Adaptive PI Hermite neural control for MIMO uncertain nonlinear systems

This paper presents an adaptive PI Hermite neural control (APIHNC) system for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) uncertain nonlinear systems. The proposed APIHNC system is composed of a neural controller and a robust compensator. The neural controller uses a three-layer Hermite neural network (HNN) to online mimic an ideal controller and the robust compensator is designed to eliminate the effect of the approximation error introduced by the neural controller upon the system stability in the Lyapunov sense. Moreover, a proportional–integral learning algorithm is derived to speed up the convergence of the tracking error. Finally, the proposed APIHNC system is applied to an inverted double pendulums and a two-link robotic manipulator. Simulation results verify that the proposed APIHNC system can achieve high-precision tracking performance. It should be emphasized that the proposed APIHNC system is clearly and easily used for real-time applications.     

Adaptive neural network control of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems with input saturation

In this paper, an adaptive neural network (NN) tracking controller is developed for a class of uncertain multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems with input saturation. Radial basis function neural networks are utilized to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions in the MIMO system. A novel auxiliary system is developed to compensate the effects induced by input saturation (in both magnitude and rate) during tracking control. Endowed with a switching structure that integrates two existing representative auxiliary system designs, this novel auxiliary system improves control performance by preserving their advantages. It provides a comprehensive design structure in which parameters can be adjusted to meet the required control performance. The auxiliary system signal is utilized in both the control law and the neural network weight-update laws. The performance of the resultant closed-loop system is analyzed, and the bound of the transient error is established. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive neural network control.     

Adaptive tracking control of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems with input constraints

In this paper, adaptive tracking control is proposed for a class of uncertain multi-input and multi-output nonlinear systems with non-symmetric input constraints. The auxiliary design system is introduced to analyze the effect of input constraints, and its states are used to adaptive tracking control design. The spectral radius of the control coefficient matrix is used to relax the nonsingular assumption of the control coefficient matrix. Subsequently, the constrained adaptive control is presented, where command filters are adopted to implement the emulate of actuator physical constraints on the control law and virtual control laws and avoid the tedious analytic computations of time derivatives of virtual control laws in the backstepping procedure. Under the proposed control techniques, the closed-loop semi-global uniformly ultimate bounded stability is achieved via Lyapunov synthesis. Finally, simulation studies are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive tracking control.     

Adaptive fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of MIMO nonlinear uncertain systems

This article presents an integrated fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control (FTC) methodology for a class of nonlinear multi-input–multi-output systems. Based on the fault information obtained during the diagnostic procedure, an FTC component is designed to compensate for the effect of faults. In the presence of a fault, a baseline controller guarantees the boundedness of all the system signals until the fault is detected. After fault detection and then again after isolation, the controller is reconfigured to improve the tracking performance using online fault diagnostic information. Under certain assumptions, the stability and tracking performances of the closed-loop system are rigorously investigated. It is shown that the system signals always remain bounded and the output tracking error converges to a neighbourhood of the origin of the state space.     

Dynamic structure adaptive neural fuzzy control for MIMO uncertain nonlinear systems

This paper proposes a novel dynamic structure neural fuzzy network (DSNFN) to address the adaptive tracking problems of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) uncertain nonlinear systems. The proposed control scheme uses a four-layer neural fuzzy network (NFN) to estimate system uncertainties online. The main feature of this DSNFN is that it can either increase or decrease the number of fuzzy rules over time based on tracking errors. Projection-type adaptation laws for the network parameters are derived from the Lyapunov synthesis approach to ensure network convergence and stable control. A hybrid control scheme that combines the sliding-mode control and the adaptive bound estimation control with different weights improves system performance by suppressing the influence of external disturbances and approximation errors. As the employment of the DSNFN, high-quality tracking performance could be achieved in the system. Furthermore, the trained network avoids the problems of overfitting and underfitting. Simulations performed on a two-link robot manipulator demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Robust adaptive neural control for a class of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems

In this paper, a novel robust adaptive neural control scheme is proposed for a class of uncertain multi-input multi-output nonlinear systems. The proposed scheme has the following main features: (1) a kind of Hurwitz condition is introduced to handle the state-dependent control gain matrix and some assumptions in existing schemes are relaxed; (2) by introducing a novel matrix normalisation technique, it is shown that all bound restrictions imposed on the control gain matrix in existing schemes can be removed; (3) the singularity problem is avoided without any extra effort, which makes the control law quite simple. Besides, with the aid of the minimal learning parameter technique, only one parameter needs to be updated online regardless of the system input–output dimension and the number of neural network nodes. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Adaptive neural control of nonlinear MIMO systems with unknown time delays

In this paper, a novel adaptive NN control scheme is proposed for a class of uncertain multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear time-delay systems. RBF NNs are used to tackle unknown nonlinear functions, then the adaptive NN tracking controller is constructed by combining Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals and the dynamic surface control (DSC) technique along with the minimal-learning-parameters (MLP) algorithm. The proposed controller guarantees uniform ultimate boundedness (UUB) of all the signals in the closed-loop system, while the tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of the origin. An advantage of the proposed control scheme lies in that the number of adaptive parameters for each subsystem is reduced to one, triple problems of “explosion of complexity”, “curse of dimension” and “controller singularity” are solved, respectively. Finally, a numerical simulation is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed scheme.     

