Global fast dynamic terminal sliding mode control for a quadrotor UAV

A control method based on global fast dynamic terminal sliding mode control (TSMC) technique is proposed to design the flight controller for performing the finite-time position and attitude tracking control of a small quadrotor UAV. Firstly, the dynamic model of the quadrotor is divided into two subsystems, i.e., a fully actuated subsystem and an underactuated subsystem. Secondly, the dynamic flight controllers of the quadrotor are formulated based on global fast dynamic TSMC, which is able to guarantee that the position and velocity tracking errors of all system state variables converge to zero in finite-time. Moreover, the global fast dynamic TSMC is also able to eliminate the chattering phenomenon caused by the switching control action and realize the high precision performance. In addition, the stabilities of two subsystems are demonstrated by Lyapunov theory, respectively. Lastly, the simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control method in the presence of external disturbances.     

Finite-time sliding mode controller for perturbed second-order systems

This paper presents a novel finite-time sliding mode controller applied to perturbed second order systems. The proposed scheme employs a disturbance observer that can identify growing in time disturbances. Then, the observer is combined with a sliding mode controller to achieve finite-time stabilization of the second-order system. The convergence of the observer as well as the finite-time stability of the closed-loop system is theoretically demonstrated. Besides, it is also shown that the finite-time convergence properties of a given controller can be enhanced when using a compensation term based on the disturbance observer. The proposed controller is compared with a twisting algorithm and a finite-time sliding mode controller with disturbance estimation. Also, a conventional proportional integral derivative (PID) controller is combined with the proposed disturbance observer in a trajectory tracking task. Numerical simulations indicate that the proposed controller attains finite-time stabilization of the second order system by requiring a less amount of power than that demanded by the other control schemes and without being affected by the peaking phenomenon. Besides, the performance of the PID technique is enhanced by applying the proposed control methodology.     

基于改进扩展状态观测器的四旋翼无人机轨迹鲁棒跟踪控制

针对四旋翼无人机在轨迹跟踪过程中会受到内外部扰动、模型误差等不确定性因素的影响,本文提出了一种基于改进型扩展状态观测器的积分滑模控制方案。具体来讲,首先,将四旋翼无人机系统存在的模型误差以及内外部扰动等不确定性因素视作集总干扰,通过借鉴的改进扩展状态观测器对其进行观测;进而,在此基础上,进一步考虑四旋翼无人机系统控制的连续性,基于四旋翼无人机轨迹误差、速度误差、姿态角误差和姿态角速度误差设计积分滑模控制器,分析了系统的稳定性并分别进行了数值仿真和实机实验。结果表明,采用本文算法时,在数值仿真中,各状态跟踪误差不超过1%,跟踪精度最高;在实机实验中,位置跟踪误差总体上能控制在20%以下。因此,本文方法具备有效性和可行性。     

Position and attitude tracking control for a quadrotor UAV

A synthesis control method is proposed to perform the position and attitude tracking control of the dynamical model of a small quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), where the dynamical model is underactuated, highly-coupled and nonlinear. Firstly, the dynamical model is divided into a fully actuated subsystem and an underactuated subsystem. Secondly, a controller of the fully actuated subsystem is designed through a novel robust terminal sliding mode control (TSMC) algorithm, which is utilized to guarantee all state variables converge to their desired values in short time, the convergence time is so small that the state variables are acted as time invariants in the underactuated subsystem, and, a controller of the underactuated subsystem is designed via sliding mode control (SMC), in addition, the stabilities of the subsystems are demonstrated by Lyapunov theory, respectively. Lastly, in order to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed control method, the aerodynamic forces and moments and air drag taken as external disturbances are taken into account, the obtained simulation results show that the synthesis control method has good performance in terms of position and attitude tracking when faced with external disturbances.     

基于反演设计的机械臂非奇异终端神经滑模控制

针对具有建模误差和不确定干扰的多关节机械臂的轨迹跟踪问题,设计反演非奇异终端神经滑模控制。该方案是采用能有限时间收敛的非奇异终端滑模面,根据滑模控制原理和反演方法设计反演滑模控制器;对于反演滑模控制系统中由于建模误差和不确定干扰造成的不确定因素的上界,设计径向基(Radial basis function, RBF)神经网络自适应律,在线估计不确定因素的上界;利用李亚普诺夫定理证明了系统的稳定性。仿真结果表明,该方法具有良好的轨迹跟踪性能,提高对于建模误差和不确定干扰等因素的鲁棒性,削弱了抖动。     

