Observer-based adaptive fuzzy control of a class of MIMO non-strict feedback nonlinear systems

This paper investigates the adaptive fuzzy control design problem of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) non-strict feedback nonlinear systems. The considered control systems contain unknown control directions and dead zones. Fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) are utilized to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, and the state observers are designed to estimate immeasurable states. By constructing a dead zone compensator and introducing a Nussbaum gain function into the backstepping technique, an adaptive fuzzy output feedback control method is developed. The proposed adaptive fuzzy controller is proved to guarantee the semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB) of the closed-loop system, and can solve the control design problems of unmeasured states, unknown control directions and dead zones. The simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.     

Fuzzy adaptive fault-tolerant tracking control of MIMO stochastic pure-feedback nonlinear systems with actuator failures

This paper studies the adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant control design problem for a class of stochastic multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems in pure-feedback form. The nonlinear systems under study contain unknown functions, unmeasured states and actuator faults, which are described by the loss of effectiveness and lock-in-place modes. With the help of fuzzy logic systems identifying uncertain stochastic nonlinear systems, a fuzzy state observer is established for estimating the unmeasured states. Based on the backstepping design technique with the nonlinear tolerant-fault control theory, an adaptive fuzzy output feedback faults-tolerant control approach is developed. It is proved that the proposed fault-tolerant control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop system are bounded in probability. Moreover, the observer errors and tracking errors can be regulated to a small neighborhood of the origin by choosing design parameters appropriately. A simulation example is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Observer-based adaptive dynamic surface control of time-delayed non-strict systems with input nonlinearities

This paper proposes an adaptive dynamic surface controller for uncertain time-delay non-strict nonlinear systems with unknown control direction and unknown dead zone. To this end, the problem of uncertainty in nonlinear terms of the overall system is managed such that the estimation of these terms is obtained by applying a fuzzy logic, which is established based on an adaptive approach. A particular observer is then designed to approximate the immeasurable states. Furthermore, to overcome the delay issue in the system, the Lyapunov Krasovskii functional is used to achieve design conditions for dynamic surface control. Moreover, the breach of the output in the system is addressed by employing a Barrier Lyapunov Function. Then, with the aim of the designed controller, the stability of the closed-loop system is ensured such that all states are limited, and the errors are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB). Finally, as an illustration of the effectiveness of the proposed controller, a practical simulation is provided.     

Adaptive fuzzy output feedback fault-tolerant tracking control of switched uncertain nonlinear systems with sensor faults

This paper investigates the adaptive fuzzy output feedback fault-tolerant tracking control problem for a class of switched uncertain nonlinear systems with unknown sensor faults. In this paper, since the sensor may suffer from an unknown constant loss scaling failure, only actual output can be used for feedback design. A failure factor is employed to represent the loss of effectiveness faults. Then, an adaptive estimation coefficient is introduced to estimate the failure factor, and a state observer based on the actual output is constructed to estimate the system states. Fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions. Based on the Lyapunov function method and the backstepping technique, the proposed control scheme with average dwell time constraints can guarantee that all states of the closed-loop system are bounded and the tracking error can converge to a small neighborhood of zero. Finally, two simulation examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Adaptive output feedback control of large-scale nonlinear time-delay systems with uncertain output equations

For a class of large-scale nonlinear time-delay systems with uncertain output equations, the problem of global state asymptotic regulation is addressed by output feedback. The class of systems under consideration are subject to feedforward growth conditions with unknown growth rate and time delays in inputs and outputs. To deal with the system uncertainties and the unknown delays, a novel low-gain observer with adaptive gain is firstly proposed; next, an adaptive output feedback delay-free controller is constructed by combining Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional with backstepping algorithm. Compared with the existing results, the controllers proposed are capable of handling both the uncertain output functions and the unknown time delays in inputs and outputs. With the help of dynamic scaling technique, it is shown that the closed-loop states converge asymptotically to zero, while the adaptive gain is bounded globally. Finally, the effectiveness of our control schemes are illustrated by three examples.     