一类不确定非线性系统反步自适应神经网络控制研究

针对合有高阶不确定扰动项且不可参数线性化的一类非线性系统，采用反步递推方法设计基于多层神经网络的自适应控制器，多层神经网络可较好地逼近非线性系统，其权值能在系统先验知识不多的情况下在线调整，给出了神经网络Lyapunov意义下稳定的在线自适应律，在设计控制器的过程中，采用类加权形式Lyapunov函数，使得控制器能有效处理自适应控制奇异性问题，仿真结果表明，该控制器对系统参数的不确定性和有界干扰具有一定的鲁棒性，并能保证闭环系统全局稳定。     

Adaptive control of a class of discrete-time MIMO nonlinear systems with uncertain couplings

In this article, adaptive control is investigated for a class of discrete-time multi-input-multi-output nonlinear systems in block-triangular form with uncertain couplings of delayed states among subsystems. Future states prediction is carried out to facilitate adaptive control design and auxiliary outputs are introduced to develop a novel compensation mechanism for the uncertain nonlinear couplings. By using Lyapunov method and ordering signals growth rate, it is rigorously proved that all the signals in the whole closed-loop systems are globally bounded and the output tracking errors asymptotically converge to zeros. The effectiveness of the proposed control is demonstrated in the simulation study.     

具有Preisach类型磁滞输入的不确定非线性系统 自适应神经网络控制

本文针对一类执行器受Preisach磁滞约束的不确定非线性系统, 提出一种基于神经网络的直接自适应控制 方案, 旨在解决系统的预定精度轨迹跟踪问题. 由于Preisach算子与系统动态发生耦合, 导致算子输出信号不可测 量, 给磁滞的逆补偿造成了困难. 为解决此问题, 本文首先将Preisach模型进行分解, 以提取出控制命令信号用于 Backstepping递归设计, 并在此基础上融合一类降阶光滑函数与直接自适应神经网络控制策略, 形成对磁滞非线性 和被控对象非线性的强鲁棒性能, 且所设计方案仅包含一个需要在线更新的自适应参数, 同时可保证Lyapunov函数 时间导数的半负定性. 通过严格数学分析, 已证明该方案不仅保证闭环系统所有信号均有界, 而且输出跟踪误差随 时间渐近收敛到用户预定区间. 基于压电定位平台的半物理仿真实验进一步验证了所提出控制方案的有效性.     

Adaptive neural control for MIMO nonlinear systems with state time-varying delay

In this paper,adaptive neural control is proposed for a class of multi-input multi-output(MIMO)nonlinear unknown state time-varying delay systems in block-triangular control structure.Radial basis function(RBF)neural networks (NNs)are utilized to estimate the unknown continuous functions.The unknown time-varying delays are compensated for using integral-type Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals in the design.The main advantage of our result not only efficiently avoids the controller singularity,but also relaxes the restriction on unknown virtual control coefficients.Boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop of MIMO nonlinear systems is achieved,while The outputs of the systems are proven to converge to a small neighborhood of the desired trajectories.The feasibility is investigated by two simulation examples.     

Adaptive control of uncertain pure-feedback nonlinear systems

An adaptive control approach is proposed to solve the globally asymptotic state stabilisation problem for uncertain pure-feedback nonlinear systems which can be transformed into the pseudo-affine form. The pseudo-affine pure-feedback nonlinear system under consideration is with nonlinearly parameterised uncertainties and possibly unknown control coefficients. Based on the parameter separation technique, a novel backstepping controller is designed by adopting the adaptive high gain idea. The proposed control approach could avoid the drawbacks of the approximation-based approaches since no estimators are needed to estimate the virtual and the actual controllers. In addition, it could guarantee globally asymptotic state stabilisation even though there exist nonlinearly parameterised uncertainties in the considered system while comparing to the existing approximation-free approaches. A numerical and a realistic examples are employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.     

