Output feedback relay control in the second‐order sliding mode context with application to an electropneumatic system

In this paper, a new second‐order sliding mode output feedback control law is proposed. It amounts to approach the dynamic performance of the twisting algorithm, but the main advantage of this new control method is that it requires only the information of the sliding variable, and not its derivative. A gain adaptation law is also developed for this new control law. Then this control strategy is applied to the position control of an electropneumatic system, and its performance is compared with other two very recent adaptive second‐order sliding mode control laws. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On a new adaptive sliding mode control for MIMO nonlinear systems with uncertainties of unknown bounds

This paper proposes a new approach of adaptive sliding mode controller designs for multiple‐input multiple‐output nonlinear systems with uncertainties of unknown bounds and limited available inputs. The goal is to obtain robust, smooth, and fast transient performance for real sliding mode control so that the phenomena of the slow response and the gain overestimation in most adaptive sliding mode controller designs can be greatly improved. We introduce an Integral/Exponential adaptation law with boundary‐layer targeting the reduction of the chatter levels of the sliding mode by significantly reducing the gain overestimation while simultaneously speeding up the system response to the uncertainties. The gain is further reduced when the system state is in the boundary layer. The simulation and experimental results demonstrate the proposed design. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On adaptive sliding mode control without switching gain overestimation

This paper presents some further results on adaptive sliding mode control (ASMC) for a class of nonlinear systems with bounded uncertain parameters. Given a large initial tracking error, current ASMC design generally produces an unnecessarily large switching gain, consequently leading to a serious chattering problem or a large‐amplitude control jump for the continuous counterpart. To solve such an overadaptation problem, the switching gain adaptation mechanism is first analyzed in this paper, and the adaptation induced by the initial tracking error is suggested to be removed. Then, by exploiting the global sliding mode feature of time‐varying sliding mode control and integral sliding mode control, we present two effective methodologies for ASMC design. The proposed ASMC algorithms ensure that there is no overestimation of the switching gain and the system response is not slowed down when a small switching gain is generated. The validity of the proposed methods is verified by both theoretical analysis and simulation results. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Reduced‐order design of high‐order sliding mode control system

To design an rth (r>2) order sliding mode control system, a sliding variable and its derivatives of up to (r ? 1) are in general required for the control implementation. This paper proposes a reduced‐order design algorithm using only the sliding variable and its derivatives of up to (r ? 2) as the extension of the second‐order asymptotic sliding mode control. For a linear time‐invariant continuous‐time system with disturbances, it is found that a high‐order sliding mode can be reached locally and asymptotically by a reduced‐order sliding mode control law if the sum of the system poles is less than the sum of the system zeros. The robust stability of the reduced‐order high‐order sliding mode control system, including the convergence to the high‐order sliding mode and the convergence to the origin is proved by two Lyapunov functions. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

AN ASYMPTOTIC SECOND‐ORDER SMOOTH SLIDING MODE CONTROL

Presented is a method of smooth sliding mode control design to provide for an asymptotic second‐order sliding mode on the selected sliding surface. The control law is a nonlinear dynamic feedback that in absence of unknown disturbances provides for an asymptotic second‐order sliding mode. Application of the second‐order disturbance observer in a combination with the proposed continuous control law practically gives the second‐order sliding accuracy in presence of unknown disturbances and discrete‐time control update. The piecewise constant control feedback is “smooth” in the sense that its derivative numerically taken at sampling rate does not contain high frequency components. A numerical example is presented.     

Passivity‐based sliding mode controller/observer for second‐order nonlinear systems

A passivity‐based sliding mode control for a class of second‐order nonlinear systems with matched disturbances is proposed in this paper. Firstly, a nonlinear sliding surface is designed using feedback passification, in which the passivity is employed to guarantee the closed‐loop system's stability. The passivity‐based controller comprising a discontinuous term guarantees globally asymptotical convergence to the sliding surface. A sliding mode‐based control law that satisfies the reaching and sliding condition is also developed. Moreover, the passivity‐based sliding mode observer is also developed to effectively estimate the system states. Compared with conventional sliding mode control, the proposed control scheme has a shorter reaching time; and hence, the system performance is less affected by disturbances, thus eliminating the need to increase the control input gain. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.     

TORA系统基于自调节滑模干扰补偿器的解耦滑模控制

针对欠驱动TORA系统,提出一种基于自调节滑模干扰补偿器的解耦滑模控制方法。所提出的控制方法无需系统不确定性上界的先验信息,对于系统不确定性具有良好的适应性。该控制方法包括设计一种自调节滑模干扰补偿器和一种新型的双幂次趋近律,所设计的自调节滑模干扰补偿器能够利用切换增益自适应算法准确逼近上界未知的系统不确定性,所提出的新型双幂次趋近律能够保证系统状态的快速趋近并抑制控制器的高频抖动。采用Lyapunov稳定性理论证明闭环控制系统的稳定性,并通过数值仿真实验验证所提出的控制方法的有效性。     

Optimal discrete higher‐order sliding mode control of uncertain LTI systems with partial state information

