Optimal sliding mode control for nonlinear systems with time-delay

This paper is concerned with the sliding mode control (SMC) for a class of nonlinear systems with time-delay. A novel optimal sliding mode is proposed by using the successive approximation approach (SAA). The stability of the nonlinear sliding mode is analyzed. The switching manifold ensures that the state trajectories of the closed-loop system converge to zero in an optimal fashion on the ideal sliding surface. Furthermore, the convergence velocity of every state trajectory on the ideal sliding surface can be adjusted through choosing the parameters of the quadratic performance index. A numerical simulation is given to show the effectiveness of the proposed design approach.     

Robust intelligent sliding model control using recurrent cerebellar model articulation controller for uncertain nonlinear chaotic systems

In this paper, a robust intelligent sliding model control (RISMC) scheme using an adaptive recurrent cerebellar model articulation controller (RCMAC) is developed for a class of uncertain nonlinear chaotic systems. This RISMC system offers a design approach to drive the state trajectory to track a desired trajectory, and it is comprised of an adaptive RCMAC and a robust controller. The adaptive RCMAC is used to mimic an ideal sliding mode control (SMC) due to unknown system dynamics, and a robust controller is designed to recover the residual approximation error for guaranteeing the stable characteristic. Moreover, the Taylor linearization technique is employed to derive the linearized model of the RCMAC. The all adaptation laws of the RISMC system are derived based on the Lyapunov stability analysis and projection algorithm, so that the stability of the system can be guaranteed. Finally, the proposed RISMC system is applied to control a Van der Pol oscillator, a Genesio chaotic system and a Chua’s chaotic circuit. The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is verified by some simulation results with unknown system dynamics and existence of external disturbance. In addition, the advantages of the proposed RISMC are indicated in comparison with a SMC system.     

Event-triggered sliding mode control for switched genetic regulatory networks with persistent dwell time

This paper focus on the event-triggered sliding mode controller design for discrete-time switched genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) with persistent dwell time (PDT) switching. Firstly, the observation error dynamics of switched GRNs with PDT is constructed in the light of event-triggered sliding mode control (SMC) scheme. Next, sufficient conditions are derived to ensure the exponential stability of the augmented plant. Moreover, an event-triggered SMC law is synthesized to impel the system trajectories onto the sliding surface in a finite time. Finally, a verification example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness and potential of the proposed method.     

Chaos control of uncertain time‐delay chaotic systems with input dead‐zone nonlinearity

This article presents an adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) scheme for the stabilization problem of uncertain time‐delay chaotic systems with input dead‐zone nonlinearity. The algorithm is based on SMC, adaptive control, and linear matrix inequality technique. Using Lyapunov stability theorem, the proposed control scheme guarantees the stability of overall closed‐loop uncertain time‐delay chaotic system with input dead‐zone nonlinearity. It is shown that the state trajectories converge to zero asymptotically in the presence of input dead‐zone nonlinearity, time‐delays, nonlinear real‐valued functions, parameter uncertainties, and external disturbances simultaneously. The selection of sliding surface and the design of control law are two important issues, which have been addressed. Moreover, the knowledge of upper bound of uncertainties is not required. The reaching phase and chattering phenomenon are eliminated. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed scheme. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 13–20, 2016     

Design of LMI‐based sliding mode controller with an exponential policy for a class of underactuated systems

In this article, a novel sliding mode control (SMC) approach is proposed for the control of a class of underactuated systems which are featured as in cascaded form with external disturbances. The asymptotic stability conditions on the error dynamical system are expressed in the form of linear matrix inequalities. The control objective is to construct a controller such that would force the state trajectories to approach the sliding surface with an exponential policy. The proposed SMC has a simple structure because it is derived from the associated first‐order differential equation and is capable of handling system disturbances and nonlinearities. The effectiveness of the proposed control method is validated using intensive simulations. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 117–124, 2016     

Anti-synchronization of uncertain unified chaotic systems with dead-zone nonlinearity

This paper addresses chaos anti-synchronization of uncertain unified chaotic systems with dead-zone input nonlinearity. Using the sliding mode control technique and Lyapunov stability theory, a proportional–integral (PI) switching surface is proposed to ensure the stability of the closed-loop error system in sliding mode. Then a sliding mode controller (SMC) is proposed to guarantee the hitting of the switching surface even with uncertainties and the control input containing dead-zone nonlinearity. Some simulation results are included to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed synchronization scheme.     

