Fuzzy adaptive high-gain-based observer backstepping control for SISO nonlinear systems with dynamical uncertainties

In this paper, a fuzzy adaptive output feedback control approach is developed for a class of SISO strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unmeasured states, unmodeled dynamics, and dynamical disturbances. In the backstepping recursive design, fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, a fuzzy adaptive high-gain observer is designed to estimate the unmeasured states; a dynamic signal is incorporated into the control scheme to dominate the dynamic uncertainties. Using the states estimates and combining the backstepping design technique, a fuzzy adaptive output feedback control is constructed recursively. It is proved that the proposed fuzzy adaptive output feedback control scheme can guarantee the all signals in the closed-loop system are semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded (SUUB), and the observer and tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of the origin. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is illustrated via an example.     

Adaptive fuzzy backstepping output feedback control of nonlinear uncertain time-delay systems based on high-gain filters

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy output feedback control approach is developed for a class of SISO uncertain nonlinear strict-feedback systems. The considered nonlinear systems contain unknown nonlinear functions, unknown time-varying delays and unmeasured states. The fuzzy logic systems are first used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, and then a high-gain filter is designed to estimate the unmeasured states. Combining the backstepping recursive design technique and adaptive fuzzy control design, an adaptive fuzzy output feedback backstepping control method is developed. It is proved that the proposed adaptive fuzzy control approach can guarantee that all the signals in the closed-loop system are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB) and both the observer error and tracking error converge to a small neighborhood of the origin. Two key advantages of our scheme are that (i) the high-gain filter is designed to estimate unmeasured states of time-delay nonlinear system, and (ii) the virtual control gains are functions. A simulation is included to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Observer-based adaptive fuzzy backstepping dynamic surface control design and stability analysis for MIMO stochastic nonlinear systems

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy backstepping output feedback dynamic surface control (DSC) approach is developed for a class of multiinput and multioutput (MIMO) stochastic nonlinear systems with immeasurable states. Fuzzy logic systems are firstly utilized to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, and then a fuzzy state observer is designed to estimate the immeasurable states. By combining adaptive backstepping technique and dynamic surface control (DSC) technique, an adaptive fuzzy output feedback backstepping DSC approach is developed. The proposed control method not only overcomes the problem of ??explosion of complexity?? inherent in the backstepping design methods, but also the problem of the immeasurable states. It is proved that all the signals of the closed-loop adaptive control stochastic system are semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded (SUUB) in probability, and the observer errors and the output of the system converge to a small neighborhood of the origin. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Observer-based adaptive fuzzy backstepping control of MIMO stochastic nonlinear strict-feedback systems

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy output feedback control approach is proposed for a class of multiinput and multioutput (MIMO) uncertain stochastic nonlinear strict-feedback systems without the measurements of the states. The fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, and a fuzzy state observer is designed for estimating the unmeasured states. Utilizing the designed the fuzzy state observer and by combining the adaptive backstepping control design, an adaptive fuzzy output feedback control approach is developed. It is proved that the proposed control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the closed-loop system are semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded (SUUB) in probability, and the observer errors and the output of the system converge to a small neighborhood of the origin by appropriate choice of the design parameters. A simulation example is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive fuzzy backstepping output feedback control for a class of MIMO time-delay nonlinear systems based on high-gain observer

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy backstepping output feedback control approach is developed for a class of multiinput and multioutput (MIMO) nonlinear systems with time delays and immeasurable states. Fuzzy logic systems are employed to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions, and an adaptive fuzzy high-gain observer is developed to estimate the unmeasured states. Using the designed high-gain observer, and combining the fuzzy adaptive control theory with the backstepping approach, an adaptive fuzzy output feedback control is constructed recursively. It is proved that all the signals of the closed-loop adaptive control system are semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded (SUUB) and the tracking error converges to a small neighborhood of the origin.     

