滑动与打滑条件下的轮式移动机器人自抗扰跟踪控制

针对具有未知的滑动与打滑的轮式移动机器人(WMR),提出了一种基于自抗扰思想的跟踪控制策略.首先建立了滑动与打滑条件下的轮式移动机器人动力学模型.其次,由反步法设计运动学控制器,基于模型设计线性扩张观测器和动力学控制器,并给出了控制器稳定性分析.最后与积分滑模控制进行了仿真对比,结果表明该控制方法的误差收敛速度更快.观测器能够精确估计滑动与打滑及动力学不确定性对机器人的扰动,提高了轮式移动机器人轨迹跟踪的鲁棒性.     

Adaptive backstepping sliding mode control with tuning functions for nonlinear uncertain systems

An adaptive backstepping tuning functions sliding mode controller is proposed for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear uncertain systems. In this control design, adaptive backstepping is used to deal with unknown or uncertain parameters and the matching condition restricting the Lyapunov based design. The main drawback of the Lyapunov based adaptive backstepping which is the overparametrisation is eliminated by the tuning functions. The adaptive backstepping tuning functions design is combined with the sliding mode control in order to overcome quickly varying parametric and unstructured uncertainties, and to obtain chattering free control. The proposed controller not only provides robustness property against uncertainty but also copes with the overparametrisation problem. Experimental results of the proposed controller are compared with those of the standard sliding mode controller. The proposed controller exhibits satisfactory transient performance, good estimates of the uncertain parameters, and less chattering.     

Backstepping sliding mode control with FWNN for strict output feedback non-smooth nonlinear dynamic system

An output feedback backstepping sliding mode control scheme was developed for precision positioning of a strict single-input and single-output (SISO) non-smooth nonlinear dynamic system that could compensate for deadzone, dynamic friction, uncertainty and estimations of immeasurable states. An adaptive fuzzy wavelet neural networks (FWNNs) technique was used to provide improved approximation ability to the system uncertainty. The adaptive laws were derived for application to estimate the deadzone and friction parameters using recursive backstepping controller design procedures. In addition, the sliding mode control method was also combined to enforce the robustness of the output feedback backstepping controller against disturbance. The Lyapunov stability theorem was used to prove stability of the proposed control system. The usefulness of the proposed control system was verified by simulations and experiments on a robot manipulator in the presence of a deadzone and friction in the actuator.     

Adaptive integral backstepping sliding mode control for opto-electronic tracking system based on modified LuGre friction model

In order to improve the control accuracy and stability of opto-electronic tracking system fixed on reef or airport under friction and external disturbance conditions, adaptive integral backstepping sliding mode control approach with friction compensation is developed to achieve accurate and stable tracking for fast moving target. The nonlinear observer and slide mode controller based on modified LuGre model with friction compensation can effectively reduce the influence of nonlinear friction and disturbance of this servo system. The stability of the closed-loop system is guaranteed by Lyapunov theory. The steady-state error of the system is eliminated by integral action. The adaptive integral backstepping sliding mode controller and its performance are validated by a nonlinear modified LuGre dynamic model of the opto-electronic tracking system in simulation and practical experiments. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed controller can effectively realise the accuracy and stability control of opto-electronic tracking system.     

非匹配不确定非线性系统的自适应反演滑模控制

针对一类具有非匹配不确定性的最小相位仿射非线性系统,研究其在未知扰动作用下的调节问题。基于自适应反演设计方法和变结构控制设计了控制方案,实现不确定系统的鲁棒调节。与经典反演设计相比,本方案允许非参数化不确定性,增强了控制系统的鲁棒性。     

Adaptive Backstepping Sliding Mode Control of Tractor-trailer System with Input Delay Based on RBF Neural Network

In this paper, an adaptive sliding mode neural network(NN) control method is investigated for input delay tractor-trailer system with two degrees of freedom. An uncertain camera-object kinematic tracking error model of a tractor car with n trailers with input delay is proposed. Radial basis function neural networks(RBFNNs) are applied to approximate the unknown functions in the error model. A sliding mode surface with variable structure control is designed by using backstepping method. Then, an adaptive NN sliding mode control method is thus obtained by combining Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals. The controller realizes the global asymptotic trajectories tracking of the kinematics system. The stability of the closed-loop system is strictly proved by the Lyapunov theory. Matlab simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method.

