Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2018 (2018), Article ID 4253971, 16 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4253971

Research Article

Second-Order Sliding Mode Disturbance Observer-Based Adaptive Fuzzy Tracking Control for Near-Space Vehicles with Prescribed Tracking Performance

Bin Fu, Kang Chen, and Hang Guo

School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Kang Chen; mars_legend@163.com

Received 8 April 2018; Accepted 29 May 2018; Published 10 July 2018

Academic Editor: Luis J. Yebra

Copyright © 2018 Bin Fu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

An adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant tracking controller is developed for Near-Space Vehicles (NSVs) suffering from quickly varying uncertainties and actuator faults. For the purpose of estimating and compensating the mismatched external disturbances and modeling errors, a second-order sliding mode disturbance observer (SOSMDO) is constructed. By introducing the norm estimation approach, the negative effects of the quickly varying multiple matched disturbances can be handled. Meanwhile, a hierarchical fuzzy system (HFS) is employed to approximate and compensate the unknown nonlinearities. Several performance functions are introduced and the original system is transformed into one incorporating the desired performance criteria. Then, an adaptive fuzzy tracking control structure is established for the transformed system, and the predefined transient tracking performance can be guaranteed. The rigorous stability of the closed-loop system is proved by using the Lyapunov method. Finally, simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

1. Introduction

As is well known, disturbances and uncertainties widely exist in industrial systems and may induce negative effects on control performance or even stability of practical control systems [1]. Therefore, a wealth of disturbance and uncertainty estimation and rejection methods, such as unknown input observer (UIO) [2, 3], perturbation observer [4], uncertainty and disturbance estimator [5], and disturbance observer (DO) [6], have been proposed. Meanwhile, a disturbance observer in frequency domain was developed in [7]. For the purpose of suppressing the periodic-disturbances, an adaptive periodic-disturbance observer is designed in [8]. In [9], a nonlinear disturbance observer is utilized in the robust control for spacecraft formation flying. In [10], a disturbance observer-based controller is developed for a magnetically suspended wheel with synchronous noise. In [11], a disturbance observer-based robust approaching control law is proposed for a tethered space robot. In [12, 13], several adaptive composite antidisturbance control methods have been investigated. In [14], a practical control method which can estimate the lumped disturbances consisting of both unknown uncertainties and external disturbances, called active disturbance rejection control (ADRC), was developed by Han and his collogues. Moreover, by using the equivalent-control-principle of the sliding mode control technique to estimate the lumped disturbances, sliding mode disturbance observer (SMDO) has been constructed [15]. In [16], to address the problem of disturbance rejection control for Markovian jump linear systems with matched and mismatched disturbances, an extended sliding mode observer based control law has been developed. In [17], sliding mode observers are utilized for state and disturbance estimation in electrohydraulic systems. For the vibration control of a train-car suspension with magnetorheological dampers, a SMDO-based controller has been investigated in [18]. For the air-breathing hypersonic flight vehicles subject to external disturbances and actuator saturations, a sliding mode exact disturbance observer (SMEDO) is exploited to exactly estimate the lumped disturbances [19, 20]. As is stressed in [21], SMDO possess strong robustness and accuracy to estimate a lumped disturbance including unknown external disturbances and parametric uncertainties. In [22], a sliding mode disturbance observer with switching-gain adaptation was proposed. In [23, 24], the second-order sliding mode disturbance observer, which can produce continuous estimation signals and possess strong robustness, had been proposed and applied to industrial systems.

On the other hand, in the practical control systems, it is of significant importance to consider the transient control performances including the overshoot, undershoot, and convergence rate. However, there are few results focusing on this issue. Usually, the traditional adaptive control systems can only steer the tracking errors to converge to a residual set whose size resting with the control gains and the disturbances ranges [25, 26]. Recently, by utilizing appropriately defined functions to transform the original system into one that incorporates the desired performance criteria, an effective control scheme which can guarantee the prescribed transient performances has been proposed by Bechlioulis [27]. In [28], a fault-tolerant controller guaranteeing prescribed tracking performance has been proposed for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems. Moreover, the prescribed performance controllers for the cascade systems [29] and the nonaffine nonlinear large scale systems [30] have also been developed.