Neural network disturbance observer-based distributed finite-time formation tracking control for multiple unmanned helicopters

The distributed finite-time formation tracking control problem for multiple unmanned helicopters is investigated in this paper. The control object is to maintain the positions of follower helicopters in formation with external interferences. The helicopter model is divided into a second order outer-loop subsystem and a second order inner-loop subsystem based on multiple-time scale features. Using radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) technique, we first propose a novel finite-time multivariable neural network disturbance observer (FMNNDO) to estimate the external disturbance and model uncertainty, where the neural network (NN) approximation errors can be dynamically compensated by adaptive law. Next, based on FMNNDO, a distributed finite-time formation tracking controller and a finite-time attitude tracking controller are designed using the nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode (NFTSM) method. In order to estimate the second derivative of the virtual desired attitude signal, a novel finite-time sliding mode integral filter is designed. Finally, Lyapunov analysis and multiple-time scale principle ensure the realization of control goal in finite-time. The effectiveness of the proposed FMNNDO and controllers are then verified by numerical simulations.     

存在死区的双柔杆空间机器人有限时间控制与抑振

探讨了存在关节力矩输出死区情况下,基于有限时间的漂浮基双柔杆空间机器人系统的轨迹跟踪与柔性抑振问题。采用奇异摄动理论,将系统的动力学方程分解为慢变与快变子系统,分别表示刚性运动与柔性振动。针对模型存在不确定性和死区参数未知的慢变子系统,设计了死区预补偿器和一种基于名义模型的有限时间控制器。引入了具有有限时间收敛特性的积分式滑模面,它与传统渐近收敛控制方法相比,具有更快的收敛速度、更好的鲁棒性和抗干扰特性。对于快变子系统,采用线性二次最优控制方法主动抑制其振动,以保证系统良好的稳定性。结合有限时间稳定性引理,采用李雅普诺夫理论证明了所提控制算法能使跟踪误差在有限时间内收敛到原点。仿真算例验证了所提方法的有效性。     

Sliding mode control with PID sliding surface and experimental application to an electromechanical plant

In this study, a sliding mode control system with a proportional+integral+derivative (PID) sliding surface is adopted to control the speed of an electromechanical plant. A robust sliding mode controller is derived so that the actual trajectory tracks the desired trajectory despite uncertainty, nonlinear dynamics, and external disturbances. The proposed sliding mode controller is chosen to ensure the stability of overall dynamics during the reaching phase and sliding phase. The stability of the system is guaranteed in the sense of the Lyapunov stability theorem. The chattering problem is overcome using a hyperbolic function for the sliding surface. Experimental results that are compared with the results of conventional PID verify that the proposed sliding mode controller can achieve favorable tracking performance, and it is robust with regard to uncertainties and disturbances.     

水下机械手分数阶积分滑模轨迹跟踪控制方法研究

针对未知有界外部干扰下水下机械手的轨迹跟踪问题,提出了一种分数阶积分滑模控制方法。该方法采用了基于分数阶积分滑模面的指数趋近律,考虑外部扰动,在模型中添加了外部扰动的近似估计项,使得系统可以实现快速收敛,且具有较强的抗干扰能力。利用李雅普诺夫理论证明了该方法的稳定性。对六自由度水下机械手的跟踪问题进行了仿真,结果表明,该控制方法具有良好的轨迹跟踪能力,且对外部干扰表现出良好的鲁棒性。     

Second order sliding mode control for a quadrotor UAV

A method based on second order sliding mode control (2-SMC) is proposed to design controllers for a small quadrotor UAV. For the switching sliding manifold design, the selection of the coefficients of the switching sliding manifold is in general a sophisticated issue because the coefficients are nonlinear. In this work, in order to perform the position and attitude tracking control of the quadrotor perfectly, the dynamical model of the quadrotor is divided into two subsystems, i.e., a fully actuated subsystem and an underactuated subsystem. For the former, a sliding manifold is defined by combining the position and velocity tracking errors of one state variable, i.e., the sliding manifold has two coefficients. For the latter, a sliding manifold is constructed via a linear combination of position and velocity tracking errors of two state variables, i.e., the sliding manifold has four coefficients. In order to further obtain the nonlinear coefficients of the sliding manifold, Hurwitz stability analysis is used to the solving process. In addition, the flight controllers are derived by using Lyapunov theory, which guarantees that all system state trajectories reach and stay on the sliding surfaces. Extensive simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.     

