scholarly journals Disturbance and Uncertainty Suppression Control for a Saucer-Shaped Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based on Extended State Observer

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 4884
Author(s):  
Jia Deng ◽  
Cong Feng ◽  
Hongbo Zhao ◽  
Yongming Wen ◽  
Sentang Wu

For saucer-shaped unmanned aerial vehicles with blended wing bodies (BWBs), un-modelled coupling effect uncertainty and external disturbance missing the matching conditions have always been the concerns. To solve this flight control problem, this research has proposed a composite backstepping controller incorporated with a finite-time convergent differentiator and a nonlinear extended state observer (ESO). More specifically, the differentiator is employed to obtain the derivatives of the virtual control laws in finite-time and therefore eliminate the inherent “explosion of term” problem in backstepping. By the effective real-time estimation of ESO without the peaking value problem, the total effect of internal uncertainties and external disturbances is compensated in the control law design, which can dispense with parameter identification and model approximation. Furthermore, based on Lyapunov theory, it is proved rigorously that all the signals of the resulting closed-loop systems are bounded. In the final part of this paper, simulation results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Zhijun Chen ◽  
Yong Zhao ◽  
Yuzhu Bai ◽  
Dechao Ran ◽  
Liang He

This paper presents a robust controller with an extended state observer to solve the Synchronous Fly-Around problem of a chaser spacecraft approaching a tumbling target in the presence of unknown uncertainty and bounded external disturbance. The rotational motion and time-varying docking trajectory of tumbling target are given in advance and referred as the desired tracking objective. Based on dual quaternion framework, a six-degree-of-freedom coupled relative motion between two spacecrafts is modeled, in which the coupling effect, model uncertainties, and external disturbances are considered. More specially, a novel nonsingular terminal sliding mode is designed to ensure the convergence to the desired trajectory in finite time. Based on the second-order sliding mode, an extended state observer is employed to the controller to compensate the closed-loop system. By theoretical analysis, it is proved that the modified extended-state-observer-based controller guarantees the finite-time stabilization. Numerical simulations are taken to show the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed control scheme. Finally, Synchronous Fly-Around maneuvers can be accomplished with fast response and high accuracy.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amjad J. Humaidi ◽  
Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem

In this paper, a novel finite-time nonlinear extended state observer (NLESO) is proposed and employed in active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) to stabilize a nonlinear system against system’s uncertainties and discontinuous disturbances using output feedback based control. The first task was to aggregate the uncertainties, disturbances, and any other undesired nonlinearities in the system into a single term called the “generalized disturbance”. Consequently, the NLESO estimates the generalized disturbance and cancel it from the input channel in an online fashion. A peaking phenomenon that existed in linear ESO (LESO) has been reduced significantly by adopting a saturation-like nonlinear function in the proposed nonlinear ESO (NLESO). Stability analysis of the NLEO is studied using finite-time Lyapunov theory, and the comparisons are presented over simulations on permanent magnet DC (PMDC) motor to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed observer concerning LESO.


Author(s):  
Jie Wang ◽  
Jiahao Liu ◽  
Lingling Chen ◽  
Shijie Guo

In this article, an advanced observer-based finite-time trajectory tracking controller is investigated for lower extremity exoskeleton without available joint angular velocities to improve the movement ability of dependent persons, which is robust against uncertain dynamics, human active joint torque and external disturbances. First, the Lagrange principle is applied to analyze the dynamic properties of lower extremity exoskeleton driven by artificial pneumatic muscles, and its swing phase model is established. After that, a novel finite-time extended state observer is proposed to observe the lumped disturbances and unavailable angular velocities of the lower limb exoskeleton simultaneously. Furthermore, a finite-time sliding mode controller of exoskeleton is designed based on the extended state observer, and the finite-time convergence of tracking error is rigorously demonstrated based on the Lyapunov theory. Finally, the control system simulation is established and experimental tests are conducted with a voluntary subject during flexion of wearer’s knee and hip joints, the obtained results demonstrate fast and high-precision tracking performance of the proposed approach.


