This paper presents an attitude control algorithm for a Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) with a low lift/drag ratio (L/D < 0.5), in the presence of external disturbances, model uncertainties, control output constraints and the thruster model. The main novelty of proposed control strategy is a new combination of the attitude control methods included backstepping, dynamic inversion and adaptive cont...

This paper proposes a direct adaptive backstepping control scheme for a class of multi-input-multioutput nonlinear uncertain non-affine systems using output recurrent wavelet neural networks (ORWNNs), called DABCORWNN. The proposed ORWNN combines the advantages of wavelet-based neural network, fuzzy neural network (FNN), and output feedback layer. For the tracking of nonlinear non-affine system...

For a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with actuator faults, robust active fault-tolerant control is investigated based on the adaptive observer, feedback linearization, and backstepping design theory. Time-varying faults and bounded uncertainty are simultaneously considered in the paper. An adaptive observer is firstly constructed to estimate the faults and then a backstepping-based active...

An adaptive backstepping sliding mode controller. wluch combincs both the merits of adaptive backstepping control and sliding mode control, is proposed to control the mover position of a linear induction motor (LIM) drive to compensate for the uncertainties including the friction force. First, the dynamic model of an indirect field-oriented LIM drive is derived. Then, a backstepping sliding mod...

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive stabilization of nonholonomic mobile robots with nonholonomic constraints under the condition that the kinematic parameters are unknown and no known constants can (lower and upper) bound them. By defining a new unknown parameter which need dynamic updating, and also by using input-state-scaling transformation and backstepping technique, an adaptiv...

The main contribution of the paper is the development of an adaptive backstepping controller for a nonlinear hydraulic-mechanical system considering valve dynamics. The paper also compares the performance of two variants of an adaptive backstepping tracking controller with a simple PI controller. The results show that the backstepping controller considering valve dynamics achieves significantly...

Control robustness is study for uncertain nonlinear systems transformed in semi strict feedback systems. An adaptive backstepping sliding mode control and an adaptive backstepping control robustness is considered. Robustness is studied when the unknown parameter are constants and varied. The simulation results prove that the sliding mode control is more robust than the backstepping control to t...

The adaptive backstepping controller for inverted pendulum is designed by using the general motion control model. Backstepping is a novel nonlinear control technique based on the Lyapunov design approach, used when higher derivatives of parameter estimation appear. For easy parameter adaptation, the mathematical model of the inverted pendulum converted into the motion control model. This conver...