Robust adaptive precision motion control of tank horizontal stabilizer based on unknown actuator backlash compensation

Abstract

Backlash nonlinearity inevitably exists in the actuator of tank horizontal stabilizer and has adverse effect on the system control performance, however, how to effectively eliminate its effect remains a pending issue. To solve this problem, a robust adaptive precision motion controller is presented in this paper to address uncertainties and unknown actuator backlash of tank horizontal actuator. The controller handles the modeling uncertainties including parameter uncertainties and unmodeled disturbances by integrating adaptive feedforward compensation and continuous nonlinear robust law. Based on the backstepping method, a smooth backlash inverse model is constructed by combining the adaptive idea. Meanwhile, the unknown backlash parameters of the system can be approximated through the parameter adaptation, and the impact of the actuator backlash nonlinearity is effectively compensated via the inverse operation, which can availably improve the tracking performance. Moreover, the adaptive law can update the disturbance ranges of tank horizontal stabilizer online in real time, which enhances the feasibility in practical engineering applications. Furthermore, the stability analysis based on Lyapunov function shows that with the existence of unmodeled disturbances and unknown actuator backlash, the designed controller guarantees excellent asymptotic output tracking performance. Extensive comparative results verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

Keywords

• Tank
• Horizontal stabilizer
• Adaptive control
• Robust control
• Backlash inverse