Multivariable extension of global finite‐time HOSM based differentiator for output‐feedback unit vector and smooth binary control

In this paper, we propose a unit vector control law by output feedback to solve the problem of global exact output tracking for a class of multivariable uncertain plants with nonlinear disturbances. In order to face the nonuniform arbitrary relative degree obstacle, we extend our earlier estimation scheme based on global finite‐time differentiators using dynamic gains to a multivariable architecture. A diagonally stable condition over the system high‐frequency gain (HFG) matrix has to be assumed. Preserving the simplicity of its mono variable framework, variable gain super‐twisting algorithm (STA) is employed to obtain the robust and exact multivariable differentiator. Moreover, state‐norm observers for the unmeasured state variables are constructed to upper bound the disturbances as well as to update the differentiator gains, being both state dependent. Uniform global exponential stability and ultimate exact tracking are proved. As an alternative to chattering alleviation, we appeal to the Emelyanov's concept of binary control in order to obtain a continuous control signal replacing the unit vector function in the controller by a high‐gain gradient adaptive law with parameter projection. As shown in the existing literature for mono variable systems, the proposed multiparameter binary‐adaptive formulation tends to the unit vector control as the adaptation gain increases to infinity, also smoothing the transition from adaptive to sliding mode control. A numerical example is portrayed to illustrate the potentialities of the developed multivariable techniques.     

A Robust Backstepping Sensorless Control for Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Using a Super‐Twisting Based Torque Observer

In order to achieve high‐performance speed regulation for sensorless interior permanent magnet synchronous motors (IPMSMS), a robust backstepping sensorless control is presented in this paper. Firstly, instead of a real mechanical sensor, a robust terminal sliding mode observer is used to provide the rotor position. Then, a new super‐twisting algorithm (STA) based observer is designed to obtain estimates of load torque and speed. The proposed observer ensures finite‐time convergence, maintains robust to uncertainties, and eliminates the common assumption of constant or piece‐wise constant load torque. Finally, a sensorless scheme is designed to realize speed control despite parameter uncertainties, by combining the robust backstepping control with sliding mode actions and the presented sliding mode observers. The stability of the observer and controller are verified by using Lyapunov's second method to determine the design gains. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

基于自适应模糊滑模控制的分数阶混沌系统的投影同步

基于模糊控制理论和滑模控制理论以及自适应控制理论,研究了一类含有外部扰动的不确定分数阶混沌系统的混合投影同步问题.提出了一种自适应模糊滑模控制的分数阶混沌系统投影同步方法.模糊逻辑系统用来逼近未知的非线性函数和外部扰动,并且对逼近误差采用了自适应控制,同时构造了一种具有较强鲁棒性的分数阶积分滑模面.应用分数阶Barbalat引理设计了自适应模糊滑模控制器和参数自适应律.最后数值仿真结果验证了所提控制方法的有效性.     

永磁同步电动机新型自适应滑模控制

永磁同步电动机(PMSM)是多变量、强耦合、非线性时变系统, 对外界干扰及内部参数摄动较为敏感, 为提高系统的鲁棒性, 本文提出一种基于非线性滑模面的自适应滑模变结构控制方法. 根据复合非线性反馈控制理论, 为PMSM滑模控制系统设计非线性滑模面, 通过实时改变控制系统的阻尼系数来提高PMSM伺服系统的瞬态响应性能. 在PMSM伺服系统外界扰动及内部参数摄动的上下界未知的情况下, 采用自适应参数校正律来调节控制增益的大小, 改善了系统的抖振现象. 此外, 对电机的电流及转速进行了饱和限制, 使得所设计的伺服控制系统可用于大范围的位移跟踪. 仿真结果表明, 与基于线性滑模面的控制器相比较, 本文所设计的基于非线性滑模面的自适应滑模控制器使得电机转子位移能够更快且无超调的到达给定值, 且系统的抖振现象明显减弱.     

A novel adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller design and its application to active front steering system

Note that the amplitude of chattering existing in the sliding mode control method is proportional to the magnitude of the control gain. Therefore, the key issue to diminish the chattering is to decrease the value of sliding mode controller's gain to an acceptable minimal level defined by the so‐called reaching condition for the sliding mode's existence. For this reason, the nonsingular terminal sliding mode (NTSM) control method and the adaptive technique have been considered in this paper to develop a novel adaptive NTSM control method, which can be used to search the minimal value of the control gain automatically in the presence of the external disturbances. Meanwhile, the average value of a high‐frequency switching signal in the adaptive law can be provided by Arie Levant's differentiator rather than a low‐pass filter. The rigorous mathematical proof verifies that the system states can converge to the origin within a finite time under the proposed adaptive NTSM controller. Both the academic example and the practical application to an active front steering system are illustrated to show that the presented adaptive NTSM controller has better control performance than the conventional sliding mode controller.     