Author(s):  
Tao Chao ◽  
Denghui Zhang ◽  
Songyan Wang ◽  
Ping Ma

The hypersonic vehicle has the characteristics of strong coupling, high uncertainty and complex nonlinearity, leading to an unsatisfactory control performance with the traditional design method. In this paper, an integrated guidance and control design approach is proposed to cope with this problem. A time-varying longitudinal integrated guidance and control model is first formulated, and then the overall uncertainty consisting of the un-modeled dynamic, parameter uncertainty and external disturbance is taken into account. A novel finite-time extended state observer is developed to estimate and compensate it in real time. Furthermore, an integrated guidance and control algorithm utilizing back-stepping method and the dynamic inverse is put forward. It has been theoretically proved that the finite-time extended state observer system and the cascade system are globally finite-time stable. Numerical simulation results under different kinds of uncertainty with different amplitude and frequency are presented to illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed approach. The proposed integrated guidance and control possesses a better convergence performance and stronger disturbance rejection property in existence of the mismatched uncertainty and parameter uncertainty.


Author(s):  
Kejie Gong ◽  
Ying Liao ◽  
Yafei Mei

This article proposed an extended state observer (ESO)–based output feedback control scheme for rigid spacecraft pose tracking without velocity feedback, which accounts for inertial uncertainties, external disturbances, and control input constraints. In this research, the 6-DOF tracking error dynamics is described by the exponential coordinates on SE(3). A novel continuous finite-time ESO is proposed to estimate the velocity information and the compound disturbance, and the estimations are utilized in the control law design. The ESO ensures a finite-time uniform ultimately bounded stability of the observation states, which is proved utilizing the homogeneity method. A non-singular finite-time terminal sliding mode controller based on super-twisting technology is proposed, which would drive spacecraft tracking the desired states. The other two observer-based controllers are also proposed for comparison. The superiorities of the proposed control scheme are demonstrated by theory analyses and numerical simulations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (13) ◽  
pp. 3581-3599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umesh Kumar Sahu ◽  
Bidyadhar Subudhi ◽  
Dipti Patra

Currently, space robots such as planetary robots and flexible-link manipulators (FLMs) are finding specific applications to reduce the cost of launching. However, the structural flexible nature of their arms and joints leads to errors in tip positioning owing to tip deflection. The internal model uncertainties and disturbance are the key challenges in the development of control strategies for tip-tracking of FLMs. To deal with these challenges, we design a tip-tracking controller for a two-link flexible manipulator (TLFM) by developing a sampled-data extended state observer (SD-ESO). It is designed to reconstruct uncertain parameters for accurate tip-tracking control of a TLFM. Finally, a backstepping (BS) controller is designed to attenuate the estimation error and other bounded disturbances. Convergence and stability of the proposed control system are investigated by using Lyapunov theory. The benefits (control performance and robustness) of the proposed SD-ESO-based BS controller are compared with other similar approaches by pursuing both simulation and experimental studies. It is observed from the results obtained that SD-ESO-based BS Controller effectively compensates the deviation in tip-tracking performance of TLFM due to non-minimum phase behavior and model uncertainties with an improved transient response.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhu ◽  
Hamid Reza Karimi ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Qing Gao ◽  
Yong Wang

An active disturbance rejection station-keeping control scheme is derived and analyzed for station-keeping missions of spacecraft along a class of unstable periodic orbits near collinear libration points of the Sun-Earth system. It is an error driven, rather than model-based control law, essentially accounting for the independence of model accuracy and linearization. An extended state observer is designed to estimate the states in real time by setting an extended state, that is, the sum of unmodeled dynamic and external disturbance. This total disturbance is compensated by a nonlinear state error feedback controller based on the extended state observer. A nonlinear tracking differentiator is designed to obtain the velocity of the spacecraft since only position signals are available. In addition, the system contradiction between rapid response and overshoot can be effectively solved via arranging the transient process in tracking differentiator. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed method is adequate for station-keeping of unstable Halo orbits in the presence of system uncertainties, initial injection errors, solar radiation pressure, and perturbations of the eccentric nature of the Earth's orbit. It is also shown that the closed-loop control system performance is improved significantly using our method comparing with the general LQR method.


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