Command filter-based finite-time adaptive tracking control for MIMO dynamic systems with external disturbances and prescribed performance constraints

This paper investigates command filter-based finite-time stability of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) dynamic systems with prescribed performance constraints and external disturbances. A novel finite-time differentiator is introduced into command filter-based control scheme, which improves transient performance of each subsystem. Meanwhile, disturbance observers are utilized to eliminate negative effects on control system caused by external disturbances. Furthermore, featured with a selected performance function, it can be guaranteed that tracking errors remain in prescribed performance region. Stability analysis of the proposed controller is presented by using a Lyapunov function including transformed filter errors, parameter errors of neural networks, and observed errors of lumped disturbances. Effectiveness of proposed control method is verified by a numerical example and a practical system of inverted pendulums, respectively.     

Robust adaptive trajectory tracking control of underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles with prescribed performance

In this paper, a novel robust adaptive trajectory tracking control scheme with prescribed performance is developed for underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) subject to unknown dynamic parameters and disturbances. A simple error mapping function is proposed in order to guarantee that the trajectory tracking error satisfies the prescribed performance. A novel additional control based on Nussbaum function is proposed to handle the underactuation of AUVs. The compounded uncertain item caused by the unknown dynamic parameters and disturbances is transformed into a linear parametric form with only single unknown parameter called virtual parameter. On the basis of the above, a novel robust adaptive trajectory tracking control law is developed using dynamic surface control technique, where the adaptive law online provides the estimation of the virtual parameter. Strict stability analysis indicates that the designed control law ensures uniform ultimate boundedness of the AUV trajectory tracking closed‐loop control system with prescribed tracking performance. Simulation results on an AUV in two different disturbance cases with dynamic parameter perturbation verify the effectiveness of our adaptive trajectory tracking control scheme.     

Adaptive unit vector control of multivariable systems using monitoring functions

An adaptive sliding‐mode unit vector control approach based on monitoring functions to deal with disturbances of unknown bounds is proposed. An uncertain multivariable linear system is considered with a quite general class of nonsmooth disturbances. Global stabilization/tracking is demonstrated using either state or output feedback. The proposed adaptation method makes the control gain less conservative, becoming large enough when the disturbance grows and becoming smaller when it decreases, leading to reduced chattering effects. In contrast to previous methods, the new switching scheme is able to guarantee a prespecified transient time, maximum overshoot, and steady‐state error for multivariable uncertain plants. The proposed technique is applied to the trajectory tracking control of a surface vessel subjected to ocean currents, wind, and waves. Simulations are presented to show the performance of the new adaptation scheme in this adverse scenario of possibly growing, temporarily large, or vanishing exogenous disturbances.     

Disturbance observer-based fixed-time prescribed performance tracking control for robotic manipulator

ABSTRACT

This paper investigates the fixed-time prescribed performance tracking control for the n-DOF uncertain manipulator. First, a novel Barrier Lyapunov Function (BLF) is proposed to guarantee the prescribed performance for the manipulator tracking error. Then, we introduce a disturbance observer to estimate the system uncertainty and disturbance accurately in a predefined time. Next, a composite controller based on the nonsingular fast integral terminal sliding mode is constructed. It is strictly proved that the closed-loop system is stable in fixed-time, which is independent of the initial conditions. Moreover, both transient and steady-state performances of the outputs can be preserved. Finally, numerical simulations and experimental studies are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

Active DIsturbance Rejection Control of Surface Vessels Using Composite Error Updated Extended State Observer

In this paper, a composite‐errors‐based active disturbance rejection control law is proposed for surface vessels with exogeneous disturbances. The low‐frequency disturbances from wind, wave and ocean currents are estimated by a novel composite‐errors‐based extended state observer (ESO). Since the composite errors are composed of trajectory tracking errors and estimation errors, the disturbance rejection control is feedforward‐feedback composite control. The advantages of feedforward control and feedback control are exploited to reject system disturbances. Compared with conventional ESO‐based active disturbance rejection control, smaller estimation errors and smaller tracking errors can be achieved by the proposed disturbance compensation control. The effectiveness and superiority of the designed control law are illustrated by theoretical analysis and simulation results.     

