Adaptive backstepping repetitive learning control design for nonlinear discrete‐time systems with periodic uncertainties

This paper addresses a tracking problem for uncertain nonlinear discrete‐time systems in which the uncertainties, including parametric uncertainty and external disturbance, are periodic with known periodicity. Repetitive learning control (RLC) is an effective tool to deal with periodic unknown components. By using the backstepping procedures, an adaptive RLC law with periodic parameter estimation is designed. The overparameterization problem is overcome by postponing the parameter estimation to the last backstepping step, which could not be easily solved in robust adaptive control. It is shown that the proposed adaptive RLC law without overparameterization can guarantee the perfect tracking and boundedness of the states of the whole closed‐loop systems in presence of periodic uncertainties. In addition, the effectiveness of the developed controller is demonstrated by an implementation example on a single‐link flexible‐joint robot. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Design of disturbance observer based on adaptive-neural control for large-scale time-delay systems in the presence of actuator fault and unknown dead zone

This article presents an adaptive neural compensation scheme for a class of large-scale time delay nonlinear systems in the presence of unknown dead zone, external disturbances, and actuator faults. In this article, the quadratic Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals are introduced to tackle the system delays. The unknown functions of the system are estimated by using radial basis function neural networks. Furthermore, a disturbance observer is developed to approximate the external disturbances. The proposed adaptive neural compensation control method is constructed by utilizing a backstepping technique. The boundedness of all the closed-loop signals is guaranteed via Lyapunov analysis and the tracking errors are proved to converge to a small neighborhood of the origin. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.     

Delay compensated control of the Stefan problem and robustness to delay mismatch

This paper presents a control design for the one‐phase Stefan problem under actuator delay via a backstepping method. The Stefan problem represents a liquid‐solid phase change phenomenon which describes the time evolution of a material's temperature profile and the interface position. The actuator delay is modeled by a first‐order hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE), resulting in a cascaded transport‐diffusion PDE system defined on a time‐varying spatial domain described by an ordinary differential equation (ODE). Two nonlinear backstepping transformations are utilized for the control design. The setpoint restriction is given to guarantee a physical constraint on the proposed controller for the melting process. This constraint ensures the exponential convergence of the moving interface to a setpoint and the exponential stability of the temperature equilibrium profile and the delayed controller in the norm. Furthermore, robustness analysis with respect to the delay mismatch between the plant and the controller is studied, which provides analogous results to the exact compensation by restricting the control gain.     

On the backstepping design procedure for multiple input nonlinear systems

In a recent paper, we developed a structural decomposition for multiple input multiple output nonlinear systems that are affine in control but otherwise general. In this paper, we exploit the structural properties of such a decomposition in the application of the backstepping design technique on multiple input nonlinear systems. In particular, this decomposition simplifies the conventional backstepping design and motivates new backstepping design procedures that are able to stabilize systems on which the conventional backstepping procedure is not applicable. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Design of a two‐level controller for an active suspension system

The paper focuses on a control design for a vehicle suspension system in which a balance between different performance demands is achieved. The starting point of the control design is a full–car model which contains nonlinear components, i.e. the dynamics of the dampers and springs and nonlinear actuator dynamics. In order to handle the high complexity of the problem this paper proposes the design of a two‐level controller of an active suspension system. The required control force is computed by applying a high‐level controller, which is designed using a linear parameter varying (LPV) method. For the control design the model is augmented with weighting functions specified by the performance demands and the uncertainty assumptions. The actuator generating the necessary control force is modelled as a nonlinear system for which a low‐level force‐tracking controller is designed. To obtain the low‐level controller a backstepping method is proposed. As an alternative solution a feedback linearization method is also presented. The operation of the controller is illustrated through simulation examples. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Modeling and global trajectory tracking control for an over-actuated MAV

This paper deals with an original micro aerial vehicle (MAV) design, the Omnicopter MAV. It has two central coaxial rotors with fixed-pitch propellers and three perimeter mounted ducted fans with servo motors performing thrust vectoring. Compared with traditional rotary wing MAVs that have inherent underactuation, the Omnicopter possesses some advantages in mobility, for example, lateral translation with zero attitude and hover with nonzero attitude. The trajectory tracking control design, global stability analysis, and control allocation are demonstrated through numerical simulation. The advantage of zero attitude translation is illustrated through experimental results.     