The concept of discrete higher‐order sliding mode has received increased attention in the recent literature. This paper presents an optimal discrete higher‐order sliding mode control for an uncertain discrete LTI system using partial state information, which has been missing in literature. A new technique is proposed to design an optimal time‐varying higher‐order sliding surface and control input through the minimization of a quadratic performance index. Moreover, disturbance estimation technique is utilized to modify the control algorithm to reduce the width of the discrete higher‐order sliding mode band. The proposed algorithm is experimentally validated on a rectilinear plant. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

High‐order sliding mode control design based on adaptive terminal sliding mode

High‐order sliding mode control techniques are proposed for uncertain nonlinear SISO systems with bounded uncertainties based on two different terminal sliding mode approaches. The tracking error of the output converges to zero in finite time by designing a terminal sliding mode controller. In addition, the adaptive control method is employed to identify bounded uncertainties for eliminating the requirement of boundaries needed in the conventional design. The controllers are derived using Lyapunov theory, so the stability of the closed‐loop system is guaranteed. In the first technique, the developed procedure removes the reaching phase of sliding mode and realizes global robustness. The proposed algorithms ensure establishment of high‐order sliding mode. An illustrative example of a car control demonstrates effectiveness of the presented designs. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Decentralized Observer Design for a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Large Scale Systems with Lumped Perturbations

Many valuable properties of the state feedback method can not be applied to some class of control systems while some of the system states cannot be measured directly. An attractive alternative approach is to make good use of a state observer. In this paper, a new decentralized sliding mode observer (DSMO) is proposed for a class of nonlinear uncertain large‐scale systems (LSS) with lumped perturbations based on the sliding mode control (SMC) theory. Our main result presented here is that we introduce a new switching term to the traditional LSS observer design for a class of large‐scale system to generate a new decentralized sliding mode observer. The generalized matrix inverse concept is adopted to avoid using the un‐measurable state and the global reaching condition of the sliding mode for each error subsystem is guaranteed. The stability of each equivalent error subsystem is verified based on the strictly positive real concept. It also shows that the investigated uncertain large‐scale systems still possesses the property of insensitivity to the lumped perturbations as does the traditional linear system. Moreover, the state transformation approach is no longer needed as there is no longer concern about the problems of finding a suitable transformation or indirect estimated states, since the proposed DSMO is not based on the transformed system model. Finally, a numerical example with a series of computer simulations is given to demonstrate the validity of the proposed decentralized sliding mode observer.     

Vector control for induction motor drives based on adaptive variable structure control algorithm

This paper presents a new adaptive robust control for induction motor drives. The proposed control scheme is based on the so‐called field oriented control theory that allows to control the induction motor like a separately excited direct current motor drive, where the field flux (produced by the field current) and the armature flux (produced by the armature current) are decoupled. The robust control law is based on the sliding mode control theory, but unlike the traditional sliding mode control schemes, the proposed design incorporates an adaptive switching gain that avoids the need of calculating an upper limit of the system uncertainties. Moreover the proposed control law is smoothed out in order to avoid the high control activity inherent to the switching control laws. The resulting closed loop system is proven to be stable using the Lyapunov stability theory. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Robust Wind Speed Estimation and Control of Variable Speed Wind Turbines

In this work, a robust control scheme for variable speed wind turbine system that incorporates a doubly feed induction generator is described. The sliding mode controller is designed in order to track the optimum wind turbine speed value that produces the maximum power extraction for different wind speed values. A robust sliding mode observer for the aerodynamic torque is also proposed in order to avoid the wind speed sensors in the control scheme. The controller uses the estimated aerodynamic torque in order to calculate the reference value for the wind turbine speed. Another sliding mode control is also proposed in order to maintain the dc‐link voltage constant regardless of the direction of the rotor power flow. The stability analysis of the proposed controller under disturbances and parameter uncertainties is provided using the Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, the simulation results show that the proposed control scheme provides a high‐performance turbine speed control, in order to obtain the maximum wind power generation, and a high‐performance dc‐link regulation in the presence of system uncertainties.     

Multivariable extension of global finite‐time HOSM based differentiator for output‐feedback unit vector and smooth binary control

In this paper, we propose a unit vector control law by output feedback to solve the problem of global exact output tracking for a class of multivariable uncertain plants with nonlinear disturbances. In order to face the nonuniform arbitrary relative degree obstacle, we extend our earlier estimation scheme based on global finite‐time differentiators using dynamic gains to a multivariable architecture. A diagonally stable condition over the system high‐frequency gain (HFG) matrix has to be assumed. Preserving the simplicity of its mono variable framework, variable gain super‐twisting algorithm (STA) is employed to obtain the robust and exact multivariable differentiator. Moreover, state‐norm observers for the unmeasured state variables are constructed to upper bound the disturbances as well as to update the differentiator gains, being both state dependent. Uniform global exponential stability and ultimate exact tracking are proved. As an alternative to chattering alleviation, we appeal to the Emelyanov's concept of binary control in order to obtain a continuous control signal replacing the unit vector function in the controller by a high‐gain gradient adaptive law with parameter projection. As shown in the existing literature for mono variable systems, the proposed multiparameter binary‐adaptive formulation tends to the unit vector control as the adaptation gain increases to infinity, also smoothing the transition from adaptive to sliding mode control. A numerical example is portrayed to illustrate the potentialities of the developed multivariable techniques.     

