Volume 32, Issue 17 pp. 9213-9238
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Adaptive neural sliding mode control of uncertain robotic manipulators with predefined time convergence

Haoran Fang

Haoran Fang

School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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Yuxiang Wu

Corresponding Author

Yuxiang Wu

School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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Yuxiang Wu, School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510640, China.

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Tian Xu

Tian Xu

School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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Fuxi Wan

Fuxi Wan

School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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First published: 17 August 2022
Citations: 5

Funding information: Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province, Grant/Award Numbers:2015B010133002; 2017B090910011

Abstract

In this article, a predefined time convergence adaptive tracking control scheme is designed for a class of uncertain robotic manipulators with input saturation. First, a novel auxiliary dynamic system is proposed to handle the influence of input saturation. Radial basis function neural networks are used to approximate the uncertainty of the closed-loop system and the neural adaptive law is designed by using the given time constant so that the neural networks have a fast convergence rate. The adaptive tracking controller is constructed by utilizing a nonsingular terminal sliding mode surface. Different from the finite-time and the fixed-time sliding mode control methods where the upper bound of the convergence time is related to system parameters, the convergence time upper bound of the proposed sliding mode controller is a given constant. Finally, numerical simulations are performed to illustrate that the proposed control scheme possesses the advantages of fast convergence rate and input saturation elimination.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare no potential conflict of interests.

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