Finite-time fault tolerant attitude stabilization control for rigid spacecraft

A sliding mode based finite-time control scheme is presented to address the problem of attitude stabilization for rigid spacecraft in the presence of actuator fault and external disturbances. More specifically, a nonlinear observer is first proposed to reconstruct the amplitude of actuator faults and external disturbances. It is proved that precise reconstruction with zero observer error is achieved in finite time. Then, together with the system states, the reconstructed information is used to synthesize a nonsingular terminal sliding mode attitude controller. The attitude and the angular velocity are asymptotically governed to zero with finite-time convergence. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Finite-time tracking control of nth-order chained-form non-holonomic systems in the presence of disturbances

This paper addresses the problem of finite-time tracking controller design for nth-order chained-form non-holonomic systems in the presence of unknown disturbances. To this aim, a generalized disturbance observer based controller is proposed and combined with a recursive terminal sliding mode approach which guarantees finite-time convergence of the disturbance observer dynamic. By introducing a time-varying transformation and introducing a new control law, the existence of the sliding around the recursive terminal sliding mode surfaces is guaranteed. Finally, the proposed approach is applied for a wheeled mobile robot with a fourth-order chained-form non-holonomic model. The simulation results demonstrate the desirable and robust tracking performance of the proposed approach in the presence of unknown disturbance.     

Design and implementation of continuous finite-time sliding mode control for 2-DOF inertially stabilized platform subject to multiple disturbances

Control performances of inertially stabilized platforms (ISPs) are always affected by various disturbed phenomena such as cross-couplings, mass unbalance, parameter variations, and external disturbances in real applications. To improve the dynamic response and the disturbance rejection ability of the ISP, a continuous finite-time sliding mode control (SMC) approach with cascaded control structure is proposed. By constructing a finite-time disturbance observer, the multiple disturbances are precisely estimated in real time without the complex modeling and calibration work. Under the field oriented control framework, for the stabilized loop subsystem, an improved super-twisting controller incorporating the disturbance estimates is developed whereas for the current loop subsystem, the super-twisting control method is directly employed. Finite-time convergence of the inertial angular rates is guaranteed with the continuous control action such that chattering is alleviated remarkably. Moreover, by utilizing the manner of disturbance compensation, the feedback control gains can be tuning down without sacrificing the disturbance rejection ability. Comparative experiments are performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.     

Adaptive backstepping sliding mode control with fuzzy monitoring strategy for a kind of mechanical system

A novel adaptive backstepping sliding mode control (ABSMC) law with fuzzy monitoring strategy is proposed for the tracking-control of a kind of nonlinear mechanical system. The proposed ABSMC scheme combining the sliding mode control and backstepping technique ensure that the occurrence of the sliding motion in finite-time and the trajectory of tracking-error converge to equilibrium point. To obtain a better perturbation rejection property, an adaptive control law is employed to compensate the lumped perturbation. Furthermore, we introduce fuzzy monitoring strategy to improve adaptive capacity and soften the control signal. The convergence and stability of the proposed control scheme are proved by using Lyaponov′s method. Finally, numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

载体位置、姿态均不受控的飘浮基柔性空间机器人的Terminal滑模控制

讨论了载体位置、姿态均不受控的飘浮基柔性空间机器人的Terminal滑模控制问题。为讨论既有柔性关节又有柔性臂的欠驱动系统,以一个具有两个柔性关节和一个柔性臂的飘浮基空间机器人为例,首先利用拉格朗日方程并结合系统总质心定义,得到了系统的动力学方程,然后利用奇异摄动法,将柔性空间机器人系统分解为一个柔性空间机械臂子系统和一个柔性关节快变子系统。以此为基础,提出了一种包含柔性空间机械臂子控制项和柔性关节快变子控制项的组合控制器。其中,柔性空间机械臂Terminal滑模子控制项实现了机械臂关节铰期望轨迹的跟踪,柔性关节快变子控制项使得快变子系统稳定在由柔性空间机械臂子控制项产生的机械臂关节轨迹上。系统的数值仿真结果表明,该方法能在抑制柔性关节的柔性振动的同时跟踪上机械臂关节期望轨迹。该控制方案的显著优点为不需要测量、反馈载体的位置、移动速度、移动加速度,同时可保证机械臂关节铰跟踪误差在任意指定有限时间内收敛到零。     

High precision tracking control of a servo gantry with dynamic friction compensation

This paper is concerned with the tracking control problem of a voice coil motor (VCM) actuated servo gantry system. By utilizing an adaptive control technique combined with a sliding mode approach, an adaptive sliding mode control (ASMC) law with friction compensation scheme is proposed in presence of both frictions and external disturbances. Based on the LuGre dynamic friction model, a dual-observer structure is used to estimate the unmeasurable friction state, and an adaptive control law is synthesized to effectively handle the unknown friction model parameters as well as the bound of the disturbances. Moreover, the proposed control law is also implemented on a VCM servo gantry system for motion tracking. Simulations and experimental results demonstrate good tracking performance, which outperform traditional control approaches.     

