Robust and Adaptive Non-homogeneous Higher Order Sliding
Mode Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems
LI Peng
1
, MA Jianjun
1
, Geng Lina
1
, Zheng Zhiqiang
1
1. College of Mechatronics Engineering and Automation
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, P.R. China
E-mail: lipeng
2010@163.com
Abstract: An adaptive non-homogeneous higher order sliding mode control (HOSMC) method for a class of uncertain nonlinear
systems is proposed in this paper. The HOSMC problem can be viewed as the finite time stabilization of a higher order input-
output dynamic system with bounded uncertainties. Given a large initial tracking error, the proposed HOSMC algorithm provide
fast convergence rate by using non-homogeneous finite time stabilization. In addition, the adaptive control method is employed
to identify bounded uncertainties for eliminating the requirement of bounds needed in the conventional design. To solve the
overestimation problem, equivalent control technique is used in this paper, and then the switching gain can be designed as
a small constant. Numerical simulation on an omnidirectional mobile vehicle demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed
HOSMC algorithm.
Key Words: Higher order SMC, Adaptive control, Non-homogeneous finite time stabilization
1 Introduction
Sliding mode control (SMC) [1] is a powerful method to
control high-order nonlinear dynamics operating under un-
certainty conditions [2]. The main attractive features of the
SMC are: 1) the SMC is one of the control systems with a
simple structure and 2) the sliding motion is guaranteed to be
insensitive to parametric uncertainties and external matched
disturbances. However, the high speed switching function
required in the SMC is impossible for real physical system-
s. Such a non-ideal switch results in the chattering phe-
nomenon, i.e. high frequency vibrations of the controlled
system, which degrades the performance and may lead to in-
stability.
Many methods have been proposed to mitigate chatter-
ing [3]. One of them is replacing the discontinuous control
function with a boundary layer function or an approximated
signum function [4, 5]. The boundary layer mitigates control
chattering with a compromise in robustness reduction and
steady-state error increasing[6]. Another technique is based
on the observer design which suppresses the high frequency
oscillations of the control input [7].
Higher order sliding mode control (HOSMC) is an effec-
tive method for chattering attenuation [8, 9]. Instead of influ-
encing the first sliding variable time derivative, the signum
function acts on its higher order time derivative. At the same
time, HOSMC can achieve a better accuracy with respec-
t to discrete sampling time than the conventional SMC. In
the case of second order SMC, many works have given so-
lutions. Several second order sliding mode algorithms are
proposed in [10]. Arbitrary-order SMC algorithms with fi-
nite time convergence have been recently proposed in [11–
15]. The algorithm proposed in [11] allows the tracking of
smooth signals by tuning only one ‘gain’ parameter. The
quasi-continuous higher order sliding mode control algorith-
m is presented in [12], which transient features are much
better than the algorithm in [11]. An integral sliding mode
concept is extended to design a HOSMC algorithm in [13]
This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Founda-
tion of China under Grant 61403407.
and the advantage of the algorithm is that it allows choosing
transient dynamics, or assigning a transient-time function of
initial conditions. However, in [11–13], there is no construc-
tive condition for the gain tuning, which has to be chosen
sufficiently large. In [14], the algorithm is based on integral
SMC and guarantees the establishment of a HOSMC. The
advantages of this method are the ease of implementation
and the robustness of the system during the entire response.
However, two drawbacks appear in this approach: it directly
depends on the initial conditions of the system and complex
off-line computations are needed before starting the control
action. In [15], based on geometric homogeneity [16] and
SMC, a HOSMC scheme is proposed. In spite of real advan-
tages (constructive approach, does not require complex off-
line computation), this approach suffers of the drawback: it
is impossible to get arbitrary fast convergence (the restriction
inherited from [16]), when the initial states far away from the
origin.
The HOSMC algorithms exist in the above works[11–
15], the bounds of uncertainties are to be known in advance,
which is very difficult in practice. Adaptive HOSMC, which
need not the bounds of uncertainties, is still an open problem.
In [17], the authors have proposed a dynamic gain adaptation
in first order SMC, which depends directly upon the slid-
ing variable. The control gains increase until sliding mode
is established. However, this method suffers from the gain
overestimation problem as the gains stabilized at unneces-
sarily large values. Plestan et al. [18] have overcome the
overestimation problem by slowly decreasing the gains once
sliding mode is achieved. This method yields convergence to
a neighborhood of the sliding surface, and it does not guar-
antee that the states would remain inside the neighborhood
after convergence. Cong et al. [19] propose two effective
methodologies for adaptive SMC design, which is based on
time-vary SMC and integral SMC, respectively. Thus, the
initial states of the controlled system should be known ex-
actly in advance and the convergence rate is slower than the
conventional SMC. In the field of HOSMC, Shtessel et al.
[20] have proposed an adaptive supertwisting second order
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