Robust dynamic surface trajectory tracking control for a quadrotor UAV via extended state observer

In this paper, we present an extended state observer–based robust dynamic surface trajectory tracking controller for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle subject to parametric uncertainties and external disturbances. First, the original cascaded dynamics of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle is formulated in a strict form with lumped disturbances to facilitate the backstepping design. Second, based on the separate outer‐ and inner‐loop control methodologies, the extended state observers are constructed to online estimate the unmeasurable velocity states and lumped disturbances existed in translational and rotational dynamics, respectively. Third, to overcome the problem of “explosion of complexity” inherent in backstepping control, the technique of dynamic surface control is utilized for trajectory tracking and attitude stabilization, and with the velocity and disturbance estimates incorporated into the dynamic surface control, a robust dynamic surface flight controller that guarantees asymptotic tracking in the presence of lumped disturbances is synthesized. In addition, the stability analysis is given, showing that the present robust controller can ensure the ultimate boundedness of all signals in the closed‐loop system and make the tracking errors arbitrarily small. Finally, comparisons and extensive simulations under different flight scenarios are performed to validate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed scheme in accurate tracking performance and enhanced antidisturbance capability.     

Prescribed performance adaptive neural output control for a class of switched nonstrict‐feedback nonlinear time‐delay systems: State‐dependent switching law approach

This paper investigates the tracking problem for a class of uncertain switched nonlinear delayed systems with nonstrict‐feedback form. To address this problem, by introducing a new common Lyapunov function (CLF), an adaptive neural network dynamic surface control is proposed. The state‐dependent switching rule is designed to orchestrate which subsystem is active at each time instance. In order to compensate unknown delay terms, an appropriate Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional is considered in the constructing of the CLF. In addition, a novel switched neural network–based observer is constructed to estimate system states through the output signal. To maintain the tracking error performance within a predefined bound, a prescribed performance bound approach is employed. It is proved that by the proposed output‐feedback control, all the signals of the closed‐loop system are bounded under the switching law. Moreover, the transient and steady‐state tracking performance is guaranteed by the prescribed performance bound. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated by two numerical and practical examples.     

Nonlinear control of three‐dimensional underactuated vehicles

This paper presents the derivation of robust trajectory‐tracking nonlinear control laws for general three‐dimensional vehicle models with one degree of underactuation where all of the state tracking errors are stabilized. The method is based on a novel transformation of the trajectory tracking problem into a reduced‐order error dynamics. Two traditional nonlinear controllers based on sliding mode and backstepping approaches are developed and shown to stabilize the trajectory tracking errors in presence of modeling uncertainties and bounded disturbances. The performance of the two controllers are compared in absence and presence of disturbances.     

基于有限时间预设性能的高超声速飞行器反演控制

针对存在参数不确定以及外界干扰的高超声速飞行器跟踪性能问题,提出一种基于有限时间预设性能的反演控制方案.首先,为便于控制器设计,将高超声速飞行器模型划分为速度和高度子系统,针对子系统分别设计预设性能控制器以提高系统的瞬态和稳态性能;然后,通过设计一种有限时间性能函数,使得跟踪误差能够在预设时间内收敛至稳态值;接着,考虑到反演设计中虚拟指令导数难以获取以及干扰项对系统的影响,基于干扰观测器提出一种扰动估计方法,目的是在取得良好的观测扰动效果的同时,使得控制器设计流程简化、复杂度降低;最后,基于Lyapunov稳定理论证明系统的跟踪误差最终一致有界,并通过仿真验证该方法的有效性.     

欠驱动水下机器人三维轨迹跟踪有限时间预设性能控制

本文研究了具有不确定动态和未知时变海洋环境扰动的欠驱动水下机器人(AUVs)三维轨迹跟踪有限时间预设性能控制问题,提出新型预设性能函数和误差映射函数,将受预设性能限制的轨迹跟踪误差转变为非受限的变换后误差;构造新的超螺旋(ST)扩张状态观测器,在有限时间内实时估计AUV不确定动态和未知时变海洋环境扰动引起的总扰动;基于...     

Disturbance observer-based tracking control with prescribed performance specifications for a class of nonlinear systems subject to mismatched disturbances

This work investigates simultaneous prescribed performance tracking control and mismatched disturbance rejection problems for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems. A novel control scheme combining prescribed performance control, disturbance observer technique, and backstepping method is proposed. The disturbance estimations are introduced into the design of virtual control law design in each step to compensate the mismatched disturbances. To further improve the control performance, a prescribed performance function characterizing the error convergence rate, maximum overshoot, and steady-state error is used to construct the composite controller. The proposed controller guarantees transient and steady-state performance specifications of tracking error and provides much better disturbance attenuation ability simultaneously. Rigorous stability analysis for the closed-loop system is established by direct Lyapunov function method. It is shown that all the states in the resulting closed-loop system are stable, and the tracking error evolves within the prescribed performance boundaries and asymptotically converges to zero even in the presence of mismatched external disturbances. Finally, theoretical results are illustrated and demonstrated by two simulation examples.     

