An output-based adaptive iterative learning controller for high relative degree uncertain linear systems

In this paper, we derive an output tracking error model based on signals filtered from plant input and output, and then present a new output-based adaptive iterative learning controller for repeatable linear systems with unknown parameters, high relative degree, initial resetting error, input disturbance and output noise. The proposed controller solves the important robustness issues without assuming the bounds of uncertainties to be sufficiently small and can be applied to high relative degree plants without using output differentiation. Control parameters are updated between successive iterations so as to compensate for unknown system parameters and uncertainties. It is shown that the internal signals inside closed-loop learning system remain bounded and the output tracking error will asymptotically converge to a profile tunable by some design parameters. Furthermore, the learning speed is easily improved if the learning gain is increased.     

具有输入和输出约束的高阶随机系统神经网络控制

针对高阶非线性系统,开展自适应神经网络跟踪控制器设计,系统受到随机扰动的影响.首次把输入和输出约束问题引入到高阶系统的跟踪控制中,并假定系统动态是未知.首先借用高斯误差函数表达连续可微的非对称饱和模型以实现输入约束,和障碍Lyapunov函数保证系统输出受限;其次,针对高阶非线性系统,径向基函数(RBF)神经网络用来克服未知系统动态和随机扰动.在每一步的backstepping计算中,仅用到单一的自适应更新参数,从而克服了过参数问题;最后,基于Lyapunov稳定性理论提出自适应神经网络控制策略,并减少了学习参数.最终结果表明设计的控制器能保证所有闭环信号半全局最终一致有界,并能使跟踪误差收敛到零值小的邻域内.仿真研究进一步验证了提出方法的有效性.     

Fault tolerant control using virtual actuator for continuous‐time Lipschitz nonlinear systems

In this brief, we extend the existing results on fault tolerant control via virtual actuator approach to a class of systems with Lipschitz nonlinearities to maintain the closed‐loop stability after actuator faults. This generalization is established by relying on the input‐to‐state stability properties of cascaded systems. The virtual actuator block, placed between faulty plant and nominal controller, generates useful input signals for faulty plant by using output signals of the nominal controller to guarantee the closed‐loop stability in the presence of actuator faults. This design problem is reduced to a matrix inequality that can be turned to an LMI by fixing a variable to a constant value and solving the resulting LMI feasibility problem. The proposed fault tolerant control method is successfully evaluated using a nonlinear system. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multi‐parametric extremum seeking‐based iterative feedback gains tuning for nonlinear control

We study in this paper the problem of iterative feedback gains auto‐tuning for a class of nonlinear systems. For the class of input–output linearizable nonlinear systems with bounded additive uncertainties, we first design a nominal input–output linearization‐based robust controller that ensures global uniform boundedness of the output tracking error dynamics. Then, we complement the robust controller with a model‐free multi‐parametric extremum seeking control to iteratively auto‐tune the feedback gains. We analyze the stability of the whole controller, that is, the robust nonlinear controller combined with the multi‐parametric extremum seeking model‐free learning algorithm. We use numerical tests to demonstrate the performance of this method on a mechatronics example. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An adaptive disturbance rejection control scheme for multivariable nonlinear systems

An adaptive disturbance rejection control scheme is developed for uncertain multi-input multi-output nonlinear systems in the presence of unmatched input disturbances. The nominal output rejection scheme is first developed, for which the relative degree characterisation of the control and disturbance system models from multivariable nonlinear systems is specified as a key design condition for this disturbance output rejection design. The adaptive disturbance rejection control design is then completed by deriving an error model in terms of parameter errors and tracking error, and constructing adaptive parameter-updated laws and adaptive parameter projection algorithms. All closed-loop signals are guaranteed to be bounded and the plant output tracks a given reference output asymptotically despite the uncertainties of system and disturbance parameters. The developed adaptive disturbance rejection scheme is applied to turbulence compensation for aircraft fight control. Simulation results from a benchmark aircraft model verify the desired system performance.     

离散时间非线性系统的数据驱动无模型自适应迭代学习控制

本文基于迭代域的动态线性化方法,提出了一类单入单出离散时间非线性系统的数据驱动无模型自适应迭代学习控制方案.无模型自适应迭代学习控制本质上属于一种数据驱动控制方法,仅利用被控对象的输入输出数据即可实现控制方案的设计.理论分析表明无模型自适应迭代学习控制方案可以保证最大学习误差的单调收敛性.数值仿真和快速路交通控制应用验证了无模型自适应迭代学习控制方案的有效性.     

