Since the actuator capacity is limited, in the real application of active control systems under sever earthquakes it is conceivable that the actuators saturate, hence the actuator saturation should be considered as a constraint in design of optimal controllers. In this paper optimal design of active controllers for nonlinear structures by considering actuator saturation, has been studied. The p...

The problem of attitude stabilization of a fighter aircraft is investigated in this paper. The practical aspects of a real physical system like existence of external disturbance with unknown upper bound and actuator saturation are considered in the process of controller design of this aircraft. In order to design a robust autopilot in the presence of the actuator saturation, the Composite Nonli...

This work builds off of recent work on rapidly exponentially stabilizing control Lyapunov functions (RES-CLF) and presents a novel method to address actuator saturation in bipedal walking. The proposed method employs quadratic programming (QP) to implement CLF-based controllers, enabling directly incorporating user-specified input bounds into the controller. We show that even with increasingly ...

In the real application of active control systems to mitigate the response of structures subjected to sever external excitations such as earthquake and wind induced vibrations, since the capacity of actuators is limited then the actuators saturate. Hence, in designing controllers for linear and nonlinear structures under sever earthquakes, the actuator saturation should be considered as a const...

Every physical actuator is subject to saturation. It has been well recognized that, when the actuator saturates, the performance of the closed-loop system (designed without considering actuator saturation) may seriously deteriorate. In extreme cases, the system stability may even be lost. This paper proposes an avoid saturation strategy for the torque controller of a wind turbine benchmark mode...

Event-triggered Control for Semi-global Stabilization of Systems with Actuator Saturation Liangyin Zhang & Michael Z. Q. Chen To cite this article: Liangyin Zhang & Michael Z. Q. Chen (2015): Event-triggered Control for Semi-global Stabilization of Systems with Actuator Saturation, International Journal of Control, DOI: 10.1080/00207179.2015.1116049 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10...

A model of the servomechanism used for high-powered actuators in mechanical systems consists of a position feedback loop around the cascade connection of a memoryless saturation function with an integrator with a large time constant. The saturation function in the servomechanism has a linear high gain characteristics for a small input and so the equivalent time constant of the actuator servomec...

This paper introduces a neural network based model reference adaptive control architecture that allows adaptation in the presence of saturation. The given plant is approximately feedback linearized, with adaptation used to cancel any matched uncertainty. A nested saturation based reference model is used. This law allows the incorporation of magnitude actuator saturation and has useful small gai...

Efficient design of high performance automatic control systems is extremely important for high technology systems. To get the best hardware cost-to-performance ratio, it is desirable to design a controller that takes full advantage of actuator capabilities, but this can lead to nonlinear behavior due to actuator saturation. The saturation nonlinearities in the system may have severe effects on ...