Sliding mode ℋ∞ control design for uncertain nonlinear stochastic state-delayed Markovian jump systems with actuator failures

This paper presents a new approach for sliding mode control (SMC) design of a class of uncertain nonlinear stochastic Markovian jump systems (MJSs) with time-varying delay. The attention is focused on removing a structural assumption, under which several studies concerning SMC to accommodate Itô stochastic systems have been reported. Sufficient conditions in terms of LMIs are established to guarantee the existence of the sliding surface, then the reachability is analyzed. Compared with the existing results, the mode-independent sliding surface can be derived to weaken jumping effect. The theoretical results are illustrated by a numerical example.     

具有外部扰动的空间刚性机械臂姿态与末端爪手协调运动的Terminal滑模控制算法设计

讨论了载体位置无控、姿态受控情况下,具有外部扰动的漂浮基空间刚性机械臂,载体姿态与末端爪手协调运动的控制算法设计问题．结合系统动量守恒关系及Lagrange方法,建立了漂浮基空间刚性机械臂完全能控形式的系统动力学方程及运动Jacobi关系,并将其转化为状态空间形式的系统控制方程．以此为基础,根据Terminal滑模控制技术,给出了系统相关Terminal滑模面的数学表达式,在此基础上提出了具有外部扰动情况下漂浮基空间刚性机械臂载体姿态与末端爪手协调运动的Terminal滑模控制方案．提出的控制方案不但确保了闭环系统滑模阶段的存在性,同时通过Terminal滑模函数的适当选取,还保证了输出误差在有限时间内的收敛性．此外,由于确保了无论何种情况下系统初始状态均在Terminal滑模面上,从而消除了其它滑模控制方法常有的到达阶段,使得闭环系统具有全局鲁棒性和稳定性．平面两杆空间刚性机械臂的系统数值仿真,证实了方法的有效性．     

Exponential stabilization using sliding mode control for singular systems with time-varying delays and nonlinear perturbations

This paper considers a sliding mode control (SMC) of singular systems. The systems under consideration involve nonlinear perturbations and time-varying delays. The aim of this paper is to design a sliding mode controller such that the nonlinear singular system is exponentially stable and its trajectory can be driven onto the sliding surface in finite time. By using the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and some specified matrices, conditions on exponential stabilization are obtained in the form of strict linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). A numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed main results. All these results are expected to be of use in the study of singular time-varying delay systems with nonlinear perturbations.     

The sliding mode control for an airfoil system driven by harmonic and colored Gaussian noise excitations

This paper addresses a sliding mode control (SMC) for an airfoil model excited by a combination of harmonic force and colored Gaussian noise. Firstly, to reveal effects of random factors, the airfoil model with colored Gaussian noise is established. Next, via a perturbation technique and the stochastic averaging method, an analytical expression for the time-averaging mean square response is derived, which agrees well with results by Monte Carlo simulations. Additionally, we uncover that colored noise can induce a stochastic jump phenomenon, which can cause a catastrophic structural failure of the airfoil or even a disintegration of the aircraft. Subsequently, the SMC strategy is employed to design an effective controller for suppressing such a jump phenomenon of the stochastic airfoil system. In the case of the proposed stochastic airfoil system, we introduce concepts of ultimately reachability with an arbitrary small bound and a mean square practical stability to realize the reachability of the sliding mode and the stability of the system state. Finally, several numerical results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed SMC algorithm. We show that the jump phenomenon can be suppressed efficiently to avoid a catastrophic failure of the wing structure due to large deformation/deflection, and the energy cost is discussed to analyze the SMC approach.     