Adaptive disturbance observer‐based finite‐time continuous fault‐tolerant control for reentry RLV

The control effectors of reusable launch vehicle (RLV) can produce significant perturbations and faults in reentry phase. Such a challenge imposes tight requirements to enhance the robustness of vehicle autopilot. Focusing on this problem, a novel finite‐time fault‐tolerant control strategy is proposed for reentry RLV in this paper. The key of this strategy is to design an adaptive‐gain multivariable finite‐time disturbance observer (FDO) to estimate the synthetical perturbation with unknown bounds, which is composed of model uncertainty, external disturbance, and actuator fault considered as the partial loss of actuator effectiveness in this work. Then, combined with the finite‐time high‐order observer and differentiator, a continuous homogeneous second‐order sliding mode controller based on the terminal sliding mode and super‐twisting algorithm is designed to achieve a fast and accurate RLV attitude tracking with chattering attenuation. The main features of the integrated control strategy are that the adaptation algorithm of FDO can achieve non‐overestimating values of the observer gains and the second‐order super‐twisting sliding mode approach can obtain a more elegant solution in finite time. Finally, simulation results of classical RLV (X‐33) are provided to verify the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed fault‐tolerant controller in tracking the guidance commands. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

自适应神经网络四旋翼无人机有限时间轨迹跟踪控制

针对带有模型不确定性和未知外部干扰的四旋翼无人机轨迹跟踪控制问题,提出一种基于径向基(radial basis function, RBF)神经网络的自适应全局快速终端滑模控制方法,确保系统对期望轨迹的有限时间跟踪。该方法考虑到全局快速终端滑模控制在实际应用中的适应性和抖振问题,利用RBF神经网络替代等效控制量,以神经网络的在线学习能力补偿系统内部的不确定性和未知的外部干扰,有效地降低了系统的抖振;根据Lyapunov方法导出的自适应律在线调整神经网络权值,以保证闭环系统的稳定性。通过一系列仿真算例和飞行实验验证了该方法的有效性与可行性,结果表明:该控制方法相对于滑模控制的抖振更小,具有更好的收敛性和抗干扰能力,同时对模型的参数摄动具有更强的鲁棒性。     

Adaptive sensorless robust control of AC drives based on sliding mode control theory

This paper focuses in the design of a new adaptive sensorless robust control to improve the trajectory tracking performance of induction motors. The proposed design employs the so‐called vector (or field oriented) control theory for the induction motor drives, being the designed control law based on an integral sliding‐mode algorithm that overcomes the system uncertainties. This sliding‐mode control law incorporates an adaptive switching gain in order to avoid the need of calculating an upper limit for the system uncertainties. The proposed design also includes a new method in order to estimate the rotor speed. In this method, the rotor speed estimation error is presented as a first‐order simple function based on the difference between the real stator currents and the estimated stator currents. The stability analysis of the proposed controller under parameter uncertainties and load disturbances is provided using the Lyapunov stability theory. The simulated results show, on the one hand that the proposed controller with the proposed rotor speed estimator provides high‐performance dynamic characteristics, and on the other hand that this scheme is robust with respect to plant parameter variations and external load disturbances. Finally, experimental results show the performance of the proposed control scheme. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Identification Recurrent Type 2 Fuzzy Wavelet Neural Network and L2‐Gain Adaptive Variable Sliding Mode Robust Control of Electro‐Hydraulic Servo System (EHSS)

An electro‐hydraulic servo system (EHSS) is a kind of system with the characteristics of time‐variant, serious nonlinearity, parameter and structural uncertainty, and uncertain load disturbance in most cases. These characteristics make it very difficult to realize highly accurate control by conventional methods. In order to solve the above problems, this paper introduces a recurrent type 2 fuzzy wavelet neural network to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions of the dynamic systems through tuning by the desired adaptive law. Based on the identification by recurrent type 2 fuzzy wavelet neural network, a L2 gain design method, combining gain adaptive variable sliding mode control with H infinity control, is proposed for load disturbance, thereby accommodating uncertainties that are the main factors affecting system stability and accuracy in EHSS. In this algorithm, a recurrent type 2 fuzzy wavelet neural network is employed to evaluate the unknown dynamic characteristics of the system and gain adaptive variable sliding mode control to compensate for evaluating errors, and H infinity control to suppress the effect on system by load disturbance. The experiment results show that the proposed system L2 gain design method can make the system exhibit strong robustness to parameter variation and load disturbance.     