Since NSVs are not constrained by orbital mechanics and fuel consumption, they can offer significant advantages to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and airplanes [31]. In general, the NSV has larger flight envelope, rapid flight speed, and time-varying aerodynamic characteristics; the controller design becomes challenging and it is necessary to develop effective control methods to guarantee the safety and reliability [32]. In the past decades, a number of advanced control approaches have been developed for the NSVs. In [33], by introducing the neural networks into an adaptive backstepping controller, an effective attitude controller has been proposed. For the NSV suffering from the dynamical uncertainties, an adaptive functional link network control structure has been constructed in [34]. In [35], a robust attitude controller has been designed for NSVs subjected to time-varying disturbances. In [36], a globally convergent Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) algorithm based on Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy training has been proposed for the NSV. In [37], a terminal sliding mode controller combined with dynamic sliding mode was designed based on nonlinear disturbance observer.

In spite of the progress, the control results for the NSVs with guaranteed transient performances have rarely been reported. Moreover, in practice, the aerodynamic parameters perturbations, measurement errors, actuator faults, and wind effects may induce significant uncertainties in the flight control systems of NSVs. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the existing controllers are commonly designed for the NSVs suffering from only constant disturbances, and the aforementioned quickly varying multiple uncertainties cannot be handled. Therefore, in this paper, we are dedicated to designing an adaptive tracking control structure which can guarantee the prescribed transient tracking performance and possess satisfactory disturbance attention ability. By introducing a second-order sliding mode disturbance observer, the time-varying mismatched uncertainties can be estimated and compensated. With the aid of the hierarchical fuzzy approximator and a novel nonlinear function, the negative effects of the quickly varying multiple matched disturbances can be handled. Based on the performance functions and error transformation, the robustness and predefined tracking performance can be ensured. The adverse actuator derivations are also overcome by the proposed controller. Compared with the previous works, the contributions of this paper are summarized as follows.

(1)An effective adaptive fuzzy control algorithm, which can guarantee the prescribed transient tracking performances including the convergence rate, the tracking error, and the overshoot, is developed for the NSVs.(2)The NSV model suffering from the multisource quickly varying uncertainties, including the actuator faults, the wind effects, aerodynamic uncertainties, and measurement errors, is established.(3)The adverse effects of the quickly varying uncertainties can be circumvented. The theoretic developments of this paper are valuable for handling the time-varying disturbances.

2. Problem Formulation and Preliminaries

2.1. NSV Model

According to [38, 39], the attitude dynamic model of NSVs can be described by

where , and are the angle of attack, sideslip angle, and bank angle of the NSV, respectively. is the flight path angle. and represent lift and lateral force. is the velocity of the vehicle. , and are the roll, pitch, and yaw angular rates of the vehicle, respectively. The inertial parameters can be formulated by

The aerodynamic forces can be described as

where

The aerodynamic moment are as follows:

where denote the aerodynamic coefficients when the deflection angles are zero. represent the coefficients of aerodynamic damping torque. is the aerodynamic coefficient of the lift force; is the lateral force coefficient. The aerodynamic partial derivatives are represented by . are the deflection angles of control surfaces. is the reference area. is the reference length. is dynamic pressure. are calculated as

It should be highlighted that multiple uncertainties including the aerodynamic uncertainties, measurement errors, and unmodeled dynamics are often encountered in the NSV. Meanwhile, the NSVs often experience a complex flight environment, and the undesired stochastic winds have to be considered. Let and represent the additional angle of attack and the additional sideslip angle, respectively. Then the disturbance forces and torques caused by the unknown winds can be described as

Moreover, the aerodynamic-perturbation-caused disturbance forces and torques are defined as .