Low-complexity robust tracking of high-order nonlinear systems with application to underactuated mechanical dynamics

This paper presents a low-complexity design approach with predefined transient and steady-state tracking performance for global practical tracking of uncertain high-order nonlinear systems. It is assumed that all nonlinearities and their bounding functions are unknown and the reference signal is time varying. A simple output tracking scheme consisting of nonlinearly transformed errors and positive design parameters is presented in the presence of virtual and actual control variables with high powers where the error transformation technique using time-varying performance functions is employed. Contrary to the existing results using known nonlinear bounding functions of model nonlinearities, the proposed tracking scheme can be implemented without using nonlinear bounding functions (i.e., the feedback domination design), any adaptive and function approximation techniques for estimating unknown nonlinearities. It is shown that the tracking performance of the proposed control system is ensured within preassigned bounds, regardless of high-power virtual and actual control variables. The motion tracking problem of an underactuated unstable mechanical system with unknown model parameters and nonlinearities is considered as a practical application, and simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical result.     

Adaptive fuzzy output-feedback control of uncertain SISO nonlinear systems

The output-feedback control problem of a class of uncertain SISO nonlinear systems is investigated based on an indirect adaptive fuzzy approach. Because the system states are not required to be available for measurement, an observer is designed to estimate the system states. Compared with the existing results in the observer design, the main advantages of the proposed adaptive fuzzy output-feedback control approach are as follows: (1) It does not require to assume that the sign of the control gain coefficient is known and Nussbaum-gain technique is utilized to control the nonlinear systems with both the unknown control direction and the unmeasured states; (2) The observer in this paper is designed for the states rather than the tracking errors, then it is convenient to compute; (3) The controller singularity problem is perfectly avoided. The stability of the closed-loop system is analyzed by using Lyapunov method. A simulation example is given to verify the feasibility of the proposed approach.     

Observer-based adaptive fuzzy finite-time prescribed performance tracking control for strict-feedback systems with input dead-zone and saturation

This paper considers the problems of finite-time prescribed performance tracking control for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with input dead-zone and saturation simultaneously. The unknown nonlinear functions are approximated by fuzzy logic systems and the unmeasurable states are estimated by designing a fuzzy state observer. In addition, a non-affine smooth function is used to approximate the non-smooth input dead-zone and saturated nonlinearity, and it is varied to the affine form via the mean value theorem. An adaptive fuzzy output feedback controller is developed by backstepping control method and Nussbaum gain method. It guarantees that the tracking error falls within a pre-set boundary at finite time and all the signals of the closed-loop system are bounded. The simulation results illustrate the feasibility of the design scheme.

     

Adaptive fault compensation control for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown time-varying delayed faults

An adaptive approximation design for the fault compensation (FC) control is addressed for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown multiple time-delayed nonlinear faults. The magnitude and occurrence time of the multiple faults with unknown time-varying delays are unknown. The function approximation technique using neural networks is employed to adaptively approximate the unknown nonlinear effects and changes in model dynamics due to the time-delayed faults. We design an adaptive memoryless FC control system with a prescribed performance bound to compensate the faults and to guarantee the transient performance of the tracking error from unexpected changes of system dynamics. The adaptive laws for neural networks and the bound of residual approximation errors are derived using the Lyapunov stability theorem, which are used for proving that the tracking error is preserved within the prescribed performance bound regardless of unknown multiple time-delayed nonlinear faults. Simulation examples are presented for illustrating the effectiveness of the proposed control methodology     

A novel alleviating computation algorithm for a class of large-scale nonlinear systems with unknown dead-zones

In this paper, a novel alleviating computation decentralized adaptive fuzzy tracking control approach is presented for a class of uncertain nonlinear large-scale systems which consist of some subsystems with both completely unknown functions and unknown dead-zones. Different from the existing results that are based on the traditional back-stepping scheme as well as approximation technique of fuzzy logic systems (FLSs), this new approach assumes that the norm of optimal approximation parameter vector of FLSs and the approximation error are bounded by unknown parameters. At each design step of this new approach for every subsystem, fewer (only two) bounded adaptive parameters need to be adjusted. Thus, this new approach can alleviate the online computation burden and improve the robust control performance. Meanwhile, under Lyapunov theorem analysis, this approach can not only guarantee that all the signals in the closed-loop system are uniformly ultimately bounded but also guarantee that the outputs can track the reference signals to a small neighborhood of zero. The good performance of this approach is well demonstrated in a simulation example.     

