scholarly journals Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Based Model-Free Control: Application to Glycemia Regulation Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-617
Author(s):  
Yang Tian ◽  
Haoping Wang ◽  
Qi Wu ◽  
Maiting Hu ◽  
Nicolai Christov

A new Model-Free Control (MFC) is derived to enhance the control performance of the well-known Nonlinear Integral Backstepping based MFC (NIB-MFC). A Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode (NFTSM) component is added to NIB-MFC, which makes possible to compensate the estimation error of the time-delay estimation module of NIB-MFC. The obtained in this way new control structure is called NFTSM-MFC. The system stability with NFTSM-MFC is proved and the application of NFTSM-MFC for glycemia regulation is considered. The performances of NFTSM-MFC are compared with those of the NIB-MFC and the intelligent proportional control for a glucose-insulin model of type 1 diabetes patients under a long term simulation.

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (22) ◽  
pp. 5273-5290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saim Ahmed ◽  
Haoping Wang ◽  
Yang Tian

A robotic exoskeleton is a nonlinear system, which is subjected to parametric uncertainties and external disturbances. Due to this reason, it is difficult to obtain the exact model of the system, and without knowledge of the system, it cannot be compensated accurately. In this study, time delay estimation (TDE)-based model-free fractional-order nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (MFF-TSM) is proposed for the lower-limb robotic exoskeleton in the existence of uncertainties and external disturbance. The main characteristic of the proposed scheme is that it controls the system without relying on the knowledge of exoskeleton dynamics. At first, the fractional-order (FO) with nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (NFTSM) is adopted to provide a precise trajectory tracking performance, fast finite-time speed of convergence, singularity-free and chatter-free control inputs. And then, the proposed controller employs TDE, to make the controller model independent, which directly estimates the uncertain exoskeleton dynamics with external disturbances. Later, asymptotical stability analysis of the overall system and finite-time convergence are investigated and ensured using Lyapunov theorem. Finally, the simulation results are conducted to validate the efficacy of the proposed control method.


Author(s):  
Yaoyao Wang ◽  
Bai Chen ◽  
Hongtao Wu

To ensure satisfactory control performance for the underwater vehicle-manipulator systems, a novel continuous nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode controller is proposed and investigated using time delay estimation in this article. Complex lumped unknown dynamics including the strong nonlinear couplings and external disturbance are properly compensated with time delay estimation, which are mainly based on the time-delayed signals of underwater vehicle-manipulator systems and can provide with a fascinating model-free feature. Afterwards, the satisfactory tracking control performance and good robustness under heavy lumped uncertainties are ensured using the continuous nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode term with a fast terminal sliding mode–type reaching law. Therefore, the proposed controller is easy to use thanks to time delay estimation, and can ensure good control performance owing to continuous nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode. Stability of the closed-loop control system is analyzed using Lyapunov stability theory, and theoretical tracking errors are calculated and presented. Finally, the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed controller are demonstrated through comparative 7-degree-of-freedom pool experiments.


Author(s):  
Xichang Liang ◽  
Yi Wan ◽  
Chengrui Zhang ◽  
Yanyun Kou ◽  
Qianqian Xin ◽  
...  

A simple and robust tracking controller based on time delay estimation and nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode is proposed for the position control of hydraulic manipulator. The proposed controller does not require the mathematical model of hydraulic manipulator dynamics, which ensures that the method is simple and model free. Two elements, time delay estimation and nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode, are implemented in the proposed controller. Time delay estimation estimates the complex dynamics of the hydraulic manipulator, and nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode is implemented as the nonlinear desired error dynamic to ensure fast convergence and high trajectory tracking accuracy. Experiments are performed to verify the tracking performance of the method on a hydraulic manipulator. The results demonstrate that this method achieves faster and higher precision position tracking performance than a conventional time delay control with linear error dynamics.


Author(s):  
Yangchun Wei ◽  
Haoping Wang ◽  
Yang Tian

In this brief, an adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode observer–based adaptive integral terminal sliding mode model-free control is proposed for the trajectory tracking control of the output torque of elastomer series elastic actuator–based manipulator. Considering the tip load and its external disturbance, an elastomer series elastic actuator–based manipulator model is established. In order to realize the output torque tracking control of elastomer series elastic actuator–based manipulator, by using the characteristics of elastomer series elastic actuator, the output torque control is transformed into position control. Based on the idea of model-free control, an ultra-local model is applied to approximate the dynamic of the manipulator, and all the model information is considered as an unknown lumped disturbance. The adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode observer is designed to estimate the lumped disturbance, and the absolute value of the tracking error is introduced into the sliding surface to make the selection of parameters more flexible. Then, on the basis of adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode observer, the adaptive integral terminal sliding mode model-free control is proposed under model-free control framework. The design and analysis of both observer and controller do not rely on accurate model information. Finally, the performance of the proposed method is verified by simulation results.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 172988142092642
Author(s):  
Yaoyao Wang ◽  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Feng Ju ◽  
Jinbo Zhao ◽  
Bai Chen ◽  
...  

To effectively reduce the mass and simplify the structure of traditional aerial manipulators, we propose novel light cable-driven manipulator for the aerial robots in this article. The drive motors and corresponding reducers are removed from the joints to the base; meanwhile, force and motion are transmitted remotely through cables. Thanks to this design, the moving mass has been greatly reduced. In the meantime, the application of cable-driven technology also brings about extra difficulties for high-precise control of cable-driven manipulators. Hence, we design a nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller using time-delay estimation. The time-delay estimation is applied to obtain lumped system dynamics and found an attractive model-free scheme, while the nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller is utilized to enhance the control performance. Stability is analyzed based on Lyapunov theory. Finally, the designed light cable-driven manipulator and presented time-delay estimation-based nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller are analyzed. Corresponding results show that (1) our proposed cable-driven manipulator has high load to mass ratio of 0.8 if we only consider the moving mass and (2) our proposed time-delay estimation-based nonsingular terminal sliding mode is model-free and can provide higher accuracy than the widely used time-delay estimation-based proportional–derivative (PD) controller.


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