High precision tracking control of a servo gantry with dynamic friction compensation

This paper is concerned with the tracking control problem of a voice coil motor (VCM) actuated servo gantry system. By utilizing an adaptive control technique combined with a sliding mode approach, an adaptive sliding mode control (ASMC) law with friction compensation scheme is proposed in presence of both frictions and external disturbances. Based on the LuGre dynamic friction model, a dual-observer structure is used to estimate the unmeasurable friction state, and an adaptive control law is synthesized to effectively handle the unknown friction model parameters as well as the bound of the disturbances. Moreover, the proposed control law is also implemented on a VCM servo gantry system for motion tracking. Simulations and experimental results demonstrate good tracking performance, which outperform traditional control approaches.     

Adaptive Robust Tracking Control of Pressure Trajectory Based on Kalman Filter

When adaptive robust control(ARC) strategy based on backstepping design is applied in pneumatic servo control, accurate pressure tracking in motion is especially necessary for both force and position trajectories tracking of rodless pneumatic cylinders, and therefore an adaptive robust pressure controller is developed in this paper to improve the tracking accuracy of pressure trajectory in the chamber when the pneumatic cylinder is moving. In the proposed adaptive robust pressure controller, off-line fitting of the orifice area and on-line parameter estimation of the flow coefficient are utilized to have improved model compensation, and meanwhile robust feedback and Kalman filter are used to have strong robustness against uncertain nonlinearities, parameter fluctuations and noise. Research results demonstrate that the adaptive robust pressure controller could not only track various pressure trajectories accurately even when the pneumatic cylinder is moving, but also obtain very smooth control input, which indicates the effectiveness of adaptive model compensation. Especially when a step pressure trajectory is tracked under the condition of the movement of a rodless pneumatic cylinder, maximum tracking error of ARC is 4.46 kPa and average tracking error is 0.99 kPa, and steady-state error of ARC could achieve 0.84 kPa, which is very close to the measurement accuracy of pressure transducer.     

Robust adaptive integral backstepping control for opto-electronic tracking system based on modified LuGre friction model

This paper presents a robust adaptive integral backstepping control strategy with friction compensation for realizing accurate and stable control of opto-electronic tracking system in the presence of nonlinear friction and external disturbance. With the help of integral control term to decrease the steady-state error of the system and combining robust adaptive control approach with the backstepping design method, a novel control method is constructed. Nonlinear modified LuGre observer is designed to estimate friction behavior. Robust adaptive integral backstepping control strategy is developed to compensate the changes in friction behavior and external disturbance of the servo system. The stability of the opto-electronic tracking system is proved by Lyapunov criterion. The performance of robust adaptive integral backstepping controller is verified by the opto-electronic tracking system with modified LuGre model in simulation and practical experiments. Compared to the adaptive integral backstepping sliding mode control method, the root mean square of angle error is reduced by 26.6% when the proposed control method is used. The experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed strategy.     

气动肌肉并联关节的位姿轨迹跟踪控制

针对多输入多输出的气动肌肉并联关节,建立包含任务空间负载动态方程、容腔压力动态方程和高速开关阀平均流量方程的多阶动态系统数学模型。为保证气动肌肉并联关节系统良好动态特性的同时具有高精度的位姿轨迹跟踪,采用基于非连续投影算法的自适应鲁棒控制策略。该策略通过自适应参数估计来消除因气动肌肉并联关节系统动态数学模型的参数未知而引起的较大参数不确定,通过鲁棒反馈来消除因气动肌肉的伸缩力模型误差、摩擦力时变和关节系统的不可知干扰等引起的严重非线性不确定,且控制器基于反推设计,对多输入多输出的多阶耦合动态系统具有很好的适用性。试验结果表明：所研究的气动肌肉并联关节阶跃响应的静态误差小于0.09°,连续轨迹跟踪的标准误差小于0.15°,且具有较强的自适应性和鲁棒性。     

含磁滞补偿的电液伺服系统预设性能跟踪控制

针对电液伺服系统普遍存在的参数不确定性、不确定非线性(磁滞、摩擦、外干扰等),提出一种基于自适应鲁棒控制的含磁滞补偿的预设性能跟踪控制策略。以阀控单出杆液压缸位置伺服系统为例,首先建立了含磁滞非线性的系统数学模型,然后通过定义预设性能函数,实现了对跟踪误差收敛速率、最大超调量和稳态精度的预先规划,基于规划后的转换误差设计了自适应鲁棒控制器,并提高了稳态和瞬态跟踪性能。仿真对比结果表明：该控制策略可以减小磁滞对系统跟踪精度的影响,提高跟踪误差的收敛速度,减小最大超调量,最终实现优良的跟踪性能。     