A new adaptive fuzzy sliding mode observer for a class of MIMO nonlinear systems

In this paper, a new adaptive fuzzy sliding mode (AFSM) observer is proposed which can be used for a class of MIMO nonlinear systems. In the proposed algorithm, the zero-input dynamics of the plant could be unknown. In this method, a fuzzy system is designed to estimate the nonlinear behavior of the observer. The output of fuzzy rules are tuned adaptively, based on the observer error. The output connection matrix is used to combine the observer errors of individual subsystems. A robust term, which is designed based on the sliding mode theory, is added to the observer to compensate the fuzzy estimation error. The estimation error bound is adjusted by an adaptive law. The main advantage of the proposed observer is that, unlike many of the previous works, the measured outputs is not limited to the first entries of a canonical-form state vector. The proposed observer estimates the closed-loop state tracking error asymptotically, provided that the output gain matrix includes Hurwitz coefficients. The chattering is eliminated by using boundary layers around the sliding surfaces and the observer convergence is proved using a Lyapunov-based approach. The proposed method is applied on a real multilink robot manipulator. The performance of the observer shows its effectiveness in the real world.     

Adaptive fuzzy decentralized control for a class of pure-feedback large-scale nonlinear systems

In this paper, the problem of adaptive fuzzy decentralized control is investigated for a class of pure-feedback nonlinear interconnected large-scale systems. During the controller design, fuzzy logical systems are used to model packaged unknown nonlinearities and backstepping technique is used to construct adaptive fuzzy decentralized controller. It is shown that the proposed control scheme can guarantee that all the signals in the closed-loop system are semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded. The main advantage of this study lies in that only one adaptive parameter needs to be estimated online for each subsystem. Simulation results further illustrate the effectiveness of the suggested approach.     

Explicit ultimate bound sets of a new hyperchaotic system and its application in estimating the Hausdorff dimension

The robust adaptive fuzzy control problem is investigated for a single machine bus system with static var compensator (SVC). This design does not require that speed of the generator rotor and susceptance of the overall system are measured, and also does not require that the parameters of controlled system are known accurately. The fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the nonlinear functions of the system, and a fuzzy state observer is designed to estimate the speed of the generator rotor and susceptance. By utilizing the fuzzy state observer, and combining the adaptive backstepping technique with adaptive fuzzy control design, an observer-based adaptive fuzzy output-feedback control approach is developed. It is proved that the proposed control approach can guarantee that all the signals in the closed-loop system are semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB), and the angle of the generator rotor follows a desired value. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the approach.     

Fuzzy adaptive output feedback control for robotic systems based on fuzzy adaptive observer

In this paper, a fuzzy adaptive output feedback control scheme based on fuzzy adaptive observer is proposed to control robotic systems with parameter uncertainties and external disturbances. It is supposed that only the joint positions of the robotic system can be measured, whereas the joint velocities are unknown and unmeasured. First, a fuzzy adaptive nonlinear observer is presented to estimate the joint velocities of robotic systems, and the observation errors are analyzed using strictly positive real approach and Lyapunov stability theory. Next, based on the observed joint velocities, a fuzzy adaptive output feedback controller is developed to guarantee stability of closed-loop system and achieve a certain tracking performance. Based on the Lyapunov stability theorem, it is proved that all the signals in closed-loop system are bounded. Finally, simulation examples on a two-link robotic manipulator are presented to show the efficiency of the proposed method.     