     

Adaptive neural network tracking control for manipulators with uncertain kinematics, dynamics and actuator model

A neural-network-based adaptive controller is proposed for the tracking problem of manipulators with uncertain kinematics, dynamics and actuator model. The adaptive Jacobian scheme is used to estimate the unknown kinematics parameters. Uncertainties in the manipulator dynamics and actuator model are compensated by three-layer neural networks. External disturbances and approximation errors are counteracted by robust signals. The actuator controller is designed based on the backstepping scheme. Compared with the existing work, the proposed method considers the manipulator kinematics uncertainty, does not need the “linearity-in-parameters” assumption for the uncertain terms in the dynamics of manipulator and actuator, and guarantees the tracking error to be as small as desired. Finally, the performance of the proposed approach is illustrated by the simulation example.     

An optimal adaptive robust PID controller subject to fuzzy rules and sliding modes for MIMO uncertain chaotic systems

In this paper, an optimal adaptive robust PID controller based on fuzzy rules and sliding modes is introduced to present a general scheme to control MIMO uncertain chaotic nonlinear systems. In this control scheme, the gains of the PID controller are updated by using an adaptive mechanism, fuzzy rules, the gradient search method, and the chain rule of differentiation in order to minimize the sliding surfaces of sliding mode control. More precisely, sliding mode control is used as a supervisory controller to provide sufficient control inputs and guarantee the stability of the control approach. To ascertain the parameters of the proposed controller and avoid trial and error, the multi-objective genetic algorithm is employed to augment the performance of proposed controller. The chaotic system of a Duffing-Holmes oscillator and an industrial robotic manipulator are the case studies to evaluate the performance of the proposed control approach. The obtained results of this study regarding both systems are compared with the outcomes of two notable studies in the literature. The results and analysis prove the efficiency of the proposed controller with regard to MIMO uncertain systems having challenging external disturbances in terms of stability, minimum tracking error and optimal control inputs.     

具有未知干扰的无人机鲁棒滑模飞行控制

研究无人机飞行稳定性控制问题,由于无人机飞行控制系统存在时变外部干扰,飞行过程中升阴比变化激烈,控制稳定性难度较大。利用滑模控制良好的鲁棒能力提出一种神经网络的鲁棒飞行控制方法。因神经网络有良好非线性逼近能力,可对无人机飞行系统中的不确定进行在线逼近,并将神经网络权值误差引入到权值的自适应律中用以改善系统的动态性能。利用神经网络的组合,设计无人机鲁棒滑模飞行控制器。控制器分为两部分,一部分是等效控制器,另一部分是滑模控制器,能有效减小系统的跟踪误差。最后将所设计的鲁棒滑模控制对无人机飞行姿态控制进行仿真。仿真结果表明,新方法能提高无人机的鲁棒飞行控制能力且能实现无人机姿态的精确跟踪和稳定性控制。     

RCMAC-based adaptive control for uncertain nonlinear systems.

An adaptive control system, using a recurrent cerebellar model articulation controller (RCMAC) and based on a sliding mode technique, is developed for uncertain nonlinear systems. The proposed dynamic structure of RCMAC has superior capability to the conventional static cerebellar model articulation controller in an efficient learning mechanism and dynamic response. Temporal relations are embedded in RCMAC by adding feedback connections in the association memory space so that the RCMAC provides a dynamical structure. The proposed control system consists of an adaptive RCMAC and a compensated controller. The adaptive RCMAC is used to mimic an ideal sliding mode controller, and the compensated controller is designed to compensate for the approximation error between the ideal sliding mode controller and the adaptive RCMAC. The online adaptive laws of the control system are derived based on the Lyapunov stability theorem, so that the stability of the system can be guaranteed. In addition, in order to relax the requirement of the approximation error bound, an estimation law is derived to estimate the error bound. Finally, the simulation and experimental studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme for the nonlinear systems with unknown dynamic functions.     

