A continuous finite-time control scheme for rigid robotic manipulators is proposed using a new form of terminal sliding modes. The robustness of the controller is established using the Lyapunov stability theory. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that faster and high-precision tracking performance is obtained compared with the conventional continuous sliding mode control method.

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Continuous finite-time control for robotic manipulators with terminal sliding modes

This paper studies properties of homogeneous systems in a geometric, coordinate-free setting. A key contribution of this paper is a result relating regularity properties of a homogeneous function to its degree of homogeneity and the local behavior of the dilation near the origin. This result makes it possible to extend previous results on homogeneous systems to the geometric framework. As an application of our results, we consider finite-time stability of homogeneous systems. The main result that links homogeneity and finite-time stability is that a homogeneous system is finite-time stable if and only if it is asymptotically stable and has a negative degree of homogeneity. We also show that the assumption of homogeneity leads to stronger properties for finite-time stable systems.

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Geometric homogeneity with applications to finite-time stability

Global finite-time stabilization of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems

Finite-time stabilization and stabilizability of a class of controllable systems

In this paper, restorations for both voltage and frequency in the droop-controlled inverter-based islanded microgrid (MG) are addressed. A distributed finite-time control approach is used in the voltage restoration which enables the voltages at all the distributed generations (DGs) to converge to the reference value in finite time, and thus, the voltage and frequency control design can be separated. Then, a consensus-based distributed frequency control is proposed for frequency restoration, subject to certain control input constraints. Our control strategies are implemented on the local DGs, and thus, no central controller is required in contrast to existing control schemes proposed so far. By allowing these controllers to communicate with their neighboring controllers, the proposed control strategy can restore both voltage and frequency to their respective reference values while having accurate real power sharing, under a sufficient local stability condition established. An islanded MG test system consisting of four DGs is built in MATLAB to illustrate our design approach, and the results validate our proposed control strategy.

Distributed Secondary Voltage and Frequency Restoration Control of Droop-Controlled Inverter-Based Microgrids

Studies the problem of finite-time output feedback stabilization for the double integrator system. A class of output feedback controllers that can achieve global finite-time stability for the double integrator system are constructed based on a "finite-time separation principle." Furthermore, it is shown that the closed-loop system resulting from our control law can maintain its local finite-time stability regardless of some nonlinear perturbations. Thus, our control law actually applies to a large class of nonlinear second order systems.

Yigwruang Hong

Papers

On an output feedback finite-time stabilization problem