Adaptive Approximation Sliding-Mode Control of an Uncertain Continuum Robot with Input Nonlinearities and Disturbances

This paper develops an adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode control (ANFTSMC) scheme for the continuum robot subjected to uncertain dynamics, external disturbances, and input nonlinearities (e.g., actuator deadzones/faults). Concretely, a function approximation technique (FAT) is utilized...

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Main Author: Shoulin Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-01-01
Series:Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/8533606
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description This paper develops an adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode control (ANFTSMC) scheme for the continuum robot subjected to uncertain dynamics, external disturbances, and input nonlinearities (e.g., actuator deadzones/faults). Concretely, a function approximation technique (FAT) is utilized to estimate unknown robot dynamics and actuator deadzones/faults online. Furthermore, a disturbance observer (DO) is devised to make up for unknown external disturbances. Then, an ANFTSMC scheme combined with FAT and DO is developed, to expedite the restoration of the stability for the continuum robot. The proposed ANFTSMC not only can retain the benefits of traditional terminal sliding-mode control (TSMC), containing easy enforcement, quick response, and robustness to uncertainties but also dispose of the latent singularity for traditional faster TSMC designs. Afterward, the simulation results show that the proposed controller can effectively improve the trajectory tracking accuracy of the continuum robot, and the tracking root-mean-square errors are 0.0115 and 0.0128 rad. Finally, the effectiveness of ANFTSMC scheme is validated by experiments.
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spelling doaj-art-cb100408fb0245b9acc24a3df83762ed2025-08-20T02:19:47ZengWileyApplied Bionics and Biomechanics1754-21032024-01-01202410.1155/2024/8533606Adaptive Approximation Sliding-Mode Control of an Uncertain Continuum Robot with Input Nonlinearities and DisturbancesShoulin Xu0Institute of Logistics Science and EngineeringThis paper develops an adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding-mode control (ANFTSMC) scheme for the continuum robot subjected to uncertain dynamics, external disturbances, and input nonlinearities (e.g., actuator deadzones/faults). Concretely, a function approximation technique (FAT) is utilized to estimate unknown robot dynamics and actuator deadzones/faults online. Furthermore, a disturbance observer (DO) is devised to make up for unknown external disturbances. Then, an ANFTSMC scheme combined with FAT and DO is developed, to expedite the restoration of the stability for the continuum robot. The proposed ANFTSMC not only can retain the benefits of traditional terminal sliding-mode control (TSMC), containing easy enforcement, quick response, and robustness to uncertainties but also dispose of the latent singularity for traditional faster TSMC designs. Afterward, the simulation results show that the proposed controller can effectively improve the trajectory tracking accuracy of the continuum robot, and the tracking root-mean-square errors are 0.0115 and 0.0128 rad. Finally, the effectiveness of ANFTSMC scheme is validated by experiments.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/8533606
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Adaptive Approximation Sliding-Mode Control of an Uncertain Continuum Robot with Input Nonlinearities and Disturbances
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
title Adaptive Approximation Sliding-Mode Control of an Uncertain Continuum Robot with Input Nonlinearities and Disturbances
title_full Adaptive Approximation Sliding-Mode Control of an Uncertain Continuum Robot with Input Nonlinearities and Disturbances
title_fullStr Adaptive Approximation Sliding-Mode Control of an Uncertain Continuum Robot with Input Nonlinearities and Disturbances
title_full_unstemmed Adaptive Approximation Sliding-Mode Control of an Uncertain Continuum Robot with Input Nonlinearities and Disturbances
title_short Adaptive Approximation Sliding-Mode Control of an Uncertain Continuum Robot with Input Nonlinearities and Disturbances
title_sort adaptive approximation sliding mode control of an uncertain continuum robot with input nonlinearities and disturbances
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/8533606
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