Output‐feedback tracking in causal nonminimum‐phase nonlinear systems using higher‐order sliding modes

Asymptotic output‐feedback tracking in a class of causal nonminimum phase uncertain nonlinear systems is addressed via sliding mode techniques. Sliding mode control is proposed for robust stabilization of the output tracking error in the presence of a bounded disturbance. The output reference profile and the unknown input/disturbance are supposed to be described by unknown linear exogenous systems of a given order. Local asymptotic stability of the output tracking error dynamics along with the boundedness of the internal states are proven. The unstable internal states are estimated asymptotically via the proposed multistage observer that is based on the method of extended system center. A higher‐order sliding mode observer/differentiator is used for the exact estimation of the input–output states in a finite time. The bounded disturbance is reconstructed asymptotically. A numerical example illustrates the efficiency of the proposed output‐feedback tracking approach developed for causal nonminimum phase nonlinear systems. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

带非同位干扰执行动态有限维系统的输出追踪

本文考虑了边界带有非同位干扰的波动方程和常微分方程串联系统的性能输出追踪问题. 边界带有非同位干扰的波动方程可以看作常微分方程控制系统的执行动态. 通过利用轨道规划方法将非同位干扰变换到控制通道, 于是克服了非同位干扰带来的困难. 与现有Backstepping方法不同, 文章利用动态补偿法给出了一个新的状态反馈控制器, 使得控制器设计以及所设计的控制器本身更加简单, 证明了闭环系统解的一致有界性与性能输出的指数追踪. 数值模拟表明, 所给的方法是非常有效的     

Active Disturbance Rejection Control of a Magnetic Suspension System

This paper proposes a novel output feedback control scheme for robust stabilization and tracking tasks in a magnetic suspension system. Active disturbance rejection control, differential flatness and on‐line asymptotic disturbance estimation are properly used for the proposed control synthesis. The controlled system is subjected to a wide spectrum of unknown significant matched and unmatched disturbances due to external forces and voltages, parametric uncertainties, control and state‐dependent perturbations and possibly input unmodeled dynamics. The effectiveness and robustness of the proposed active disturbance control scheme is verified by computer simulations for the robust tracking of a rest‐to‐rest reference position trajectory specified to firstly stabilize the suspended mass at a desired vertical position and next transfer it to another equilibrium position for both continuous and switched control voltage signals.     

Output feedback tracking control by additive state decomposition for a class of uncertain systems

Besides parametric uncertainties and disturbances, unmodelled dynamics and time delay at the input are often present in practical systems, and cannot always be ignored. This paper aims to solve the problem of output feedback tracking control for a class of non-linear uncertain systems subject to unmodelled high-frequency gains and time delay in the input. By additive state decomposition, the uncertain system is transformed to an uncertainty-free system, in which the uncertainties, disturbances and effects of unmodelled dynamics along with time delay are lumped into a new disturbance at the output. Subsequently, additive state decomposition is used to decompose the transformed system to simplify the tracking controller design. The proposed control scheme is applied to three benchmark examples to demonstrate its effectiveness.     

基于广义扩张状态观测器的遥操作系统同步控制

针对机械臂遥操作系统中存在的时变时延问题,提出了基于广义扩张状态观测器的控制方法,实现了遥操作系统稳定并且主从机械臂关节角位置同步的控制目标。首先通过反馈线性化,将遥操作系统的主从机械臂动力学模型转化为一个关于位置跟踪误差和时延的状态空间模型。针对该多输入多输出的干扰不匹配模型,设计了广义扩张状态观测器和相应的控制律,从而消除了时变时延以及其它扰动引起的不确定性对系统的影响,并对系统进行稳定性和抗扰性分析。最后,通过仿真验证了所设计的控制方法的有效性。     

Adaptive output feedback formation tracking for a class of multiagent systems with quantized input signals

A novel adaptive output feedback control approach is presented for formation tracking of a multiagent system with uncertainties and quantized input signals. The agents are described by nonlinear dynamics models with unknown parameters and immeasurable states. A high-gain dynamic state observer is established to estimate the immeasurable states. With a proper design parameter choice, an adaptive output feedback control method is developed employing a hysteretic quantizer and the designed dynamic state observer. Stability analysis shows that the control strategy can guarantee that the agents can maintain the formation shape while tracking the reference trajectory. In addition, all the signals in the closed-loop system are bounded. The effectiveness of the control strategy is validated by simulation.     

Anti‐windup design of active disturbance rejection control for sampled systems with input delay

A novel anti‐windup design of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) is proposed for industrial sampled systems with input delay and saturation. By using a generalized predictor to estimate the delay‐free system output, a modified extended state observer is designed to simultaneously estimate the system state and disturbance, which could become an anti‐windup compensator when the input saturation occurs. Accordingly, a feedback controller is analytically designed for disturbance rejection. By proposing the desired closed‐loop transfer function for the set‐point tracking, a prefilter is designed to tune the tracking performance while guaranteeing no steady‐state output tracking error. A sufficient condition for the closed‐loop system stability is established with proof for practical application subject to the input delay variation. Illustrative examples from the literature are used to demonstrate the effectiveness and merit of the proposed control design.     

