Multilayer-neural-network observer with compensator and command-filter-based adaptive backstepping tracking control of switched nonlinear systems

This study presents an output backstepping control architecture based on command filter via Multilayer-Neural-Network Pre-Observer with compensator to realise the reference signal tracking of an arbitrarily switching nonlinear systems with nonseperated parameter. First, a multilayer neural network pre-observer is designed before backstepping procedures to servo reconstruct the system states which can not be obtained directly. The pre-observer has superior performance in neutralizing the states abrupt chattering caused by the arbitrarily switching parameter entered in the nonlinear structure. Next, observer error compensation mechanism is designed to compensate the state estimation and shrink the approximation error domain further. Then, the backstepping controller with compensation signal based on command filter is presented to realise the stable reference signal tracking. Last, the proposed control scheme guarantees the states of the closed-loop system bounded. This mechanism makes up the shortcoming of the traditional state observer and give more flexibility in reconstructing the systems states timely, then overcomes the obstacle of the arbitrarily switching parameterized system. Furthermore, compared with the existing traditional uniform robust uncertain controller, the developed backstepping control method combining with the pre-observer not only guarantees the states servo reconstruction and servo control of the switched system, but also improves the tracking performance. Finally, a low-velocity servo turnable switched system is extensively simulated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed controller.     

Extended-state-observer-based output feedback adaptive control of hydraulic system with continuous friction compensation

This paper presents an extended state observer-based output feedback adaptive controller with a continuous LuGre friction compensation for a hydraulic servo control system. A continuous approximation of the LuGre friction model is employed, which preserves the main physical characteristics of the original model without increasing the complexity of the system stability analysis. By this way, continuous friction compensation is used to eliminate the majority of nonlinear dynamics in hydraulic servo system. Besides, with the development of a new parameter adaption law, the problems of parametric uncertainties are overcome so that more accurate friction compensation is realized. For another, the developed adaption law is driven by tracking errors and observation errors simultaneously. Thus, the burden of extended state observer to solve the remaining uncertainties is alleviated greatly and high gain feedback is avoided, which means better tracking performance and robustness are achieved. The designed controller handles not only matched uncertainties but also unmatched dynamics with requiring little system information, more importantly, it is based on output feedback method, in other words, the synthesized controller only relies on input signal and position output signal of the system, which greatly reduces the effects caused by signal pollution, measurement noise and other unexpected dynamics. Lyapunov-based analysis has proved this strategy presents a prescribed tracking transient performance and final tracking accuracy while obtaining asymptotic tracking performance in the presence of parametric uncertainties only. Finally, comparative experiments are conducted on a hydraulic servo platform to verify the high tracking performance of the proposed control strategy.     

An event-triggered based robust control for electro-hydraulic servo machines with active disturbances rejection

From an interdisciplinary perspective, the event-triggered scheme, the state observer, and the nonlinear disturbance observer are introduced in a robust tracking control to study the networked electro-hydraulic servo system control problems with digital communication challenge, sensor installation restricted problem, matched modeling uncertainties, and mismatched disturbances. Control packets are likely to be delayed or even lost in the networked control system when the communication medium is shared by multiple nodes and the available communication bandwidth is limited. Therefore, it is necessary to save communication resources. To improve the control performance and the efficiency of the network resource utilization, the event-triggered scheme is introduced. Specifically, the practical application of the event-triggered scheme in an actual electro-hydraulic servo system is a breakthrough in this paper. In addition, to obtain the real-time states of the unmeasurable system and compensate for both matched disturbances and external disturbances simultaneously, the state observer and the nonlinear disturbance observer are collaboratively designed. Finally, to evaluate the control performance of the designed controller, the related comparative experiments are carried out in an actual system. The results show that theoretical analysis and experimentation are cross verified.     

Additive-state-decomposition-based model predictive tracking control for PMSM servo system with multiple disturbances

This paper presents an additive-state-decomposition-based model predictive tracking control and disturbance rejection method for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) servo system subject to unknown parameter perturbations, unmodeled dynamics, and time-varying load torque. The basic idea of this method is to equivalently decompose the original system into a primary system for handling the tracking control subproblem and a secondary system for dealing with the robust stabilization subproblem. A model predictive controller is designed for the primary system to achieve high-accuracy tracking of the reference speed. As for the secondary system, a novel high-order generalized extended state observer (HGESO) is constructed to estimate the multiple disturbances simultaneously, and a state feedback control law incorporating a disturbance compensator is developed to eliminate the adverse effect of the multiple disturbances on the system output. By combining the control inputs of the two subsystems together, the control objectives of the original system can be achieved. Both the stability criterion and design procedure of the closed-loop control system are developed. Finally, hardware-in-the-loop-based comparative experiments are conducted to demonstrate that the proposed method effectively suppresses the influence of the multiple disturbances on motor speed tracking accuracy and that the control system has both satisfactory dynamic performance and robustness.     

