A switching algorithm for global exponential stabilization of uncertain chained systems
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I. INTRODUCTION
- As explained and illustrated in [11] , [18] , and the references therein, many nonlinear mechanical systems with nonholonomic constraints on velocities can be transformed, either locally or globally, to chained form systems via coordinates and state-feedback transformation.
- Exponential convergence is an important performance characteristic for practical applications.
- To date, several important steps have been made toward the design of a continuous time-varying and/or discontinuous feedback law guaranteeing the exponential regulation of nonholonomic systems in chained form [2] , [10] , [16] , and [20] .
- Finally, some conclusions are given in Section V.
II. PROBLEM FORMULATION
- Throughout this note, the following assumptions will be required.
- The authors first recall a notion of K-exponential stability from [20] , which reduces to exponential stability in the Lyapunov sense when the function is a linear function.
- Notice that the forward invariance property proved in Lemma 1 will be used in the controller design and stability analysis in the next section.
A. Input-State Scaling and Backstepping Design
- P2) is only convenient for the control design.
- In the remainder of this section, the authors focus on designing the control input u provided that Assumptions 1-3 are satisfied.
- Thanks to Lemma 2, (8) satisfies the "lower-triangularity" condition and therefore, the systematic controller design for u can be obtained using so-called backstepping methods [6] , [10] , [12] .
- Therefore, the following theorem can be obtained.
B. Switching Scheme
- The purpose of this section is to answer this question by proposing a globally exponentially stabilizing static state feedback.
- To prevent this phenomenon from happening, the following switching control strategy for both control inputs u 0 and u is proposed.
- Then, the following static discontinuous feedback law globally K-exponentially stabilizes the uncertain chained form system (1).
- Proof: Remark 1: It should be emphasized that a feedback controller may become excessively large even for small states.
- Note that along the trajectories of the closed-loop system, when u 0 tends to zero, the state does the same.
IV. EXAMPLE
- A tricycle-type mobile robot with nonholonomic constraints on the linear velocity has often been used as a benchmark example in the recent literature on nonholonomic control systems design [8] , [10] .
- The convergence rate is not exponential but asymptotic.
- The closed-loop system is not Lyapunov stable although the convergence rate is exponential.
- The authors will design a robust state-feedback controller to drive the states of (21) to the origin with exponential convergence and Lyapunov stability.
- So, the following controller can be obtained.
V. CONCLUSION
- The problem of global K-exponential stabilization is considered for a class of nonholonomic chained systems with strongly nonlinear input/state driven disturbances and drifts.
- Using input-state scaling and backstepping techniques, a globally exponentially convergent state-feedback control law is designed.
- Using a switching scheme dependent on the initial condition, Lyapunov stability and exponential convergence are guaranteed for the closed-loop system.
- The simulations results in a wheeled mobile robot have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed control design approach.
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