In general, the NSVs are commonly equipped with the electromechanical aerodynamic rudders. However, there often exist multifarious faults in the aerodynamic rudders. As is revealed in [3, 4], actuator faults constitute the main reason for the undesired control performance and instability of the flight control system. Define . The faulty actuator model can be provided as

where and denote the input and output of the actuator, respectively. denotes the deviation caused by the actuator faults. It is supposed that .

The neglect of the above-mentioned multiple uncertainties and actuator faults may cause worse control performance and instability of the flight control system. The intrinsic high dynamic characteristics and the strong coupled properties make it a challenge to establish an effective control scheme. Define and . Taking the multiple uncertainties into consideration, we can get the following NSV model:

where

and are the unknown nonlinearities caused by the model simplification. denotes the disturbances caused by inaccurate measurement information. represents the uncertainty part of the control distribution matrix, which is given as

In practice, the transient performance including the convergence rate, the tracking error, and the predefined maximum overshoot should be guaranteed. Therefore, the design objective of this work is to establish an effective control structure to force the angle of attack , the sideslip angle , and the bank angle to track the reference trajectories with predefined transient performance in the simultaneous presence of the actuator faults and multiple uncertainties.

2.2. Assumptions and Supporting Lemmas

The following assumptions and lemmas are necessary in this work.

Assumption 1. The actuator deviations are supposed to satisfy .

Assumption 2. The disturbances existing in the NSV system are assumed to be bounded; i.e., .

Lemma 3. Consider the system

where is continuous on an open neighborhood and the origin is . Suppose there is a continuous function defined on with the origin such that the following conditions hold:
is positive definite on .
There exist real numbers and , such that , and then, system (12) is locally finite-time stable. The settling time, depending on the initial state , satisfies

for all in some open neighborhood of the origin. If and is also unbounded, system (12) is globally finite-time stable.

Lemma 4 (see [26]). Given any and , then one has

2.3. Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems

For the purpose of compensating the unknown nonlinear functions, we introduce a HFS in the controller. Commonly, the HFS contains several low dimensional fuzzy systems. The structure of the HFS is provided in Figure 1. Let represent the input of the HFS. Then the first subsystem can be established by using the following rules.

Figure 1: The structure of the hierarchical fuzzy system.

Rulel. If is and is , then is .

is the total number of fuzzy rules for the first fuzzy subsystem; are the corresponding fuzzy sets , and represent the fuzzy functions. A subsystem includes a singleton fuzzifier, a center-average defuzzifier, and a product inference engine. The following equation provides the output of a fuzzy subsystem:

where .

Then, we can establish the i-th ( ) fuzzy subsystem with the aid of the following rules.

Rulel. If is and is , then is .

and are the inputs, and is the output. Hence, , which is the output of the i-th fuzzy subsystem, is calculated as

Finally, a hierarchical fuzzy system can be established and the final output can be given as

It is clear that the total number of fuzzy rules is .

Lemma 5 (see [40]). Define . Consider a nonlinear function , which is continuously differentiable and defined on . Then we can construct a hierarchical fuzzy system within (15) ~ (18) such that

where .

Lemma 6 (see [40]). Define . Consider any function which is continuously differentiable and defined on . Then one can construct a hierarchical fuzzy system within (15) ~ (18) such that , where is an arbitrarily small positive constant.

3. Main Results

3.1. Performance Functions

Define and . Then, for the purpose of guaranteeing the predefined control performance, we introduce the performance functions in the following text. Define the following exponentially decaying functions as the performance functions:

where and . Define . If the inequality holds for , then the transient performance is ensured. To make this point more clear, we make the following explanations. and restrict the range of the overshoot and the lower bound of the undershoot of . The convergence speed of is restrained by the decreasing speed of . The steady error is constrained by .

Consider the following strictly increasing function:

Clearly, function (21) satisfies

It is not difficult to verify that the inverse function is well-defined and strictly increasing as well. Obviously, if is bounded, remains within a compact subset of . As a result, the control issue forces to be bounded.