Command filter-based finite-time adaptive fuzzy control for nonlinear systems with uncertain disturbance

In this paper, a command filter-based adaptive fuzzy controller is constructed for a class of nonlinear systems with uncertain disturbance. By using the error compensation signals and fuzzy logic system, a command filter-based control strategy is presented to make that the tracking error converge to an any small neighborhood of zero and all closed-loop signals are bounded. In the design procedure, fuzzy logic system is employed to estimate unknown package nonlinear functions, which avoids excessive and burdensome computations. The control scheme not only resolves the explosion of complexity problem but also eliminates the filtering error in finite-time. An example has evaluated the validity of the control method.     

Observer-Based adaptive neural inverse optimal consensus control of nonlinear multiagent systems

The objective of this article is to present an adaptive neural inverse optimal consensus tracking control for nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) with unmeasurable states. In the control process, firstly, to approximate the unknown state, a new observer is created which includes the outputs of other agents and their estimated information. The neural network is used to reckon the uncertain nonlinear dynamic systems. Based on a new inverse optimal method and the construction of tuning functions, an adaptive neural inverse optimal consensus tracking controller is proposed, which does not depend on the auxiliary system, thus greatly reducing the computational load. The developed scheme not only insures that all signals of the system are cooperatively semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded (CSUUB), but also realizes optimal control of all signals. Eventually, two simulations provide the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Event-triggered adaptive control of multi-agent systems with saturated input and partial state constraints

In this paper, we study the consensus tracking control problem of a class of strict-feedback multi-agent systems (MASs) with uncertain nonlinear dynamics, input saturation, output and partial state constraints (PSCs) which are assumed to be time-varying. An adaptive distributed control scheme is proposed for consensus achievement via output feedback and event-triggered strategy in directed networks containing a spanning tree. To handle saturated control inputs, a linear form of the control input is adopted by transforming the saturation function. The radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is applied to approximate the uncertain nonlinear dynamics. Since the system outputs are the only available data, a high-gain adaptive observer based on RBFNN is constructed to estimate the unmeasurable states. To ensure that the constraints of system outputs and partial states are never violated, a barrier Lyapunov function (BLF) with time-varying boundary function is constructed. Event-triggered control (ETC) strategy is applied to save communication resources. By using backstepping design method, the proposed distributed controller can guarantee the boundedness of all system signals, consensus tracking with a bounded error and avoidance of Zeno behavior. Finally, the correctness of the theoretical results is verified by computer simulation.     

Observer-based fuzzy adaptive stabilization of uncertain switched stochastic nonlinear systems with input quantization

This paper proposes an observer-based fuzzy adaptive output feedback control scheme for a class of uncertain single-input and single-output (SISO) nonlinear stochastic systems with quantized input signals and arbitrary switchings. The SISO system under consideration contains completely unknown nonlinear functions, unmeasured system states and quantized input signals quantized by a hysteretic quantizer. By adopting a new nonlinear disposal of the quantized input, the relationship between the control input and the quantized input is established. The hysteretic quantizer that we take can effectively avoid the chattering phenomena. Furthermore, the introduction of a linear observer makes the estimation of the states possible. Based on the universal approximation ability of the fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) and backstepping recursive design with the common stochastic Lyapunov function approach, a quantized output feedback control scheme is constructed, where the dynamic surface control (DSC) is explored to alleviate the computation burden. The proposed control scheme cannot only guarantee the boundedness of signals but also make the output of the system converge to a small neighborhood of the origin. The simulation results are exhibited to demonstrate the validity of the control scheme.     