Adaptive sliding mode control of uncertain nonlinear systems with preassigned settling time and its applications

This paper investigates the adaptive tracking control of second‐order nonlinear systems with nonlinearly parameterized uncertainties and disturbances, as well as multiplicative uncertainty in the control coefficient matrix. A novel adaptive function augmented sliding mode control approach is proposed such that the tracking error converges to a neighborhood of zero with the preassigned size within the preassigned settling time. In the proposed control scheme, the control gains increase as the adaptive estimate values increase only when necessary, that is, when the current control gains are not big enough to suppress the uncertainties or disturbances; as a result, the conservativeness of control design caused by unnecessary high control gains can be effectively reduced. Moreover, the chattering phenomenon well known in the sliding mode control is eliminated by using the saturation function to replace the signum function, and the possible persistent increasing problem of the adaptive estimate values due to measurement disturbances or noises on the feedback is also well addressed by introducing “dead‐zone” nonlinearities in the adaptive laws. In addition, an improved method to construct the desired error trajectory is proposed, and this method could avoid the large undershoot‐like or overshoot‐like phenomena, which the traditional one may result in. The obtained results are finally applied to the motion control of the underwater vehicle and the rendezvous control of spacecraft, and the simulation results illustrate the effectiveness and the advantages of the proposed control approach.     

An improved continuous sliding mode controller for flexible air‐breathing hypersonic vehicle

An improved continuous sliding mode control algorithm is proposed for a flexible air‐breathing hypersonic vehicle (FAHV), including nonsingular fast fixed‐time sliding surface (NFFS) and dual‐layer adaptive continuous twisting reaching law (DACTL). Firstly, the nonlinear control‐oriented model of FAHV is processed using input/output feedback linearization method with the significant flexible effects modeling as unknown matched disturbances. Secondly, a novel NFFS is improved from conventional fixed‐time sliding surface by adjusting power exponent to accelerate convergence rate. In the meanwhile, in order to avoid singularity aroused by fractional power term, an exponential convergent sliding surface is switched when tracking error approaches zero. Thirdly, a DACTL is proposed to realize finite‐time convergence of sliding mode variable with higher convergence precision and less chattering. Dual‐layer adaptive law is utilized to adjust the gain in DACTL based on equivalent control concept so as to enhance robustness automatically and avoid overestimation of control gain. Meanwhile, disturbances can be compensated without knowledge of Lipschitz constants. Ultimately, simulations on longitudinal control of FAHV demonstrate the control algorithm proposed is superior to conventional quasi‐continuous sliding mode controller in the aspect of convergence accuracy and chattering suppression.     

磁悬浮开关磁阻电机的自适应终端滑模控制

为解决磁悬浮开关磁阻电机受到外部环境未知干扰、内部参数摄动等不确定因素带来的影响,提出一种基于自适应终端滑模控制器的直接瞬时转矩及直接悬浮力控制策略.首先,对电机的数学模型进行分析并建立状态方程,采用直接瞬时转矩控制与直接悬浮力控制方法,以减小系统脉动;其次,设计非奇异终端滑模面,避免常规终端滑模控制中的奇异问题,并引入自适应律,结合终端滑模控制器以抑制不确定因素的干扰,保证系统的快速收敛、强鲁棒性;最后,与传统滑模控制器方法进行对比,验证该方法的有效性.仿真结果表明,所提出方法能迅速精准跟踪控制系统的转速及位移,有效提升状态收敛速度,抗扰能力强,具有良好的动态性能.     

基于干扰观测器的一类不确定非线性系统自适应二阶动态terminal滑模控制

针对一类不确定非线性系统的跟踪控制问题,在考虑建模误差、参数不确定和外部干扰情况下,以其拥有良好的跟踪性能以及强鲁棒性为目标,提出基于回归扰动模糊神经网络干扰观测器(recurrent perturbation fuzzy neural networks disturbance observer,RPFNNDO)的鲁棒自适应二阶动态terminal滑模控制策略.将回归网络、模糊神经网络和sine-cosine扰动函数各自优势相结合,给出一种回归扰动模糊神经网络结构,提出RPFNNDO设计方法,保证干扰估计准确性;构造基于带有指数函数滑模面的二阶快速terminal滑模面,给出其控制器设计过程,避免了滑模到达阶段、传统滑模的抖振问题,采用具有指数收敛的鲁棒项抑制干扰估计误差对系统跟踪性能的影响,利用Lyapunov理论证明闭环系统的稳定性;将该方法应用于混沌陀螺系统同步控制仿真实验,结果表明所提方法的有效性.     