A novel adaptive sliding mode control with application to MEMS gyroscope

This paper presents a new adaptive sliding mode controller for MEMS gyroscope; an adaptive tracking controller with a proportional and integral sliding surface is proposed. The adaptive sliding mode control algorithm can estimate the angular velocity and the damping and stiffness coefficients in real time. A proportional and integral sliding surface, instead of a conventional sliding surface is adopted. An adaptive sliding mode controller that incorporates both matched and unmatched uncertainties and disturbances is derived and the stability of the closed-loop system is established. The numerical simulation is presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme. It is shown that the proposed adaptive sliding mode control scheme offers several advantages such as the consistent estimation of gyroscope parameters including angular velocity and large robustness to parameter variations and external disturbances.     

Finite-time sliding surface constrained control for a robot manipulator with an unknown deadzone and disturbance

This paper presents finite-time sliding mode control (FSMC) with predefined constraints for the tracking error and sliding surface in order to obtain robust positioning of a robot manipulator with input nonlinearity due to an unknown deadzone and external disturbance. An assumed model feedforward FSMC was designed to avoid tedious identification procedures for the manipulator parameters and to obtain a fast response time. Two constraint switching control functions based on the tracking error and finite-time sliding surface were added to the FSMC to guarantee the predefined tracking performance despite the presence of an unknown deadzone and disturbance. The tracking error due to the deadzone and disturbance can be suppressed within the predefined error boundary simply by tuning the gain value of the constraint switching function and without the addition of an extra compensator. Therefore, the designed constraint controller has a simpler structure than conventional transformed error constraint methods and the sliding surface constraint scheme can also indirectly guarantee the tracking error constraint while being more stable than the tracking error constraint control. A simulation and experiment were performed on an articulated robot manipulator to validate the proposed control schemes.     

Rotation matrix based finite-time attitude synchronization control for spacecraft with external disturbances

This paper investigates the anti-unwinding finite-time attitude synchronization control problem for Spacecraft formation flying with external disturbances. Two finite-time controllers are designed based on rotation matrix and terminal sliding mode method. By designing a novel sliding mode surface, the first controller is developed when the upper bound of the external disturbances can be exactly known. However, this value is not always available in reality. In addition, the direct use of the upper bound of the external disturbances can result in the chattering problem. For the purpose of overcoming the disadvantage of the first controller, a modified control law is proposed, in which the adaptive law is applied to estimate the unknown value online. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the validity of the proposed controllers.     

Adaptive robust motion trajectory tracking control of pneumatic cylinders with LuGre model-based friction compensation

Friction compensation is particularly important for motion trajectory tracking control of pneumatic cylinders at low speed movement. However, most of the existing model-based friction compensation schemes use simple classical models, which are not enough to address applications with high-accuracy position requirements. Furthermore, the friction force in the cylinder is time-varying, and there exist rather severe unmodelled dynamics and unknown disturbances in the pneumatic system. To deal with these problems effectively, an adaptive robust controller with LuGre model-based dynamic friction compensation is constructed. The proposed controller employs on-line recursive least squares estimation（RLSE） to reduce the extent of parametric uncertainties, and utilizes the sliding mode control method to attenuate the effects of parameter estimation errors, unmodelled dynamics and disturbances. In addition, in order to realize LuGre model-based friction compensation, the modified dual-observer structure for estimating immeasurable friction internal state is developed. Therefore, a prescribed motion tracking transient performance and final tracking accuracy can be guaranteed. Since the system model uncertainties are unmatched, the recursive backstepping design technology is applied. In order to solve the conflicts between the sliding mode control design and the adaptive control design, the projection mapping is used to condition the RLSE algorithm so that the parameter estimates are kept within a known bounded convex set. Finally, the proposed controller is tested for tracking sinusoidal trajectories and smooth square trajectory under different loads and sudden disturbance. The testing results demonstrate that the achievable performance of the proposed controller is excellent and is much better than most other studies in literature. Especially when a 0.5 Hz sinusoidal trajectory is tracked, the maximum tracking error is 0.96 mm and the average tracking error is 0.45 mm. This paper constructs an adaptive robust controller