Robust adaptive control for uncertain nonlinear systems with unknown control directions and actuator nonlinearity

A robust adaptive control scheme is proposed for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems in strict feedback form with both unknown control directions and non-symmetric dead-zone nonlinearity based on backstepping design.The conditions that the dead-zone slopes and the boundaries are equal and symmetric are removed by simplifying nonlinear dead-zone input model,the assumption that the priori knowledge of the control directions to be known is eliminated by utilizing Nussbaum-type gain technique and neural networks(NN) approximation capability.The possible controller singularity problem and the effect of dead-zone input nonlinearity are avoided perfectly by combining integral Lyapunov design with sliding mode control strategy.All the signals in the closed-loop system are guaranteed to be semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded and the tracking error of the system is proven to be converged to a small neighborhood of the origin.Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Adaptive output control of uncertain nonlinear systems with non-symmetric dead-zone input

This paper deals with the adaptive output feedback control problem of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with an unknown non-symmetric dead-zone nonlinearity. The nonlinear system considered here is dominated by a triangular system without zero dynamics satisfying polynomial growth in the unmeasurable states. An adaptive control scheme is developed without constructing the dead-zone inverse. The proposed adaptive control scheme requires only the information of bounds of the slopes and the breakpoint of dead-zone nonlinearity. The novelty of this paper is that a universal-type adaptive output feedback controller is numerically constructed by using a sum of squares (SOS) optimization algorithm, which ensures the boundedness of all the signals in the adaptive closed-loop without knowing the growth rate of the uncertainties. An example is presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Decentralized adaptive stabilization of interconnected nonlinear systems with unknown non-symmetric dead-zone inputs

The decentralized adaptive stabilization method is proposed for uncertain interconnected nonlinear systems with unknown non-symmetric dead-zone inputs. The class of systems considered in this paper consists of strict-feedback nonlinear subsystems with unknown non-symmetric dead-zone inputs which interact through their outputs. The unknown nonlinear interaction terms are assumed to be bounded by nonlinear functions with unknown parameters. For the simple controller design, the local controller for each subsystem is systematically derived based on the dynamic surface design technique, without constructing the dead-zone inverse and requiring the bound information of dead-zone parameters (slopes and break-points). All unknown parameters of interconnected nonlinear systems are compensated by the adaptive technique. From Lyapunov stability theorem, it is proved that all signals in the interconnected closed-loop system with decentralized adaptive controllers are semi-globally bounded. Simulation results for tripled inverted pendulums demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive tracking of nonlinear systems with non-symmetric dead-zone input

Quite successfully adaptive control strategies have been applied to uncertain dynamical systems subject to dead-zone nonlinearities. However, adaptive tracking of systems with non-symmetric dead-zone characteristics has not been fully discussed with minimal knowledge of the dead-zone parameters. It is shown that the controlled system preceded by a non-symmetric dead-zone input can be represented as an uncertain nonlinear system subject to a linear input with time-varying input coefficient. To cope with this problem, a new adaptive compensation algorithm is employed without constructing the dead-zone inverse. The proposed adaptive scheme requires only the information of bounds of the dead-zone slopes and treats the time-varying input coefficient as a system uncertainty. The new control scheme ensures bounded-error trajectory tracking and assures the boundedness of all the signals in the adaptive closed loop. By appropriate selections of the controller parameters, we show that the smoothness of the controller does not affect the accuracy of trajectory tracking control. A numerical example is included to show the effectiveness of the theoretical results.     

ROBUST ADAPTIVE CONTROL FOR STRICT‐FEEDBACK NONLINEAR SYSTEMS

In this paper, we propose a robust adaptive tracking control based on the backstepping strategy for strict‐feedback nonlinear systems with nonparametric uncertain nonlinearities. It is shown that one can design a stable adaptive control system provided that the uncertain nonlinearities can be decomposed by unknown bounded nonlinear functions and known nonlinear functions. The proposed method can deal with uncertain nonlinearities that appear at the control input term too. It is also shown that suitable choice of design parameters guarantees the convergence of tracking error to any desired bound.     

一类MIMO非线性时滞系统的鲁棒自适应控制

针对一类具有非线性输入的MIMO时变时滞系统,基于变结构控制原理,提出了一种稳定自适应控制器设计的新方案.该方案通过使用Lyapunov-Krasovskii(L-K)泛函抵消了因未知时变时滞带来的系统不确定性;进一步,利用Young's不等式和参数自适应估计取消了非线性死区输入模犁和不确定项假设中各种参数均为已知的要求.通过理论分析,证明了闭环控制系统半全局一致终结有界,跟踪误差收敛到零的一个邻域内.     

