Comments on “Adaptive multiple-surface sliding control for non-autonomous systems with mismatched uncertainties”

This note points out that the time complexity of the main multiple-surface sliding control (MSSC) algorithm in Huang and Chen [Huang, A. C. & Chen, Y. C. (2004). Adaptive multiple-surface sliding control for non-autonomous systems with mismatched uncertainties. Automatica, 40(11), 1939-1945] is O(2ⁿ). Here, we propose a simplified recursive design MSSC algorithm with time complexity O(n), and, using mathematical induction, we show that this algorithm agrees with this MSSC law.     

Adaptive sliding mode control for discrete-time multi-input multi-output systems

In this paper, robust adaptive sliding mode tracking control for discrete-time multi-input multi-output systems with unknown parameters and disturbance is considered. The robust tracking controller is comprised of adaptive control and sliding mode control design. Bounded motion of the system around the sliding surface and stability of the global system in the sense that all signals remain bounded are guaranteed. If the disturbance and the reference signal are slowly varying with respect to the sampling frequency, the proposed sliding mode controller can reject the disturbance and output tracking can be approximately achieved. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the proposed approach.     

Adaptive sliding mode control of chaotic dynamical systems with application to synchronization

We address the problem of control and synchronization of a class of uncertain chaotic systems. Our approach follows techniques of sliding mode control and adaptive estimation law. The adaptive algorithm is constructed based on the sliding mode control to ensure perfect tracking and synchronization in presence of system uncertainty and external disturbance. Stability of the closed-loop system is proved using Lyapunov stability theory. Our theoretical findings are supported by simulation results.     

Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller for linear systems with mismatched time-varying uncertainties

A new design approach for an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller (AFSMC) for linear systems with mismatched time-varying uncertainties is presented. The coefficient matrix of the sliding function can be designed to satisfy a sliding coefficient matching condition provided time-varying uncertainties are bounded. With the sliding coefficient matching condition satisfied, an AFSMC is proposed to stabilize the uncertain system. The parameters of output fuzzy sets in the fuzzy mechanism are on-line adapted to improve the performance of the fuzzy sliding mode control system. The bounds of uncertainties are not required to be known in advance for the AFSMC. Stability of the fuzzy control system is guaranteed and the system is shown to be invariant on the sliding surface. Moreover, chattering around the sliding surface in sliding mode control can be reduced by the proposed design approach. Simulation results are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed AFSMC.     

Adaptive fuzzy terminal sliding mode controller for linear systems with mismatched time-varying uncertainties

A new design approach of an adaptive fuzzy terminal sliding mode controller for linear systems with mismatched time-varying uncertainties is presented in this paper. A fuzzy terminal sliding mode controller is designed to retain the advantages of the terminal sliding mode controller and to reduce the chattering occurred with the terminal sliding mode controller. The sufficient condition is provided for the uncertain system to be invariant on the sliding surface. The parameters of the output fuzzy sets in the fuzzy mechanism are adapted on-line to improve the performance of the fuzzy sliding mode control system. The bounds of the uncertainties are not required to be known in advance for the presented adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller. The stability of the fuzzy control system is also guaranteed. Moreover, the chattering around the sliding surface in the sliding mode control can be reduced by the proposed design approach. Simulation results are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive fuzzy terminal sliding mode controller.     

ZOH discretization effect on single-input sliding mode control systems with matched uncertainties

In this paper, discretization behaviors of equivalent control based sliding mode control systems with matched uncertainties are studied. Upper bounds for system steady states are established. Some inherent dynamical periodic properties of the systems subject to matched constant and periodic uncertainties are explored. Simulations are presented to verify the theoretical results.     

Adaptive cruise control of a HEV using sliding mode control

This paper presents adaptive cruise control of a hybrid electric vehicle. First, the mathematical model of the vehicle is formulated. Next, a classical controller is applied to the vehicle model. Swarm optimisation is implemented for self parameter tuning of the controller. The model is simulated and the result of the response to a variable speed is analysed. The results reveal that the controller is not a powerful means to manage the rapid transformation of the desire set point. Accordingly, a sliding mode controller is developed next. The performance of this controller is compared with the classical controller.     

Adaptive RCMAC sliding mode control for uncertain nonlinear systems

An adaptive recurrent cerebellar-model-articulation-controller (RCMAC) sliding-mode control (SMC) system is developed for the uncertain nonlinear systems. This adaptive RCMAC sliding-model control (ARCSMC) system is composed of two systems. One is an adaptive RCMAC system utilized as the main controller, in which an RCMAC is designed to identify the system models. Another is a robust controller utilized to achieve system’s robust characteristics, in which an uncertainty bound estimator is developed to estimate the uncertainty bound so that the chattering phenomenon of control effort can be eliminated. The on-line adaptive laws of the ARCSMC system are derived in the sense of Lyapunov so that the system stability can be guaranteed. Finally, a comparison between SMC and ARCSMC for a chaotic system and a car-following system are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed ARCSMC system. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed control scheme can achieve favorable control performances for the chaotic system and car-following systems without the knowledge of system dynamic functions.     

