Adaptive tracking and disturbance rejection for uncertain nonlinear systems

This note addresses the problem of asymptotic tracking of arbitrary smooth bounded reference output signals, with simultaneous rejection of disturbances generated by an unknown linear exosystem. The problem is globally solved by output feedback for the class of nonlinear systems with output dependent nonlinearities and unknown linear parameters, under the assumptions that the system is minimum phase and the relative degree, an upper bound on the system order, the sign of the high-frequency gain are known.     

Global output-feedback tracking and load disturbance rejection for electrically-driven robotic manipulators with uncertain dynamics

In this paper the tracking problem for rigid robot manipulators with uncertain parameters and unmodelled torque actuators (DC motors) is addressed and solved by combined first/second-order sliding mode control methodology. The robot is electrically-driven through a pulse-width modulated actuator supply voltage. The proposed controller does not require the availability of the joint velocity, is insensitive to smooth load disturbances and guarantees a global domain of attraction. Computer simulations confirm the feasibility of the proposed approach.     

Robust tracking and disturbance rejection of bounded rate signals for uncertain/non-linear systems

We consider the problem of designing controllers for non-linear/uncertain systems to achieve tracking of a reference output signal in the presence of a disturbance input signal. When the exogenous signal (combined reference and disturbance) is constant, we require that the tracking error eventually go to zero. When the exogenous signal has a bounded rate, we require that the tracking error be eventually bounded with a bound which only depends on the bound on the magnitude of the rate of the exogenous signal. We also require that the state and control input are bounded when the exogenous signal is bounded. We propose controllers which have a classical PI (proportional integral) structure using state feedback. For linear systems and specific classes of non-linear/uncertain systems we present conditions whose satisfaction guarantees the existence of controllers which achieve the desired behaviour. Satisfaction of these conditions also yields the controller gain matrices.     

Global practical tracking via disturbance rejection control for uncertain nonlinear systems with quantized input and output

Dear editor, With the rapid development of digital control systems and other fields,quantized control has attracted increasing at-tention[1].Although considerab...     

不确定遥操作系统带干扰观测器的自适应控制

遥操作系统受到不同类型的不确定性因素影响, 这些不确定性会降低系统的透明性, 甚至会使得系统不稳定. 本文提出了一种带干扰观测器的自适应控制器(adaptive controller with disturbance observer, ACWDO) 用来处理遥操作系统中同时受到的外部干扰和内部动力学参数不确定性. 首先建立了受外部干扰的遥操作系统的非线性动力学模型; 然后分别对主机器人和从机器人设计非线性干扰观测器用来对外部干扰进行估计和补偿; 之后在干扰观测器基础之上分别对主机器人和从机器人设计自适应控制器用来处理内部不确定的动力学参数; 最后再将所设计的ACWDO融入到四通道遥操作系统结构中. 理论分析和仿真结果表明, 所设计的控制器可以取得良好的位置跟踪和力跟踪效果, 确保了遥操作系统的透明性.     

Event-triggered consensus control for uncertain multi-agent systems with external disturbance

This paper investigates the event-triggered consensus control for a general linear multi-agent system with model uncertainties and external disturbances. A consensus protocol is proposed using the local state information at asynchronous event-triggering time instants, where each agent determines when to perform sampling and control updating using the designed event-triggered condition. Then the robust consensus condition and the feedback matrix design method are derived to make the uncertain multi-agent system reach consensus with a desired disturbance attenuation ability. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the Zeno behaviour will never occur by giving the lower bound of inter-event time intervals. Finally, a simulation example is given to verify the obtained theoretical results, with the comparison simulation conducted by using the periodic triggering strategy.     

不确定性机器人系统自适应鲁棒迭代学习控制

利用Lyapunov方法, 提出了一种不确定性机器人系统的自适应鲁棒迭代学习控制策略, 整个系统在迭代域里是全局渐近稳定的. 所考虑的机器人系统同时包含了结构和非结构不确定性. 在设计时, 系统的不确定性被分解成可重复性和非重复性两部分, 并考虑了系统的标称模型. 在所提出的控制策略中, 自适应策略用来估算做法确定性的界, 界的修正与迭代学习控制量一样的迭代域得以实现的. 计算机仿真表明本文提出的控制策略是有效的.     

Adaptive synchronised tracking control for multiple robotic manipulators with uncertain kinematics and dynamics

In this study, a new adaptive synchronised tracking control approach is developed for the operation of multiple robotic manipulators in the presence of uncertain kinematics and dynamics. In terms of the system synchronisation and adaptive control, the proposed approach can stabilise position tracking of each robotic manipulator while coordinating its motion with the other robotic manipulators. On the other hand, the developed approach can cope with kinematic and dynamic uncertainties. The corresponding stability analysis is presented to lay a foundation for theoretical understanding of the underlying issues as well as an assurance for safely operating real systems. Illustrative examples are bench tested to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. In addition, to face the challenging issues, this study provides an exemplary showcase with effectively to integrate several cross boundary theoretical results to formulate an interdisciplinary solution.     

