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    Area of Science:

    • Robotics and Control Systems
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Nonlinear Dynamics

    Background:

    • Underactuated mechanical systems (e.g., naval vessels, helicopters) present significant motion control challenges due to nonlinearity and unactuated states.
    • Existing control methods often struggle with high-order dynamics and unmeasurable states, limiting performance and accuracy.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel adaptive controller for underactuated systems based on fully-actuated system methodologies.
    • To address challenges posed by nonlinearity, state coupling, and high-order unactuated states in motion control.
    • To provide a general and extensible analysis framework for underactuated system control.

    Main Methods:

    • Designed high-order auxiliary variables to transform nonlinear underactuated systems into linear fully-actuated systems without linearization.
    • Employed a neural network observer to estimate unmeasurable high-order dynamics, enhancing compensation accuracy.
    • Developed a continuous adaptive controller leveraging fully-actuated system principles for underactuated robots.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed auxiliary variables ensure asymptotic convergence, eliminating steady-state errors for both actuated and unactuated states.
    • The neural network observer effectively estimates unmeasurable states, improving control accuracy and avoiding discontinuous robust terms.
    • The controller demonstrates successful application to a class of underactuated robots, validated by theoretical analysis and experiments.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel adaptive controller provides a robust and accurate solution for motion control of underactuated systems.
    • The method is extensible to practical issues like state delays without requiring new Lyapunov-based analysis.
    • This work offers a significant advancement in controlling complex nonlinear underactuated mechanical systems.