Sliding mode control based on multi-node transmission hybrid scheduling for Markovian jump systems with constrained bandwidth

The sliding mode control (SMC) problem is investigated for Markovian jump systems (MJSs) under constrained communication bandwidth. A multi-node hybrid transmission strategy composed of an event-triggered protocol and the weight try-once-discard (WTOD) protocol is introduced into the sensor-to-controller (S/C) channel. Its key feature is that by using two dynamic thresholds, the number of the transmitted components may be dynamically regulated, not just the one with the largest difference as in the conventional WTOD protocol. That may greatly increase the flexibility of transmission under limited bandwidth, meanwhile, it is also beneficial to balance system performance and network burden. Then, a compensating strategy is proposed via the previous transmitted signals, and a scheduling signal-dependent sliding mode controller is designed. By using mode-dependent Lyapunov function, both the stochastic stability and the reachability are analyzed under different transmission cases, respectively. Moreover, an optimization problem on convergent domain is formulated and the binary-encoded genetic algorithm (GA) is utilized to search a desirable sliding gain. Finally, the proposed multi-node hybrid scheduling-based SMC scheme is illustrated via simulation results.     

Chaos synchronization of coupled neurons via adaptive sliding mode control

In this paper, an adaptive neural network (NN) sliding mode controller (SMC) is proposed to realize the chaos synchronization of two gap junction coupled FitzHugh–Nagumo (FHN) neurons under external electrical stimulation. The controller consists of a radial basis function (RBF) NN and an SMC. After the RBFNN approximating the uncertain nonlinear part of the error dynamical system, the SMC realizes the desired control property regardless of the existence of the approximation errors and external disturbances. The weights of the NN are tuned online based on the sliding mode reaching law. According to the Lyapunov stability theory, the stability of the closed error system is guaranteed. The control scheme is robust to the uncertainties such as approximate error, ionic channel noise and external disturbances. Chaos synchronization is obtained by the proper choice of the control parameters. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.     

Exponential synchronization of chaotic systems subject to uncertainties in the control input

A sliding mode control technique is introduced for exponential synchronization of chaotic systems. These systems are described by a general form including matched and unmatched nonlinear functions. A new hitting-free switching surface of proportional-integral type is proposed. This type of switching surface is without the hitting process if the attraction of sliding manifold is ensured. This property makes it easy to exponentially synchronize the master-slave chaotic systems. Based on this switching surface, a robust sliding mode controller (SMC) is derived to guarantee the attraction of sliding manifold even when the system is subjected to input uncertainties. An example is included to illustrate the results developed in this paper.     

A sliding mode control for linear fractional systems with input and state delays

In this paper, a sliding mode control design for fractional order systems with input and state time-delay is proposed. First, we consider a fractional order system without delay for which a sliding surface is proposed based on fractional integration of the state. Then, a stabilizing switching controller is derived. Second, a fractional system with state delay is considered. Third, a strategy including a fractional state predictor input delay compensation is developed. The existence of the sliding mode and the stability of the proposed control design are discussed. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the theoretical developments.     

Robust tracking and model following for uncertain time‐delay systems with input nonlinearity

This article proposes a novel adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) scheme to realize the problem of robust tracking and model following for a class of uncertain time‐delay systems with input nonlinearity. It is shown that the proposed robust tracking controller guarantees the stability of overall closed‐loop system and achieves zero‐tracking error in the presence of input nonlinearity, time‐delays, time‐varying parameter uncertainties and external disturbances. The selection of sliding surface and the existence of sliding mode are two important issues, which have been addressed. This scheme assures robustness against input nonlinearity, time‐delays, parameter uncertainties, and external disturbances. Moreover, the knowledge of the upper bound of uncertainties is not required and chattering phenomenon is eliminated. Both theoretical analysis and illustrative examples demonstrate the validity of the proposed scheme. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 66–73, 2015     