3.2. Second-Order Sliding Mode Disturbance Observer

Define and . Consider the NSV model given in (9); we can get the following dynamic equation:

Using the strictly increasing function provided in (21), it can be proven that

where

Consider the mismatched uncertainties existing in system, a second-order sliding mode disturbance observer is introduced for estimation and compensation. The SOSMDO is designed as

In this work, we divide the mismatched uncertainties into two parts. One is the unknown disturbance related to the system states; the other is the time-varying unknown uncertainty. In other words,

Without loss of generality, it is supposed that there exist constants such that

Theorem 7. Consider system (23). If one selects such that

where

then the estimation error of the mismatched uncertainties can be forced to zero in finite time.

Proof. From (23) and (26), we can get the following closed-loop dynamic equation:

Consider the following Lyapunov function:

where . Taking the derivatives of (32) yields

Substituting (31) into (33) yields

Furthermore,

By using (28) we can get that

Denote ; then we can rewrite (36) as

where

Clearly, by using condition (29),we can easily get that and . Then, it follows from Rayleigh’s inequality that

By defining , we can rewrite (39) as

Furthermore,

Since , it can be proven that

According to Lemma 3, it can be observed that the equilibrium point can be reached in finite time. Then by substituting into (31), we know . As a result, is achieved in finite time. Define the estimation error of the mismatched uncertainty as . Then from (26), it can be proven that . Therefore, it can be concluded that is forced to zero in finite time. The proof is completed.

3.3. Hierarchical Fuzzy Approximation-Based Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Tracking Control

Considering the following transformed dynamic equation

we design the virtual control signal as follows:

where . To avoid the excessive complexity of control design, a first-order filter is established as

where is the parameter matrix of the filter. Denote . Then from (43) ~ (45) we can infer the closed-loop dynamic equation as

Accordingly, along (43), take the derivate of as

In view of the unknown nonlinearities existing in (47), a hierarchical fuzzy logic system is constructed for compensation. Ideally, . is the weight matrix of the HFLS, is the number of the rules, and is the membership function. The final control law is developed as

where ; is the estimation of . represent the estimations of , . The adaptive laws are given by

are design constants. are the gain matrixes of the adaptive laws. The structure of the proposed control method is provided in Figure 2.

Figure 2: The structure of the proposed control method.

Theorem 8. Consider system (43). Suppose the estimation error of the mismatched uncertainty is bounded. Then, by using control laws (44) and (48) and adaptive laws (49), it can be ensured that all signals of the overall closed-loop system are globally uniformly bounded. As a result, the predefined control performance bounds can be guaranteed.

Proof. Consider the following Lyapunov function candidate:

Then, along (46), the derivative of can be taken as

Resorting to Young’s inequality, it can be proven that

where . Therefore, we can rewrite (51) as

where

From (47) and (48), it can be obtained that

where , . Take the derivative of along (55) as

By using Lemma 4, we can get that

Further

Combining (56) ~ (58) yields

By using the vector trace identity we can obtain that

Subsisting (49) into (60), we come to

Then it follows from (53) and (61) that

Clearly,

Therefore, it can be checked that

Furthermore, the following inequality holds:

where

Solving (65) implies that . Therefore, we can conclude that all the signals in the closed-loop system are globally ultimately bounded. Moreover, since are bounded, the predefined control performance bounds can be guaranteed. The proof is complete.

Remark 9. Note that the matched uncertainties and the actuator derivations are quickly time-varying. To handle the high dynamic uncertainties, we design the adaptive laws (49) and introduce a novel nonlinear function given in (14). As a result, the robustness of the proposed method with respect to the time-varying uncertainties can be improved. By estimating the upper bounds of the time-varying matched disturbances, this problem can be addressed. Moreover, as is well known, SMDO possess strong robustness and accuracy to estimate a lumped disturbance including unknown external disturbances and parametric uncertainties. As a further development, the second-order sliding mode disturbance observer can produce continuous estimation signals and possess strong robustness. In the dynamic model of the NSV, the mismatched disturbance cannot be neglected. Therefore, to deal with the mismatched uncertainties existing in (24), a second-order sliding mode disturbance observer is introduced for estimation and compensation. At last, it should be noted that the modeling errors are also included in the high dynamic matched uncertainties and the mismatched uncertainties. Based on the previous analysis, it can be concluded that the proposed method has strong robustness with respect to the modeling errors.

