Neural-network-based adaptive tracking control for nonlinear pure-feedback systems subject to periodic disturbance

This paper presents an adaptive neural control to solve the tracking problem of a class of pure-feedback systems with non-differentiable non-affine functions in the presence of unknown periodically time-varying disturbances. To handle with the design difficulty from non-affine structure of pure-feedback system, a continuous and positive...

A DSC method for strict-feedback nonlinear systems with possibly unbounded control gain functions

In dynamic surface control (DSC) methods, the control gain functions of systems are always assumed to be bounded, which is a restrictive assumption. This work proposes a novel DSC approach for an extended class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems whose control gain functions are continuous and possibly unbounded. Appropriate compact sets are...