Position Control of Pneumatic System Using High Gain and Backstepping Controllers

This paper investigates the applicability of two state feedback controllers for a class of uniformly controllable and observable nonlinear systems. The first one is based on an appropriate high gain control principle that has been developed by duality from the high gain observer principle. The state feedback control gain is particularly provided by a synthesis function satisfying a well-defined condition, leading thereby to a unification of the high gain control designs. The second one is a backstepping controller that has been developed from a suitable combination of the backstepping control approach bearing in mind the high gain control principle pursued for the first controller design. A common engineering design feature that is worth to be mentioned consists in properly formulating their underlying control problems as a regulation problem involving a suitable reference model with respect to the structure of the system as well as the control design principle under consideration. Of fundamental interest, the involved reference model is systematically derived thanks to the flatness and backstepping principles using an appropriate Lyapunov approach. An experimental evaluation is carried out to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed nonlinear controllers.

Multi-Objective Supervisory Control for DC/DC Converters in Advanced Aeronautic Applications

In this paper, an intelligent control strategy for DC/DC converters is proposed. The converter connects two DC busses, a high-voltage and a low-voltage bus. The control scheme is composed by a two-layer architecture, a low-level control based on the concept of sliding manifold, and high gain control, and a high-level control used to guarantee the achievement of various objectives. The proposed control strategies are based on solid mathematical arguments, with stability proofs for the non-linear case, and decision trees for parameter selection. The paper results are analyzed and discussed by using simulation at different detail levels in MATLAB/Stateflow/PowerSystem, and validated by experimental results, also considering MIL standard performance indices.

A Hybrid Scheme Motion Controller by Sliding Mode and Two-Degree-of-Freedom Controls to Minimize the Chattering

Sliding mode control (SMC) is rapped for the chattering due to high gain control. However, high gain control causes the system robust. For developing a system with robustness of SMC, a servo motor motion controller combining the two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) system and SMC is proposed. The discussed motion type is point-to-point control with the constraint of trapezoid velocity profile. SMC is designed to guide the motor motion to follow a predefined trail, and the inner 2DOF system is used to compensate the deterioration due to the adoption of load observer. The proposed hybrid system is realized on a PC-based motion controller, and the validness is verified by simulation and experimental results.