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.     

Event-triggered fault estimation and sliding mode fault-tolerant control for a class of nonlinear networked control systems

This paper is concerned with integrated event-triggered fault estimation (FE) and sliding mode fault-tolerant control (FTC) for a class of discrete-time Lipschtiz nonlinear networked control systems (NCSs) subject to actuator fault and disturbance. First, an event-triggered fault/state observer is designed to estimate the system state and actuator fault simultaneously. And then, a discrete-time sliding surface is constructed in state-estimation space. By the use of a reformulated Lipschitz property and delay system analysis method, the sliding mode dynamics and state/fault error dynamics are converted into a unified linear parameter varying (LPV) networked system model by taking into account the event-triggered scheme, actuator fault, external disturbance and network-induced delay. Based on this model and with the aid of Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional method, a delay-dependent sufficient condition is derived to guarantee the stability of the resulting closed-loop system with prescribed H_∞ performance. Furthermore, an observed-based sliding mode FTC law is synthesized to make sure the reachability of the sliding surface. Finally, simulation results are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Finite-time stabilization of nonlinear time delay systems using LQR based sliding mode control

In this paper, we discussed the robust finite-time stability of conic type nonlinear systems with time varying delays. Some novel conditions are derived to design a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) based sliding mode control (SMC) by proposing an integral switching surface. The sufficient conditions are derived for the considered nonlinear system using Lyapunov–Krasovskii stability theory and linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach. The proposed conditions can be solved using some standard numerical packages. Finally, a practical example is provided to validate the advantages and effectiveness of the proposed results.     

Adaptive sliding mode control for persistent dwell-time switched nonlinear systems with matched/mismatched uncertainties and its application

In this paper, the adaptive sliding mode control issue for switched nonlinear systems with matched and mismatched uncertainties is addressed, where the persistent dwell-time switching rule is introduced to describe the switching of parameters. Besides, considering the case that the upper bound of the matched uncertainty is unknown, the purpose of this paper is to utilize an adaptive control method to estimate its upper bound parameters. To begin with, a linear sliding surface is constructed, and then the reduced-order sliding mode dynamics can be obtained through a reduced-order method. Next, sufficient conditions can be derived based on the Lyapunov stability and the persistent dwell-time switching analysis techniques ensuring that the reduced-order sliding mode dynamics is globally uniformly exponentially stable. Moreover, a switched adaptive sliding mode control law is designed, which can not only ensure the reachability of the sliding surface but also estimate the upper bound parameters of the matched uncertainty. Finally, a numerical example and a circuit model are introduced to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Sparsely distributed sliding mode control for interconnected systems

This paper proposes a framework for the design of sparsely distributed output feedback discrete-time sliding mode control (ODSMC) for interconnected systems. The major target here is to develop an observer based discrete-time sliding mode controller employing a sparsely distributed control network structure in which local controllers exploit some other sub-systems’ information as well as its own local information. As the local controllers/observers have access to some other sub-systems’ states, the control performance will be improved and the applicability region will be widened compared to the decentralised structure. As the first step, a stability condition is derived for the overall closed-loop system obtained from applying ODSMC to the underlying interconnected system, by assuming a priori known structure for the control/observer network. The developed LMI based controller design scheme provides the possibility to employ different information patterns such as fully distributed, sparsely distributed and decentralised patterns. In the second step, we propose a methodology to identify a sparse control/observer network structure with the least possible number of communication links that satisfies the stability condition given in the first step. The boundedness of the obtained overall closed-loop system is analysed and a bound is derived for the augmented system state which includes the closed-loop system state and the switching function.     

A new singular system approach to output feedback sliding mode control for fractional order nonlinear systems

This paper studies the problem of output feedback sliding mode control (OFSMC) for fractional order nonlinear systems. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a sliding surface is obtained by a new singular system approach and a linear matrix equality (LMI), which reduces the conservativeness of the system. Then an OFSMC law is designed based on a fractional order Lyapunov method, which ensures that the resulting fractional closed-loop system is asymptotically stable and the states of the fractional closed-loop system converge to the sliding surface in finite time. A fractional electrical circuit is discussed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Output feedback control of electro-hydraulic servo actuators with matched and mismatched disturbances rejection

In this paper, two output feedback controllers are proposed for motion control of double-rod electro-hydraulic servo actuators with matched and mismatched disturbances rejection. All of them employ an linear extended state observer (LESO) to achieve real-time estimates of the unmeasured system states and matched disturbance, and a nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) to estimate the largely unknown mismatched disturbance at the same time. Thus, the disturbances are compensated via their online estimates in a feedforward way when implementing the resulting control algorithms, respectively. Furthermore, a continuously differentiable friction model is employed to compensate the majority of nonlinear friction existing in the system and reduce the burden of the NDO. Specially, one of the proposed control schemes utilizes model-based compensation terms depending on the desired trajectory to be tracked instead of the estimated system states. By doing this, online computation burden can be reduced. The stability of the whole closed-loop system under each control scheme is guaranteed by theoretical analysis. Moreover, the applicability of each control scheme are validated by experiments in different working conditions.     

