Switching Plane Design for the Sliding Mode Control of Systems with Elastic Input Constraints

Author(s):  
A Bartoszewicz ◽  
A Nowacka

In this paper a new sliding mode control algorithm for the third-order non-linear, time-varying, uncertain system subject to unknown disturbance is proposed. Since the conventional input constraints expressed by inequalities are often impractical, in this paper the situation is considered where the input signal is subject to elastic constraint. It is assumed that the threshold value of the system input signal is known and exceeding this value is undesirable but possible if justified by essential improvement of the system performance. The proposed algorithm employs a time-varying switching plane. At the initial time the plane passes through the point determined by the system initial conditions in the error state space and afterwards moves with a constant velocity to the origin of the space. The plane is designed in such a way that fast error convergence is achieved using limited control input. By this means, the reaching phase is eliminated, insensitivity of the system to external disturbance is ensured from the very beginning of the control action, and fast, monotonic error convergence to zero is achieved. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the conventional input constraint expressed by an inequality is a limit case of the elastic constraint considered in the paper.

Author(s):  
Bingxin Ma ◽  
Yongfu Wang

The steering-by-wire (SbW) system is one of the main subsystems of automatic vehicles, realizing the steering control of autonomous vehicles. This paper proposes an event-triggered adaptive sliding mode control for the SbW system subject to the uncertain nonlinearity, time-varying disturbance, and limited communication resources. Firstly, an event-triggered nested adaptive sliding mode control is proposed for SbW systems. The uncertain nonlinearity is approximated by the interval type-2 fuzzy logic system (IT2 FLS). The time-varying disturbance, modeling error, and event-triggering error can be offset by robust terms of sliding mode control. The key advantage is that the high-frequency switching of sliding mode control only appears on the time derivate of control input without increasing the input-output relative degree of closed-loop SbW systems, such that the chattering phenomenon can be eliminated. Finally, theoretical analysis shows that the practical finite-time stability of the closed-loop SbW system can be achieved, and communication resources in the controller-to-actuator channels can be saved while avoiding the Zeno-behavior. Numerical simulations and experiments are given to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 106549
Author(s):  
Jianhua Wang ◽  
Liang Han ◽  
Xiwang Dong ◽  
Qingdong Li ◽  
Zhang Ren

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3811
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Adamiak ◽  
Andrzej Bartoszewicz

This study considers the problem of energetical efficiency in switching type sliding mode control of discrete-time systems. The aim of this work is to reduce the quasi-sliding mode band-width and, as follows, the necessary control input, through an application of a new type of time-varying sliding hyperplane in quasi-sliding mode control of sampled time systems. Although time-varying sliding hyperplanes are well known to provide insensitivity to matched external disturbances and uncertainties of the model in the whole range of motion for continuous-time systems, their application in the discrete-time case has never been studied in detail. Therefore, this paper proposes a sliding surface, which crosses the system’s representative point at the initial step and then shifts in the state space according to the pre-generated demand profile of the sliding variable. Next, a controller for a real perturbed plant is designed so that it drives the system’s representative point to its reference position on the sliding plane in each step. Therefore, the impact of external disturbances on the system’s trajectory is minimized, which leads to a reduction of the necessary control effort. Moreover, thanks to a new reaching law applied in the reference profile generator, the sliding surface shift in each step is strictly limited and a switching type of motion occurs. Finally, under the assumption of boundedness and smoothness of continuous-time disturbance, a compensation scheme is added. It is proved that this control strategy reduces the quasi-sliding mode band-width from O(T) to O(T3) order from the very beginning of the regulation process. Moreover, it is shown that the maximum state variable errors become of O(T3) order as well. These achievements directly reduce the energy consumption in the closed-loop system, which is nowadays one of the crucial factors in control engineering.


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