基于Lyapunov方法和快速终端滑模的轨迹跟踪控制

针对移动机器人的运动学模型,提出一种具有全局渐近稳定性的跟踪控制器。该跟踪控制器的设计分为两部分：第一部分是采用全局快速终端滑动模态的思想设计了角速度的控制律,用来渐近镇定移动机器人跟踪的前向角误差;第二部分是采用Lyapunov方法设计了线速度的控制律,用来渐近镇定移动机器人跟踪的平面坐标误差。采用Lyapunov稳定性定理,证明了移动机器人在满足这些控制律条件下,实现了对参考轨迹的全局渐近跟踪。实验结果表明移动机器人能够有效地跟踪期望轨迹,有利于在实际应用中推广。     

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.     

基于视觉图像的全向移动机器人轨迹跟踪控制研究

机器人轨迹节点跟踪比较难,导致机器人实际轨迹偏离期望轨迹,所以设计基于视觉图像的全向移动机器人轨迹跟踪控制方法;构建全向移动机器人的运动学数学模型,以此确定机器人移动轨迹数学模型;以移动轨迹数学模型为基础,按照视觉图像划分标准对全向移动机器人运动图像的分割,通过分离目标节点的方式提取运动学特征参量,完成机器人轨迹节点跟踪处理;结合节点跟踪处理结果,将运动学不等式与误差向量作为机器人轨迹跟踪控制的约束条件,利用滑模变结构搭建轨迹跟踪控制模型,实现全向移动机器人轨迹跟踪控制;对比实验结果表明,所设计的方法应用后,全向移动机器人角速度曲线、线速度曲线与期望运动轨迹曲线之间的贴合程度均超过90%,满足全向移动机器人轨迹跟踪控制要求。     

Trajectory Tracking Control of Multi-DOF Robot without Considering System Dynamics

In this study, two different control logics have been designed for the position control of a robot with five degrees of freedom (DOFs). First, a sliding mode control with a sliding perturbation observer (SMCSPO) has been proposed. The SMCSPO is robust against perturbation, which is the sum of nonlinearities, parametric uncertainties, and external disturbances. To implement the SMCSPO, linear parameters of the system are required; however, these are difficult to identify. Moreover, it is exigent to derive the equation of motion for the multi-DOF robot. Accordingly, an integral sliding mode control (ISMC) has been designed for the position control of this multi-DOF robot. The ISMC controller does not require a mathematical model of the system. The ISMC control input applies a switching gain to compensate for the perturbation and system dynamics. In comparison with the SMCSPO, the ISMC has improved the tracking performance of the system because of its unique characteristics. Both control schemes have been implemented in MATLAB/Simulink. It has been observed that the tracking error of each ISMC joint is lower than that of the SMCSPO.

     

Tracking control for VTOL aircraft with disabled IMUs

This article focuses on the design of an output feedback controller able to achieve the asymptotic tracking of a reference trajectory for vertical take off and landing aircraft with disabled inertial measurement units (IMUs). Roll angle and roll rate cannot be measured directly when IMUs are disabled. A dynamic linear observer is designed to estimate the tracking errors of the roll angle and equivalent roll angular velocity with respect to their desired states. Moreover, based on the centre manifold theory and on the equivalent control, the closed-loop system is asymptotically convergent. The theoretical results are confirmed by computer simulations.     

轮式移动机器人固定时间轨迹跟踪控制

针对存在外部干扰的轮式移动机器人轨迹跟踪控制问题,提出一种固定时间轨迹跟踪控制方案.首先,对于轮式移动机器人的运动学误差模型,基于一种新颖的积分滑模面设计固定时间运动学速度控制器,使跟踪误差在固定时间收敛到原点所在的邻域内;其次,对于轮式移动机器人的动力学模型,设计固定时间干扰观测器对外部干扰信息进行估计,提出一种固定时间轨迹跟踪控制器,以确保动力学系统的固定时间稳定性,实现轮式移动机器人的高精度轨迹跟踪控制;最后,通过仿真结果验证所设计的轨迹跟踪控制方案的有效性.     

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.     

GBF-CMAC和滑模控制的柔性结构系统控制

针对一类不确定系统的跟踪控制,设计了一种将GBF-CMAC（cerebellar model articulation controller with Gauss basis function）与滑模控制相结合的控制系统。利用符号距离和分层结构减少了神经网络所需存储器的数量,并提出了一种神经网络参数的自适应学习律。将设计的控制器用于含有不确定性和欠驱动结构的高阶柔性直线结构系统的跟踪控制,并与一般滑模控制和积分滑模控制进行了比较。实验结果表明,所设计的控制器不仅具有较好的鲁棒性,而且改善了滑模控制存在的抖振问题。同时通过调整神经网络的参数对抖振进行控制,实现了抖振和跟踪性能之间的最优选择。     