Event-triggered sliding mode control of uncertain switched systems under denial-of-service attacks

This study is concerned with the event-triggered sliding mode control problem for a class of cyber-physical switched systems, in which the Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks may randomly occur according to the Bernoulli distribution. A key issue is how to design the output feedback sliding mode control (SMC) law for guaranteeing the dynamical performance of the closed-loop system under DoS attacks. To this end, an event-triggered mechanism is firstly introduced to reduce the communication load, under which the measurement signal is transmitted only when a certain triggering condition is satisfied. An usable output signal for the controller is constructed to compensate the effect of unmeasured states and DoS attacks. And then, a dynamic output feedback sliding mode controller is designed by means of the attack probability and the compensated output signals. Both the reachability and the mean-square exponential stability of sliding mode dynamics are investigated and the corresponding sufficient conditions are obtained. Finally, some numerical simulation results are provided.     

Robust stabilization of uncertain 2-D discrete-time delayed systems using sliding mode control

This paper aims to solve the problem of sliding mode control for an uncertain two-dimensional (2-D) systems with states having time-varying delays. The uncertainties in the system dynamics are constituted of mismatched uncertain parameters and the unknown nonlinear bounded function. The proposed problem utilizes the model transformation approach. By segregating the proper Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional in concert with the improved version of Wirtinger-based summation inequality, sufficient solvability conditions for the existence of linear switching surfaces have been put forward, which ensure the asymptotical stability of the reduced-order equivalent sliding mode dynamics. Then, we solve the controller synthesis problem by extending the recently proposed reaching law to 2-D systems, whose proportional part is appropriately scaled by the factor that does not depend on some constant terms but rather on current switching surface’s value, which in turn ensures the faster convergence and better robustness against uncertainties. Finally, the proposed results have been validated through an implementation to a suitable physical system.     

Adaptive control of bi-directionally coupled Lorenz systems with uncertainties

The bi-directionally coupled Lorenz systems are linked to the modeling of a coupled double loop thermosyphon system where the mass momentum and heat exchange are both considered. As the key parameters of the system, known as Rayleigh numbers, increase, the system of differential equations predicts typical flow dynamics in a thermosyphon from heat conduction to time-dependent chaos. In many applications including the thermosyphon systems, there are uncertainties associated with mathematical models such as unmodeled dynamics and parameter variations. Also, under the high heat environment for a thermosyphon, there exist external disturbances quantitatively linked to the Rayleigh numbers. All these sources constitute uncertainties to the dynamical system. Our objective is to design adaptive controllers to stabilize the chaotic flow in each thermosyphon loop with unknown system parameters and existence of uncertainties. The controllers consist of a proportional controller with an adaptive gain and a wavelet network that reconstructs the unknown functions representing the uncertainties. Explicit stability bounds and adaptive laws for the control parameters are obtained so that the coupled Lorenz systems are globally stabilized.     

Finite-time fractional-order adaptive intelligent backstepping sliding mode control of uncertain fractional-order chaotic systems

This paper precedes chaos control of fractional-order chaotic systems in presence of uncertainty and external disturbances. Based on some basic properties on fractional calculus and the stability theorems, we present a hybrid adaptive intelligent backstepping-sliding mode controller (FAIBSMC) for the finite-time control of such systems. The FAIBSMC is proposed based on the concept of active control technique. The asymptotic stability of the controller is shown based on Lyapunov theorem and the finite time reaching to the sliding surfaces is also proved. Illustrative and comparative examples and simulation results are given to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed procedure, which consent well with the analytical results.     

Disturbance rejection for nonlinear systems with mismatched disturbances based on disturbance observer

A disturbance rejection approach based on disturbance observer is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems subject to mismatched disturbances. The mismatched disturbances are described by exogenous systems and satisfy partially-known information, which enter the system in the different channels with the control input. The disturbance observer is designed to estimate the mismatched disturbances, which can be introduced separately from the controller design. By integrating disturbance observer with back-stepping method, the disturbance observer plus back-stepping (DOPBS) controller can be constructed to reject the mismatched disturbances. And the asymptotically stability for the closed-loop system can be achieved. Finally, simulation examples are given to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed scheme compared with existing methods.     

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.     

