A group of multi-input-single-output fuzzy logic controllers are designed for a nuclear power plant to control turbine power, reactor pressure, and reactor water level based on input-output data from plant simulations with conventional PI controllers. Simulations show that fuzzy logic control may result in faster reference signal tracking and final value holding. Milder control actions of fuzzy...

This paper presents a novel approach to the design of an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller for depth control of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). So far, AUV’s dynamics are highly nonlinear and the hydrodynamic coefficients of the vehicles are difficult to estimate, because of the variations of these coefficients with different operating conditions. These kinds of difficulties cause ...

Adaptive fuzzy-based tracking control designs will be proposed in this paper for both holonomic mechanical systems as well as a large class of nonholonomic mechanical systems with plant uncertainties and external disturbances. A unified and systematic procedure is employed to derive the controllers for both holonomic and nonholonomic mechanical control systems, respectively. First, a fuzzy logi...

An angle trajectory tracking of a 3-DOF (Degree Of Freedom) pneumatic motion platform by the NI Compact RIO control system was investigated. In this study, the positions of moving platform are changed by extension or shortening of the three pneumatic cylinders. The response of pneumatic cylinder is relatively slow for motor actuator and can get a good single-axis trajectory control by tradition...

Fuzzy logic based PID controllers have been studied in this paper, considering several combinations of hybrid controllers by grouping the proportional, integral and derivative actions with fuzzy inferencing in different forms. Fractional order (FO) rate of error signal and FO integral of control signal have been used in the design of a family of decomposed hybrid FO fuzzy PID controllers. The i...

This paper presents an adaptive hybrid fuzzy controller to achieve prescribed tracking performance of fractional order chaotic systems. Depending on plant knowledge and control knowledge, a weighting factor can be adjusted by combining the indirect adaptive fuzzy control effort and the direct fuzzy adaptive control effort. Nonlinear fractional order chaotic response system is fully demonstrated...

This paper focused on the design and implementation of a sliding mode controller with fuzzy logic tuning for depth control of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). A fuzzy tuning approach to sliding mode control is employed for enhancing the tracking performance as well as reducing reaching time. The sliding surface can rotate or shift in the phase space in such a direction that the tracking ...

In order to achieve the accurate trajectory tracking of 2 degree-of –freedom robot, a backstepping adaptive fuzzy control scheme based on Lyapunov method, is presented for the SCARA (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm) robot system. The control strategy consists of the traditional backstepping control and adaptive fuzzy control to cope with the model unknown and parameter disturbances. The...

Fuzzy adaptive; Microgravity; Robustness; Space robot; Trajectory tracking control Abstract Space robot is assembled and tested in gravity environment, and completes on-orbit service (OOS) in microgravity environment. The kinematic and dynamic characteristic of the robot will change with the variations of gravity in different working condition. Fully considering the change of kinematic and dyna...

A robust H∞ observer-based tracking control of stochastic immune response is proposed for therapeutic enhancement to track a prescribed immune response under uncertain initial states, environmental disturbances and measurement noises. The statistics of initial condition, environmental and measurement noises are assumed unavailable. Further, the state variables may not all be available and may b...