Intelligent Contact Force Regulation of Pantograph–Catenary Based on Novel Type-Reduction Technology

In this paper, an intelligent control scheme is proposed to suppress vibrations between the pantograph and the catenary by regulating the contact force to a reference value, thereby achieving stable current collection. In order to reduce the computational cost, an interval Type-2 adaptive fuzzy logic control with the Moradi–Zirhohi–Lin type reduction method is applied to deal with model uncertainties and exterior interference. Based on a simplified pantograph–catenary system model, the comparative simulation results show that variation of the contact force can be attenuated and variation disturbances can be repressed simultaneously. Furthermore, in terms of computational burden, the proposed type reduction method outperforms other type reduction methods.

Fuzzy-Based Adaptive Higher-Order Sliding Mode Control for Uncertain Steer-by-Wire System

This paper proposes an adaptive higher-order sliding mode (AHOSM) control method based on the adaptive fuzzy logic system for steer-by-wire (SbW) system to achieve the tracking control of the front wheels steering angle. First, an adaptive fuzzy logic system is adopted to estimate the unknown dynamics of the SbW system. Then, the AHOSM control is constructed to overcome the lumped uncertainties including unknown external perturbation and fuzzy logic system approximation error, and has the advantage of attenuating the chattering caused by the discontinuous control signal. Finally, the adaptation scheme is designed for the dynamic gain of the proposed AHOSM controller without a priori knowledge of the bounds of the uncertainties. In contrast to the existing controllers applied in the SbW system, this controller has a better control performance in practical application. By means of Lyapunov stability analysis, it is theoretically proved that the system trajectory converges to an adjustable neighborhood of the origin in finite time. Simulations and vehicle experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Pinning synchronization control for multi-layer complex networks via adaptive fuzzy logic system

In this paper, the pinning synchronization problem for the multi-layer networks with dynamic uncertainties is studied. The dynamical uncertainties can be approximated by a fuzzy logic system, based on which, the pinning synchronization scheme is proposed. By using Lyapunov stability theorem, the sufficient condition is given that can ensure that the multi-layer networks can synchronize to the reference trajectory with designed adaptive law. Finally, a numerical example is given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed pinning control scheme.

Hybrid Decoder with an Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Filter for Single-User Millimeter Wave Systems Under Impulsive Noise

The conventional millimeter wave systems are mostly designed to operate only for the Gaussian noise model. Although this model simplifies the noise removal problem, recent research findings state that a mixture noise model with additive impulsive noise is a more realistic approximation for millimeter wave channels. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to eliminate the impulsive noise effects on single-user millimeter wave massive multiple-input-multiple-output system using an adaptive fuzzy logic filter. Hence, a fuzzy median filter is applied to the system and it is aimed to minimize the effects of the impulsive noise by ordering samples based on fuzzy rank. Simulation results show that the proposed filter successfully eliminates the impulsive noise effects and achieves a better bit error rate and spectral efficiency performance than the competing methods in the literature while also working efficiently in Gaussian noise.