On convergence of active disturbance rejection control for a class of uncertain stochastic nonlinear systems

In this paper, the practical mean-square convergence of active disturbance rejection control for a class of uncertain stochastic nonlinear systems modelled by the Itô-type stochastic differential equations with vast stochastic uncertainties is developed. We first design an extended state observer (ESO) to estimate both the unmeasured states and the stochastic total disturbance which includes unknown internal system dynamics, external stochastic disturbance without known statistical characteristics, unknown stochastic inverse dynamics, and uncertainty caused by the deviation of control parameter from its nominal value. The stochastic total disturbance is then cancelled (compensated) in the feedback loop. An ESO-based output-feedback control is finally designed analogously as for the system without uncertainties. The practical mean-square reference tracking and practical mean-square stability of the resulting closed-loop system are achieved. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

弓网接触力反馈线性化控制

通过扩展状态变量得到受电弓的非线性模型,利用非线性系统的微分几何理论,构造微分同胚变换和状态反馈表达式,得到了受电弓线性化模型,设计反馈控制律解决弓网接触力的跟踪问题,并证明了内状态的一致最终有界性,考虑弓头易受干扰问题,采用非线性干扰观测器补偿反馈控制律.研究对比表明,所提出的基于干扰观测器的反馈线性化控制策略能有效解决弓网接触力的跟踪问题,同时克服了反馈线性化控制依赖于精确模型的缺点,为一定工况下弓网最优接触力的跟踪控制提供可行方案.     

基于等价输入干扰滑模观测器的磁悬浮球系统模型预测控制

本文针对系统不确定性和外部干扰引起的磁悬浮球系统控制性能下降的问题,提出了一种基于等价输入干扰滑模观测器的模型预测控制(MPC+EIDSMO)方法.首先将原系统转化为EID系统,采用等价输入干扰滑模观测器对EID系统状态变量及等价输入干扰进行估计;然后基于状态估计值设计模型预测控制器,并将等价输入干扰估计值以前馈的方式补偿后得到最终的复合控制律,实现对参考位置跟踪的快速性,准确性以及对总扰动的鲁棒性.值得注意的是,与传统EID结构中的龙伯格观测器相比,等价输入干扰滑模观测器中增加的非线性观测误差反馈项有助于提高状态估计的快速性和精确性.从理论上证明了该系统是全局一致毕竟有界的.仿真和实验结果表明,相较于基于EID观测器的模型预测控制方法和基于龙伯格观测器的积分模型预测控制方法,所提方法提高了磁悬浮球系统的跟踪性能,并且有效的抑制了系统不确定性和外部干扰.     

Sliding mode output‐feedback causal output tracking for a class of discrete‐time nonlinear systems

The output tracking (OT) of arbitrary references in discrete‐time (DT) nonlinear systems is addressed by designing an output‐feedback control. A set of difference‐algebraic equations is proposed as an exact solution of the problem. Using a novel technique of approximating DT functions, the system disturbance and steady states, characterized by tracking error identically zero, for both the system state and the control input, are represented as signals generated by a disturbed dynamic system. Using the mentioned dynamics, the control system is extended. Then, a state observer is proposed to estimate the resulting extended system state. Finally, a DT sliding mode controller is designed to achieve the approximate OT. Simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Stabilization and Tracking Control of X‐Z Inverted Pendulum Using Flatness Based Active Disturbance Rejection Control

A flatness based robust active disturbance rejection control technique scheme with tracking differentiator is proposed for the problem of stabilization and tracking control of the X‐Z inverted pendulum known as a special underactuated, non‐feedback linearizable mechanical system. The differential parameterization on the basis of linearizing the system around an arbitrary equilibrium decouples the underactuated system into two lower order systems, resulting in two lower‐order extended state observers. Using a tracking differentiator to arrange the transient process utilizes the problem of stabilization and tracking control and gives a relatively small initial estimation error, which enlarges the range of the controller parameters. The convincing analysis of the proposed modified linear extended state observer is presented to show its high effectiveness on estimating the states and the extended states known as the total disturbances consisting of the unknown external disturbances and the nonlinearities neglected by the linearization. Simulation results on the stabilization and tracking control of the X‐Z inverted pendulum, including a comparative simulation with an all‐state‐feedback sliding mode controller are presented to show the advantages of the combination of flatness and active disturbance rejection control techniques.     

