Adaptive backstepping neural control of state‐delayed nonlinear systems with full‐state constraints and unmodeled dynamics

In this paper, the problem of adaptive neural control is discussed for a class of strict‐feedback time‐varying delays nonlinear systems with full‐state constraints and unmodeled dynamics, as well as distributed time‐varying delays. The considered nonlinear system with full‐state constraints is transformed into a nonlinear system without state constraints by introducing a one‐to‐one asymmetric nonlinear mapping. Based on modified backstepping design and using radial basis function neural networks to approximate the unknown smooth nonlinear function and using a dynamic signal to handle dynamic uncertainties, a novel adaptive backstepping control is developed for the transformed system without state constraints. The uncertain terms produced by state time delays and distributed time delays are compensated for by constructing appropriate Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functionals. All signals in the closed‐loop system are proved to be semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design scheme.     

Direct adaptive neural tracking control for a class of stochastic pure‐feedback nonlinear systems with unknown dead‐zone

This paper considers the problem of adaptive neural tracking control for a class of nonlinear stochastic pure‐feedback systems with unknown dead zone. Based on the radial basis function neural networks' online approximation capability, a novel adaptive neural controller is presented via backstepping technique. It is shown that the proposed controller guarantees that all the signals of the closed‐loop system are semi‐globally, uniformly bounded in probability, and the tracking error converges to an arbitrarily small neighborhood around the origin in the sense of mean quartic value. Simulation results further illustrate the effectiveness of the suggested control scheme. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fuzzy adaptive control of a class of nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics

This paper investigates the tracking control problem for a class of pure‐feedback systems with unmodeled dynamics. The useful properties of the fuzzy basis functions and membership are explored to be used for stability analysis, and an alternative Lyapunov function depending on both control input and system state is utilized. Then, an adaptive fuzzy controller is designed to ensure that the tracking error is within a small adjustable neighborhood of the origin, where some conventional assumptions imposed on the unmodeled dynamics have been relaxed. Finally, simulation results are given to validate the theoretical results.     

Small-gain technique-based adaptive fuzzy command filtered control for uncertain nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics and disturbances

This article studies the adaptive tracking control problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics and disturbances. First, a fuzzy state observer is established to estimate unmeasurable states. To overcome the problem of calculating explosion caused by the repeated differentiation of the virtual control signals, the command filter with a compensation mechanism is applied to the controller design procedure. Meanwhile, with the help of the fuzzy logic systems and the backstepping technique, an adaptive fuzzy control scheme is proposed, which guarantees that all signals in the closed-loop systems are bounded, and the tracking error can converge to a small region around the origin. Furthermore, the stability of the systems is proven to be input-to-state practically stable based on the small-gain theorem. Finally, a simulation example verifies the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.     

A small‐gain approach for adaptive output‐feedback NN control of switched pure‐feedback nonlinear systems

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive output‐feedback neural network (NN) control for a class of switched pure‐feedback uncertain nonlinear systems. A switched observer is first constructed to estimate the unmeasurable states. Next, with the help of an NN to approximate the unknown nonlinear terms, a switched small‐gain technique‐based adaptive output‐feedback NN control scheme is developed by exploiting the backstepping recursive design scheme, input‐to‐state stability analysis, the common Lyapunov function method, and the average dwell time (ADT) method. In the recursive design, the difficulty of constructing an overall Lyapunov function for the switched closed‐loop system is dealt with by decomposing the switched closed‐loop system into two interconnected switched systems and constructing two Lyapunov functions for two interconnected switched systems, respectively. The proposed controllers for individual subsystems guarantee that all signals in the closed‐loop system are semiglobally, uniformly, and ultimately bounded under a class of switching signals with ADT, and finally, two examples illustrate the effectiveness of theoretical results, which include a switched RLC circuit system.     

