Fault‐tolerant containment control of uncertain nonlinear systems in strict‐feedback form

This paper investigates the containment control problem of uncertain nonlinear strict‐feedback systems in the presence of actuator faults. The communication topology among the agents is directed, and there exists at least one leader that has a directed path to each follower. Based on fuzzy logic systems and the dynamic surface control technique, a fault‐tolerant containment control scheme is developed to guarantee that the outputs of all followers converge to the convex hull spanned by multiple dynamic leaders with bounded containment errors. The result is extended to a fault‐tolerant containment control with prescribed performance, such that the error surfaces are confined to predefined bounds regardless of actuator faults. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive logic‐based switching fault‐tolerant controller design for nonlinear uncertain systems

This paper deals with the problem of fault‐tolerant control (FTC) for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems against actuator faults using adaptive logic‐based switching control method. The uncertainties under consideration are assumed to be dominated by a bounding system which is linear in growth in the unmeasurable states but can be a continuous function of the system output, with unknown growth rates. Several types of common actuator faults, e.g., bias, loss‐of‐effectiveness, stuck and hard‐over faults are integrated by a unified fault model. By utilizing a novel adaptive logic‐based switching control scheme, the actuator faults can be detected and automatically accommodated by switching from the stuck actuator to the healthy or even partly losing‐effectiveness one with bias, in the presence of large parametric uncertainty. In particular, two switching logics for updating the gain in the output feedback controllers are designed to ensure the global stability of the nominal (fault‐free) system and the boundedness of all closed‐loop signals of the faulty system, respectively. Two simulation examples of an aircraft wing model and a single‐link flexible‐joint robot are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed FTC controller. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Robust reliable control of uncertain nonlinear stochastic systems subject to actuator fault

This paper addresses the issue of robust reliable stabilization for a class of uncertain nonlinear stochastic systems with both discrete and distributed time-varying delays and possible occurrence of actuator faults. By constructing a new Lyapunov functional and using linear matrix inequality technique, a new set of sufficient conditions is established for the stochastic stability of the uncertain nonlinear stochastic systems. Then, sufficient conditions are obtained for the solvability of the robust stabilization problem via robust reliable controller. More precisely, the derived control law guarantees the robust stabilization of nonlinear stochastic systems in the presence of known actuator failure matrix and uncertainties. Further, the results are extended to study the stabilization of stochastic systems with unknown actuator failure matrix. Moreover, the obtained criteria are formulated in terms of LMIs and also the reliable controller can be designed in terms of the solutions to certain linear matrix inequalities. Finally, numerical examples with simulation result are presented to demonstrate the validity and less conservatism of the obtained results.     

Robust adaptive fault-tolerant control for time delay uncertain nonlinear systems with time-varying performance bounds

In this paper, a robust adaptive fault tolerant controller guaranteeing with time-varying performance bounds is designed for a class of time delay uncertain nonlinear systems subject to actuator failures and external disturbance. The influence of time delay on the system is mitigated and the system performance can be guaranteed by introducing a positive nonlinear control gain function and the generalised restricted potential function. A new method with more design degrees of freedom is developed to ensure the norm of the system state within a-priori, user-defined time varying performance bounds. Using the online estimation information provided by adaptive mechanism, a robust adaptive fault-tolerant control method guaranteeing time varying performance bounds is proposed. It is shown that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop system are bounded and the system state less than a-priori, user-defined performance bounds. Finally, simulation results are given to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed fault-tolerant control method.     

基于预设性能的非仿射非线性系统自适应有限时间控制

针对一类具有死区的非仿射非线性系统,将预设性能控制与有限时间控制相结合,提出一种具有预设性能的自适应有限时间跟踪控制方法.基于Backstepping技术、模糊逻辑系统及有限时间Lyapunov稳定理论,给出使系统半全局实际有限时间稳定(semi-globally practically finite-time stable,SGPFS)的充分条件和设计步骤.该控制策略不仅使系统的输出误差在有限时间内收敛到一个预先设定区域,同时保证其收敛速度、最大超调量和稳态误差均满足预先设定的性能要求.最后通过仿真示例验证了所提出设计方法的有效性.     