轮式移动机器人的位置量测输出反馈轨迹跟踪控制

针对机器人的姿态角难以精确测量的困难,本文研究基于位置测量的轮式移动机器人的轨迹跟踪问题.首先提出一种利用机器人的位置信息估计其姿态角的降维状态观测器,当机器人的线速度严格大于零时,可保证姿态角观测误差的指数收敛.然后给出一种新的状态反馈轨迹跟踪控制律,当参考轨迹满足一定的激励条件时,可以保证机器人的线速度严格大于零且跟踪误差全局渐近收敛.进一步结合姿态角观测器和状态反馈控制律,得到一种输出反馈轨迹跟踪控制算法.理论分析表明,当参考轨迹满足一定的激励条件时,所提出的输出反馈控制算法可以保证跟踪误差的全局渐近收敛.最后对所提出的姿态角观测器、状态反馈和输出反馈轨迹跟踪控制算法进行了仿真验证,证实了算法的有效性,并且当存在位置测量误差时,所提出的输出反馈轨迹跟踪控制算法仍可以保证机器人对参考轨迹的实际跟踪.     

非完整约束多智能体系统基于屏障控制函数的分布式协同控制

本文设计了一种基于屏障控制函数(CBF)的分布式协同控制算法,实现了领航–跟随者框架下非完整约束多智能体系统的连通性与编队控制.首先,通过将连通性保持问题建模为系统约束,定义了该约束的调零屏障函数(ZBF).其次,在此基础上,构建李雅普诺夫函数与角速度输入之间的关系,对跟随者智能体设计了基于调零屏障函数的协同控制算法,其中线速度控制器保证跟随者的速度的跟踪与队形的跟踪,而梯度型角速度控制器实现跟随者角度的矫正.然后,利用调零屏障函数不变集相关引理证明了连通性约束集为正不变集,若初始时刻连通,则跟随者智能体始终与领航者保持连通性.同时,本文提出的算法实现编队误差的渐近收敛.本文中的队形适用常见的固定队形编队需求,也适用于领航者是动态(有线速度和角速度)的情况.最后,通过数值仿真进一步验证了该算法在不同队形需求下的有效性.     

Robust tracking of the heating value in an underground coal gasification process using dynamic integral sliding mode control and a gain-scheduled modified Utkin observer

In this paper, a model-based control and state reconstruction of an underground coal gasification (UCG) process is elaborated. In order to deploy model-based control strategies, a sophisticated model of the UCG process based on partial differential equations is approximated with a nonlinear control-oriented model that adequately preserves the fundamental dynamic characteristics of the process. A robust dynamic integral sliding mode control (DISMC) is designed based on the control-oriented model to track the desired heating value, which is one of the key indicators for evaluating the performance of an UCG process. Unknown states required for the model-based control are reconstructed using a gain-scheduled modified Utkin observer (GSMUO). In order to assess the robustness of the nonlinear control and estimation techniques, the water influx phenomenon is considered as an input disturbance. Moreover, the underlying UCG plant model is subjected to parametric variations as well as measurement noise. In order to guarantee the stability of the overall system, the boundedness of the internal dynamics is also proved. To make a fair comparison, the performance of the proposed controller is compared with an integral sliding mode control (ISMC) and a classical proportional-integral (PI) controller. Simulation results highlight the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme in terms of minimum control energy and improved tracking error. Moreover, the simulation study shows that the combination of DISMC and GSMUO exhibit robustness against an input disturbance, parametric uncertainties and measurement noise.     

Continuous adaptive-gain finite-time control for rigid body attitude dynamics on SO(3)

In this paper, the attitude tracking problem for the rigid body with model uncertainties and external disturbances is investigated in a coordinate-free way. A continuous adaptive-gain second-order sliding mode controller is designed to ensure the establishment of a real second-order sliding mode in finite time, and then the predefined nonsingular fast sliding surface further implies finite-time stability of the attitude error vector and the angular velocity error vector. The key feature of the proposed controller is that it does not require the knowledge of the boundary of the disturbance gradient. A rigorous mathematical proof for the stability of the control system is derived by using the Lyapunov function technique. Finally, simulation comparisons illustrate the effectiveness and robustness of the controller.     

离轴式拖车移动机器人的任意路径跟踪控制

离轴式拖车移动机器人属于非完整系统,当车头线速度随时间变化且过零变号时,难以用一个控制器实现系统对期望路径的跟踪.本文研究离轴式拖车移动机器人系统的任意路径跟踪问题.首先由系统和虚拟小车的运动学方程得到误差状态模型,线性化后用坐标变换将其化为标准型,然后基于Lyapunov方法构造出一种跟踪控制律.只要车头的运动线速度有界且不趋于零,其导数有界,则所设计的控制律就可以保证系统跟踪任意的期望路径,且跟踪误差最终一致有界,最终界的大小与期望路径的曲率变化率成比例.当期望路径的曲率变化率为零或趋于零时,所设计的控制律可以保证拖车移动机器人指数收敛到期望路径.仿真结果证实了控制律的有效性.     

