Continuous Terminal Sliding-Mode Control for FJR Subject to Matched/Mismatched Disturbances.

Journal: IEEE transactions on cybernetics
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Abstract

A robust finite-time control (FTC) framework using continuous terminal sliding-mode control (SMC) and high-order sliding-mode observer (HOSMO) is discussed to realize the trajectory tracking of flexible-joint robots in this article. Control performances of the robots always suffer from unknown matched and mismatched time-varying disturbances. Traditional SMC exists with a chattering phenomenon and cannot cope with mismatched time-varying disturbances due to its inherent structure property. For this reason, two HOSMOs are devised to estimate the time-varying disturbances on the link and motor side, respectively. Then, by fusing the states and disturbance estimations into a novel terminal sliding-mode surface, a continuous robust FTC scheme is developed. The proposed control strategy can not only handle both matched and mismatched time-varying disturbances but also obtain a finite-time convergence performance. The rigorous finite-time stability analysis of the closed-loop system under the proposed control method is guaranteed. The results are illustrated to verify the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed design approach.

Authors

  • Huiming Wang
  • Qiyao Zhang
  • Zhenxing Sun
  • Xianlun Tang
  • I-Ming Chen
    Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.