Asymptotic tracking control of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems with extended condition for controllability

For uncertain multiple-inputs multi-outputs nonlinear systems, it is nontrivial to achieve asymptotic tracking due to the intrinsic coupling among inputs, while the controllability conditions in most existing methods are rather restrictive or even impractical especially when unexpected actuator faults are involved. In this article, we focus on extending such controllability condition by resorting to the existence (instead of a priori knowledge) of some feasible auxiliary matrix, upon which a robust adaptive control scheme is first presented in the absence of actuator faults that is not only able to achieve asymptotic tracking even in the presence of non-parametric uncertainties with all the closed-loop signals globally ultimately uniformly bounded, but also able to deal with a larger class of system models. Furthermore, for the case with intermittent actuator faults, we develop a fault-tolerant control scheme with extended condition for controllability that is able to accommodate such faults automatically without using any fault detection or fault diagnosis unit. The effectiveness and benefits of the proposed method are verified via simulation on robotic systems.     

Event‐triggered control design for nonlinear systems with actuator failures and uncertain disturbances

Traditional adaptive event‐triggered design methods compensated for the event‐triggered error are not direct, and the stability analysis of resulting close‐loop systems is rather complicated. To alleviate the above restrictions, we propose a direct and simple event‐triggered co‐design method to solve the tracking control problem for parameter strict‐feedback systems with actuator faults and uncertain disturbances. By introducing a compensating terms in a smooth function form of a conventional control law and certain positive integrable functions, the effects of actuator faults and event‐triggered error can be compensated completely. Such a direct design method has the following features: (i) a direct compensation of the event‐triggered error is achieved without introducing any extra design parameters; (ii) it is not necessary to know any bound information on the parameters of event‐triggered threshold, and global asymptotic tracking control of the overall closed‐loop system is achieved; and (iii) the resulting stability criteria of the proposed event‐triggered control design are much simpler and easier to fulfill by virtue of the introduced co‐design method. Simulations are then carried out to validate the proposed schemes.     

Parametrized guaranteed cost method with prescribed performance via critic-only ADP for uncertain nonlinear systems and disturbances

In this paper, a novel parametrized guaranteed cost control (PGCC) method with prescribed performance control (PPC) is proposed for nonlinear systems with unknown bounded uncertainties and external disturbances described by Euler-Lagrange (EL) equations. The proposed method is capable of ensuring a robust optimal performance in the presence of dynamics constraints without the specific information of nonlinear perturbation. As a consequence, the conditions in the form of disturbances and uncertainties are also relaxed. The augmented model is converted by transforming the uncertainties and disturbances in the original system to a mismatched term using asymmetric PPC. By designing and modifying the novel guaranteed cost function to account for the maximum value of the nonlinear perturbation, an infinite-horizon PGCC problem is proposed by the unconstrained stationary optimal control problem. The relevant proposed linear parametrized Hamilton-Jacobian-Bellman (PHJB) equation is approximated to solve by a critic-only neural network (NN) with efficient computationally. Uniformly ultimately bounded stability is guaranteed via a Lyapunov-based stability analysis. Finally, numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Robust adaptive fault‐tolerant tracking control for uncertain linear systems with time‐varying performance bounds

In this paper, the problem of robust adaptive fault‐tolerant tracking control with time‐varying performance bounds is investigated for a class of linear systems subject to parameter uncertainties, external disturbances and actuator failures. In order to ensure the norm of the tracking error less than the user‐defined time‐varying performance bounds, we propose a new control strategy which is predicated on the generalized restricted potential function. Compared with the existing result, a novel method which provides two design freedoms is developed to reduce the tracking error. According to the online estimation information provided by adaptive mechanism, a fault‐tolerant tracking control method guaranteeing time‐varying performance bounds is developed for robust tracking of reference model. It is shown that the closed‐loop signals are bounded and the tracking error within an a priori given, time‐varying performance bounds. A simulation result is provided to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed fault‐tolerant tracking control method.     

Adaptive prescribed performance tracking control for strict‐feedback nonlinear systems with zero dynamics

This paper focuses on the adaptive tracking control problem for strict‐feedback nonlinear systems with zero dynamics via prescribed performance. Based on polynomial fitting, an adjustable performance function is firstly proposed, whose parameters can be adjusted in real time according to the tracking error. Furthermore, an adaptive prescribed performance tracking controller is constructed via the backstepping method, which guarantees that all the states in the closed‐loop system are bounded. Meanwhile, the output tracking error falls within an adjustable performance boundary and asymptotically converges to zero. Simulation comparison demonstrates the advantages of the developed controller as follows: (1) the parameters of the adjustable performance function are adjusted online according to the tracking errors for a faster convergent performance boundary; (2) the steady‐state performance of the system is further optimized simultaneously.     