输入死区和全状态约束下不确定非线性系统的快速稳定事件触发控制

在实际工业系统中普遍存在输入死区、全状态约束等不可忽视的问题,其对系统的性能造成较大的影响,甚至可能会导致系统不稳定.为了克服上述问题,针对一类不确定非线性系统,提出一种快速收敛的自适应神经网络事件触发控制方法.首先,将障碍Lyapunov函数引入到反步控制框架中,采用径向基函数神经网络逼近未知非线性函数,同时设计自适应事件触发机制对输入死区进行动态补偿,通过减少控制信号的更新频率来减轻系统的通信负担,并保证系统所有状态不违反预定义的约束区间.在此基础上,引入快速有限时间稳定理论,在有限时间内能够保证闭环系统所有信号的有界性以及跟踪误差快速收敛到有界的紧集内.最后,通过两个仿真算例验证所提出控制方法的有效性.     

Design of observer-based adaptive controller for nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics and actuator dead-zone

This paper presents an up-to-date study on the observer-based control problem for nonlinear systems in the presence of unmodeled dynamics and actuator dead-zone. By introducing a dynamic signal to dominate the unmodeled dynamics and using an adaptive nonlinear damping to counter the effects of the nonlinearities and dead-zone input, the proposed observer and controller can ensure that the closed-loop system is asymptotically stable in the sense of uniform ultimate boundedness. Only one adaptive parameter is needed no matter how many unknown parameters there are. The system investigated is more general and there is no need to solve Linear matrix inequality (LMI). Moreover, with our method, some assumptions imposed on nonlinear terms and dead-zone input are relaxed. Finally, simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive control scheme.     

Improved prescribed performance control for nonlinear systems with unknown control direction and input dead-zone

In view of the input dead-zone, unknown control direction and difficulty in satisfying the prescribed performance that suffered in practical systems, an improved prescribed performance-based adaptive control scheme is stressed for uncertain nonlinear systems in this paper. Firstly, by adopting a characteristic function, the input dead-zone is linearized to a model with bounded perturbation. To settle the “computation complexity” issue, an adaptive controller is built via command filter design method, where the fuzzy logic systems are introduced to approximate the unknown nonlinearities. Meanwhile, the Nussbaum function is brought in controller design to counter the hardship of unknown control direction. Besides, the tracking error can be restricted in the prescribed boundary in finite time with the improved performance function. The presented control approach can not only ensure the finite-time convergence property of tracking error and the boundedness of all signals in the closed-loop system, but also easily implement in engineering. Finally, the simulation examples confirm the validity of the designed control scheme.     

Direct adaptive fuzzy backstepping control of uncertain nonlinear systems in the presence of input saturation

In this paper, a novel direct adaptive fuzzy control approach is presented for uncertain nonlinear systems in the presence of input saturation. Fuzzy logic systems are directly used to tackle unknown nonlinear functions, and the adaptive fuzzy tracking controller is constructed by using the backstepping recursive design techniques. To overcome the problem of input saturation, a new auxiliary design system and Nussbaum gain functions are incorporated into the control scheme, respectively. It is proved that the proposed control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop system are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB), and the tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of the origin. A simulation example is included to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Two key advantages of the scheme are that (i) the direct adaptive fuzzy control method is proposed for uncertain nonlinear system with input saturation by using Nussbaum function technique and (ii) The number of the online adaptive learning parameters is reduced.     

Adaptive neural control of MIMO nonlinear state time-varying delay systems with unknown dead-zones and gain signs

In this paper, adaptive neural control is proposed for a class of uncertain multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear state time-varying delay systems in a triangular control structure with unknown nonlinear dead-zones and gain signs. The design is based on the principle of sliding mode control and the use of Nussbaum-type functions in solving the problem of the completely unknown control directions. The unknown time-varying delays are compensated for using appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals in the design. The approach removes the assumption of linear functions outside the deadband as an added contribution. By utilizing the integral Lyapunov function and introducing an adaptive compensation term for the upper bound of the residual and optimal approximation error as well as the dead-zone disturbance, the closed-loop control system is proved to be semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.     

Adaptive fuzzy dynamic surface control for a class of perturbed nonlinear time-varying delay systems with unknown dead-zone

In this paper,adaptive dynamic surface control(DSC) is developed for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown discrete and distributed time-varying delays and unknown dead-zone.Fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions.Then,by combining the backstepping technique and the appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals with the dynamic surface control approach,the adaptive fuzzy tracking controller is designed.Our development is able to eliminate the problem of "explosion of complexity" inherent in the existing backstepping-based methods.The main advantages of our approach include:1) for the n-th-order nonlinear systems,only one parameter needs to be adjusted online in the controller design procedure,which reduces the computation burden greatly.Moreover,the input of the dead-zone with only one adjusted parameter is much simpler than the ones in the existing results;2) the proposed control scheme does not need to know the time delays and their upper bounds.It is proven that the proposed design method is able to guarantee that all the signals in the closed-loop system are bounded and the tracking error is smaller than a prescribed error bound,Finally,simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive fuzzy control with smooth inverse for nonlinear systems preceded by non-symmetric dead-zone

In this study, the adaptive output feedback control problem of a class of nonlinear systems preceded by non-symmetric dead-zone is considered. To cope with the possible control signal chattering phenomenon which is caused by non-smooth dead-zone inverse, a new smooth inverse is proposed for non-symmetric dead-zone compensation. For the systematic design procedure of the adaptive fuzzy control algorithm, we combine the backstepping technique and small-gain approach. The Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate unknown system nonlinearities. The closed-loop stability is studied by using small gain theorem and the closed-loop system is proved to be semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded. Simulation results indicate that, compared to the algorithm with the non-smooth inverse, the proposed control strategy can achieve better tracking performance and the chattering phenomenon can be avoided effectively.     

