Adaptive Sliding-Mode Control of an Automotive Electronic Throttle in the Presence of Input Saturation Constraint

In modern vehicles, electronic throttle (ET) has been widely utilized to control the airflow into gasoline engine. To solve the control difficulties with an ET, such as strong nonlinearity, unknown model parameters and input saturation constraints, an adaptive sliding-mode tracking control strategy for an ET is presented. Compared with the existing control strategies for an ET, input saturation constraints and parameter uncertainties are adequately considered in the proposed control strategy. At first, the nonlinear dynamic model for control of an ET is described. According to the dynamical model, the nonlinear adaptive sliding-mode tracking control method is presented, where parameter adaptive laws and auxiliary design system are employed. Parameter adaptive law is given to estimate the unknown parameter with an ET. An auxiliary system is designed, and its state is utilized in the tracking control method to handle the input saturation. Stability proof and analysis of the adaptive sliding-mode control method is performed by using Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, the reliability and feasibility of the proposed control strategy are evaluated by computer simulation. Simulation research shows that the proposed sliding-mode control strategy can provide good control performance for an ET.      

Active Vibration Control for a Flexible‐Link Manipulator with Input Constraint Based on a Disturbance Observer

This paper mainly focuses on designing an active vibration control for a flexible‐link manipulator in the presence of input constraint and unknown spatially infinite dimensional disturbances. The manipulator we studied can be taken as an Euler–Bernoulli beam, the dynamic model of which has the form of partial differential equations. As the existence of spatially infinite dimensional disturbances on the beam, we first design a disturbance observer to estimate infinite dimensional disturbances. The proposed disturbance observer is guaranteed exponentially stable. Then, taking input saturation into account, a novel disturbance‐observer‐based controller is developed to regulate the joint angular position and rapidly suppress vibrations on the beam, which is the main contribution of this study. The closed‐loop system is validated asymptotically stable by theoretical analysis. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by numerical simulations.     

Reduced-Order GPIO Based Dynamic Event-Triggered Tracking Control of a Networked One-DOF Link Manipulator Without Velocity Measurement

In networked robot manipulators that deeply integrate control, communication and computation, the controller design needs to take into consideration the limited or costly system resources and the presence of disturbances/uncertainties. To cope with these requirements, this paper proposes a novel dynamic event-triggered robust tracking control method for a one-degree of freedom (DOF) link manipulator with external disturbance and system uncertainties via a reduced-order generalized proportional-integral observer (GPIO). By only using the sampled-data position signal, a new sampled-data robust output feedback tracking controller is proposed based on a reduced-order GPIO to attenuate the undesirable influence of the external disturbance and the system uncertainties. To save the communication resources, we propose a discrete-time dynamic event-triggering mechanism (DETM), where the estimates and the control signal are transmitted and computed only when the proposed discrete-time DETM is violated. It is shown that with the proposed control method, both tracking control properties and communication properties can be significantly improved. Finally, simulation results are shown to demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed control approach.      

无人艇轨迹跟踪的预设性能抗扰控制研究

针对海洋环境干扰下的无人艇轨迹跟踪问题,提出一种预设性能轨迹跟踪抗扰控制方法。首先,该方法通过引入具有约束作用的性能函数设计预设性能反演控制器。同时采用干扰观测器精确补偿外界未知扰动,并引入带σ修正漏项自适应律对海洋环境干扰的界进行估计,实现了无人艇轨迹跟踪抗扰控制,且同时保证其暂态性能和稳态性能。然后根据李雅普诺夫稳...     

Observer-Based Path Tracking Controller Design for Autonomous Ground Vehicles With Input Saturation

This paper investigates the problem of path tracking control for autonomous ground vehicles(AGVs),where the input saturation,system nonlinearities and uncertainties are considered.Firstly,the nonlinear path tracking system is formulated as a linear parameter varying(LPV) model where the variation of vehicle velocity is taken into account.Secondly,considering the noise effects on the measurement of lateral offset and heading angle,an observer-based control strategy is proposed,and by analyzing th...     

Practical Prescribed Time Tracking Control With Bounded Time-Varying Gain Under Non-Vanishing Uncertainties

This paper investigates the prescribed-time control(PTC) problem for a class of strict-feedback systems subject to non-vanishing uncertainties. The coexistence of mismatched uncertainties and non-vanishing disturbances makes PTC synthesis nontrivial. In this work, a control method that does not involve infinite time-varying gain is proposed, leading to a practical and global prescribed time tracking control solution for the strict-feedback systems, in spite of both the mismatched and nonvanishin...     

Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems With Sporadic Measurements

This paper deals with the problem of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) design for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with sporadic measurements. A novel extended state observer (ESO) is designed in a cascade form consisting of a continuous time estimator, a continuous observation error predictor, and a reset compensator. The proposed ESO estimates not only the system state but also the total uncertainty, which may include the effects of the external perturbation, the parametric uncertainty, and the unknown nonlinear dynamics. Such a reset compensator, whose state is reset to zero whenever a new measurement arrives, is used to calibrate the predictor. Due to the cascade structure, the resulting error dynamics system is presented in a non-hybrid form, and accordingly, analyzed in a general sampled-data system framework. Based on the output of the ESO, a continuous ADRC law is then developed. The convergence of the resulting closed-loop system is proved under given conditions. Two numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.      