结合误差变换的Bouc-Wen迟滞非线性系统反步控制器设计

针对智能材料执行器中非平滑、多映射的迟滞非线性,采用Bouc-Wen模型描述迟滞,并提出了一种基于误差变换的反步控制器设计方案.首先利用Bouc-Wen模型中的变量特性,通过预设性能函数,将误差约束在预设范围内.然后通过误差变换,将一个对输出误差存在约束的跟踪问题转化为一个无约束的镇定问题.最后利用反步控制法设计迟滞系统的控制器,该控制方法保证期望的跟踪精度,并能将误差限定在设定范围内且满足预设性能,提高了系统的暂态和稳态性能.仿真结果表明设计方法的有效性.     

可逆冷带轧机速度张力多变量耦合系统的建模及分散控制

针对具有多变量、非线性、强耦合和不确定性的可逆冷带轧机速度张力系统,提出了一种基于扩张状态观测器(extended state observer,ESO)的全局积分滑模自适应反步分散控制方法.首先,采用机理建模方法,建立了相对完备的可逆冷带轧机速度张力多变量耦合系统的数学模型.其次,将各子系统的耦合项和不确定项看成外扰,通过构造的ESO对其进行动态观测,并分别引入所设计的全局积分滑模自适应反步控制器中进行补偿,速度张力系统实现了有效的动态解耦和协调控制.理论分析表明,所提出的控制方法能够保证滑模面的渐近稳定和闭环系统的渐近跟踪性能.最后,基于某1422mm可逆冷带轧机速度张力系统的实际数据进行仿真,结果验证了所提方法的有效性.     

一类内部点级联的PDE-ODE系统的边界控制

本文运用backstepping方法研究了一类偏微分方程与常微分方程(PDE-ODE)级联系统的能稳性.常见的级联系统在边界点x=0处级联,而本文所讨论的级联系统在内部点x0∈(0,1)处级联,级联点的改变使得新系统的控制问题更加复杂.针对新系统,首先,我们改进了backstepping方法中的常见变换,改进后的变换与常见变换相比,增加了变换中的核函数,且得到的是带有多个相容性条件的核方程组,给求解带来了困难.文中运用了一系列的技巧解出核函数,从而得到反馈控制器;其次,运用同样的方法找到改进变换的逆变换;最后,选择合适范数,利用变换的有界性证明得到闭环系统的稳定性.     

A sum of squares approach to backstepping controller synthesis for piecewise affine and polynomial systems

This paper develops a backstepping controller synthesis methodology for piecewise polynomial (PWP) systems in strict form. The main contribution of the paper is to formulate sufficient conditions for controller design for PWP systems in strict form as a sum of squares feasibility problem under the assumption that an initial control Lyapunov function exists to start the iterative backstepping procedure. This problem can then be translated into a convex SDP problem and solved by available software packages. The controller synthesis problem for PWP systems in strict feedback form is divided into two cases. The first case consists of the construction of a sum of squares polynomial control Lyapunov function for PWP systems with discontinuous vector fields. The second case addresses the construction of a PWP control Lyapunov function for PWP systems with continuous vector fields. One major advantage of the proposed method is the fact that it can handle systems with discontinuous vector fields and sliding modes. The new synthesis method is applied to several numerical examples. One of these examples offers the first convex optimization solution to piecewise affine (PWA) control of a benchmark circuit system addressed before in the literature using non‐convex PWA control solutions. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.