Adaptive fuzzy tracking control for a class of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems using disturbance observer

In this paper,the adaptive fuzzy tracking control is proposed for a class of multi-input and multioutput(MIMO)nonlinear systems in the presence of system uncertainties,unknown non-symmetric input saturation and external disturbances.Fuzzy logic systems(FLS)are used to approximate the system uncertainty of MIMO nonlinear systems.Then,the compound disturbance containing the approximation error and the timevarying external disturbance that cannot be directly measured are estimated via a disturbance observer.By appropriately choosing the gain matrix,the disturbance observer can approximate the compound disturbance well and the estimate error converges to a compact set.This control strategy is further extended to develop adaptive fuzzy tracking control for MIMO nonlinear systems by coping with practical issues in engineering applications,in particular unknown non-symmetric input saturation and control singularity.Within this setting,the disturbance observer technique is combined with the FLS approximation technique to compensate for the efects of unknown input saturation and control singularity.Lyapunov approach based analysis shows that semi-global uniform boundedness of the closed-loop signals is guaranteed under the proposed tracking control techniques.Numerical simulation results are presented to illustrate the efectiveness of the proposed tracking control schemes.     

Robust tracking control design for uncertain robotic systems with persistent bounded disturbances

In this study, a robust nonlinear L_∞‐gain tracking control design for uncertain robotic systems is proposed under persistent bounded disturbances. The design objective is that the peak of the tracking error in time domain must be as small as possible under persistent bounded disturbances. Since the nonlinear L_∞ ‐gain optimal tracking control cannot be solved directly, the nonlinear L_∞ ‐gain optimal tracking problem is transformed into a nonlinear L_∞ ‐gain tracking problem by given a prescribed disturbance attenuation level for the L_∞ ‐gain tracking performance. To guarantee that the L_∞ ‐gain tracking performance can be achieved for the uncertain robotic systems, a sliding‐mode scheme is introduced to eliminate the effect of the parameter uncertainties. By virtue of the skew‐symmetric property of the robotic systems, sufficient conditions are developed for solving the robust L_∞ ‐gain tracking control problems in terms of an algebraic equation instead of a differential equation. The proposed method is simple and the algebraic equation can be solved analytically. Therefore, the proposed robust L_∞ ‐gain tracking control scheme is suitable for practical control design of uncertain robotic systems. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Guaranteed-cost active disturbance rejection control for uncertain systems with an integral controller

Guaranteed-cost active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) for uncertain systems is investigated in this study. Firstly, an integral action is introduced in the framework of ADRC to measure and reduce the tracking error. Then, a robust stability condition is presented, and a quadratic cost function where the tracking error is appearing explicitly is used for ADRC performance assessment. The cost bound is formulated by linear matrix inequality and optimised to obtain controller parameters. Full-dimension extended state observer is used, and thus, the proposed strategy is applicable to an uncertain system that allows relative-degree varying or right-half-plane zero. Finally, the validity of the proposed method and its advantages is demonstrated through the simulations of comparative examples and experiments on a motor speed control system.     

负荷扰动互联电力系统模糊自适应输出跟踪与干扰抗御

风电、光伏等新型发电设备并入传统大电网后,使互联电力系统日益复杂,给电力系统建模和运行控制带来了新挑战.基于此问题,本文提出基于模糊自适应控制的互联电力系统输出跟踪与干扰抗御算法.首先利用模糊控制理论对系统进行建模,然后利用非线性输出调节思想解决带有扰动的跟踪问题.但模糊逼近不可避免的存在逼近误差,为减小逼近误差与外部扰动对于控制系统的影响,利用Backstepping法设计自适应输出调节控制器.最后,仿真结果验证了该算法有效,实现了系统输出跟踪与干扰抗御.     

Extended active observer for force estimation and disturbance rejection of robotic manipulators

The current control methods applied to robotic manipulators either require full state and force measurements, or use the state and force estimation in the absence of any kind of disturbance. As an alternative approach, a new adaptive motion control approach for robotic manipulators extending the existing active observer for simultaneous inertial parameters and force estimation is proposed. The scheme provides accurate force and full state estimation in the presence of robot inertial parameter variations and measurement noise, both subsequently used in the design of a controller. Since the proposed method relies mainly on the position of the plant, it significantly reduces the difficulty and cost of implementation. The velocity, parameter and force signals are estimated from the position. The approach is applied to a typical two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) robotic manipulator through computer simulation. The results are encouraging and demonstrate the noise rejection ability of the scheme.     