A new method for control of nonlinear state-dependent switched systems

In this paper, a new method for the control of input-affine nonlinear switched systems is introduced. The system switching conditions are assumed to be state-dependent, rather than the simpler input-dependent case. The main contribution of this research is that the effects of switched dynamics are interpreted as a model uncertainty bounded within a polynomial of states norms, with unknown coefficients. In order to prevent extra conservativeness, coefficients are tuned adaptively, so that a minimal state-varying bound could be achieved. This is unlike the conventional sliding mode control (SMC) scheme, where the existence of a constant and usually large upper bound must be presumed. To address the challenge of coping with such a new concept of uncertainty, an extended form of the original adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control scheme is proposed. Adaptation laws are used to tune a fuzzy controller and also real-time estimation of the instantaneous bound of uncertainties. Closed-loop stability is guaranteed by proposing a group of multiple Lyapunov functions (MLF) with tunable parameters. Except for the mild condition that the largest difference between the magnitudes of the sub-manifolds of the switched system is bounded by a polynomial of states with uncertain coefficients, the proposed method has the distinct advantage that no information about the dynamic equations or switching conditions is required in the control design stage. The proposed method is applied to the two challenging case studies, depicting the outstanding effectiveness of the method.     

Sliding mode control of the forced generalized Burgers equation

^** Email: smaoui{at}mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw This paper deals with the sliding mode control (SMC) of theforced generalized Burgers equation via the Karhunen-Loève(K-L) Galerkin method. The decomposition procedure of the K-Lmethod is presented to illustrate the use of this method inanalysing the numerical simulations data which represent thesolutions of the forced generalized Burgers equation for viscosityranging from 1 to 100. The K-L Galerkin projection is used asa model reduction technique for non-linear systems to derivea system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that mimicsthe dynamics of the forced generalized Burgers equation. Thedata coefficients derived from the ODE system are then usedto approximate the solutions of the forced Burgers equation.Finally, static and dynamic SMC schemes with the objective ofenhancing the stability of the forced generalized Burgers equationare proposed. Simulations of the controlled system are givento illustrate the developed theory.     

Novel design of adaptive neural network controller for a class of non-affine nonlinear systems

The tracking control problem is studied for a class of uncertain non-affine systems. Based on the principle of sliding mode control (SMC), using the neural networks (NNs) and the property of the basis function, a novel adaptive design scheme is proposed. A novel Lyapunov function, which depends on both system states and control input variable, is used for the development of the control law and the adaptive law. The approach overcomes the drawback in the literature. In addition, the lumped disturbances are taken in account. By theoretical analysis, it is proved that tracking errors asymptotically converge to zero. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Event-triggered sliding mode control for singular systems with disturbance

This paper investigates the event-triggered sliding mode control (SMC) problem for singular systems with disturbance. Firstly, an event-triggered sliding mode control law is designed to guarantee the reachability of sliding surface. Different from the related methods, in order to deal with the difficulty caused by event-triggered SMC strategy, a novel Lemma is proposed in this paper. Secondly, the admissibility of sliding motion is presented, which is used to solve the controller gain. Then, a positive lower bound of the inter execution time can be guaranteed and the Zeno behavior is avoided. Finally, two simulation examples are presented to show the effectiveness of derived theoretical results.     

Enhanced adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control for uncertain nonlinear systems

In this article, a novel Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control (AFSMC) methodology is proposed based on the integration of Sliding Mode Control (SMC) and Adaptive Fuzzy Control (AFC). Making use of the SMC design framework, we propose two fuzzy systems to be used as reaching and equivalent parts of the SMC. In this way, we make use of the fuzzy logic to handle uncertainty/disturbance in the design of the equivalent part and provide a chattering free control for the design of the reaching part. To construct the equivalent control law, an adaptive fuzzy inference engine is used to approximate the unknown parts of the system. To get rid of the chattering, a fuzzy logic model is assigned for reaching control law, which acting like the saturation function technique. The main advantage of our proposed methodology is that the structure of the system is unknown and no knowledge of the bounds of parameters, uncertainties and external disturbance are required in advance. Using Lyapunov stability theory and Barbalat’s lemma, the closed-loop system is proved to be stable and convergence properties of the system is assured. Simulation examples are presented to verify the effectiveness of the method. Results are compared with some other methods proposed in the past research.