Output feedback preview tracking control for discrete-time polytopic time-varying systems

This paper focuses on the problem of static output feedback preview tracking control for discrete-time systems with time-varying parameters subject to a previewable reference signal. We develop a design method of a robust controller with integral and preview actions achieving robust tracking performance. First, an augmented error system including future information on reference signal is constructed by introducing two new related auxiliary variables to the original system state and input. This leads to a tracking problem being transformed into a regulator problem. Then, a previewable reference signal is fully utilised through reformulation of the output equation for the augmented error system while considering a static output feedback. Meanwhile, the static output preview control gains are solved explicitly by the proposed conditions. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

基于嵌套?伪预估器反馈的时滞控制系统输入时滞补偿

本文研究同时具有输入和状态时滞的控制系统的输入时滞补偿问题. 通过建立嵌套?伪预估器反馈方法预测系统未来的状态, 使得任意大但有界的输入时滞得到完全补偿. 不同于传统的预估器反馈利用开环系统预测系统未来的状态, 嵌套?伪预估器反馈则是利用闭环系统嵌套地预测系统未来的状态. 依据积分时滞系统的稳定性, 给出了保证闭环系统渐近稳定的充要条件. 最后, 采用数值仿真验证所提出方法的有效性.     

H ∞ preview tracking control of retarded state‐multiplicative stochastic systems

The problem of infinite‐horizon H _∞ state‐feedback tracking control for linear continuous time‐invariant retarded systems with stochastic parameter uncertainties is investigated. Two tracking patterns are considered depending on the nature of the reference signal; that is, whether it is measured online or previewed in a fixed time‐interval ahead. The stochastic uncertainties appear in the dynamics matrices for both the retarded and the non‐retarded states of the system. The delayed system is transformed via the input–output approach, to an uncertain norm‐bounded system. A new method that efficiently yields a min–max strategy to the solution of each of the aforementioned two cases is suggested where, given a specific reference signal, the controller plays against nature, which chooses the maximizing energy‐bounded disturbance. The theoretical results are demonstrated by two examples that show the impact of the delay length and the preview length on the system performance. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Time‐varying input delay compensation for nonlinear systems with additive disturbance: An output feedback approach

This paper addresses the output feedback tracking control of a class of multiple‐input and multiple‐output nonlinear systems subject to time‐varying input delay and additive bounded disturbances. Based on the backstepping design approach, an output feedback robust controller is proposed by integrating an extended state observer and a novel robust controller, which uses a desired trajectory‐based feedforward term to achieve an improved model compensation and a robust delay compensation feedback term based on the finite integral of the past control values to compensate for the time‐varying input delay. The extended state observer can simultaneously estimate the unmeasurable system states and the additive disturbances only with the output measurement and delayed control input. The proposed controller theoretically guarantees prescribed transient performance and steady‐state tracking accuracy in spite of the presence of time‐varying input delay and additive bounded disturbances based on Lyapunov stability analysis by using a Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional. A specific study on a 2‐link robot manipulator is performed; based on the system model and the proposed design procedure, a suitable controller is developed, and comparative simulation results are obtained to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed control scheme.     

考虑测量不确定和输入饱和的充液航天器自适应鲁棒控制

本文研究了三轴稳定充液航天器控制系统中同时存在测量不确定,外部未知干扰,参数不确定和控制输入饱和的鲁棒自适应姿态机动控制问题.建模过程中,将晃动液体燃料等效为粘性球摆模型,采用动量矩守恒定律推导出充液航天器的耦合动力学方程.提出了一种将反步控制方法结合非线性干扰观测器和指令滤波器的鲁棒饱和输出反馈复合控制策略,该控制策略不仅能继承反步控制方法的优点,而且通过引入非线性干扰观测器实现对未知外部干扰,参数不确定以及测量不确定的补偿,还能利用指令滤波器处理控制力矩输入饱和的不利影响.基于Lyapunov稳定性分析方法证明了系统状态变量的渐进稳定性.仿真结果验证了提出控制方法的有效性和鲁棒性.     

An observer-based adaptive neural network tracking control of robotic systems

Robotic systems have inherently nonlinear phenomena as joints undergo sliding and/or rotating. This in turn requires that the system running states be predicted correctly. This paper makes a full analysis of the robot states by applying observer-based adaptive wavelet neural network (OBAWNN) tracking control scheme to tackle these phenomena such as system uncertainties, multiple time-delayed state uncertainties, and external disturbances such that the closed loop system signals must obey uniform ultimate boundedness and achieve H^∞ tracking performance. The recurrent adaptive wavelet neural network model is used to approximate the dynamics of the robotic system, while an observer-based adaptive control scheme is to stabilize the system. The advantage of employing adaptive wavelet neural dynamics is that we can utilize the neuron information by activation functions to on-line tune the hidden-to-output weights, and the adaptation parameters to estimate the robot parameters and the bounds of the gains of delay states directly using linear analytical results. It is shown that the stability of the closed-loop system is guaranteed by some sufficient conditions derived from Lyapunov criterion and Riccati-inequality. Finally, a numerical example of a three-links rolling cart is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

具有输入及状态未建模动态系统的输出反馈自适应控制

针对一类具有输入及状态未建模动态的非线性系统, 设计K滤波器来估计系统不可量测状态, 基于动态面控制技术并利用径向基函数神经网络的逼近能力, 提出一种输出反馈自适应跟踪控制方案. 利用Nussbaum 函数性质, 有效地解决了高频增益符号未知问题. 在控制器设计中引入规范化信号来约束输入未建模动态, 从而有效地抑制其产生的扰动. 通过理论分析证明了闭环控制系统是半全局一致终结有界的.