Full-order terminal sliding-mode control of MIMO systems with unmatched uncertainties

To control MIMO systems with unmatched uncertainties, two sliding-mode controllers are presented in this paper. Firstly, a terminal sliding-mode controller is presented to force the output of an MIMO system to a region near zero in finite-time. With the analysis on the effect of the unmatched uncertainties, a full-order terminal sliding-mode control is further proposed to force the output of the MIMO system to converge to zero rather than a region. The virtual control is utilized to establish the reference for the part of the system states, which can reject unmatched uncertainties completely. To generate continuous virtual control signals, the proposed full-order terminal sliding-mode controller makes the ideal sliding motion as the full-order dynamics rather than the reduced-order dynamics in traditional sliding-mode control systems. Finally, the simulations on the control of an L-1011 fixed wing aircraft at cruise flight conditions validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Event-triggered adaptive fault-tolerant control for nonlinear systems fusing static and dynamic information

In this paper, a novel event-triggered adaptive fault-tolerant control scheme is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown actuator faults. Multiplicative faults and additive faults are taken into account simultaneously, both of which may vary with time. Different from existing results, our controller fuses static reliability information and dynamic online information, which is helpful to enhance the fault-tolerant capability. With the aid of an event-triggering mechanism, an actuator switching strategy and a bound estimation approach, the communication burden is significantly reduced and the impacts of the actuator faults as well as the network-induced error are effectively compensated for. Moreover, by employing the prescribed performance control technique, the system tracking error can converge to a predefined arbitrarily small residual set with prescribed convergence rate and maximum overshoot, which implies that the proposed scheme is able to ensure rapid and accurate tracking. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Flatness-based adaptive sliding mode tracking control for a quadrotor with disturbances

In this paper, a flatness-based adaptive sliding mode control strategy is presented to solve the trajectory tracking problem of a quadrotor. According to the differential flatness theory, the typical under-actuated quadrotor dynamics is transformed into a fully-actuated one. Based on this model, backstepping sliding mode controllers are designed to solve the trajectory tracking problem. To improve the robustness to disturbances, extended state observers are applied as a feedforward compensation of disturbances. Moreover, considering the high-order dynamics and possible instability caused by large observer gains, the adaptive method is applied to compensate for the estimation error. The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is verified in simulations.     

Neural networks-based adaptive output feedback control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with input delay and disturbances

This paper focuses on the problem of adaptive output feedback control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with input delay and disturbances. Radial basis function neural networks (NNs) are employed to approximate the unknown functions and an NN observer is constructed to estimate the unmeasurable system states. Moreover, an auxiliary system is introduced to compensate for the effect of input delay. With the aid of the backstepping technique and Lyapunov stability theorem, an adaptive NN output feedback controller is designed which can guarantee the boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop systems. Finally, a simulation example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Adaptive neural dynamic surface control for full state constrained stochastic nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics

This paper solves the problem of adaptive neural dynamic surface control (DSC) for a class of full state constrained stochastic nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics. The concept of the state constraints in probability is first proposed and applied to the stability analysis of the system. The full state constrained stochastic nonlinear system is transformed to the system without state constraints through a nonlinear mapping. The unmodeled dynamics is dealt with by introducing a dynamic signal and the adaptive neural dynamic surface control method is explored for the transformed system. It is proved that all signals of the closed-loop system are bounded in probability and the error signals are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded(SGUUB) in mean square or the sense of four-moment. At the same time, the full state constraints are not violated in probability. The validity of the proposed control scheme is demonstrated through the simulation examples.     

Novel integral sliding mode control for small-scale unmanned helicopters

Integral sliding mode (ISM) control which consists of a nominal control and a sliding-mode motion control, provides a nice framework for high tracking performance and good disturbance reduction. Our work develops ISM to attenuate the adverse effect of mismatched perturbations. By properly choosing sliding-manifold surface, the elimination of disturbances on control outputs enables to be achieved. Additionally, the chattering of sliding-mode control part is attenuated based on second-order sliding mode idea. Then, the proposed novel ISM control scheme is applied to address trajectory tracking problem for helicopters under perturbations. Approximated input-output linearization is implemented, such that the obtained linearized model is suitable for applying the proposed ism control. The stability of the closed-loop system for helicopter and its convergence to zeros of tracking errors are demonstrated by Lyapunov theory analysis. Several comparison simulations illustrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed methods.     

A new prescribed performance control approach for uncertain nonlinear dynamic systems via back-stepping

Though traditional prescribed performance control (PPC) schemes can guarantee tracking errors with desired transient performance, they cannot ensure the convergence of tracking errors with small overshoot. In this study, we propose a novel PPC methodology for a class of uncertain nonlinear dynamic systems based on back-stepping, guaranteeing output tracking with small (even zero) overshoot. Firstly, new performance functions are constructed to constrain tracking errors. Then, to facilitate control designs, the “constrained” systems are transformed into equivalent “unconstrained” ones by designing a series of transformed errors. Furthermore, robust back-stepping controllers, requiring no priori knowledge of uncertainties’ upper bounds, are developed utilizing transformed errors instead of initial tracking errors. Semi-globally uniformly bounded stability of the closed-loop control system is guaranteed via Lyapunov synthesis. Finally, simulation and experiment results are presented to verify the design.