Time‐varying input delay compensation for nonlinear systems with additive disturbance: An output feedback approach

This paper addresses the output feedback tracking control of a class of multiple‐input and multiple‐output nonlinear systems subject to time‐varying input delay and additive bounded disturbances. Based on the backstepping design approach, an output feedback robust controller is proposed by integrating an extended state observer and a novel robust controller, which uses a desired trajectory‐based feedforward term to achieve an improved model compensation and a robust delay compensation feedback term based on the finite integral of the past control values to compensate for the time‐varying input delay. The extended state observer can simultaneously estimate the unmeasurable system states and the additive disturbances only with the output measurement and delayed control input. The proposed controller theoretically guarantees prescribed transient performance and steady‐state tracking accuracy in spite of the presence of time‐varying input delay and additive bounded disturbances based on Lyapunov stability analysis by using a Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional. A specific study on a 2‐link robot manipulator is performed; based on the system model and the proposed design procedure, a suitable controller is developed, and comparative simulation results are obtained to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed control scheme.     

随机激励下板球系统建模与有限时间全状态预设性能跟踪控制

研究板球系统受到随机激励时的数学建模与轨迹跟踪控制问题. 首次建立了板球系统的随机数学模型, 并 结合backstepping方法、有限时间预设性能函数、全状态约束及新的预设性能推导方法设计了具有未知输入饱和的 随机板球系统实际有限时间全状态预设性能跟踪控制器, 实现了随机激励下板球系统的有限时间预设性能轨迹跟 踪控制. 所设计的控制器保证了系统跟踪误差能够被预先给定的有限时间性能函数约束, 并且能在任意给定的停息 时间内收敛到预先给定的邻域内. 最后通过仿真实验验证了所设计控制器具有更好的控制效果.     

Distributed prescribed performance control for consensus output tracking of nonlinear semi-strict feedback systems using finite-time disturbance observers

The distributed consensus output tracking problem is dealt with for a class of nonlinear semi-strict feedback systems in the presence of mismatched nonlinear uncertainties, external disturbances and uncertain nonlinear virtual control coefficients of the subsystems. The systems are under a directed communication graph, where the leader node is the root. The controller is designed in a backstepping manner, and the dynamic surface technique is adopted to avoid direct differentiation. At each step of virtual controller design, a prescribed performance controller is constructed to achieve prescribed transient performance so that the system states remain in the feasible domain. Then each virtual controller is enhanced by a finite-time disturbance observer which estimates the disturbance term in a finite-time. The properties of the control system are analysed theoretically. It is clarified that the prescribed performance control technique ensures that the system signals stay in the feasible domain, whereas sufficiently small ultimate control errors can be achieved by the finite-time disturbance observers. Finally, the performance of the proposed methods is confirmed by numerical studies.     

Low‐complexity adaptive tracking control of MIMO nonlinear systems with unknown control directions

This paper is concerned with the tracking control problem for a class of multiple‐input–multiple‐output systems with unmatched disturbances and the unknown additive and multiplicative nonlinearities. The objective is to provide a low‐complexity control solution in the sense that (i) approximating structures are not involved, despite unknown nonlinearities and (ii) iterative calculations of command derivatives are avoided in the backstepping design. A robust adaptive control strategy is proposed to fulfill the task. In the control design, a new‐type adaptive law is first developed to update Nussbaum gains to handle control direction uncertainties, while ensuring Nussbaum gains bounded. Then, the potential robustness of error constraint techniques is exploited to counteract the effects of unknown nonlinearities and disturbances and achieve predefined transient and steady‐state tracking performance. Finally, simulation results are given to illustrate the above theoretical findings.     

Approximation-based adaptive tracking of a class of uncertain nonlinear time-delay systems in nonstrict-feedback form

This paper investigates a predefined performance control problem for adaptive tracking of uncertain nonlinear time-delay systems in nonstrict-feedback form. Nonstrict-feedback nonlinearities, time-varying delays and external disturbances are assumed to be unknown. Based on the exponential decaying design functions denoting the preassigned bounds of transient and steady-state tracking errors, some variable separation lemmas are derived to design an approximation-based robust adaptive control scheme in the presence of nonstrict-feedback time-delayed nonlinearities. The proposed control system guarantees that a tracking error remains within a predesigned bound for all t ≥ 0 and converges to a preselected neighbourhood of the origin. Compared with the existing results in the literature, the main contribution of this paper is to provide a solution on the guaranteed performance control in the presence of unknown nonstrict-feedback nonlinearities related to all delayed state variables. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.     