基于LuGre模型的自适应摩擦补偿

为提高开放式伺服系统的动态性能,使其具有良好的适应能力,提出一种基于LuGre模型的自适应摩擦补偿方法.建立开放式伺服系统的动力学模型,并通过LuGre模型来描述系统的摩擦特性.考虑到摩擦模型的参数会随系统变化而发生改变,采用Backstepping方法设计自适应摩擦补偿控制器,并采用Lyapunov定理证明系统的全局渐进稳定性.通过可编程多轴控制器(Programmable multi-axis controller,PMAC)编写伺服算法实现该自适应摩擦补偿方案,并通过试验验证该方案的有效性.试验结果表明:与传统的速度加速前馈补偿相比,该自适应摩擦补偿方案在正弦运动作为输入信号时,其跟踪误差由±40 μn降低到±7 μm.采用该补偿方案能有效地抑制摩擦干扰对伺服系统的不利影响,为提高伺服系统的动态跟踪性能奠定基础.     

Direct adaptive robust tracking control for 6 DOF industrial robot with enhanced accuracy

A direct adaptive robust tracking control is proposed for trajectory tracking of 6 DOF industrial robot in the presence of parametric uncertainties, external disturbances and uncertain nonlinearities. The controller is designed based on the dynamic characteristics in the working space of the end-effector of the 6 DOF robot. The controller includes robust control term and model compensation term that is developed directly based on the input reference or desired motion trajectory. A projection-type parametric adaptation law is also designed to compensate for parametric estimation errors for the adaptive robust control. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed direct adaptive robust control law and the associated projection-type parametric adaptation law have been comparatively evaluated based on two 6 DOF industrial robots. The test results demonstrate that the proposed control can be employed to better maintain the desired trajectory tracking even in the presence of large parametric uncertainties and external disturbances as compared with PD controller and nonlinear controller. The parametric estimates also eventually converge to the real values along with the convergence of tracking errors, which further validate the effectiveness of the proposed parametric adaption law.     

Adaptive second-order fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode control for robotic manipulators

This paper presents an adaptive chattering-free sliding mode controller for trajectory tracking of robotic manipulators in the presence of external disturbances and inertia uncertainties. To achieve fast convergence and desirable tracking precision, a second-order fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode (SOFNTSM) controller is designed to guarantee system performance and robust stability. Chattering is eliminated using continuous control law due to high-frequency switching terms contained in the first derivative of actual control signals. Meanwhile, uncertainties are compensated by introducing the adaptive technique, whose prior knowledge about upper bound is not required. Finally, simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

A novel adaptive sliding mode control with application to MEMS gyroscope

This paper presents a new adaptive sliding mode controller for MEMS gyroscope; an adaptive tracking controller with a proportional and integral sliding surface is proposed. The adaptive sliding mode control algorithm can estimate the angular velocity and the damping and stiffness coefficients in real time. A proportional and integral sliding surface, instead of a conventional sliding surface is adopted. An adaptive sliding mode controller that incorporates both matched and unmatched uncertainties and disturbances is derived and the stability of the closed-loop system is established. The numerical simulation is presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme. It is shown that the proposed adaptive sliding mode control scheme offers several advantages such as the consistent estimation of gyroscope parameters including angular velocity and large robustness to parameter variations and external disturbances.     

Sliding mode control with PID sliding surface and experimental application to an electromechanical plant

In this study, a sliding mode control system with a proportional+integral+derivative (PID) sliding surface is adopted to control the speed of an electromechanical plant. A robust sliding mode controller is derived so that the actual trajectory tracks the desired trajectory despite uncertainty, nonlinear dynamics, and external disturbances. The proposed sliding mode controller is chosen to ensure the stability of overall dynamics during the reaching phase and sliding phase. The stability of the system is guaranteed in the sense of the Lyapunov stability theorem. The chattering problem is overcome using a hyperbolic function for the sliding surface. Experimental results that are compared with the results of conventional PID verify that the proposed sliding mode controller can achieve favorable tracking performance, and it is robust with regard to uncertainties and disturbances.     