Adaptive compensation control for special actuator circumstances with input quantization

In this article, considering actuator constraints and possible failures, an adaptive compensation control scheme is developed to realize tracking control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with quantized inputs. A new variable is generated to evaluate the effect of actuator saturation and is used in the process of controller design to compensate for the influence of actuator saturation constraint. Moreover, the controller is able to show certain accommodation capability to tolerate possible actuator failures and input quantization error via integrating parameter update process of unknown fault constants into adaption of parametric uncertainties under the backstepping procedure. Specifically, actuator saturation effect and possible actuator failures as well as input quantization error can be dealt with uniformly under the framework of the proposed scheme and the control system has certain robustness to external disturbances. It is proved that all the signals of the closed‐loop system are ensured to be bounded and the tracking error is enabled to converge toward a compact set, which is adjustable by tuning design parameters. Finally, experiments are carried out on an active suspension plant to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Novel adaptive neural control design for nonlinear MIMO time-delay systems

In this paper, we address the problem of adaptive neural control for a class of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear time-delay systems in block-triangular form. Based on a neural network (NN) online approximation model, a novel adaptive neural controller is obtained by constructing a novel quadratic-type Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, which not only efficiently avoids the controller singularity, but also relaxes the restriction on unknown virtual control coefficients. The merit of the suggested controller design scheme is that the number of online adapted parameters is independent of the number of nodes of the neural networks, which reduces the number of the online adaptive learning laws considerably. The proposed controller guarantees that all closed-loop signals remain bounded, while the output tracking error dynamics converges to a neighborhood of the origin. A simulation example is given to illustrate the design procedure and performance of the proposed method.     

齿隙非线性输入系统的迭代学习控制

针对一类具有输入齿隙特性的非线性系统, 提出一种实现有限作业区间轨迹跟踪的迭代学习控制方法. 在系统不确定项可参数化的情形下, 基于类Lyapunov方法设计迭代学习控制器, 回避了常规迭代学习控制中受控系统非线性特性需满足全局Lipschitz连续条件的要求. 对未知时变参数进行泰勒级数展开, 参数估计采用微分学习律, 并在控制器设计中, 采用双曲函数处理级数展开后的余项以及齿隙特性里的有界误差项, 以保证控制器可导, 且可抑制颤振. 引入一级数收敛序列确保系统输出完全跟踪期望轨迹, 且闭环系统所有信号有界.     

Global adaptive stabilisation for nonlinear systems with unknown control directions and input disturbance

This paper addresses the global adaptive stabilisation via switching and learning strategies for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems. Remarkably, the systems in question simultaneously have unknown control directions, unknown input disturbance and unknown growth rate, which makes the problem in question challenging to solve and essentially different from those in the existing literature. To solve the problem, an adaptive scheme via switching and learning is proposed by skilfully integrating the techniques of backstepping design, adaptive learning and adaptive switching. One key point in the design scheme is the introduction of the learning mechanism, in order to compensate the unknown input disturbance, and the other one is the design of the switching mechanism, through tuning the design parameters online to deal with the unknown control directions, unknown bound and period of input disturbance and unknown growth rate. The designed controller guarantees that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop systems are bounded, and furthermore, the closed-loop system states globally converge to zero.     

控制方向未知的非线性系统的自适应输出跟踪控制

针对一类含有未知控制方向和时变不确定性的本质非线性系统，应用Nussbaum-type增益技术和Adding a power integrator递推设计方法，设计了一种鲁棒自适应状态反馈拉制器．所设计的控制器能保证闭环系统所有信号全局一致有界，特别是通过适当调整控制器设计参数，可使输出跟踪误差在有限时间后变得适当小．最后通过仿真实例对算法进行验证.     

Constrained data-driven optimal iterative learning control

A constrained optimal ILC for a class of nonlinear and non-affine systems, without requiring any explicit model information except for the input and output data, is proposed in this work. In order to address the nonlinearities, an iterative dynamic linearization method without omitting any information of the original plant is introduced in the iteration direction. The derived linearized data model is equivalent to the original nonlinear system and reflects the real-time dynamics of the controlled plant, rather than a static approximate model. By transferring all the constraints on the system output, control input, and the change rate of input signals into a linear matrix inequality, a novel constrained data-driven optimal ILC is developed by minimizing a predesigned objective function. The optimal learning gain is unfixed and updated iteratively according to the input and output measurements, which enhances the flexibility regarding modifications and expansions of the controlled plant. The results are further extended to the point-to-point control tasks where the exact tracking performance is required only at certain points and a constrained data-driven optimal point-to-point ILC is proposed by only utilizing the error measurements at the specified points only.     

基于Backstepping设计的不确定非线性系统的预测控制

本文的目的是针对一类带有不确定性的单输入单输出的仿射非线性系统,设计一种非线性预测控制器.用反步设计思想获得具有待定参数的控制器表达式,然后用预测控制在线优化获得控制器的参数.用这种方法设计的控制器更易使闭环系统稳定,且闭环系统具有良好的动态特性.连续发酵过程的仿真结果也验证了控制器是有效的.     