Adaptive consensus control for multiple Euler-Lagrange systems with external disturbance

International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems - This article is devoted to the adaptive consensus control for directed networks of Euler-Lagrange systems with both unknown parametric...     

Generalized projective synchronization of uncertain chaotic systems with external disturbance

This paper proposes the generalized projective synchronization (GPS) of uncertain chaotic systems with external disturbance via Gaussian radial basis adaptive sliding mode control (GRBASMC). A sliding surface is adopted to ensure the stability of the error dynamics in sliding mode control. In the neural sliding mode controller, a Gaussian radial basis function is utilized to online estimate the system dynamic function. The adaptation law of the control system is derived in the sense of Lyapunov function, thus the system can be guaranteed to be asymptotically stable.The proposed method allows us to arbitrarily adjust the desired scaling by controlling the slave system. It is not necessary to calculate the Lyapunov exponents and the eigen values of the Jacobian matrix, which makes it simple and convenient. Also, it is a systematic procedure for GPS of chaotic systems and it can be applied to a variety of chaotic systems no matter whether it contains external excitation or not. Note that it needs only one controller to realize GPS no matter how much dimensions the chaotic system contains and the controller is easy to be implemented.The proposed method is applied to three chaotic systems: Genesio system, Lur’e like system and Duffing system.     

非对称输入饱和下的非仿射不确定系统自抗扰反演控制

针对一类具有内部动态和外部扰动未知以及非对称输入饱和约束的非仿射系统,提出一种自抗扰反演控制方法.首先基于自抗扰控制思想,通过直接从非仿射项中提取线性控制项,将非仿射系统转化为仿射非线性形式.在此基础上, 在每一步反演控制器设计中,引入扩张状态观测器对系统总的不确定项进行估计,引入跟踪微分器解决虚拟导数的“计算膨胀”问题.在设计真实控制律时,利用双曲正切函数设计一种辅助补偿系统,用来处理输入饱和引起的控制量偏差.基于Lyapunov稳定性定理证明了闭环系统的所有信号有界且跟踪误差可渐近收敛到原点的任意小邻域内.仿真比较结果验证了所提出方法的有效性,体现了一定的工程应用价值.     

Analytical design of active disturbance rejection control for nonlinear uncertain systems with delay

For first-order nonlinear uncertain systems with delay, the analytical design of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) with matched time delay is rigorously studied. The conditions of stabilizing the closed-loop system are studied in the form of parameters’ explicit sets such that the tuning laws of ADRC can be directly obtained and intuitively demonstrated in engineering practice. The necessary and sufficient condition of the asymptotical stability for the closed-loop system in the case of linear time-invariant is explicitly given. The condition of stabilizing the closed-loop system with nonlinear uncertain dynamics is quantitatively presented. Moreover, the water tank experiment illustrates the proposed tuning laws.     

不确定非仿射系统的引入动态逆的自抗扰控制器设计

针对一类不确定非仿射严反馈非线性系统,提出一种引入动态逆的线性自抗扰控制器设计方法.首先,利用微分同胚映射将严反馈非线性系统变换为积分串联型系统,然后针对积分串联型系统设计线性自抗扰控制器.提出的线性自抗扰控制器将闭环系统划分为3个时间尺度,其中线性扩张状态观测器位于最快的时间尺度上,用来估计系统的状态和总和扰动,动态逆位于次快的时间尺度上用以求解非仿射情况下的控制律,系统动态位于最慢的时间尺度上.利用奇异摄动理论分析了闭环系统的稳定性和性能.提出的自抗扰控制设计方法同样适用于控制增益不确定的仿射非线性系统.仿真和实验结果验证了提出的线性自抗扰控制器的可行性.     

具有输入饱和的不确定非线性系统自适应渐近跟踪控制

将一类具有输入饱和的严格反馈单输入单输出非线性系统作为研究对象,解决其自适应渐近跟踪控制问题.与已有结果不同,所考虑的虚拟控制参数可以是未知且增益函数的上界信息也是未知的,这给控制器的设计带来了挑战.通过结合光滑函数及有界估计方法,设计一种新颖的自适应渐近跟踪控制策略;其次,通过引入Nassbaum函数解决由输入饱和不确定参数以及未知虚拟控制参数带来的影响;此外,通过利用未知增益的下界信息巧妙地构造一个特殊的李雅普诺夫函数并结合不等式技巧,可以消除对控制增益函数上界信息的需要,并保证系统的全局稳定性和跟踪性能;最后,通过实例仿真及对比仿真表明所提出自适应渐近跟踪控制算法的有效性.