基于反演设计的机械臂非奇异终端神经滑模控制

针对具有建模误差和不确定干扰的多关节机械臂的轨迹跟踪问题,设计反演非奇异终端神经滑模控制。该方案是采用能有限时间收敛的非奇异终端滑模面,根据滑模控制原理和反演方法设计反演滑模控制器;对于反演滑模控制系统中由于建模误差和不确定干扰造成的不确定因素的上界,设计径向基(Radial basis function, RBF)神经网络自适应律,在线估计不确定因素的上界;利用李亚普诺夫定理证明了系统的稳定性。仿真结果表明,该方法具有良好的轨迹跟踪性能,提高对于建模误差和不确定干扰等因素的鲁棒性,削弱了抖动。     

Adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode control for the tracking problem of uncertain dynamical systems

In this paper, robust and adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode (NFTSM) control schemes for the trajectory tracking problem are proposed with known or unknown upper bound of the system uncertainty and external disturbances. The developed controllers take the advantage of the NFTSM theory to ensure fast convergence rate, singularity avoidance, and robustness against uncertainties and external disturbances. First, a robust NFTSM controller is proposed which guarantees that sliding surface and equilibrium point can be reached in a short finite-time from any initial state. Then, in order to cope with the unknown upper bound of the system uncertainty which may be occurring in practical applications, a new adaptive NFTSM algorithm is developed. One feature of the proposed control law is their adaptation techniques where the prior knowledge of parameters uncertainty and disturbances is not needed. However, the adaptive tuning law can estimate the upper bound of these uncertainties using only position and velocity measurements. Moreover, the proposed controller eliminates the chattering effect without losing the robustness property and the precision. Stability analysis is performed using the Lyapunov stability theory, and simulation studies are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the developed control schemes.     

混合输入机构的模糊自适应变结构控制

针对混合输入机构中常速电机可不可控的特点,提出了基于常速电机位置跟踪的控制策略来对伺服电机进行控制,对常速电机的速度波动进行补偿,并给出了控制框图。因为系统的精确动力学模型难以获得,故考虑系统参数的不确定、外部扰动和非线性摩擦,设计了模糊自适应滑模变结构控制器以实现混合输入机构的轨迹跟踪。应用模糊自适应推理逼近系统的不确定之和,从而得到连续的控制增益,消除了变结构控制的抖振。     

电液伺服力控系统的自适应滑模控制

针对存在不确定性的非线性电液伺服力控系统的跟踪控制问题,基于等价控制的概念,提出了一种自适应滑模控制律综合方法,应用参数自适应的方法,消除不确定性对控制性能的影响,以达到鲁棒跟踪控制的目的。为了证明这种控制器可行性,利用微机实现的该控制器被应用于某疲劳试验机电液伺服系统,实时控制的结果验证了所提方法的有效性。     

Implementation of an adaptive fuzzy compensator for coupled tank liquid level control system

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy control (AFC) system is proposed to realize level position control of two coupled water tanks, often encountered in practical process control. The fuzzy control system includes an adaptive model identifier and controller. The gains of AFC are obtained by using the fuzzy identifier model which is defined by real system outputs and control inputs. The parameters of fuzzy identifier model are adjusted online by using recursive least square algorithm. Because the controller has a recursive form it treats model uncertainties and external disturbances in an implicit way. Thus there is no need to specify uncertainty and disturbances for this controller design in advance. A well-tuned conventional proportional integral (PI) controller is also applied to the two coupled tank system for comparison with the AFC system. Experimentation of the coupled tank system is realized in two different configurations, namely configuration #1 and configuration #2 respectively. In configuration #1, the water level in the top tank is controlled by a pump. In configuration #2, the water level in the bottom tank is controlled by the water flow coming out of the top tank. Experimental results prove that the AFC shows better trajectory tracking performance than PI controller in that the plant transient responses to the desired output changes have shorter settling time and smaller magnitude overshot/undershoot. Robustness of the AFC with respect to water level variation and capability to eliminate external disturbances are also achieved. Experimental results show that AFC is a strong and a practical choice for liquid level control.     