Robust adaptive control of nonlinearly parameterized systems with unmodeled dynamics

Many physical systems such as biochemical processes and machines with friction are of nonlinearly parameterized systems with uncertainties. How to control such systems effectively is one of the most challenging problems. This paper presents a robust adaptive controller for a significant class of nonlinearly parameterized systems. The controller can be used in cases where there exist parameter and nonlinear uncertainties, unmodeled dynamics and unknown bounded disturbances. The design of the controller is based on the control Lyapunov function method. A dynamic signal is introduced and adaptive nonlinear damping terms are used to restrain the effects of unmodeled dynamics, nonlinear uncertainties and unknown bounded disturbances. The backstepping procedure is employed to overcome the complexity in the design. With the proposed method, the estimation of the unknown parameters of the system is not required and there is only one adaptive parameter no matter how high the order of the system is and how many unknown parameters there are. It is proved theoretically that the proposed robust adaptive control scheme guarantees the stability of nonlinearly parameterized system. Furthermore, all the states approach the equilibrium in arbitrary precision by choosing some design constants appropriately. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed robust adaptive controller. __________ Translated from Journal of Sichuan University (Engineering Science Edition), 2005, 37(5): 148–153 (in Chinese)     

Unifying adaptive control with the nonlinear PI methodology: Designs for unknown strict‐feedback nonlinear systems with nonsmooth actuator nonlinearities

In this paper, we extend the nonlinear PI control methodology within an adaptive control framework. An adaptive nonlinear PI controller is proposed for output tracking of strict‐feedback nonlinear systems with nonsmooth actuator nonlinearities and unknown control directions. The current approach relaxes the standard assumption of known bounds for the associated system nonlinearities made in earlier nonlinear PI schemes. New theoretical boundedness results have been proved that enable the successful combination of backstepping and linear parametric approximators with the nonlinear PI approach and ensure semiglobal approximate tracking of the output to some reference trajectory. Following recent extensions of the nonlinear PI method to strict‐feedback systems, the intermediate virtual control laws are derived through suitable integral equations. Simulation results are also presented in this paper that verify our theoretical analysis.     

Decentralized adaptive output‐feedback control for stochastic interconnected systems with stochastic unmodeled dynamic interactions

In this paper, we consider the problem of decentralized adaptive output‐feedback regulation for stochastic nonlinear interconnected systems with unknown virtual control coefficients, stochastic unmodeled dynamic interactions. The main contributions of the paper are as follows: (1) This paper presents the first result on decentralized output‐feedback control for stochastic nonlinear systems with unknown virtual control coefficients; (2) For stochastic interconnected systems with stochastic integral input‐to‐state stable unmodeled dynamics, and more general nonlinear uncertain interconnections which depend upon the outputs of subsystems and the stochastic unmodeled dynamics, a decentralized output‐feedback controller is designed to drive the outputs and states to the origin almost surely. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive output feedback dynamic surface control of stochastic nonlinear systems with state and input unmodeled dynamics

In this paper, an adaptive neural output feedback control scheme is investigated for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems with unmeasured states and four kinds of uncertainties including uncertain nonlinear function, dynamic disturbance, input unmodeled dynamics, and stochastic inverse dynamics. The unmeasured states are estimated by K‐filters, and stochastic inverse dynamics is dealt with by constructing a changing supply function. The considered input unmodeled dynamic subsystem possesses nonlinear feature, and a dynamic normalization signal is introduced to counteract the unstable effect produced by the input unmodeled dynamics. Combining dynamic surface control technique with stochastic input‐to‐state stability, small‐gain condition, and Chebyshev's inequality, the designed robust adaptive controller can guarantee that all the signals in the closed‐loop system are bounded in probability, and the error signals are semi‐globally uniformly ultimately bounded in mean square or the sense of four‐moment. Simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Observer‐based nonlinear feedback decentralized neural adaptive dynamic surface control for large‐scale nonlinear systems

This paper presents a nonlinear gain feedback technique for observer‐based decentralized neural adaptive dynamic surface control of a class of large‐scale nonlinear systems with immeasurable states and uncertain interconnections among subsystems. Neural networks are used in the observer design to estimate the immeasurable states and thus facilitate the control design. Besides avoiding the complexity problem in traditional backstepping, the new nonlinear feedback gain method endows an automatic regulation ability into the pioneering dynamic surface control design and improvement in dynamic performance. Novel Lyapunov function is designed and rigorous stability analysis is given to show that all the closed‐loop signals are kept semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded, and the output tracking errors can be guaranteed to converge to sufficient area around zero, with the bound values characterized by design parameters in an explicit manner. Simulation and comparative results are shown to verify effectiveness.     

