This contribution is about the combination of a feedforward and a feedback controller and a reduced state observer in order to stabilize the trajectories of a nonlinear plant. Port-Hamiltonian systems provide some special mathematical properties and have turned out beneficial for the stability analysis of nonlinear control systems. The combination of a feedforward and feedback controller allows...

The estimation of road excitation profile is important for evaluation of vehicle stability and vehicle suspension performance for autonomous vehicle control systems. In this work, the nonlinear dynamics of the active automotive system that is excited by the unknown road excitation profile are considered for modeling. To address the issue of estimation of road profile, we develop an adaptive sup...

A new approach for the design of robust H∞ filter for a class of discrete-time Lipschitz nonlinear systems with time-varying uncertainties is proposed based on linear matrix inequalities. Thanks to the linearity of the proposed LMIs in both the admissible Lipschitz constant of the system and the disturbance attenuation level, they can be simultaneously optimized through convex optimization. The...

Dynamic sliding mode control (DSMC) of nonlinear systems using neural networks is proposed. In DSMC the chattering is removed due to the integrator which is placed before the input control signal of the plant. However, in DSMC the augmented system is one dimension bigger than the actual system i.e. the states number of augmented system is more than the actual system and then to control of such ...

In this brief, we propose an observer-based iterative learning control (ILC) scheme for the tracking problem of a class of time-varying nonlinear systems. First, a state observer is derived for the system under consideration, and sufficient conditions for the boundedness and the convergence to zero of the estimation error are given. Thereafter, an iterative learning rule—based on the proposed s...

The decomposition of nonlinear output feedback control into an observer and a state feedback control is an open problem. A solution for dynamic positioning of ships has been proposed in 1] and 2], where an observer-based back-stepping method is used. This note points out that the observer design in 1] and 2] does not cover unstable ship dynamics and suggests a remedy for an extended class of sh...

This paper deals with the observer design problem for a class of state-delayed nonlinear systems with or without time-varying norm-bounded parameter uncertainty. The nonlinearities under consideration are assumed to satisfy the global Lipschitz conditions and appear in both the state and measured output equations. The problem we address is the design of a nonlinear observer such that the result...

We propose a terminal sliding mode control (SMC) law based on adaptive fuzzy-neural observer for nonaffine nonlinear uncertain system. First, a novel nonaffine nonlinear approximation algorithm is proposed for observer and controller design. Then, an adaptive fuzzy-neural observer is introduced to identify the simplified model and resolve the problem of the unavailability of the state variables...

Due to the increasing complexity of modern technical processes, the most critical issues in the design of an automated system nowadays are safety/reliability, higher performance and cost efficiency. Faults in process components can lead to a considerable reduce of the efficiency of the process, quality of the product and in some cases even result in fatalities. In order to avert these losses, a...