Fuzzy adaptive output-feedback tracking control for nonlinear strict-feedback systems in prescribed finite time

The current paper addresses the fuzzy adaptive tracking control via output feedback for single-input single-output (SISO) nonlinear systems in strict-feedback form. Under the situation of system states being unavailable, the system output is used to set up the state observer to estimate the real system states. Furthermore, the estimation states are employed to design controller. During the control design process, fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) are used to model the unknown nonlinearities. A novel observer-based finite-time tracking control scheme is proposed via fuzzy adaptive backstepping and barrier Lyapunov function approach. The suggested fuzzy adaptive output feedback controller can force the output tracking error to meet the pre-specified accuracy in a fixed time. Meanwhile, all the closed-loop variables are bounded. Compared to some existing finite-time output feedback control schemes, the developed control strategy guarantees that the settling time and the error accuracy are independent of the uncertainties and can be specified by the designer. At last, the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed control scheme are demonstrated by two simulation examples.     

Discrete-time adaptive fuzzy speed regulation control for induction motors with input saturation via command filtering

A discrete-time adaptive fuzzy control method is introduced to achieve the speed regulation for induction motors (IMs) with input saturation via command filtering in this paper. First, the continuous model of IMs drive system is transformed into discrete-time form by using Euler formula. Then, the fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions in the discrete-time drive system. In addition, the command filtering control method is introduced to overcome the “explosion of complexity” problem in the design process of traditional backstepping method. It is verified that all the closed-loop signals are bounded and the outputs can track the given reference signals well. Finally, simulation results illustrate the validity of the discrete-time control method.     

Adaptive fuzzy tracking control for switched uncertain strict-feedback nonlinear systems

This paper concerns an adaptive fuzzy tracking control problem for a class of switched uncertain nonlinear systems in strict-feedback form via the modified backstepping technique. The unknown nonlinear functions are approximated by the generalized fuzzy hyperbolic model (GFHM). It is shown that if the designed parameters in the controller and adaptive laws are appropriately selected, then all closed-loop signals are bounded and the stability of the system can be kept under average dwell time methods. In the end, simulation studies are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Adaptive fuzzy asymptotically tracking control of full state constrained nonlinear system based on a novel Nussbaum-type function

This study carries out the problem of adaptive backstepping fuzzy tracking control for a class of full state constrained uncertain nonlinear system with unknown control directions. Based on Nussbaum-type functions and tan-type Barrier Lyapunov functions, a novel adaptive fuzzy tracking controller is proposed to guarantee that the system output tracking error asymptotically converges to zero, while the constraints on the states of system will not be violated during operation. Compared with the existing results, a better convergence effect is obtained for this class of systems. Stability analysis of the proposed closed-loop control system is supported by the Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, a simulation example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.     

Flatness-based adaptive fuzzy output tracking excitation control for power system generators

In this paper, a novel approach for the design of an indirect adaptive fuzzy output tracking excitation control of power system generators is proposed. The method is developed based on the concept of differentially flat systems through which the nonlinear system can be written in canonical form. The flatness-based adaptive fuzzy control methodology is used to design the excitation control signal of a single machine power system in order to track a reference trajectory for the generator angle. The considered power system can be written in the canonical form and the resulting excitation control signal is shown to be nonlinear. In case of unknown power system parameters due to abnormalities, the nonlinear functions appearing in the control signal are approximated using adaptive fuzzy systems. Simulation results show that the proposed controller can enhance the transient stability of the power system under a three-phase to ground fault occurring near the generator terminals.     

Fuzzy adaptive event-triggered control for uncertain nonlinear system with prescribed performance: A combinational measurement approach

This paper addresses the adaptive fuzzy event-triggered control (ETC) problem for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems with unknown nonlinear functions. A novel ETC approach that exhibits a combinational triggering (CT) behavior is proposed to update the controller and fuzzy weight vectors, achieving the non-periodic control input signals for nonlinear systems. A CT-based fuzzy adaptive observer is firstly constructed to estimate the unmeasurable states. Based on this, an output feedback ETC is proposed following the backstepping and error transformation methods, which ensures the prescribed dynamic tracking (PDT) performance. The PDT performance indicates that the transient bounds, over-shooting and ultimate values of tracking errors are fully determined by the control parameters and functions chosen by users. The closed-loop stability is guaranteed under the framework of impulsive dynamic system. Besides, the Zeno phenomenon is circumvented. The theoretical analysis indicates that the proposed scheme guarantees control performance while considerably reducing the communication resource utilization and controller updating frequency. Finally, the numerical simulations are conducted to verify the theoretical findings.     

