A second order sliding mode control algorithm is presented for robust control of the liquid level in a pair of interconnected tanks. The controller is implemented on a laboratory rig. The implementation results show robustness to parameter variations such as tank area, the admittance coefficients of various pipes, leakage in the tanks and uncertainty in the pump dynamics. The potential of secon...

In this paper, a suitable combination of the differential flatness property and the second-order sliding mode controller design technique is proposed for the specification of a robust dynamic feedback multivariable controller accomplishing prescribed trajectory tracking tasks for the earth coordinate position variables of a hovercraft vessel model.

A five degrees-of-freedom overhead crane system affected by external perturbations is the topic of study. Existing methods just handle the unperturbed case or, in addition, the analysis is limited to three or two degrees-of-freedom. A wide range of processes cannot be restricted to these scenarios and this paper goes a step forward proposing a control solution for a five degrees-of-freedom syst...

The mass sensor based on a microcantilever is considered. The mass loading on a sensor-microcantilever is computed by aligning a position of the sensor microcantilever with a reference one. The control function contains information about the loading mass. The problem is reduced to a time varying parameter identification in microcantilever sensors that is addressed via higher order sliding mode ...

Second order sliding mode control synthesis is developed for underactuated mechanical systems, operating under uncertainty conditions. In order to locally stabilize an underactuated system around an unstable equilibrium, an output is specified in such a way that the corresponding zero dynamics is locally asymptotically stable. Then, the desired stability property of the closed-loop system is pr...

In this study, nonlinear second order systems with unmeasured system states and bounded external disturbances are considered. The observer gain of the sliding mode observer is adjusted by using a support vector machine based plant model. Computer simulations are presented to show the effect of the proposed adjustment mechanism on the performance of the output feedback sliding mode controller. I...

Abstract: Presented is a method of continuous sliding mode control design to provide for the second-order sliding mode on the selected sliding surfaces in a three-loop control system, where two outer-loop virtual control signals must be smooth enough to be tracked in the inner loops. The control law in the vicinity of the sliding surface is a nonlinear dynamic feedback that in absence of unknow...