scholarly journals A Novel Active Fault-Tolerant Tracking Control for Robot Manipulators with Finite-Time Stability

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (23) ◽  
pp. 8101
Author(s):  
Thanh Nguyen Truong ◽  
Anh Tuan Vo ◽  
Hee-Jun Kang ◽  
Mien Van

Many terminal sliding mode controllers (TSMCs) have been suggested to obtain exact tracking control of robotic manipulators in finite time. The ordinary method is based on TSMCs that secure trajectory tracking under the assumptions such as the known robot dynamic model and the determined upper boundary of uncertain components. Despite tracking errors that tend to zero in finite time, the weakness of TSMCs is chattering, slow convergence speed, and the need for the exact robot dynamic model. Few studies are handling the weakness of TSMCs by using the combination between TSMCs and finite-time observers. In this paper, we present a novel finite-time fault tolerance control (FTC) method for robotic manipulators. A finite-time fault detection observer (FTFDO) is proposed to estimate all uncertainties, external disturbances, and faults accurately and on time. From the estimated information of FTFDO, a novel finite-time FTC method is developed based on a new finite-time terminal sliding surface and a new finite-time reaching control law. Thanks to this approach, the proposed FTC method provides a fast convergence speed for both observation error and control error in finite time. The operation of the robot system is guaranteed with expected performance even in case of faults, including high tracking accuracy, small chattering behavior in control input signals, and fast transient response with the variation of disturbances, uncertainties, or faults. The stability and finite-time convergence of the proposed control system are verified that they are strictly guaranteed by Lyapunov theory and finite-time control theory. The simulation performance for a FARA robotic manipulator proves the proposed control theory’s correctness and effectiveness.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Jianfang Jiao ◽  
Mingyu Fu

We investigate the problem of finite-time cooperative tracking for multiple surface vessels in the presence of external disturbances. A robust finite-time cooperative tracking algorithm based on terminal sliding-mode control is proposed for multiple surface vessels. In light of the leader-follower strategy, a virtual leader vessel is defined to provide reference point for other surface vessels to form the desired formation. Specifically, the proposed algorithm only requires the communication topology among the surface vessels to be a directed graph with a directed spanning tree. The robustness is achieved by compensating the upper bound of external disturbance in the control input, and the global finite-time stability is proved by Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed finite-time cooperative tracking control algorithm is demonstrated by simulation results.


Author(s):  
Yong Li ◽  
Qingfeng Wang

This article is focused on the high-performance trajectory tracking control of single actuator of a hydraulic excavator. A novel adaptive neural finite-time controller without tedious offline parameter identification and the complex backstepping scheme is put forward. By employing a coordinate transform, the original system can be represented in a canonical form. Consequently, the control objective is retained by controlling the transformed system, which allows a simple controller design without using backstepping. To estimate the immeasurable states of the transformed system, a high-order sliding mode observer is employed, of which observation error is guaranteed to be bounded in finite time. To guarantee finite-time trajectory tracking performance, an adaptive neural finite-time controller based on neural network approximation and terminal sliding mode theory is synthesized. During its synthesis, an echo state network is used to approximate the lumped uncertain system functions, and it guarantees an improved approximation with online-updated output weights. Besides, to handle the lumped uncertain nonlinearities resulting from observation error and neural approximation error, a robust term is employed. The influences of the uncertain nonlinearities are restrained with a novel parameter adaption law, which estimates and updates the upper bound of the lumped uncertain nonlinearities online. With this novel controller, the finite-time trajectory tracking error convergence is proved theoretically. The superior performance and the practical applicability of the proposed method are verified by comparative simulations and experiments.


2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632098244
Author(s):  
Hamid Razmjooei ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Shafiei ◽  
Elahe Abdi ◽  
Chenguang Yang

In this article, an innovative technique to design a robust finite-time state feedback controller for a class of uncertain robotic manipulators is proposed. This controller aims to converge the state variables of the system to a small bound around the origin in a finite time. The main innovation of this article is transforming the model of an uncertain robotic manipulator into a new time-varying form to achieve the finite-time boundedness criteria using asymptotic stability methods. First, based on prior knowledge about the upper bound of uncertainties and disturbances, an innovative finite-time sliding mode controller is designed. Then, the innovative finite-time sliding mode controller is developed for finite-time tracking of time-varying reference signals by the outputs of the system. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed control laws is illustrated for serial robotic manipulators with any number of links through numerical simulations, and it is compared with the nonsingular terminal sliding mode control method as one of the most powerful finite-time techniques.


Automatica ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. 1957-1964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuanghe Yu ◽  
Xinghuo Yu ◽  
Bijan Shirinzadeh ◽  
Zhihong Man

Author(s):  
Vo Anh Tuan ◽  
Hee-Jun Kang

In this study, a new finite time control method is suggested for robotic manipulators based on nonsingular fast terminal sliding variables and the adaptive super-twisting method. First, to avoid the singularity drawback and achieve the finite time convergence of positional errors with a fast transient response rate, nonsingular fast terminal sliding variables are constructed in the position errors' state space. Next, adaptive tuning laws based on the super-twisting scheme are presented for the switching control law of terminal sliding mode control (TSMC) so that a continuous control law is extended to reject the effects of chattering behavior. Finally, a new finite time control method ensures that sliding motion will take place, regardless of the effects of the perturbations and uncertainties on the robot system. Accordingly, the stabilization and robustness of the suggested control system can be guaranteed with high-precision performance. The robustness issue and the finite time convergence of the suggested system are totally confirmed by the Lyapunov stability principle. In simulation studies, the experimental results exhibit the effectiveness and viability of our proposed scheme for joint position tracking control of a 3DOF PUMA560 robot.


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