scholarly journals Robust Formation Maintenance Methods under General Topology Pursuit of Multi-Agents Systems

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 1970
Author(s):  
Antoine Ansart ◽  
Jyh-Ching Juang ◽  
Karthi Gilari Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Control ◽  
Sliding Mode Control ◽  
Disturbance Observer ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
General Topology ◽  
Parameter Variations ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Model Reference Adaptive ◽  
Multi Agents

In this article, methods of formation maintenance for a group of autonomous agents under ageneral topology scheme are discussed. Unlike rendezvous or geometric formation, general topology pursuit allows the group of agents to autonomously form trochoid patterns, which are useful in civilian and military applications. However, this type of topology is established by designing a marginally stable system that may be sensitive to parameter variations. To account for this drawback of stability, linear fixed-gains are turned into a dynamical version in this paper. By implementing a disturbance observer controller, systems are shown to maintain their formation despite the disturbances or uncertainties. Comparison in the effectiveness of the presented method with model reference adaptive control and integral sliding mode control under the uncertainties of the gains is also conducted. The capabilities of controllers are demonstrated and supported through simulations.

Robust model reference adaptive backstepping sliding-mode control for quadrotor attitude with disturbance observer

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigar Ahmed ◽  
Mou Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sliding Mode Control ◽  
Disturbance Observer ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Model Reference ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mode Control ◽  
Robust Model ◽  
Backstepping Sliding Mode Control ◽  
Model Reference Adaptive ◽  
Control Criterion

Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to design a disturbance observer-based control based on the robust model reference adaptive backstepping sliding-mode control for attitude quadrotor model subject to uncertainties and disturbances. Design/methodology/approach To estimate and reject the disturbance, a disturbance observer is designed for the exogenous disturbances with perturbation while a control criterion is developed for the tracking of desired output. To achieve the control performance, backstepping and sliding-mode control techniques are patched together to obtain robust chattering-free controller. Furthermore, a model reference adaptive control criterion is also combined with the design of robust control for the estimation and rejection of uncertainties and unmodeled dynamics of the attitude quadrotor. Findings The findings of this research work includes the design of a disturbance observer-based control for uncertain attitude quadrotor system with the ability of achieving tracking control objective in the presence of nonlinear exogenous disturbance with and without perturbation. Practical implications In practice, the quadrotor flight is opposed by different kinds of the disturbances. In addition, being an underactuated system, it is difficult to obtain an accurate mathematical model of quadrotor for the control design. Thus, a quadrotor model with uncertainties and disturbances is inevitable. Hence, it is necessary to design a control system with the ability to achieve the control objectives in the presence of uncertainties and disturbances. Originality/value Designing the control methods for quadrotor control without uncertainties and disturbances is a common practice. However, investigating the uncertain quadrotor plant in the presence of nonlinear disturbances is rarely taken into consideration for the control design. Hence, this paper presents a control algorithm to address the issues of the uncertainties and disturbances as well as investigate a control algorithm to achieve tracking performance.

scholarly journals MRAS-Based Switching Linear Feedback Strategy for Sensorless Speed Control of Induction Motor Drives

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3083
Author(s):  
Mohamed Amine Fnaiech ◽  
Jaroslaw Guzinski ◽  
Mohamed Trabelsi ◽  
Abdellah Kouzou ◽  
Mohamed Benbouzid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sliding Mode Control ◽  
Induction Motor ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Good Control ◽  
Motor Drives ◽  
Linear Feedback ◽  
Mode Control ◽  
Model Reference Adaptive System ◽  
Feedback Structure ◽  
Model Reference Adaptive

This paper presents a newly designed switching linear feedback structure of sliding mode control (SLF-SMC) plugged with an model reference adaptive system (MRAS) based sensorless field-oriented control (SFOC) for induction motor (IM). Indeed, the performance of the MRAS depends mainly on the operating point and the parametric variation of the IM. Hence, the sliding mode control (SMC) could be considered a good control alternative due to its easy implementation and robustness. Simulation and experimentation results are presented to show the superiority of the proposed SLF-SMC technique in comparison with the classical PI controller under different speed ranges and inertia conditions.

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