Observer‐based adaptive neural control of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems with unknown control direction

This paper investigates adaptive neural network output feedback control for a class of uncertain multi‐input multi‐output (MIMO) nonlinear systems with an unknown sign of control gain matrix. Because the system states are not required to be available for measurement, an observer is designed to estimate the system states. In order to deal with the unknown sign of control gain matrix, the Nussbaum‐type function is utilized. By using neural network, we approximated the unknown nonlinear functions and perfectly avoided the controller singularity problem. The stability of the closed‐loop system is analyzed by using Lyapunov method. Theoretical results are illustrated through a simulation example. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive control of pure-feedback nonlinear systems with full-state time-varying constraints and unmodeled dynamics

This paper focuses on the problem of adaptive control for a class of pure-feedback nonlinear systems with full-state time-varying constraints and unmodeled dynamics. By introducing a one-to-one nonlinear mapping, the constrained pure-feedback nonlinear system with state and input unmodeled dynamics is transformed into unconstrained pure-feedback system. The controller design based on the transformed novel system is proposed by using a modified dynamic surface control method. Dynamic signal and normalization signal are designed to handle dynamical uncertain terms and input unmodeled dynamics, respectively. By adding nonnegative normalization signal into the whole Lyapunov function and using the introducing compact set in the stability analysis, all signals in the whole system are proved to be semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded, and all states can obey the time-varying constraint conditions. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Observer‐based adaptive control for stochastic nonstrict‐feedback systems with unknown backlash‐like hysteresis

This paper studies an observer‐based adaptive fuzzy control problem for stochastic nonlinear systems in nonstrict‐feedback form. The unknown backlash‐like hysteresis is considered in the systems. In the design process, the unknown nonlinearities and unavailable state variables are tackled by introducing the fuzzy logic systems and constructing a fuzzy observer, respectively. By using adaptive backstepping technique with dynamic surface control technique, an adaptive fuzzy control algorithm is developed. For the closed‐loop system, the proposed controller can guarantee all the signals are 4‐moment semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded. Finally, simulation results further show the effectiveness of the presented control scheme.     

Immersion and invariance adaptive control for discrete‐time systems in strict‐feedback form with input delay and disturbances

This work presents a new adaptive control algorithm for a class of discrete‐time systems in strict‐feedback form with input delay and disturbances. The immersion and invariance formulation is used to estimate the disturbances and to compensate the effect of the input delay, resulting in a recursive control law. The stability of the closed‐loop system is studied using Lyapunov functions, and guidelines for tuning the controller parameters are presented. An explicit expression of the control law in the case of multiple simultaneous disturbances is provided for the tracking problem of a pneumatic drive. The effectiveness of the control algorithm is demonstrated with numerical simulations considering disturbances and input‐delay representative of the application.     

Adaptive dynamic surface control of stochastic nonstrict-feedback constrained nonlinear systems with input and state unmodeled dynamics

In this paper, the issue of adaptive neural control is discussed for a class of stochastic nonstrict-feedback constrained nonlinear systems with input and state unmodeled dynamics. A dynamic signal produced by the first-order auxiliary system is employed to deal with the dynamical uncertain terms. Radial basis function neural networks are used to reconstruct unknown nonlinear continuous functions. With the help of the mean value theorem and Young's inequality, only one learning parameter is adjusted online at recursive each step. Using the hyperbolic tangent function as nonlinear mapping, the output constrained stochastic nonstrict-feedback system in the presence of unmodeled dynamics is transformed into a novel unconstrained stochastic nonstrict-feedback system. Based on dynamic surface control technology and the property of Gaussian function, adaptive neural control is developed for the transformed stochastic nonstrict-feedback system. The output abides by stochastic constraints in probability. By the Lyapunov method, all signals of the closed-loop control system are proved to be semi-global uniform ultimate bounded (SGUUB) in probability. The obtained theoretical findings are verified by two numerical examples.     