4. Simulation Study

In this section, the proposed adaptive fuzzy tracking controller is used for the attitude system of the NSV and simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness. The conventional model reference adaptive control method (MRAC) [41] and the terminal sliding mode control method (TSMC) [42] are employed in the simulation to verify the advantages of the proposed method. In the simulation, we consider two cases of the multiple uncertainties and actuator faults.

Firstly, we consider different levels of multiple uncertainties before and after the instant in the simulation. The unknown winds, which can induce aerodynamic disturbances, are taken into consideration. Let and represent the speed of the horizontal wind and the vertical wind, respectively. When , the unknown winds are set as and when they turn to . The perturbations of aerodynamic parameters are set as when and when . The actuator deviations are set as when and when . The parameters of the SOSMDO are set as . Meanwhile, we choose and . The filter parameters are set as . Figures 3–8 provide the simulation results.

Figure 3: The trajectories of angle of attack under the three methods of Case 1.

Figure 4: The trajectories of sideslip angle under the three methods of Case 1.

Figure 5: The trajectories of bank angle under the three methods of Case 1.

Figure 6: The trajectories of the control signals under the three methods of Case 1.

Figure 7: The trajectories of the adaptive parameters of Case 1.

Figure 8: The estimation results of the mismatched uncertainties using SOSMDO.

The tracking performance of the attitude angles is given in Figures 3–5. It is easy to find that the proposed method can achieve satisfactory control performance in the presence of actuator faults and multiple uncertainties. The proposed method can steer the tracking errors to zero, while the MRAC and TSMC methods cannot. The control signals and adaptive parameters are given in Figures 6 and 7, which illustrate the boundness of the signals of the closed-loop system. The estimation results for the mismatched uncertainties via SOSMDO are shown in Figure 8. The exact estimation for the mismatched disturbances improves the control accuracy.

Then we consider the sinusoidal uncertainties and actuator faults. When and , it is assumed that the aerodynamic parameters possess and uncertainties, respectively. The parameters of the other uncertainties and actuator deviations are provided in Table 1. We select the control gains, observation gains, and the adaptive gains as same as Case 1. The simulation results are given in Figures 9–12. It is obvious that the satisfactory attitude tracking performance can also be achieved when the NSV suffers from sinusoidal external disturbances. The strong robustness of the proposed method with respect to the different kinds of multiple uncertainties is demonstrated therefore.

Table 1: The parameters of the uncertainties and actuator deviations of Case 2.

Variable

Figure 9: The trajectories of angle of attack under the three methods of Case 2.

Figure 10: The trajectories of sideslip angle under the three methods of Case 2.

Figure 11: The trajectories of bank angle under the three methods of Case 2.

Figure 12: The trajectories of the control signals under the three methods of Case 2.

5. Conclusions

In this paper, an adaptive tracking controller based on hierarchical fuzzy approximator and adaptive bound estimation approach has been developed to achieve high-performance attitude control for the NSV. By introducing a second-order sliding mode disturbance observer, the time-varying mismatched uncertainties can be estimated and compensated. A new nonlinear function is employed to handle the high dynamic matched uncertainties. By using the performance functions and transforming the original system into one incorporating the desired performance criteria, the predefined tracking performance can be guaranteed. Finally, simulation results illustrate that the proposed control scheme can achieve satisfactory performance under the disturbance environment.

Data Availability

The dynamic model of NSV used to support the findings of this study is available from the corresponding author upon request. It can also be found in the reference literature [39].

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 61503302 and no. 61473226).

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