Intelligent adaptive control for MIMO uncertain nonlinear systems

This paper investigates an intelligent adaptive control system for multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) uncertain nonlinear systems. This control system is comprised of a recurrent-cerebellar-model-articulation-controller (RCMAC) and an auxiliary compensation controller. RCMAC is utilized to approximate a perfect controller, and the parameters of RCMAC are on-line tuned by the derived adaptive laws based on a Lyapunov function. The auxiliary compensation controller is designed to suppress the influence of residual approximation error between the perfect controller and RCMAC. Finally, two MIMO uncertain nonlinear systems, a mass–spring–damper mechanical system and a Chua’s chaotic circuit, are performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme. The simulation results confirm that the proposed intelligent adaptive control system can achieve favorable tracking performance with desired robustness.     

Adaptive output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems using single-hidden-layer neural networks

We consider adaptive output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems, in which both the dynamics and the dimension of the regulated system may be unknown. However, the relative degree of the regulated output is assumed to be known. Given a smooth reference trajectory, the problem is to design a controller that forces the system measurement to track it with bounded errors. The classical approach requires a state observer. Finding a good observer for an uncertain nonlinear system is not an obvious task. We argue that it is sufficient to build an observer for the output tracking error. Ultimate boundedness of the error signals is shown through Lyapunov's direct method. The theoretical results are illustrated in the design of a controller for a fourth-order nonlinear system of relative degree two and a high-bandwidth attitude command system for a model R-50 helicopter.     

Adaptive control for uncertain nonlinear systems based on multiple neural networks.

A new adaptive multiple neural network controller (AMNNC) with a supervisory controller for a class of uncertain nonlinear dynamic systems was developed in this paper. The AMNNC is a kind of adaptive feedback linearizing controller where nonlinearity terms are approximated with multiple neural networks. The weighted sum of the multiple neural networks was used to approximate system nonlinearity for the given task. Each neural network represents the system dynamics for each task. For a job where some tasks are repeated but information on the load is not defined and unknown or varying, the proposed controller is effective because of its capability to memorize control skill for each task with each neural network. For a new task, most similar existing control skills may be used as a starting point of adaptation. With the help of a supervisory controller, the resulting closed-loop system is globally stable in the sense that all signals involved are uniformly bounded. Simulation results on a cartpole system for the changing mass of the pole were illustrated to show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme for the comparison with the conventional adaptive neural network controller (ANNC).     

Adaptive tracking control of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems with time-varying delays and unmodeled dynamics

In this paper, adaptive neural tracking control is proposed based on radial basis function neural networks (RBFNNs) for a class of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems with completely unknown control directions, unknown dynamic disturbances, unmodeled dynamics, and uncertainties with time-varying delay. Using the Nussbaum function properties, the unknown control directions are dealt with. By constructing appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, the unknown upper bound functions of the time-varying delay uncertainties are compensated. The proposed control scheme does not need to calculate the integral of the delayed state functions. Using Young s inequality and RBFNNs, the assumption of unmodeled dynamics is relaxed. By theoretical analysis, the closed-loop control system is proved to be semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded.     

Adaptive NN control of uncertain nonlinear pure-feedback systems

This paper is concerned with the control of nonlinear pure-feedback systems with unknown nonlinear functions. This problem is considered difficult to be dealt with in the control literature, mainly because that the triangular structure of pure-feedback systems has no affine appearance of the variables to be used as virtual controls. To overcome this difficulty, implicit function theorem is firstly exploited to assert the existence of the continuous desired virtual controls. NN approximators are then used to approximate the continuous desired virtual controls and desired practical control. With mild assumptions on the partial derivatives of the unknown functions, the developed adaptive NN control schemes achieve semi-global uniform ultimate boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop. The control performance of the closed-loop system is guaranteed by suitably choosing the design parameters.     

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.     

一类不确定非线性MIMO系统的神经网络输出反馈跟踪控制

针对一类具有外部干扰的不确定仿射非线性MIMO系统提出了一种神经网络输出反馈跟踪控制方法. 在仅输出可测的情况下, 控制律和神经网络权值更新律中仅用到输出误差, 无需设计状态观测器或加入低通滤波器使得估计误差动态满足严格正实条件. 为抑制外部干扰和子系统间的交叉耦合及神经网络逼近误差, 在控制律中加入鲁棒控制项. 基于Lyapunov稳定性定理证明了系统的稳定性及信号的有界性. 仿真例子证实了所提方法的可行性.     

MIMO非仿射非线性系统的自适应模糊控制

针对一类多输入多输出非仿射非线性系统,设计了一种自适应模糊H∞控制方案,该方案把自适应模糊控制和高增益观测器结合起来.利用多变量的隐函数定理,证明了非仿射系统控制器的存在性.通过设计高增益观测器,解决了系统的状态不可测量问题,实现系统的输出反馈控制,模糊自适应控制增强了系统在线逼近干扰及处理系统不确定的能力.仿真结果表明了控制方案的有效性及优越性.