Adaptive neural practical fixed-time command filtered control for multi-input and multi-output nonlinear systems with dead zones input and unknown control direction

In this article, under the circumstance of dead zones input and unknown control direction, the adaptive practical fixed-time control strategy is presented for a general class of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems. The inherent explosion of computational complexity difficulty is eliminated by adopting a command filter technique and the universal approximation properties of radial basis function neural networks (RBFNNs) are applied to model the unknown nonlinear functions. The difficulties of the dynamic surface method and unknown directions can be handled by invoking error compensation mechanism and Nussbaum-type functions, respectively. The uniqueness of the presented control scheme is that the tracking system can achieve the fixed-time stability without relying on the boundedness of dead-zone parameters. The fixed-time convergence of the output tracking error and the semiglobally fixed-time stable of closed-loop system are assured via the developed adaptive fixed-time command filtered controller. Finally, a practical example is supplied to further validate the availability of the presented theoretic result.     

Adaptive fuzzy control for multi-input multi-output nonlinear systems with unknown dead-zone inputs

This paper presents an adaptive fuzzy control scheme for a class of uncertain multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems with the nonsymmetric control gain matrix and the unknown dead-zone inputs. In this scheme, fuzzy systems are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions and the estimated symmetric gain matrix is decomposed into a product of one diagonal matrix and two orthogonal matrices. Based on the decomposition results, a controller is developed, therefore, the possible controller singularity problem and the parameter initialization condition constraints problem are avoided. In addition, a dynamic robust controller is employed to compensate for the lumped errors. It is proved that all the signals in the proposed closed-loop system are bounded and that the tracking errors converge asymptotically to zero. A simulation example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Global adaptive stabilisation for nonlinear systems with unknown control directions and input disturbance

This paper addresses the global adaptive stabilisation via switching and learning strategies for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems. Remarkably, the systems in question simultaneously have unknown control directions, unknown input disturbance and unknown growth rate, which makes the problem in question challenging to solve and essentially different from those in the existing literature. To solve the problem, an adaptive scheme via switching and learning is proposed by skilfully integrating the techniques of backstepping design, adaptive learning and adaptive switching. One key point in the design scheme is the introduction of the learning mechanism, in order to compensate the unknown input disturbance, and the other one is the design of the switching mechanism, through tuning the design parameters online to deal with the unknown control directions, unknown bound and period of input disturbance and unknown growth rate. The designed controller guarantees that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop systems are bounded, and furthermore, the closed-loop system states globally converge to zero.     

Adaptive neural network tracking design for a class of uncertain nonlinear discrete-time systems with dead-zone

In this paper, the stability and control issues of a class of uncertain nonlinear discrete-time systems in the strict feedback form are investigated. The dead-zone input in the systems, whose property is non-symmetric and discretized, is investigated. The unknown functions in the systems are approximated by using the radial basis function neural networks （RBFNNs）. Backstepping design procedure is employed in the controller and the adaptation laws design. Lyapunov analysis method is utilized to prove the stability of the closed-loop system. A simulation example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive sliding inverse control of a class of non-linear systems preceded by unknown non-symmetrical dead-zone

This paper deals with the adaptive control of a class of continuous-time non-linear dynamic systems preceded by unknown non-symmetrical, non-equal slope dead-zones. By exploring the properties of the dead-zone model intuitively and mathematically, a dead-zone inverse is constructed. Based on this inverse construction, an adaptive sliding controller is designed. Lyapunov stability analysis shows that the proposed adaptive control law ensures global stability of the adaptive system and achieves desired tracking precision. Simulation results attained for an uncertain non-linear system are presented to illustrate and further validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive rejection of non-linear disturbances in extended non-linear output feedback systems

This paper deals with asymptotic rejection of disturbances generated from non-linear exosystems for uncertain nonlinear systems in an extended output feedback form, which allows the vector field coupled with the system input to have different nonlinear functions of the system output as its elements. A new internal model design is proposed to deal with nonlinear functions of the system output that are coupled with the input and the unknown disturbance. Adaptive control techniques are then used to deal with the uncertainty in the system. The proposed adaptive disturbance rejection algorithm with the new internal model design ensures the asymptotic rejection of the unknown nonlinear disturbance and the boundedness of all the variables.     

一类严格反馈非线性系统的间接自适应模糊控制

针对一类不确定严格反馈非线性系统,设计了间接自适应模糊控制方法．该方法用模糊逻辑系统逼近设计过程中的未知函数,基于时变宽度死区对模糊逻辑系统中的未知参数进行自适应调节,并对时变死区宽度设计了自适应律．证明了该方法能使闭环系统的所有信号有界,且可使跟踪误差收敛到原点的小邻域内．仿真算例验证了该方法的有效性．