智能车辆的滑模轨迹跟踪控制

智能车辆是集各种机械装置、传感器、计算机于一体的复杂非线性系统,其轨迹跟踪控制器是研究的关键技术之一。针对高速自主导航智能车辆轨迹跟踪控制器鲁棒性、精确性和实时性的高要求,在智能车辆结构组成与运动模型基础上,设计了一种滑模变结构控制器。通过控制智能车辆的线速度和角速度实现智能车辆对任意路径的跟踪,并用Matlab进行了仿真实验。结果验证了该方法的有效性和可靠性。     

非线性积分滑模控制方法

针对一类不确定非线性系统的滑模控制,提出了一类具有"小误差放大,大误差饱和"功能的光滑非线性饱和函数来改进传统的积分滑模控制,以形成非线性积分滑模控制.在保持传统积分滑模控制跟踪精度的同时获得更好的暂态性能.应用Lyapunov稳定性理论和LaSalle不变性原理证明了对最终常值干扰可以完全抑制.考虑控制受限时,所设计...     

受侧滑和滑移影响的移动机器人自抗扰控制

对存在侧滑和滑移干扰问题的轮式移动机器人轨迹跟踪问题进行研究。首先利用移动机器人系统的运动学模型,通过设计其辅助运动学控制器,使得机器人的辅助速度渐近收敛到期望速度;然后利用反步法思想设计了基于动力学模型的一阶线性自抗扰控制（LADRC）,通过扩张状态观测器（ESO）实时估计和补偿机器人运行过程中的侧滑和滑移干扰,使得机器人的实际速度渐近收敛到辅助速度;最终使得移动机器人的轨迹误差渐近趋近于零。通过仿真及实验验证了所设计方法的有效性。     

State observer-based robust control scheme for electrically driven robot manipulators

By using a state observer, a new robust trajectory tracking control scheme is developed in this paper for electrically driven robot manipulators. The role of the observer is to estimate joint angular velocities. The proposed controller does not employ adaptation, but assures robust stability of tracking error between joint angles and desired trajectories. At sacrificing asymptotical stability of the tracking errors, the configuration of the proposed controller becomes very simple, compared with regressor-based adaptive controllers. It is shown in the closed-loop system using the proposed controller that the Euclidian norm of tracking errors arrives at any small closed region with any convergent rate by setting only one design parameter. Especially for the desired trajectories converging to constant ultimate values, it is assured that tracking errors converge to zero.     

Predictor‐based repetitive learning control for a class of remote control nonlinear systems

In this paper, a repetitive learning control (RLC) approach is proposed for a class of remote control nonlinear systems satisfying the global Lipschitz condition. The proposed approach is to deal with the remote tracking control problem when the environment is periodic or repeatable over infinite time domain. Since there exist time delays in the two transmission channels: from the controller to the actuator and from the sensor to the controller, tracking a desired trajectory through a remote controller is not an easy task. In order to solve the problem caused by time delays, a predictor is designed on the controller side to predict the future state of the nonlinear system based on the delayed measurements from the sensor. The convergence of the estimation error of the predictor is ensured. The gain design of the predictor applies linear matrix inequality (LMI) techniques developed by Lyapunov Kravoskii method for time delay systems. The RLC law is constructed based on the feedback error from the predicted state. The overall tracking error tends to zero asymptotically over iterations. The proof of the stability is based on a constructed Lyapunov function related to the Lyapunov Kravoskii functional used for the proof of the predictor's convergence. By well incorporating the predictor and the RLC controller, the system state tracks the desired trajectory independent of the influence of time delays. A numerical simulation example is shown to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于鲁棒滑模观测器的两关节柔性机械手控制

柔性机械手系统为非最小相位系统, 当控制有界时, 该特性阻碍其端点位移渐近跟踪期望轨迹. 本文首先重新定义柔性机械手系统的输出, 通过输入输出线性化, 将系统分解为输入输出子系统和零动态子系统; 然后提出一种用于观测柔性模态导数的鲁棒滑模观测器, 使状态估计达到预期的指标, 解决了柔性模态导数难以获得的问题; 设计积分滑模控制策略, 使输入输出子系统在有限时间收敛到零; 选择适当的控制器参数, 使零动态子系统在 平衡点附近渐近稳定, 从而保证整个系统的渐近稳定. 本文提出的方法设计过程简单, 易于实现. 仿真结果证明了设计的有效性.     

Fast terminal sliding mode tracking control of hypersonic vehicles based on non-homogeneous disturbance observer

The tracking control problem of hypersonic vehicles is studied and analyzed in this paper using terminal sliding mode control method (TSMC) and non-homogeneous disturbance observer(NHDO) considering parametric uncertainty and external disturbances. Non-singular terminal sliding mode controller is provided based on NHDO. The key idea is that the NHDO is adopted to estimate the aerodynamic uncertainties and external disturbances simultaneously, which can enhance the robustness of the system and lower the gain of the switch controller. Rigorous stability analysis for the closed-loop system is given via Lyapunov stability theory, which proves that the system states are always bounded even during the estimation process when the estimation error is not zero. The sliding manifold can be reached in finite time and the tracking errors can converge to zero asymptotically. Numerical simulations are conducted with the longitudinal nonlinear dynamic model of hypersonic vehicles to verify the effectiveness and robustness of the designed controller.