Adaptive extremum seeking control of nonlinear dynamic systems with parametric uncertainties

We pose and solve an extremum seeking control problem for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown parameters. Extremum seeking controllers are developed to drive system states to the desired set-points that extremize the value of an objective function. The proposed adaptive extremum seeking controller is “inverse optimal” in the sense that it minimizes a meaningful cost function that incorporates penalty on both the performance error and control action. Simulation studies are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

控制增益符号未知的MIMO时滞系统自适应控制

针对一类带有死区模型并具有未知函数控制增益的不确定MIMO非线性时滞系统,基于滑模控制原理和Nussbaum函数的性质,提出了一种稳定的自适应神经网络控制方案.该方案放宽了对函数控制增益上界为未知常数的假设,并通过使用Lyapunov-Krasovskii泛函抵消了因未知时变时滞带来的系统不确定性.理论分析证明,闭环系统是半全局一致终结有界.仿真结果表明了该方法的有效性.     

Fuzzy sliding mode control for an under-actuated system with mismatched uncertainties

This article presents a robust fuzzy sliding mode controller. The methodology of sliding mode control provides an easy way to control under-actuated nonlinear systems with uncertainties. The structure of the sliding surface is designed as follows. First, decouple the entire system into second-order systems so that each subsystem has a separate control target expressed in terms of a sliding surface. Second, from the sliding surface of subsystems, organize the main sliding surface system. Third, generate a control input for the main sliding surface to make whole subsystems move toward their sliding surface. A fuzzy controller is used to obtain a smooth boundary layer to the sliding surface. Finally, the fuzzy sliding mode controller presented is used to control an under-actuated nonlinear system, and confirms the validity of the proposed approach and its robustness to uncertainties.     

LQ performance bounds for adaptive output feedback controllers for functionally uncertain nonlinear systems

We consider functionally uncertain systems which can be written in an output feedback form, where the nonlinearities are functions of the output only. The uncertainty is described by a weighted L² norm about a nominal system, and an approximate adaptive design is given which ensures output practical stability. The main result requires knowledge of the weighted L² uncertainty level. An upper bound on the LQ performance of the output transient and the control input is derived, where the cost penalises the output transient and the control effort on the time interval where the output lies outside the prescribed neighbourhood of zero to which we achieve convergence.     

Chattering suppression methods in sliding mode control systems

The implementation of sliding mode control is often irritated by high frequency oscillations known as “chattering” in system outputs issued by dynamics from actuators and sensors ignored in system modeling. This paper provides analysis of chattering in such systems with unmodeled based on the Lyapunov theory and the describing function method. It also describes various approaches to reduce chattering including methods based on relay control gain adaptation. And for those systems to which the methods are not applicable, chattering frequency control using hysteresis loop will be provided.     

Decentralized dynamic output feedback controllers for interconnected systems with mismatched uncertainties using new sliding mode control

This paper presents a method for the design of decentralized output feedback controllers for an interconnected systems with mismatched uncertainties using a variable-structure control approach. A new reaching condition of the sliding mode is derived such that the reduced-order system is invariant to the mismatched uncertainties. In every subsystem, a new idea for a sliding mode that consists of two sets of switching surfaces is introduced, and a scheme of decentralized dynamic control using only output states is also proposed. This scheme can guarantee closed-loop stability of a sliding manifold of the composite system. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the controller design method.     

Adaptive robust fault-tolerant control for linear MIMO systems with unmatched uncertainties

In this paper, two novel fault-tolerant control design approaches are proposed for linear MIMO systems with actuator additive faults, multiplicative faults and unmatched uncertainties. For time-varying multiplicative and additive faults, new adaptive laws and additive compensation functions are proposed. A set of conditions is developed such that the unmatched uncertainties are compensated by actuators in control. On the other hand, for unmatched uncertainties with their projection in unmatched space being not zero, based on a (vector) relative degree condition, additive functions are designed to compensate for the uncertainties from output channels in the presence of actuator faults. The developed fault-tolerant control schemes are applied to two aircraft systems to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approaches.     

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.     

An Asymptotic Scaling Analysis of LQ Performance for an Approximate Adaptive Control Design

We consider the adaptive tracking problem for a chain of integrators, where the uncertainty is static and functional. The uncertainty is specified by L ²/L ^∞ or weighted L ²/L ^∞ norm bounds. We analyse a standard Lyapunov-based adaptive design which utilises a function approximator to induce a parametric uncertainty, on which the adaptive design is completed. Performance is measured by a modified LQ cost functional, penalising both the tracking error transient and the control effort. With such a cost functional, it is shown that a standard control design has divergent performance when the resolution of a “mono-resolution” approximator is increased. The class of “mono-resolution” approximators includes models popular in applications. A general construction of a class of approximators and their associated controllers which have a uniformly bounded performance independent of the resolution of the approximator is given. Date received: 20 April 1999. Date revised: 29 October 2001.     

Adaptive sliding mode approach for learning in a feedforward neural network

An adaptive learning algorithm is proposed for a feedforward neural network. The design principle is based on the sliding mode concept. Unlike the existing algorithms, the adaptive learning algorithm developed does not require a prioriknowledge of upper bounds of bounded signals. The convergence of the algorithm is established and conditions given. Simulations are presented to show the effectiveness of the algorithm.     

Variable structure control with sliding mode prediction for discrete-time nonlinear systems

A new variable structure control algorithm based on sliding mode prediction for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems is presented. By employing a special model to predict future sliding mode value, and combining feedback correction and receding horizon optimization methods which are extensively applied on predictive control strategy, a discrete-time variable structure control law is constructed. The closed-loop systems are proved to have robustness to uncertainties with unspecified boundaries. Numerical simulation and pendulum experiment results illustrate that the closed-loop systems possess desired performance, such as strong robustness, fast convergence and chattering elimination.