system dynamics associated with SMC. The proposed control has the features of linear control provided by PD control and nonlinear control contributed by SMC. In the proposed PD–SMC, PD control is used to stabilize the controlled system, while SMC is used to compensate the disturbance and uncertainty and reduce tracking errors dramatically. The stability analysis is conducted for the proposed PD–SMC law, and some guidelines for the selection of control parameters for PD–SMC are provided. Simulation results prove the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed PD–SMC. It is also shown that PD–SMC can achieve very good tracking performances compared to PD control under the uncertainties and varying load conditions.     

Robust stabilization of the current profile in tokamak plasmas using sliding mode approach in infinite dimension

This paper deals with the robust stabilization of the spatial distribution of tokamak plasmas current profile using a sliding mode feedback control approach. The control design is based on the 1D resistive diffusion equation of the magnetic flux that governs the plasma current profile evolution. The feedback control law is derived in the infinite dimensional setting without spatial discretization. Numerical simulations are provided and the tuning of the controller parameters that would reject uncertain perturbations is discussed. Closed loop simulations performed on realistic test cases using a physics based tokamak integrated simulator confirm the relevance of the proposed control algorithm in view of practical implementation.