Robust prescribed performance trajectory tracking control with improved fast nonsingular terminal sliding surface of robot manipulators

Abstract

This paper investigates the high-precision model-free control of robot manipulators. To this end, a model-free robust prescribed performance controller with an improved fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface (IFNTSM) and unknown system dynamics estimator (USDE) has been designed. An USDE method is employed to estimate model informations and further to achieve model-free control, which can avoid complex mathematical model calculation. Compared with some other model-free control methods like time-delay control (TDC) and neural-networks control (NNC), the USED does not require acceleration signal and is easy to implement. Then the prescribed performance control (PPC) has been used to limit error trajectory, which means the error can be pre-limit in a constraint band. A new transform function (TF) is designed for PPC, it has unlimited domain and can still maintain stability although tracking error will exceed PPC boundary sometimes, but the PPC with traditional TF will crash in this case. This is a great improvement for the stability of system compared with traditional TF. An improved fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface (IFNTSM) with a new adaptive law is proposed to accelerate convergence rate and improve steady-state accuracy on the sliding manifold. Finally, a practical finite-time controller (PFTC) has been constructed to drive sliding variable to a set centered on zero within a finite time, which means the convergence time can be calculated depending on the initial state. The transient response time can be shorten compared with traditional asymptotic stable. Abundant simulations and experimental results also verified the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

Keywords

Prescribed performance control fast nonsingular terminal sliding mode unknown system dynamics estimator practical finite-time control robot manipulators

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