Fuzzy adaptive dynamic surface control for a single-link flexible-joint robot

In this paper, a fuzzy adaptive controller is proposed for a single-link flexible-joint robot. Fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate unknown nonlinearities, and then a fuzzy state observer is designed to estimate the immeasurable states. By combining the adaptive backstepping design with dynamic surface control (DSC) technique, a fuzzy adaptive output-feedback backstepping control approach is developed. It is proved that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop system are semiglobally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB), and both the observer and tracking errors converge to a small neighborhood of the origin by appropriate choosing the design parameters. The simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller. Two key advantages of our scheme are that (i)?the proposed control method does not require that the link velocity and actuator velocity of single-link flexible-joint robot be measured directly, and (ii)?the problem of ??explosion of complexity?? is avoided.     

Adaptive robust fuzzy control for a class of uncertain chaotic systems

In this paper, the output feedback control of uncertain chaotic systems is addressed via an adaptive robust fuzzy approach. Fuzzy logic systems are employed to approximate uncertain nonlinear functions in the chaotic systems. Because only partial information of the system’s states is needed to be known, an observer is given to estimate the unmeasured states. Compared with the existing results in the observer design, the prior knowledge on dynamic uncertainties is relaxed and a class of more general chaotic systems is considered as well as robustness to the approximation error is improved. It can be proven that the closed-loop system is stable in the sense that all the variables are bounded. Simulation example for the unified chaotic systems is given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60874056) and the Foundation of Educational Department of Liaoning Province (2008312).     

Reduced-order observer-based backstepping tracking control for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems

In this paper, an output feedback tracking control scheme is put forwarded for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems, whose dynamics involve not only unknown parameters but also unmeasured states multiplied by output nonlinearities. A type of reduced-order observer is first developed. By adding some output related items in the observer, the estimation error realize global asymptotic convergence under disturbance free condition, and global bounded convergence when considering disturbance. Besides, the dimension of the closed-loop system is reduced, and the update law of this observer gain is beneficial for steady tracking. After the observer was established, the controller is constructed by employing the adaptive backstepping approach, and a smooth nonsingular robust item is proposed to handle the influence of stochastic disturbance. All the signals in the closed system is proved to be globally bounded in probability. Moreover the output tracking error converges to an arbitrary small neighborhood of the origin by proper choosing of the design parameters. The simulation results based on current control scheme and the comparison with the previous method illustrate that the proposed output feedback scheme realizes good tracking performance and strong ability on stochastic disturbance attenuation.     

Adaptive fuzzy H ∞ tracking design of SISO uncertain nonlinear fractional order time-delay systems

In this paper, a fuzzy logic controller equipped with training algorithms is developed such that the H ^?? tracking performance should be satisfied for a model-free nonlinear fractional order time delay system which is infinite dimensional in nature and time delay is a source of instability. In order to deal with the linguistic uncertainties caused from delay terms, the adaptive time delay fuzzy logic system is constructed to approximate the unknown time delay system functions. By incorporating Lyapunov stability criterion with H ^?? tracking design technique, the free parameters of the adaptive fuzzy controller can be tuned on line by output feedback control law and adaptive law. Moreover, the tracking error and external disturbance can be attenuated to arbitrary desired level. The numerical results show the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive H ^?? tracking scheme.     

Actuator fault diagnosis for uncertain T–S fuzzy systems with local nonlinear models

This article investigates the problem of fault diagnosis (FD) for a class of nonlinear state-feedback control systems subject to parameter uncertainties. The considered nonlinear systems are described by T–S fuzzy models with local nonlinear parts and uncertain grades of membership. First, a general actuator fault model is proposed, which considers bias faults and gain faults. Then, a switching technique is introduced to address the unknown membership functions, external disturbances, faults, and their coupling. Furthermore, an adaptive FD observer design method combined with the switching technique is proposed to estimate the occurred actuator fault. It is noted that the obtained fault errors converge exponentially to zero. Finally, a numerical example of NSV reentry dynamic model is given to confirm the effectiveness of the new results.