Global output feedback tracking control for switched nonlinear systems with deferred prescribed performance

In this paper, the global output feedback tracking control is investigated for a class of switched nonlinear systems with time-varying system fault and deferred prescribed performance. The shifting function is introduced to improve the traditional prescribed performance control technique, remove the constraint condition on the initial value, and make the constraint bounds have more alternative forms. To estimate the unmeasured state variables and compensate the system fault, the switched dynamic gain extended state observer is constructed, which relaxes the traditional Lipschitz conditions on the nonlinear functions. Based on the proposed observer, by constructing the new Lyapunov function and using the backstepping method, the global robust output feedback controller is designed to make the output track the reference signal successfully, and after the adjustment time, the tracking error enters into the prescribed set. The stability of the system is analyzed by the average dwell time method. Finally, simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Global practical tracking for nonlinear systems with uncertain dead-zone input via output feedback

In this paper, global practical tracking is investigated via output feedback for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems subject to unknown dead-zone input. The nonlinear systems under consideration allow more general growth restriction, where the growth rate includes unknown constant and output polynomial function. Without the precise priori knowledge of dead-zone characteristic, an input-driven observer is designed by introducing a novel dynamic gain. Based on non-separation principle, a universal adaptive output feedback controller is proposed by combining dynamic high-gain scaling approach with backstepping method. The controller proposed guarantees that the closed-loop output can track any smooth and bounded reference signal by any small pre-given tracking error, while all closed-loop signals are globally bounded. Finally, simulation examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our dynamic output feedback control scheme.     

Observer-based terminal sliding mode control of non-affine nonlinear systems: Finite-time approach

This paper studies the problem of observer based fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode control schemes for nonlinear non-affine systems with actuator faults, unknown states, and external disturbances. A hyperbolic tangent function based extended state observer is considered to estimate unknown states, which enhances robustness by estimating external disturbance. Then, Taylor series expansion is employed for the non-affine nonlinear system with actuator faults, which transforms it to an affine form system to simplify disturbance observer and controller design. A finite time disturbance observer is designed to address unknown compound disturbances, which includes external disturbances and system uncertainties. A fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode with exponential function sliding mode is proposed to address output tracking. Simulation results show the proposed scheme is effective.     

Sliding-mode-based robust controller design for one channel in thrust vector system with electromechanical actuators

In this paper, a sliding-mode-based robust controller is proposed for the single channel thrust vector system (TVC) to suppress the disturbances and improve the tracking performance. Specifically, the dead-zone input–output relationship is analyzed to depict the mount gap in the mechanical shaft. The system mathematic representation including the mechanical and electrical sections, which suffers from the dead-zone nonlinearity, frictions and unstructured disturbance, is constructed. An adaptive-fuzzy-based observer is developed to estimate and compensate the disturbances because the fuel combustion dynamic and frictions in TVC are inevitable but difficult to obtain the precise dynamic state. Based on the nominal model, a robust controller is designed via the sliding-mode variable structure approach, which is derived in the sense of Lyapunov stability theorem. Instead of the traditional hitting law in the sliding mode controller, the chattering problem due to the discontinuous switch law is addressed by a continuous function. In the end, various illustrative examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the designed method.     

Asymptotic adaptive tracking control and application to mechatronic systems

This article develops an asymptotic tracking control strategy for uncertain nonlinear systems subject to additive disturbances and parametric uncertainties. To fulfill this work, an adaptive-gain disturbance observer (AGDO) is first designed to estimate additive disturbances and compensate them in a feedforward way, which eliminates the impact of additive disturbances on tracking performance. Meanwhile, an updated observer gain law driven by observer estimation errors is adopted in AGDO, which reduces the conservatism of observer gain selection and is beneficial to practical implementation. Also, the parametric uncertainties existing in systems are addressed via an integrated parametric adaptive law, which further decreases the learning burden of AGDO. Based on the parametric adaption technique and the proposed AGDO approach, a composite controller is employed. The stability analysis uncovers the system asymptotic tracking performance can be attained even when facing time-variant additive disturbances and parametric uncertainties. In the end, comparative experimental results of an actual mechatronic system driven by a dc motor uncover the validity of the developed approach.     

