We present an advanced and novel control method to enable actuated Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum model walk over rough challenging terrains. The high-level philosophy is the decoupling of controls vertical horizontal states. state controlled via Backstepping-Barrier Function (BBF) based quadratic programs: a combination Lyapunov backstepping barrier function, both which provide inequality con...

It is well-known that the multiple sliding surface control was developed to eliminate the problem of ‘‘explosion of complexity’’ inherent in the celebrated backstepping method. In this paper, we extend the multiple sliding surface control method further for systems in nonlinear block controllable form. As an application of the proposed control scheme, the robust attitude control law was synthes...

In this paper, a tracking controller is formulated for a quadrotor to track a moving ground target. The quadrotor exhibits distinct hierarchical dynamics that allows its position to be controlled by its attitude. This motivates the use of backstepping control on the underactuated quadrotor. Most backstepping architecture controls the quadrotor position and attitude independently, and couples th...

A novel indirect adaptive backstepping control approach based on type-2 fuzzy system is developed for a class of nonlinear systems. This approach adopts type-2 fuzzy system instead of type-1 fuzzy system to approximate the unknown functions. With type-reduction, the type-2 fuzzy system is replaced by the average of two type-1 fuzzy systems. Ultimately, the adaptive laws, by means of backsteppin...

This paper proposes a fuzzy-identification-based adaptive control scheme for the chaotic dynamic systems using backstepping control approach, which is referenced as adaptive fuzzy backstepping control (AFBC). The proposed AFBC offers a design approach to drive the chaotic trajectory to track a desired trajectory, and it is comprised of a fuzzy backstepping controller and a robust controller. Th...

At present, robotic manipulators are commonly used in manufacturing industry. In many cases, their end-effectors are required to move from one place to the other and follow some desired trajectories. This paper develops a nonlinear backstepping control design scheme with velocity observers for the trajectory tracking control of robotic manipulators. In fact, most of robot manipulator controller...