Adaptive Prescribed Performance Asymptotic Tracking for High-Order Odd-Rational-Power Nonlinear Systems

Practical tracking results have been reported in the literature for high-order odd-rational-power nonlinear dynamics (a chain of integrators whose power is the ratio of odd integers). Asymptotic tracking remains an open problem for such dynamics. This note gives a positive answer to this problem in the framework of prescribed performance...

Fuzzy Adaptive Zero-Error-Constrained Tracking Control for HFVs in the Presence of Multiple Unknown Control Directions

This article attempts to realize zero-error constrained tracking for hypersonic flight vehicles (HFVs) subject to unknown control directions and asymmetric flight state constraints. The main challenges of reaching such goals consist in that addressing multiple unknown control directions requires novel conditional inequalities encompassing the...

Nonrecursive Control for Formation-Containment of HFV Swarms With Dynamic Event-Triggered Communication

This article proposes an output-feedback control protocol for hypersonic flight vehicle (HFV) swarms considering dynamic event-triggered communication. The peculiarities of the proposed method over existing ones consist in the following: 1) While carrying out scheduled maneuvers, the outputs of follower HFVs converge inside the convex hull...

Logic-based distributed switching control for agents in power-chained form with multiple unknown control directions

This work studies logic-based distributed switching control for nonlinear agents in power-chained form, where logic-based (switching) control arises from the online estimation of the control directions assumed to be unknown for all agents. Compared to the state-of-the-art logic-based mechanisms, the challenge of power-chained dynamics is that...

Prescribed-performance tracking for high-power nonlinear dynamics with time-varying unknown control coefficients

Prescribed-performance control (PPC) for high-power dynamics with time-varying unknown control coefficients requires to address two open problems: (a) given a Nussbaum function, which properties hold for the power of the Nussbaum function? (b) to avoid high gains, how to design a switching gain that increases only when the tracking error is...

Adaptive Asymptotic Tracking for a Class of Uncertain Switched Positive Compartmental Models with Application to Anesthesia

This article addresses and solves the adaptive asymptotic tracking for a class of uncertain switched positive linear dynamics (also known in the literature as compartmental models) subject to dwell-time constraints. Compared to the state-of-the-art, the innovative feature of this method is to attain for the first time asymptotic set-point...

Nonlinear Systems with Uncertain Periodically Disturbed Control Gain Functions: Adaptive Fuzzy Control with Invariance Properties

This paper proposes a novel adaptive fuzzy dynamic surface control (DSC) method for an extended class of periodically disturbed strict-feedback nonlinear systems. The peculiarity of this extended class is that the control gain functions are not bounded a priori but simply taken to be continuous and with a known sign. In contrast with existing...