柔性臂杆、柔性关节空间机械臂TS模糊轨迹跟踪及双柔振动并行综合控制

针对存在参数不确定和外界干扰的柔性臂杆、柔性关节空间机械臂追踪期望运动的问题,设计了基于TS模糊模型的滑模鲁棒控制方案和双柔性振动并行控制方案。首先,设计了关节柔性补偿器以提高系统的等效关节刚度。其次,利用反馈线性化技术建立了系统追踪期望轨迹的误差动力学方程,通过对系统Lyapunov稳定性证明来选择滑模控制参数;简化并改进TS模糊推理规则,提出了模糊滑模鲁棒控制方法,可解决滑模控制的抖振问题并具有计算量少、控制力矩小的优点。再次,提出了柔性臂杆振动模态的直接反馈控制方案,解决了双柔性并行综合控制的问题。最后,运用逐步仿真的方法,对比仿真结果,证实了所设计轨迹跟踪、双柔性并行综合控制方案的有效性和稳定性。     

Robust adaptive motion/force control scheme for crawler-type mobile manipulator with nonholonomic constraint based on sliding mode control approach

In this paper, a robust adaptive motion/force control (RAMFC) scheme is presented for a crawler-type mobile manipulator (CTMM) with nonholonomic constraint. For the position tracking control design, an adaptive sliding mode tracking controller is proposed to deal with the unknown upper bounds of system parameter uncertainties and external disturbances. Based on the position tracking results, a robust control strategy is also developed for the nonholonomic constraint force of CTMM. According to the Lyapunov stability theory, the stability of the closed-loop control system, the uniformly ultimately boundedness of position tracking errors, and the boundedness of the force error and adaptive coefficient errors are all guaranteed by using the derived RAMFC scheme. Simulation and experimental tests on a CTMM with two-link manipulator demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control scheme.     

Backstepping sliding mode tracking control of a vane-type air motor X-Y table motion system

Air motors are increasingly being used in pneumatic related industries because of their advantages of low operating cost and low maintenance. The DSP controller and the backstepping sliding mode control method were utilized in this study to control an X-Y pneumatic table for tracking trajectory. Due to the effects of the compressibility of air, friction between the motor and ball screw table and the dead-zone effect caused by the proportional valve, the system will yield different responses even with the same inlet pressure and will chatter at low speed. Hence under certain conditions, this method of backstepping sliding mode control can be applied to achieve better results than with the PID controller, such as for tracking circle error and tracking error of the two axes. According to the results, a steady-state error of 0.5 μm can be achieved. The proposed method of backstepping sliding mode control can accomplish accurate tracking circle trajectory performance, offering an improvement in the tracking error of more than 50% over that of the PID controller.     

Robust integral of neural network and precision motion control of electrical–optical gyro-stabilized platform with unknown input dead-zones

Parametric uncertainty associated with unmodeled disturbance always exist in physical electrical–optical gyro-stabilized platform systems, and poses great challenges to the controller design. Moreover, the existence of actuator deadzone nonlinearity makes the situation more complicated. By constructing a smooth dead-zone inverse, the control law consisting of the robust integral of a neural network (NN) output plus sign of the tracking error feedback is proposed, in which adaptive law is synthesized to handle parametric uncertainty and RISE robust term to attenuate unmodeled disturbance. In order to reduce the measure noise, a desired compensation method is utilized in controller design, in which the model compensation term depends on the reference signal only. By mainly activating an auxiliary robust control component for pulling back the transient escaped from the neural active region, a multi-switching robust neuro adaptive controller in the neural approximation domain, which can achieve globally uniformly ultimately bounded (GUUB) tracking stability of servo systems recently. An asymptotic tracking performance in the presence of unknown dead-zone, parametric uncertainties and various disturbances, which is vital for high accuracy tracking, is achieved by the proposed robust adaptive backstepping controller. Extensively comparative experimental results are obtained to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.     

Finite-time tracking control of nth-order chained-form non-holonomic systems in the presence of disturbances

This paper addresses the problem of finite-time tracking controller design for nth-order chained-form non-holonomic systems in the presence of unknown disturbances. To this aim, a generalized disturbance observer based controller is proposed and combined with a recursive terminal sliding mode approach which guarantees finite-time convergence of the disturbance observer dynamic. By introducing a time-varying transformation and introducing a new control law, the existence of the sliding around the recursive terminal sliding mode surfaces is guaranteed. Finally, the proposed approach is applied for a wheeled mobile robot with a fourth-order chained-form non-holonomic model. The simulation results demonstrate the desirable and robust tracking performance of the proposed approach in the presence of unknown disturbance.