Continuous Finite‐Time Sliding Mode Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems with Applications to DC‐DC Buck Converters

This paper investigates the continuous finite‐time control problem of high‐order uncertain nonlinear systems with mismatched disturbances through the terminal sliding mode control method. By constructing a novel dynamic terminal sliding manifold based on the disturbance estimations of high‐order sliding mode observers, a continuous finite‐time terminal sliding mode control method is developed to counteract mismatched disturbances. To avoid discontinuous control action, the switching terms of a dynamic terminal sliding manifold are designed to appear only in the derivative term of the control variable. To validate its effectiveness, the proposed control method is applied to a DC‐DC buck converter system. The experimental results show the proposed method exhibits better control performance than a chattering free controller, such as mismatched disturbances rejection and smaller steady‐state fluctuations.     

Chattering‐free sliding mode control for a class of nonlinear mechanical systems

Second‐order sliding mode control (2‐smc) and dynamic sliding mode control (dsmc) eliminate the disturbing characteristic of chattering in static sliding mode control under the assumption that the derivative of the sliding surface is available or complex inequalities at the acceleration level can be constructed. In this paper, passivity‐based adaptive and non‐adaptive chattering‐free sliding mode controllers are proposed assuming that the upper bound of the norm of the derivative of the sliding surface is available, a weaker and easy to implement assumption in comparison to those of 2‐smc and dsmc. The closed‐loop system accounts explicitly for the invariance condition without reaching phase, and therefore for a desired transient response with global exponential convergence of tracking errors. Preliminary experiments are presented. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive sensorless robust control of AC drives based on sliding mode control theory

This paper focuses in the design of a new adaptive sensorless robust control to improve the trajectory tracking performance of induction motors. The proposed design employs the so‐called vector (or field oriented) control theory for the induction motor drives, being the designed control law based on an integral sliding‐mode algorithm that overcomes the system uncertainties. This sliding‐mode control law incorporates an adaptive switching gain in order to avoid the need of calculating an upper limit for the system uncertainties. The proposed design also includes a new method in order to estimate the rotor speed. In this method, the rotor speed estimation error is presented as a first‐order simple function based on the difference between the real stator currents and the estimated stator currents. The stability analysis of the proposed controller under parameter uncertainties and load disturbances is provided using the Lyapunov stability theory. The simulated results show, on the one hand that the proposed controller with the proposed rotor speed estimator provides high‐performance dynamic characteristics, and on the other hand that this scheme is robust with respect to plant parameter variations and external load disturbances. Finally, experimental results show the performance of the proposed control scheme. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive gains to super‐twisting technique for sliding mode design

This paper studies the super‐twisting algorithm (STA) for adaptive sliding mode design. The proposed method tunes the two gains of STA on line simultaneously such that a second order sliding mode can take place with small rectifying gains. The perturbation magnitude is obtained exactly by employing a third‐order sliding mode observer in opposition to the conventional approximations by using a first order low pass filter. While driving the sliding variable to the sliding mode surface, one gain of the STA automatically converges to an adjacent area of the perturbation magnitude in finite time. The other gain is adjusted by the above gain to guarantee the robustness of the STA. This method requires only one parameter to be adjusted. The adjustment is straightforward because it just keeps increasing until it fulfills the convergence constraints. For large values of the parameter, chattering in the update law of the two gains is avoided by employing a geometry based backward Euler integration method. The usefulness is illustrated by an example of designing an equivalent control based sliding mode control (ECBC‐SMC) with the proposed adaptive STA for a perturbed LTI system.     

Full‐Order Sliding‐Mode Control of Rigid Robotic Manipulators

This paper proposes a full‐order sliding‐mode control for rigid robotic manipulators. The output signals of the proposed controller are continuous. Therefore, the controller can be directly applied in practice. A time‐varying gain is constructed to regulate the gain of the signum function in the sliding‐mode control so as to avoid the overestimation of the upper‐bounds of the uncertainties in the systems and reduce the waste of the control power. The chattering is attenuated by using a novel full‐order sliding manifold and establishing a novel ideal sliding motion. The proposed method is robust to the load disturbance and unmodeled parameters, especially to the unknown portion in the control matrix. Simulation results validate the proposed methods.     

Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control for Active Suspension System with Proportional Differential Sliding Mode Observer

In this paper, a generalized augmented transformation is considered for the quarter active suspension system with uncertainties. Specifically, the model uncertainties are converted to the augmented states and a new proportion differential sliding mode observer is used to estimate state variables and model uncertainties. A differential geometric method is applied to linearize the nonlinear suspension model. In order to weaken the vibration effect of sliding mode control force and reduce energy consumption, a fuzzy sliding mode controller is designed for the active suspension system and the fuzzy controller is applied to adjust switching control gain according to the reaching condition of sliding mode surface. The simulations are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of this proposed observer and control strategy.