A robust adaptive control with unmodeled dynamic for HVDC transmission systems

Utilizing the feature of quick response of HVDC to improve the performance of AC/DC system has become the emphasis to be researched. This paper introduces firstly the principle of the robust adaptive control of nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics, then developed the robust adaptive additional control of HVDC with unmodeled dynamics of generator in order to improve stability of power system. The additional control of HVDC with unmodeled dynamics only uses the local signals and its design is simple, furthermore it can obviously improve the stability of power system in different operational conditions. Experimental results using the presented concepts obtained on single machine infinite bus model are also included. These results prove the efficiency of the control scheme. The design process of controller provided a new idea to design controller by use of simplified model. __________ Translated from Journal of Sichuan University (Engineering Science Edition), 2005, 37(5): 154–158 (in Chinese)     

Robust adaptive output feedback control of nonlinearly parameterized systems

The ideas of adaptive nonlinear damping and changing supply functions were used to counteract the effects of parameter and nonlinear uncertainties, unmodeled dynamics and unknown bounded disturbances. The high-gain observer was used to estimate the state of the system. A robust adaptive output feedback control scheme was proposed for nonlinearly parameterized systems represented by input-output models. The scheme does not need to estimate the unknown parameters nor add a dynamical signal to dominate the effects of unmodeled dynamics. It is proven that the proposed control scheme guarantees that all the variables in the closed-loop system are bounded and the mean-square tracking error can be made arbitrarily small by choosing some design parameters appropriately. Simulation results have illustrated the effectiveness of the proposed robust adaptive control scheme. Translated from Journal of Sichuan University (Engineering Science Edition), 2006, 38(4): 136–140 [译自: 四川大学学报 (工程科学版)]     

Adaptive neural network output feedback stabilization of nonlinear non‐minimum phase systems

This paper presents an adaptive output feedback stabilization method based on neural networks (NNs) for nonlinear non‐minimum phase systems. The proposed controller comprises a linear, a neuro‐adaptive, and an adaptive robustifying parts. The NN is designed to approximate the matched uncertainties of the system. The inputs of the NN are the tapped delays of the system input–output signals. In addition, an appropriate reference signal is proposed to compensate the unmatched uncertainties inherent in the internal system dynamics. The adaptation laws for the NN weights and adaptive gains are obtained using Lyapunov's direct method. These adaptation laws employ a linear observer of system dynamics that is realizable. The ultimate boundedness of the error signals are analytically shown using Lyapunov's method. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is shown by applying to a translation oscillator rotational actuator model. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Dual high‐gain‐based adaptive output‐feedback control for a class of nonlinear systems

We propose an adaptive output‐feedback controller for a general class of nonlinear triangular (strict‐feedback‐like) systems. The design is based on our recent results on a new high‐gain control design approach utilizing a dual high‐gain observer and controller architecture with a dynamic scaling. The technique provides strong robustness properties and allows the system class to contain unknown functions dependent on all states and involving unknown parameters (with no magnitude bounds required). Unlike our earlier result on this problem where a time‐varying design of the high‐gain scaling parameter was utilized, the technique proposed here achieves an autonomous dynamic controller by introducing a novel design of the observer, the scaling parameter, and the adaptation parameter. This provides a time‐invariant dynamic output‐feedback globally asymptotically stabilizing solution for the benchmark open problem proposed in our earlier work with no magnitude bounds or sign information on the unknown parameter being necessary. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive fuzzy output feedback backstepping control of pure‐feedback nonlinear systems via dynamic surface control technique

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy backstepping dynamic surface control approach is considered for a class of uncertain pure‐feedback nonlinear systems with immeasurable states. Fuzzy logic systems are first employed to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, and then an adaptive fuzzy state observer is designed to estimate the immeasurable states. By the combination of the adaptive backstepping design with a dynamic surface control technique, an adaptive fuzzy output feedback backstepping control approach is developed. It is proven that all the signals of the resulting closed‐loop system are semi‐globally uniformly ultimately bounded, and the observer and tracking errors converge to a small neighborhood of the origin by choosing the design parameters appropriately. Simulation examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.