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Area of Science:

  • Control Engineering
  • Adaptive Systems
  • Nonlinear Control

Background:

  • Many practical engineering control problems involve unmodelable dynamics, limiting the applicability of traditional model-based approaches.
  • Existing control methods may struggle with real-time disturbance estimation and robustness in complex systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an enhanced model-free and finite-time control framework for systems with unmodelable characteristics.
  • To improve tracking performance and disturbance rejection in practical engineering applications.

Main Methods:

  • A second-order adaptive disturbance observer is designed to estimate lumped disturbances in real-time.
  • A sliding-mode control law is developed using the observer's virtual estimation state error, ensuring robustness.
  • A model-free, finite-time controller is created by compensating for estimated disturbances within the sliding-mode framework.

Main Results:

  • The disturbance observer demonstrates real-time adaptive estimation and collaborative performance improvement.
  • The sliding-mode control design simplifies the controller and avoids chattering.
  • Theoretical proof confirms the finite-time exponential convergence of the proposed controller.
  • Comparative experiments validate the effectiveness and superiority of the developed method.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed model-free, finite-time control framework effectively addresses challenges posed by unmodelable systems.
  • The integration of an adaptive disturbance observer and sliding-mode control offers a robust and efficient solution.
  • The method shows significant advantages in estimation accuracy, tracking performance, and controller simplicity.