Neural Network Based Adaptive Tracking Control for a Class of Pure Feedback Nonlinear Systems With Input Saturation

In this paper, an adaptive neural networks (NNs) tracking controller is proposed for a class of single-input/singleoutput (SISO) non-affine pure-feedback non-linear systems with input saturation. In the proposed approach, the original input saturated nonlinear system is augmented by a low pass filter. Then, new system states are introduced to implement states transformation of the augmented model. The resulting new model in affine Brunovsky form permits direct and simpler controller design by avoiding back-stepping technique and its complexity growing as done in existing methods in the literature. In controller design of the proposed approach, a state observer, based on the strictly positive real (SPR) theory, is introduced and designed to estimate the new system states, and only two neural networks are used to approximate the uncertain nonlinearities and compensate for the saturation nonlinearity of actuator. The proposed approach can not only provide a simple and effective way for construction of the controller in adaptive neural networks control of non-affine systems with input saturation, but also guarantee the tracking performance and the boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop system. The stability of the control system is investigated by using the Lyapunov theory. Simulation examples are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed controller.      

Self-triggered Consensus Control for Linear Multi-agent Systems With Input Saturation

In this paper, we study the consensus problem for a class of linear multi-agent systems (MASs) with consideration of input saturation under the self-triggered mechanism. In the context of discrete-time systems, a self-triggered strategy is developed to determine the time interval between the adjacent triggers. The triggering condition is designed by using the current sampled consensus error. Furthermore, the consensus control protocol is designed by means of a state feedback approach. It is shown that the considered multi-agent systems can reach consensus with the presented algorithm. Some sufficient conditions are proposed in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) to show the positively invariant property of the domain of attraction (DOA). Moreover, some sufficient conditions of controller synthesis are provided to enlarge the volume of the DOA and obtain the control gain matrix. A numerical example is simulated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis results.      

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.     

The Indirect Shared Steering Control Under Double Loop Structure of Driver and Automation

Due to the critical defects of techniques in fully autonomous vehicles, man-machine cooperative driving is still of great significance in today’s transportation system. Unlike the previous shared control structure, this paper introduces a double loop structure which is applied to indirect shared steering control between driver and automation. In contrast to the tandem indirect shared control, the parallel indirect shared control put the authority allocation system of steering angle into the framework to allocate the corresponding weighting coefficients reasonably and output the final desired steering angle according to the current deviation of vehicle and the accuracy of steering angles. Besides, the active disturbance rejection controller (ADRC) is also added in the frame in order to track the desired steering angle fleetly and accurately as well as restrain the internal and external disturbances effectively which including the steering friction torque, wind speed and ground interference etc. Eventually, we validated the advantages of double loop framework through three sets of double lane change and slalom experiments, respectively. Exactly as we expected, the simulation results show that the double loop structure can effectively reduce the lateral displacement error caused by the driver or the controller, significantly improve the tracking precision and keep great performance in trajectory tracking characteristics when driving errors occur in one of driver and controller.      

线性自抗扰控制器的稳定性研究

研究了线性扩张状态观测器(Extended state observer, ESO)的估计能力,并且分析了在线性自抗扰控制(Linear active disturbance rejection control, LADRC)下闭环系统的稳定性. 对于系统模型未知的情形, 给出了线性扩张观测器估计误差有界的证明, 并通过分析得出了如下结论: 在扩张状态观测器跟踪误差趋于零的前提下, 在线性自抗扰控制下的闭环系统可以实现对设定信号的精确跟踪以及输入-输出有界(Bounded input and bounded output, BIBO)稳定.     

A Novel Robust Attitude Control for Quadrotor Aircraft Subject to Actuator Faults and Wind Gusts

A novel robust fault tolerant controller is developed for the problem of attitude control of a quadrotor aircraft in the presence of actuator faults and wind gusts in this paper. Firstly, a dynamical system of the quadrotor taking into account aerodynamical effects induced by lateral wind and actuator faults is considered using the Newton-Euler approach. Then, based on active disturbance rejection control (ADRC), the fault tolerant controller is proposed to recover faulty system and reject perturbations. The developed controller takes wind gusts, actuator faults and measurement noises as total perturbations which are estimated by improved extended state observer (ESO) and compensated by nonlinear feedback control law. So, the developed robust fault tolerant controller can successfully accomplish the tracking of the desired output values. Finally, some simulation studies are given to illustrate the effectiveness of fault recovery of the proposed scheme and also its ability to attenuate external disturbances that are introduced from environmental causes such as wind gusts and measurement noises.      