Sampled observer-based adaptive output feedback fault-tolerant control for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems

This paper studies the sampled outputs-based adaptive fault-tolerant control problem for a class of strict-feedback uncertain nonlinear systems, where the nonlinear functions are allowed to include the unmeasured system states. Within the framework, a sampled output observer is introduced to jointly estimate the system states and parameters. By combining the estimated states and the supervisory switching strategy, an adaptive fault-tolerant controller is designed to achieve the desirable tracking performance. By using Lyapunov stability theory, it is proved that all the signals of the closed-loop systems are bounded and the tracking error converges to an adjustable neighbourhood of the origin eventually both in the fault free and faulty cases. Especially, if the outputs are available all the time, the proposed output feedback fault-tolerant control method can ensure the tracking error satisfy the prescribed performance bounds regardless of the faults. Finally, two examples are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant decentralized control for uncertain nonlinear large-scale systems based on dynamic surface control technique

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy decentralized control method is proposed for accommodating actuator faults for a class of uncertain nonlinear large-scale systems. The considered faults are modeled as both loss of effectiveness and lock-in-place. With the help of fuzzy logic systems to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, the novel adaptive fuzzy faults-tolerant decentralized controllers are constructed by combining the backstepping technique and the dynamic surface control (DSC) approach. It is proved that the proposed control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop systems are bounded and the tracking errors converge to a small neighborhood of zero. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the control approach.     

具有确定逼近域的自适应模糊DSC控制

针对一类不确定非线性时滞系统,提出了一种具有确定逼近域的自适应模糊控制器的设计方案。在动态面控制（DSC）的基础上,通过时滞代换技巧,使得自适应模糊逼近器的输入为参考信号,从而可以明确定义逼近域,同时可以处理系统中完全未知的时滞信号。基于Lyapunov-Krasovskii范函,证明闭环系统所有信号为半全局一致有界的,并且跟踪误差可以收敛到原点附件的一个小邻域内。仿真结果进一步说明了该方法的有效性。     

Hybrid adaptive bionic fuzzy control method for MIMO systems with dead-zone input

In this research, a hybrid adaptive bionic fuzzy control strategy is developed for a class of complicated nonlinear multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems with dead-zone input. The first component of the bionic adaptive controller is a general phrase for tunning system parameters depending on the present state, and the second component is a trend-based compensation for adjusting the system parameters. This technique makes the system more intelligent and boosts its anti-interference capabilities. The stability and convergence are analyzed using the Lyapunov synthetic method, and thus the parameter restrictions of the MIMO system are provided. Finally, the strong anti-interference of the system is verified by the simulations.     

Event-triggered adaptive fuzzy tracking control for high-order stochastic nonlinear systems

This paper is concerned with event-triggered adaptive fuzzy tracking control for high-order stochastic nonlinear systems. The approach of fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) approximation is extended to high-order stochastic nonlinear systems to deal with the unknown nonlinear uncertainties. A novel high-order adaptive fuzzy tracking controller is firstly presented via a backstepping approach and event-triggering mechanism which can mitigate the unnecessary waste of computation and communication resources. Based on the above techniques, frequently-used growth assumptions imposed on unknown system nonlinearities are removed and the influence for the high order is handled. The proposed high-order adaptive fuzzy tracking control method not only deals with the influence of high order, but also ensures that the tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of the origin in probability. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control method is illustrated by a numerical example.