Output feedback control of electro-hydraulic asymmetric cylinder system with disturbances rejection

To achieve accurate position control of electro-hydraulic asymmetric cylinder system with only available displacement signal, an output feedback controller is proposed in this paper. The dynamic model of the system is expressed as a Brunovsky form, which helps to estimate the system states and simplify the controller structure. Then Levant differentiator is introduced to estimate the position, velocity and acceleration of the asymmetric cylinder system based on the output signal, which can reduce the impact of measurement noise compared to the means of calculating the time derivative of the displacement signal directly. Besides, a high gain disturbance observer is designed to reject the lumped disturbance rejection of the system including parameter uncertainty, modelling error and external disturbance. Moreover, a sliding mode surface is introduced to the controller design and a robust item with continuous function is applied to compensate for estimation errors. According to Lyapunov theory, the developed output controller is pledged to be stable that can realize disturbance rejection control as well as backstepping-free control. Furthermore, a large-size asymmetric cylinder experimental rig is set up to simulate practical applications environment. Comparative experimental results reveal the validity and potential practical meaning of the developed control approach.     

Output regulation control for stochastic systems with additive noise

This paper investigates the robust output regulation problem for stochastic systems with additive noises. As is known, for the output regulation control problem, a general method is to regard that the system is disturbed by an autonomous exosystem (which is consisted by external disturbances and reference signals), and for the system disturbed by the white noise, the stochastic differential equations (SDEs) should be utilized in modeling, accordingly, a controller with a feedforward regulator is constructed for the stochastic system with an exosystem, which can not only cancel the external disturbance, but also transform the trajectory tracking problem into the stabilization problem; In consideration of the state variables in stochastic systems cannot be measured completely, we embed an observer to the controller, such that the random interference can be suppressed, and the trajectory tracking can be achieved. Based on the stochastic control theory, the criteria of the exponential practical stability in the mean square is presented for the closed-loop system, finally, through tuning the controller parameters, the mean square of the tracking error can converge to an arbitrarily small neighborhood of the origin.     

Error-driven nonlinear feedback-based fuzzy adaptive output dynamic surface control for nonlinear systems with partially constrained tracking errors

In this paper, a novel error-driven nonlinear feedback technique is designed for partially constrained errors fuzzy adaptive observer-based dynamic surface control of a class of multiple-input-multiple-output nonlinear systems in the presence of uncertainties and interconnections. There is no requirements that the states are available for the controller design by constructing fuzzy adaptive observer, which can online identify the unmeasurable states using available output information only. By transforming partial tracking errors into new error variables, partially constrained tracking errors can be guaranteed to be confined in pre-specified performance regions. The feature of the error-driven nonlinear feedback technique is that the feedback gain self-adjusts with varying tracking errors, which prevents high-gain chattering with large errors and guarantees disturbance attenuation with small errors. Based on a new non-quadratic Lyapunov function, it is proved that the signals in the resulted closed-loop system are kept bounded. Simulation and comparative results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Approximate decoupling and output tracking for MIMO nonlinear systems with mismatched uncertainties via ADRC approach

In this paper, we consider output tracking for a class of MIMO nonlinear systems which are composed of coupled subsystems with vast mismatched uncertainties. First, all uncertainties influencing the performance of controlled outputs, which include internal unmodelled dynamics, external disturbances, and uncertain nonlinear interactions between subsystems, are refined into the total disturbance in the control channels of subsystems. The total disturbance is shown to be sufficiently reflected in the measured output of each subsystem so that it can be estimated in real time by an extended state observer (ESO) in terms of the measured outputs. Second, we decouple approximately the MIMO systems by cancelling the total disturbance based on ESO estimation so that each subsystem becomes approximately independent linear time invariant one without uncertainty and interaction with other subsystems. Finally, we design an ESO based output feedback for each subsystem separately to ensure that the closed-loop state is bounded, and the closed-loop output of each subsystem tracks practically a given reference signal. This is completely in comply with the spirit of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC). Some numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed output feedback control scheme.     

Adaptive fault-tolerant shape control for nonlinear Lipschitz stochastic distribution systems

This paper addresses the problem of adaptive fault estimation and fault-tolerant control for a class of nonlinear non-Gaussian stochastic systems subject to time-varying loss of control effectiveness faults. In this work, time-varying faults, Lipschitz nonlinear property and general stochastic characteristics are taken into consideration in a unified framework. Instead of using the system output signal, the output distribution is adopted for shape control. Both the states and faults are simultaneously estimated by an adaptive observer. Then, a fault tolerant shape controller is designed to compensate for the faults and realize stochastic output distribution tracking. Both the fault estimation and the fault tolerant control schemes are designed based on linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. Satisfactory performance has been obtained for a numerical simulation example. Furthermore the proposed scheme is successfully tested in a case study of particle size distribution control for an emulsion polymerization reactor.     