Adaptive dynamic surface control for uncertain nonaffine nonlinear systems

This paper focuses on the problem of adaptive control for uncertain nonaffine nonlinear systems. The original nonaffine systems are transformed into the augmented affine systems via adding an auxiliary integrator, which makes the explicit control design possible. By introducing a modified sliding mode filter in each step, a novel adaptive dynamic surface controller is proposed, where the ‘explosion of complexity’ problem inherent in the backstepping design is avoided. It is proven rigorously that for any initial control condition, the proposed adaptive scheme is able to ensure the semiglobal uniformly ultimately boundedness of all signals in the closed loop. An illustrative example is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Bio-inspired backstepping adaptive sliding mode control for parallel mechanism with actuation redundancy

This paper presents a bio-inspired backstepping adaptive sliding mode control strategy for a novel 3 degree of freedom (3-DOF) parallel mechanism with actuation redundancy. Based on the kinematic model and the dynamic model, a sliding mode controller is designed to assure the tracking performance, and an adaptive law is introduced to approximate the system uncertainty including parameters’ variation, external disturbances and un-modeled part. Furthermore, a bio-inspired model is introduced to solve the inherent chattering problem of sliding mode control and provide a chattering free control. The simulation and experimental results testify that the proposed bio-inspired backstepping adaptive sliding mode control can achieve better performance (the tracking accuracy, robustness, response speed, etc.) than the conventional slide mode control.     

动力定位船轨迹跟踪鲁棒自适应容错控制

本文研究了输入饱和状态下的动力定位船故障容错鲁棒自适应控制问题.该问题以动力定位船轨迹跟踪任务为目标,提出了一种新颖的鲁棒自适应控制器的设计,并且引入了二阶快速非奇异终端滑模和神经网络控制算法保证了控制器在实际任务中的执行效果.首先,介绍了三自由度动力定位船的运动模型包括了运动学模型和动力学模型以及推进器故障模型.然后,设计了二阶快速非奇异终端滑模面,提出了一种针对时变扰动和模型不确定性的鲁棒控制方案,保证系统无抖振现象的前提下实现了系统更快的收敛速度.同时运用被动容错控制思想,确保动力定位船在推进器故障发生时依然能够实现预计的跟踪性能.此外,通过Lyapunov稳定性判据分析,证明了提出的改进自适应滑模控制方法可确保系统在初始状态未知前提下,跟踪误差渐近收敛于零.最后,通过数值仿真实验结果验证了控制律的有效性.     

Dynamic adaptive trajectory tracking control of nonholonomic mobile robots using multiple models approach

This paper presents an approach for the trajectory tracking control of nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots (WMR) by combining one of the existing adaptive control methods and multiple identification models. The overall system includes two types of controllers in the control scheme. A kinematic controller developed by using kinematic model produces the required linear and angular velocities of the robot for tracking a reference trajectory. These required velocities are used to calculate the torques using an adaptive dynamic controller with multiple models. The proposed method uses the multiple models of the WMR for the identification of the dynamic parameters and performs switching between the given models. The models used in the identification are identical, except for the initial estimates of the parameters. By using an adaptive dynamic controller with multiple models of the WMR, enhancement in transient response is obtained. Stability analysis of the overall system is given, and simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effective performance of the adaptive control by using multiple models approach.     

Backstepping approach for design of PID controller with guaranteed performance for micro-air UAV

Flight controllers for micro-air UAVs are generally designed using proportional-integral-derivative (PID) methods, where the tuning of gains is difficult and time-consuming, and performance is not guaranteed. In this paper, we develop a rigorous method based on the sliding mode analysis and nonlinear backstepping to design a PID controller with guaranteed performance. This technique provides the structure and gains for the PID controller, such that a robust and fast response of the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) for trajectory tracking is achieved. First, the second-order sliding variable errors are used in a rigorous nonlinear backstepping design to obtain guaranteed performance for the nonlinear UAV dynamics. Then, using a small angle approximation and rigorous geometric manipulations, this nonlinear design is converted into a PID controller whose structure is naturally determined through the backstepping procedure. PID gains that guarantee robust UAV performance are finally computed from the sliding mode gains and from stabilizing gains for tracking error dynamics. We prove that the desired Euler angles of the inner attitude controller loop are related to the dynamics of the outer backstepping tracker loop by inverse kinematics, which provides a seamless connection with existing built-in UAV attitude controllers. We implement the proposed method on actual UAV, and experimental flight tests prove the validity of these algorithms. It is seen that our PID design procedure yields tighter UAV performance than an existing popular PID control technique.     