Analysis and design of chattering‐free discrete‐time sliding mode control

In this paper, the disturbance observer–based chattering‐free discrete‐time sliding mode control (DSMC) approach is proposed for systems with external disturbances. The proposed disturbance observer, which makes full use of the state and input information at the current and last steps, improves the estimation accuracy and achieves accurate compensation for disturbances. Then, with the help of disturbance observer, a new reaching law, which contains not only a nonsmooth term with a dynamically adjusted gain parameter but also a second order difference of the disturbance, is proposed to reduce the range of the quasi‐sliding mode band and eliminate chattering. The proposed DSMC approach realizes the active disturbance rejection and strong robustness. Finally, a simulation example is presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

PMSM调速系统的自学习滑模控制

针对永磁同步电机存在对外界扰动及内部参数摄动较为敏感的问题,提出了一种自学习滑模控制方法.该方法设计了一类非线性光滑函数,并将其应用于扩张状态观测器和滑模趋近律中,同时采用最速下降法对滑模控制器增益参数进行自学习实时更新.仿真结果表明,与常规PI矢量控制方法相比,该控制方法不仅响应速度快、控制精度高,而且对系统外部扰动具有很强的抗扰能力.     

机械臂自适应反演超螺旋全局终端滑模控制

针对机械臂系统存在的系统参数摄动、非线性摩擦及外部干扰等不确定问题,提出一种自适应反演超螺旋全局终端滑模轨迹跟踪控制方法。该方法基于反演法、Lyapunov理论和全局快速终端滑模理论设计控制器,保证系统稳定性及全局收敛性,增强系统的鲁棒性。为解决系统集总扰动上界未知的问题,采用自适应技术设计切换控制律,抵消不确定性的影响,同时引入超螺旋算法抑制滑模控制固有的抖振现象。最后,通过理论分析和仿真算例验证了该控制器的有效性与可行性。     

Output feedback relay control in the second‐order sliding mode context with application to an electropneumatic system

In this paper, a new second‐order sliding mode output feedback control law is proposed. It amounts to approach the dynamic performance of the twisting algorithm, but the main advantage of this new control method is that it requires only the information of the sliding variable, and not its derivative. A gain adaptation law is also developed for this new control law. Then this control strategy is applied to the position control of an electropneumatic system, and its performance is compared with other two very recent adaptive second‐order sliding mode control laws. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive sliding‐mode control for Mars entry trajectory tracking with finite‐time convergence

This paper presents a novel adaptive sliding‐mode control (ASMC) method for Mars entry guidance and the finite‐time convergence in the presence of large uncertainties can be guaranteed. With the help of gain adaptive law, the nonoverestimating value of control gains can be achieved, and then, the chattering can be attenuated by the proposed ASMC method. Meanwhile, the extended state observer is introduced to estimate and compensate for uncertainties and the nonoverestimating problem is resolved further. In addition, the proposed method does not require any knowledge on the upper bound of uncertainty, which yields to be used in practical systems. Finally, the numerical simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed guidance law.     

Nonlinear fractional‐order power system stabilizer for multi‐machine power systems based on sliding mode technique

This paper presents two novel nonlinear fractional‐order sliding mode controllers for power angle response improvement of multi‐machine power systems. First, a nonlinear block control is used to handle nonlinearities of the interconnected power system. In the second step, a decentralized fractional‐order sliding mode controller with a nonlinear sliding manifold is designed. Practical stability is achieved under the assumption that the upper bound of the fractional derivative of perturbations and interactions are known. However, when an unknown transient perturbation occurs in the system, it makes the evaluation of perturbation and interconnection upper bound troublesome. In the next step, an adaptive‐fuzzy approximator is applied to fix the mentioned problem. The fuzzy approximator uses adjacent generators relative speed as own inputs, which is known as semi‐decentralized control strategy. For both cases, the stability of the closed‐loop system is analyzed by the fractional‐order stability theorems. Simulation results for a three‐machine power system with two types of faults are illustrated to show the performance of the proposed robust controllers versus the conventional sliding mode. Additionally, the fractional parameter effects on the system transient response and the excitation voltage amplitude and chattering are demonstrated in the absence of the fuzzy approximator. Finally, the suggested controller is combined with a simple voltage regulator in order to keep the system synchronism and restrain the terminal voltage variations at the same time. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A new practical robust control of cable‐driven manipulators using time‐delay estimation

In this paper, a new practical robust control scheme is proposed and investigated for the cable‐driven manipulators under lumped uncertainties. There are three parts in the proposed method, ie, a time‐delay estimation (TDE) part, a modified super‐twisting algorithm (STA) part, and a fractional‐order nonsingular terminal sliding mode (FONTSM) error dynamics part. The TDE uses intentionally time‐delayed system signals to estimate the lumped dynamics of the system and ensures an attractive model‐free control structure. The STA is applied to guarantee high performance and chattering suppression simultaneously in the reaching phase. The FONTSM error dynamics is utilized to obtain fast convergence and strong robustness in the sliding mode phase. Thanks to the above three parts, the proposed control scheme is model free and can ensure high control performance under lumped uncertainties. The stability considering the FONTSM error dynamics and modified STA scheme is analyzed. Comparative simulation and experiments were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiorities of the newly proposed control scheme. Corresponding experimental results show that our newly proposed control scheme can provide more than 20% improvement of the steady control accuracy under three different reference trajectories.