Approximate local output regulation for nonlinear distributed parameter systems

Output regulation for a class of nonlinear infinite-dimensional systems, called regular nonlinear systems (RNS), is the subject of this work. For the plants in this class, the linearization at the origin is an exponentially stable regular linear system (RLS). The plants are driven by a control input and a disturbance signal. Well-posedness of the plants for small initial states, control inputs and disturbance signals is established and it is shown that if the control input and the disturbance signal for a plant are T-periodic, then so are its state and output (asymptotically). On the basis of this characterization, an approximate local output regulator problem for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) plants in the RNS class is addressed. Given a plant, the regulation objective is to ensure that a finite number of harmonics of a T-periodic reference signal and the plant output are identical whenever the reference signal, the T-periodic disturbance signal for this plant and the initial state are small. An internal model based output feedback control scheme is proposed for an exponentially stable RLS for tracking reference signals, which are a finite sum of functions that are a product of a sinusoid and a polynomial in time. This scheme merely uses the transfer function gains of the RLS at the poles of the Laplace transform of the reference signal and practically requires no other data. Using the proposed control scheme, a linear finite-dimensional controller is designed for a MIMO nonlinear plant in the RNS class using minimal plant information. The resulting closed-loop system is rigorously analyzed to establish that the controller achieves the regulation objective. The efficacy of the control design is illustrated numerically using the model of a cable coupled to a point mass via a nonlinear spring.     

基于跟踪误差调节的非线性自适应模糊预测控制

将模糊逻辑系统引入预测控制，对一类非线性离散系统提出了直接自适应模糊预测控制的方法，此方法首先建立被控对象的预测模型;然后基于此模型直接利用模糊逻辑系统设计预测控制器，并基于跟踪误差对控制器参数中的未知向量进行自适应调整;最后证明了此方法可使跟踪误差收敛到原点的一个小邻域内。     

具有模糊监督控制器的积分变结构间接自适应控制

针对一类不确定非线性系统, 基于变结构控制原理, 并利用具有非线性可调参数的模糊系统去逼近过程未知函数, 提出一种具有模糊监督控制器的积分变结构间接自适应控制方案. 该方案通过监督控制器保证闭环系统所有信号有界. 进一步, 通过引入最优逼近误差的自适应补偿项来消除建模误差的影响. 理论分析证明了跟踪误差收敛到零. 仿真结果表明了该方法的有效性.     

Neural observer-based adaptive compensation control for nonlinear time-varying delays systems with input constraints

This paper describes a neural network state observer-based adaptive saturation compensation control for a class of time-varying delayed nonlinear systems with input constraints. An advantage of the presented study lies in that the state estimation problem for a class of uncertain systems with time-varying state delays and input saturation nonlinearities is handled by using the NNs learning process strategy, novel type Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and the adaptive memoryless neural network observer. Furthermore, by utilizing the property of the function tan h²(?/?)/?, NNs compensation technique and backstepping method, an adaptive output feedback controller is constructed which not only efficiently avoids the problem of controller singularity and input saturation, but also can achieve the output tracking. And the proposed approach is obtained free of any restrictive assumptions on the delayed states and Lispchitz condition for the unknown nonlinear functions. The semiglobal uniform ultimate boundedness of all signals of the closed-loop systems and the convergence of tracking error to a small neighborhood are all rigorously proven based on the NN-basis function property, Lyapunov method and sliding model theory. Finally, two examples are simulated to confirm the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed approach.     

基于反馈控制的迭代学习控制器设计

针对具有不确定项或干扰项的重复非线性时变系统,提出了基于反馈控制的迭代学习控制器,其中迭代学习控制器设计为高阶PD型,它以前馈的形式作用于对象,在满足一定的收敛性条件下,证明了该控制器的跟踪误差界是系统初始状态误差界和系统输出干扰项界的线性函数,同时改变反馈增益可以调整系统的最终跟踪误差界,仿真与实验均表明了该方法的有效性。     

Discrete model reference adaptive control with an augmented error signal

A method is developed for designing discrete model reference adaptive control systems when one has access to only the plant's input and output signals. Controllers for single-input, single-output, nonlinear, nonautonomous plants are developed via Lyapunov's second method. The augmented error signal method is employed to ensure that the normally used true error signal approaches zero asymptotically without requiring anticipative values of the plant output signal. Such anticipative signals are replaced by others easily obtained from low pass digital filters operating on the plant's input and output signals.     

基于S类函数的严格反馈非线性周期系统的自适应控制

针对一类严格反馈非线性周期系统, 在周期非线性可时变参数化的条件下设计自适应控制器. 通过将周期时变参数展开成傅里叶级数, 并采用微分自适应律估计未知系数, 进行控制器反推设计. 引入S类函数, 并在控制器设计中应用S类函数处理截断误差项对系统跟踪性能的影响, 同时, S类函数能确保虚拟控制的可微. 给出几种不同的S类函数设计, 分析比较将其应用于控制器设计时产生的不同效果. 理论分析与仿真结果表明, 提出的控制方法能够实现系统输出跟踪期望轨迹, 且闭环系统所有信号有界.