Practical consensus tracking control of multiple nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots in polar coordinates

This paper proposes a sliding‐mode control (SMC) method to achieve practical cooperative consensus tracking for a network of multiple nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots (MNWMRs) with input disturbances. A novel SMC surface under the nonholonomic constraints is first formulated to characterize the network communication interactions among the networked robots under the framework of polar coordinates. A unified distributed consensus tracking strategy is then proposed by systematically combining a position controller and a direction controller. Furthermore, a simple yet general criterion is derived to achieve the desired practical consensus of trajectory tracking and posture stabilization for MNWMRs. In particular, for a specific common consensus trajectory, the complete asymptotic tracking in heading direction can be fully guaranteed when the perfect asymptotic position‐tracking errors are realized. Accordingly, the developed consensus tracking strategy for MNWMRs demonstrates some advantages of control performance including stability, robustness, and effectiveness over the existing control method proposed for their single‐robot counterparts. Some comparative simulation results are given to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed cooperative consensus control method.     

H∞ prediction and unconstrained H∞ predictive control: multi‐input–multi‐output case

Through the combination of the sequential spectral factorization and the coprime factorization, a k‐step ahead MIMO H_∞ (cumulative minimax) predictor is derived which is stable for the unstable noise model. This predictor and the modified internal model of the reference signal are embedded into the H_∞ optimization framework, yielding a single degree of freedom multi‐input–multi‐output H_∞ predictive controller that provides stochastic disturbance rejection and asymptotic tracking of the reference signals described by the internal model. It is shown that for a plant/disturbance model, that represents a large class of systems, the inclusion of the H_∞ predictor into the H_∞ control algorithm introduces a performance/robustness tuning knob: an increase of the prediction horizon enforces a more conservative control effort and, correspondingly, results in deterioration of the transient and the steady‐state (tracking error variance) performance, but guarantees large robustness margin, while the decrease of the prediction horizon results in a more aggressive control signal and better transient and steady‐state performance, but smaller robustness margin. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Trajectory Tracking Control of Omnidirectional Wheeled Mobile Manipulators: Robust Neural Network-Based Sliding Mode Approach

This paper addresses the robust trajectory tracking problem for a redundantly actuated omnidirectional mobile manipulator in the presence of uncertainties and disturbances. The development of control algorithms is based on sliding mode control (SMC) technique. First, a dynamic model is derived based on the practical omnidirectional mobile manipulator system. Then, a SMC scheme, based on the fixed large upper boundedness of the system dynamics (FLUBSMC), is designed to ensure trajectory tracking of the closed-loop system. However, the FLUBSMC scheme has inherent deficiency, which needs computing the upper boundedness of the system dynamics, and may cause high noise amplification and high control cost, particularly for the complex dynamics of the omnidirectional mobile manipulator system. Therefore, a robust neural network (NN)-based sliding mode controller (NNSMC), which uses an NN to identify the unstructured system dynamics directly, is further proposed to overcome the disadvantages of FLUBSMC and reduce the online computing burden of conventional NN adaptive controllers. Using learning ability of NN, NNSMC can coordinately control the omnidirectional mobile platform and the mounted manipulator with different dynamics effectively. The stability of the closed-loop system, the convergence of the NN weight-updating process, and the boundedness of the NN weight estimation errors are all strictly guaranteed. Then, in order to accelerate the NN learning efficiency, a partitioned NN structure is applied. Finally, simulation examples are given to demonstrate the proposed NNSMC approach can guarantee the whole system's convergence to the desired manifold with prescribed performance.     

Stabilization and Tracking Control of X‐Z Inverted Pendulum Using Flatness Based Active Disturbance Rejection Control

A flatness based robust active disturbance rejection control technique scheme with tracking differentiator is proposed for the problem of stabilization and tracking control of the X‐Z inverted pendulum known as a special underactuated, non‐feedback linearizable mechanical system. The differential parameterization on the basis of linearizing the system around an arbitrary equilibrium decouples the underactuated system into two lower order systems, resulting in two lower‐order extended state observers. Using a tracking differentiator to arrange the transient process utilizes the problem of stabilization and tracking control and gives a relatively small initial estimation error, which enlarges the range of the controller parameters. The convincing analysis of the proposed modified linear extended state observer is presented to show its high effectiveness on estimating the states and the extended states known as the total disturbances consisting of the unknown external disturbances and the nonlinearities neglected by the linearization. Simulation results on the stabilization and tracking control of the X‐Z inverted pendulum, including a comparative simulation with an all‐state‐feedback sliding mode controller are presented to show the advantages of the combination of flatness and active disturbance rejection control techniques.