Adaptive Fuzzy Dynamic Surface Control of Flexible-Joint Robot Systems With Input Saturation

In this paper, we propose an adaptive fuzzy dynamic surface control (DSC) scheme for single-link flexible-joint robotic systems with input saturation. A smooth function is utilized with the mean-value theorem to deal with the difficulties associated with input saturation. An adaptive DSC design with an auxiliary first-order filter is used to solve the "explosion of complexity" problem. It is proved that all the signals in the closed-loop system are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded, and the tracking error eventually converges to a small neighborhood around zero. The main advantage of the proposed method is that only one adaptation parameter needs to be updated, which reduces the computational burden significantly. Simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed scheme and the comparison results show that the improved DSC method can reduce the computational burden by almost two thirds in comparison with the standard DSC method.      

Adaptive Sensor-Fault Tolerant Control of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles With Input Saturation

This paper investigates the tracking control problem for unmanned underwater vehicles(UUVs) systems with sensor faults, input saturation, and external disturbance caused by waves and ocean currents. An active sensor fault-tolerant control scheme is proposed. First, the developed method only requires the inertia matrix of the UUV, without other dynamic information,and can handle both additive and multiplicative sensor faults.Subsequently, an adaptive fault-tolerant controller is designed to achie...     

Algebraic estimation and active disturbance rejection in the control of flat systems

This paper proposes a feedback method for the control of uncertain systems with unknown external disturbances, which includes an algebraic estimator and relies on the Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) approach. The proposed estimator considers a generalized disturbance in order to deal with systems which may simultaneously present time varying parameters, external disturbances, un-modeled dynamics, and process noise. The on-line estimated disturbance is obtained by means of differential algebraic methods and it is used as the major part of an on-line feedback cancellation scheme aiming at linearization and uncertainty suppression. The algebraic estimator proposed in the paper makes unnecessary the use of classical extended state observers, which are widely used in ADRC. The speed of response and reliability of the proposed algebraic disturbance estimator-based control scheme was experimentally tested on three laboratory systems, including a system of directly-coupled DC motors, a roto-magnet system, and a disc and beam system, showing that the experimental results are in excellent agreement with the predictions of the theory.     

基于自抗扰技术的主汽温控制系统

研究新型实用非线性自抗扰控制技术（ADRC）在电厂主汽温控制系统中的应用。ADRC的主要特点是利用非线性状态观测器（ESO）对系统模型的扩张状态（即系统模型不确定性和未知外扰的总和）进行实时估计,并在控制信号中将其补偿,具有超调小、收敛速度快、精度高、抗干扰能力强、算法简单等特点。应用自抗扰控制器,针对具有严重参数不确定性、多扰动以及大迟延的电厂主汽温被控对象设计自抗扰控制系统并进行仿真研究,结果表明自抗扰控制器的强鲁棒性和抗干扰性使得汽温控制系统在不同负荷下均获得很好的调节品质。     

Adaptive Control of a Single Link Manipulator Including Motor and Input Unmodelled Dynamics

An adaptive nonlinear control law that incorporates the manipulatordynamics as well as dynamics of the actuator is developed in this article.The technique is based on nonlinear feedback linearization. The electricalparameters of the actuator are considered to be of uncertain values. Incontrast to known methods the robot position is the only measurementavailable, a nonlinear observer is designed to estimate the remaining statesrequired by the nonlinear controller. Moreover the input unmodelled dynamicsproblem is addressed in the context of nonlinear geometric designs.     

一类带有输入饱和的随机系统抗干扰控制

针对一类带有多源异质干扰和输入饱和的随机系统, 研究了其精细抗干扰控制问题. 系统中的多源异质干扰同时包含白噪声,\begin{document}$H_{2}$\end{document}范数有界干扰以及外源系统生成的带有状态与干扰耦合的部分信息已知干扰. 针对部分信息已知的干扰, 构建随机干扰观测器对其进行估计. 基于干扰估计, 结合$H_{\infty}$控制方法, 提出基于干扰观测器的精细抗干扰控制策略, 从而实现高精度抗干扰控制. 最后, 仿真结果验证了所提策略的正确性与有效性.     

惯性串联系统的自抗扰控制

针对非线性不确定惯性串联系统的控制问题,提出了惯性串联型扩张状态观测器（Extended state observer,ESO）,使其可直接对惯性串联系统的扩张状态进行估计,同时把被控对象的极点配置到期望位置,在此基础上提出了适合惯性串联系统的自抗扰控制（Active disturbance rejection control,ADRC）方法,该惯性串联型ADRC方法可以充分利用被控对象的已有知识.论文还给出了惯性串联型ADRC和基于扰动观测器（Disturbance observer,DOB）的控制方法之间的联系,指出它们具有相同的三自由度（three-degree of freedom control,3-DOF）控制系统结构和模块功能,都能实现对系统期望模型以外的总扰动进行估计和补偿.仿真结果表明,所提出的方法是有效的,惯性串联型ESO能实现系统总扰动的估计,惯性串联型ADRC能使系统输出能很好地跟踪系统参考输入.