具有预设暂态性能的一类不确定非线性系统渐近状态跟踪控制

研究一类不确定非线性时变系统的预设暂态性能渐近状态跟踪控制问题.在无需系统函数先验知识的条件下,本文采用漏斗控制技术和障碍李雅普诺夫函数方法,提出了一种新颖的鲁棒自适应状态反馈控制策略.所设计的控制器不仅能够确保状态跟踪误差渐近收敛到零点,而且满足其预先设定的性能要求.仿真实例验证了所提控制策略的有效性.     

Adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems with actuator faults

This article develops an adaptive fuzzy control method for accommodating actuator faults in a class of unknown nonlinear systems with unmeasured states. The considered faults are modelled as both loss of effectiveness and lock-in-place (stuck at unknown place). With the help of fuzzy logic systems to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, a fuzzy adaptive observer is developed for estimating the unmeasured states. Combining the backstepping technique with the nonlinear tolerant-fault control theory, a novel adaptive fuzzy faults-tolerant control approach is constructed. It is proved that the proposed control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop system are bounded and the tracking error between the system output and the reference signal converges to a small neighbourhood of zero by appropriate choice of the design parameters. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the control approach.     

一类不确定非线性系统的预定性能自适应控制

本文研究了一类不确定严格反馈非线性系统的预定性能控制问题.为保证系统预定性能,引入了一个简单的障碍型Lyapunov函数.结合反推设计法,给出了一种新的自适应控制算法.理论与实验结果表明,所得控制器不仅保证了系统预定性能,且使得闭环系统所有信号有界.     

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.     

Robust adaptive control for a class of uncertain strict‐feedback nonlinear systems

In this paper, robust adaptive control is presented for a class of perturbed strict‐feedback nonlinear systems with both completely unknown control coefficients and parametric uncertainties. The proposed design method does not require the a priori knowledge of the signs of the unknown control coefficients. For the first time, the key technical Lemma is proven when the Nussbaum function is chosen by N(ζ)=ζ²cos(ζ), based on which the proposed robust adaptive scheme can guarantee the global uniform ultimate boundedness of the closed‐loop system signals. Simulation results show the validity of the proposed scheme. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive event‐triggered global fast finite‐time control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems

This article designs an adaptive event‐triggered controller to solve the problem of global finite‐time stabilization for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems. By using the symbol function technique, the event‐triggered error is completely compensated, the adaptive technique and the back‐stepping method are simultaneously applied to the controller design, and the new way of designing controller is completed on the basis of fast finite‐time stability theory. Subsequently, taking Lyapunov stability theorem into account, the system stability is proved, and the system is demonstrated by contradiction to be non‐zeno. Finally, giving a simulation example to display the feasibility of this method.     

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.     

Supervisory switching‐based prescribed performance control of unknown nonlinear systems against actuator failures

This article studies the fault‐tolerant control problem for unknown nonlinear strict‐feedback systems subject to actuator failures yet with dynamic redundancies. The prescribed performance control methodology is newly combined with a modification‐based supervisory switching strategy to solve the problem. To implement failure detection, the performance function is properly modified to synthesize a monitoring function to supervise the behavior of an error variable. Once a failure is detected, the current actuator is shut down and the backup actuator is switched in to execute the reconfigured control command. Compared with the existing results, (1) the postfailure and postswitching tracking performance is improved, other than uniform ultimate boundedness and (2) the dependence on extra robust control schemes (eg, adaptive or approximating structures) to deal with model uncertainties or the need to compute analytic derivatives of virtual control signals in the backstepping design is eliminated.     

Robust adaptive tracking of uncertain nonlinear systems by output feedback

We investigate the problem of robust adaptive tracking by output feedback for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems. Based on the high‐gain scaling technique and a new adaptive law, a linear‐like output feedback controller is constructed. Only one dynamic gain is designed, which makes the controller easier to implement. Furthermore, by modifying the update law, the adaptive controller is robust to bounded external disturbance and is able to guarantee the convergence of the output tracking error to an arbitrarily small residual set. A numerical example is used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems based on dynamic surface control technique

An adaptive output feedback control approach is studied for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems in the parametric output feedback form. Unlike the previous works on the adaptive output feedback control, the problem of ‘explosion of complexity’ of the controller in the conventional backstepping design is overcome in this paper by introducing the dynamic surface control (DSC) technique. In the previous schemes for the DSC technique, the time derivative for the virtual controllers is assumed to be bounded. In this paper, this assumption is removed. It can be proven that the resulting closed‐loop system is stable in the sense that all the signals are semi‐global uniformly ultimately bounded and the system output tracks the reference signal to a bounded compact set. A simulation example is given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.