Combined Observer-Controller Synthesis for Electro-Hydraulic Servo System with Modeling Uncertainties and Partial State Feedback

Modeling uncertainties including parameter uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics hinder the development of high-performance tracking controller for hydraulic servo system. The observation for the unknown state is another issue worthy of attention. In this paper, a new seamless observer-controller scheme for hydraulic servo system is proposed with partial feedback. The position signal and the pressure signal are firstly used to build an extended structure estimation system for the unknown state. The advantage of this estimation system is that the state observer provides an extended structure for the parameter adaptation compared to other state observers. Thus the parameter uncertainty can be handled. An adaptive robust controller is synthesized in this paper which includes the adaptive part and the robust part. The adaptive part is used to eliminate the parameter uncertainty. Then the residuals coming from the parameter adaption and the errors coming from the state observation are taken into consideration in the robust part. Moreover, the unmodeled dynamics is also handled by the robust part. Theoretical analysis proves that a prescribed transient performance and the final tracking accuracy can be guaranteed by the proposed observer-controller scheme in the presence of both parameter uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics. Furthermore, the convergence of the closed-loop controller-observer system is achieved with the parametric uncertainty existed only. Extensive comparative experiments performed on a hydraulic actuator demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed observer-controller scheme.     

Application of active disturbance rejection control in tank gun control system

The problem of position tracking for a tank gun control system with inertia uncertainty and external disturbance is investigated in this paper. The tank gun control system, demanding high tracking precision and stabilization precision, is a nonlinear system. Classical control methods are commonly used in the actual system, which is difficult to ensure high precision and high disturbance rejection capability. An active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) scheme is applied to guarantee the state variables of the closed loop system to converge to the reference state with the help of the extended state observer by estimating the inertia uncertainty and external disturbance. The basic theory of the ADRC is introduced here. According to the mathematical model, the parameters of ADRC are designed. Also, simulation results show that ADRC controller has advantages of high precision and high disturbance rejection ability. A comparison between ADRC and PID is also presented to show the effectiveness of the ADRC control strategy.     

Composite adaptive disturbance observer based control and back-stepping method for nonlinear system with multiple mismatched disturbances

A novel control scheme combining disturbance observer technique and back-stepping method is proposed for a class of nonlinear system with multiple mismatched disturbances. The uncertain multiple mismatched disturbances contain not only single harmonic or constant disturbances but also another unexpected nonlinear signal presented as a nonlinear function. The composite adaptive disturbance observers are designed to estimate the disturbances with partial known information. By integrating disturbance observer based control with back-stepping method, a composite controller is designed. Here, the disturbance estimations are introduced into the design of virtual control laws in each step to compensate the mismatched disturbances. Rigorous stability analysis for the closed-loop system is established by direct Lyapunov function method. It is shown that the system output asymptotically converges to zero in spite of existing multiple mismatched disturbances. Finally, a simulation example is applied to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Output feedback stabilization for an anti-stable Schrödinger equation with internal unknown dynamic and external disturbance

In this paper, we consider output feedback stabilization for an anti-stable Schrödinger equation with both the internal unknown dynamic and external disturbance. An unknown input type state observer is designed in terms of a new disturbance estimator. Different from the existing results, we never use high gain in the observer design. Hence, the boundedness assumption on the derivative of disturbance, that is usually required by finite-dimensional extended state observer, is no longer required. The anti-stable term is treated by the backstepping transformation which is given by ODE form to make the controller design easier. Although the close-loop system is nonlinear, both the well-posedness and the asymptotic stability are obtained by a linear method in terms of an invertible transformation. The numerical simulations are presented to illustrate that the proposed scheme is very effective.     

Event-triggered adaptive tracking control of uncertain nonlinear systems with prescribed performance and actuator failures

This article studies adaptive prescribed performance tracking control problem for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties and actuator failures. Firstly, in order to compensate the multiple uncertainties and eliminate the influence of actuator failure, a new adaptive tracking controller based on first-order filter technology will be proposed, which simplifies the algorithm design process. Then, by introducing an asymmetric state transition function, the transient and steady performances of the output tracking error are both constrained such that the predetermined performance control goal is achieved. Moreover, to reduce the communication burden from the controller to the actuator, the event-triggered mechanism is designed, and there will be no Zeno phenomenon. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, it is strictly proved that output signal can track the reference signal and all the signals of the closed-loop system are bounded. Finally, a simulation example is performed and the results demonstrate effectiveness of the proposed strategy.     

Consensus-based total-amount cooperative tracking control for multi-motor locomotive traction system

In locomotive traction system, unavoidable factors (such as idling and skidding) typically lead to the decline of traction performance of one or more motors, thereby resulting in the fluctuation of total torque traction amount. In this paper, the consensus-based total-amount cooperative tracking control (TACTC) is proposed to maintain the consensus of total torque traction amount with the given reference instruction. First, a disturbance observer is employed to estimate uncertain disturbances, then the output torque and observed values are fed back to design the total amount cooperative tracking control protocol, which is used to coordinate traction torque output redundancy of each individual motor. Simulation results show that the proposed approach is effective in reducing tracking time and tracking errors.