Adaptive neural network asymptotical tracking control for an uncertain nonlinear system with input quantisation

In this paper, the problem of adaptive neural network asymptotical tracking is investigated for a class of nonlinear system with unknown function, external disturbances and input quantisation. Based on neural network technique, an adaptive asymptotical tracking controller is provided for an uncertain nonlinear system via backstepping method. In order to reduce complexity of the control algorithm in the backstepping design process, a sliding mode differentiator is employed to estimate the virtual control law and only two parameters need to be estimated via adaptive control technique. The stability of the closed-loop system is analysed by using Lyapunov function method and zero-tracking error performance is obtained in the presence of unknown nonlinear function, external disturbances and input quantisation. Finally, an application example is employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Dynamics and control of a novel 3-DOF parallel manipulator with actuation redundancy

This paper deals with the dynamics and control of a novel 3-degrees-of-freedom （DOF） parallel manipulator with actuation redundancy. According to the kinematics of the redundant manipulator, the inverse dynamic equation is formulated in the task space by using the Lagrangian formalism, and the driving force is optimized by utilizing the minimal 2-norm method. Based on the dynamic model, a synchronized sliding mode control scheme based on contour error is proposed to implement accurate motion tracking control. Additionally, an adaptive method is introduced to approximate the lumped uncertainty of the system and provide a chattering-free control. The simulation results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches and demonstrate the satisfactory tracking performance compared to the conventional controller in the presence of the parameter uncertainties and un-modelled dynamics for the motion control of manipulators.     

Design of a sliding mode controller for an automatic guided vehicle and its implementation

In this paper, a control scheme that combines a kinematic controller and a sliding mode dynamic controller with external disturbances is proposed for an automatic guided vehicle to track a desired trajectory with a specified constant velocity. It provides a method of taking into account specific mobile robot dynamics to convert desired velocity control inputs into torques for the actual mobile robot. First, velocity control inputs are designed for the kinematic controller to make the tracking error vector asymptotically stable. Then, a sliding mode dynamic controller is designed such that the mobile robot’s velocities converge to the velocity control inputs. The control law is obtained based on the backstepping technique. System stability is proved using the Lyapunov stability theory. In addition, a scheme for measuring the errors using a USB camera is described. The simulation and experimental results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.     

Adaptive neural integral sliding‐mode control for tracking control of fully actuated uncertain surface vessels

This paper develops a novel adaptive neural integral sliding‐mode control to enhance the tracking performance of fully actuated uncertain surface vessels. The proposed method is built based on an integrating between the benefits of the approximation capability of neural network (NN) and the high robustness and precision of the integral sliding‐mode control (ISMC). In this paper, the design of NN, which is used to approximate the unknown dynamics, is simplified such that just only one simple adaptive rule is needed. The ISMC, which can eliminate the reaching phase and offer higher tracking performance compared to the conventional sliding‐mode control, is designed such that the system robust against the approximation error and stabilize the whole system. The design procedure of the proposed controller is constructed according to the backstepping control technique so that the stability of the closed‐loop system is guaranteed based on Lyapunov criteria. The proposed method is then tested on a simulated vessel system using computer simulation and compared with other state‐of‐the‐art methods. The comparison results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive neural sliding mode compensator for a class of nonlinear systems with unmodeled uncertainties

This paper addresses the problem of adaptive neural sliding mode control for a class of multi-input multi-output nonlinear system. The control strategy is an inverse nonlinear controller combined with an adaptive neural network with sliding mode control using an on-line learning algorithm. The adaptive neural network with sliding mode control acts as a compensator for a conventional inverse controller in order to improve the control performance when the system is affected by variations in its entire structure (kinematics and dynamics). The controllers are obtained by using Lyapunov's stability theory. Experimental results of a case study show that the proposed method is effective in controlling dynamic systems with unexpected large uncertainties.