This manuscript addresses trajectory tracking problem of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) on the horizontal plane. Adaptive sliding mode control is employed in order to achieve a robust behavior against some uncertainty and ocean current disturbances, assuming that disturbance and its derivative are bounded by unknown boundary levels. The proposed approach is based on a dual layer adaptive...

A new approach for pole placement of nonlinear systems using state feedback and fuzzy system is proposed. We use a new online fuzzy training method to identify and to obtain a fuzzy model for the unknown nonlinear system using only the system input and output. Then, we linearized this identified model at each sampling time to have an approximate linear time varying system. In order to stabilize...

In this paper, the principle of sliding mode control is used as a basis to develop an adaptive fuzzy controller for uncertain dynamic time-delayed systems with series nonlinearities. The control method provides a simple way to achieve asymptotic stability of the uncertain time-delayed system. Other attractive features of the method include a minimal realization of the adaptive fuzzy controller ...

An adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control scheme is presented in this article. Despite the advantages of sliding mode control design for uncertain dynamic systems, classical sliding mode control has a major problem in the form of chattering, produced by the rapid switching used to conduct the state trajectories toward the sliding surfaces. A variety of methods are used to achieve chattering-free m...

In this chapter, three methods for synchronizing of two chaotic gyros in the presence of uncertainties, external disturbances and dead-zone nonlinearity are studied. In the first method, there is dead-zone nonlinearity in the control input, which limits the performance of accurate control methods. The effects of this nonlinearity will be attenuated using a fuzzy parameter approximator integrate...

This paper designs an Optimized Adaptive Combined Hierarchical Sliding Mode Controller (OACHSMC) for a time-varying crane model in presence of uncertainties. Uncertainties have always been one of the most important challenges in designing control systems, which include the unknown parameters or un-modeled dynamics in the systems. Sliding mode controller (SMC) is able to compensate the system in...

In recent years, underactuated nonlinear dynamic systems trajectory tracking, such as space robots and manipulators with structural flexibility, has become a major field of interest due to the complexity and high computational load of these systems. Hierarchical sliding mode control has been investigated recently for these systems; however, the instability phenomena will possibly occur, especia...

A composite robust control scheme is proposed by combining a sliding mode controller with an adaptive fuzzy control algorithm to control a 3-DOF underactuated underwater vehicle with model parameter perturbations and environmental disturbances based on the backstepping control method and the Lyapunov stability theory. The adaptive fuzzy control algorithm is employed to compensate for model para...

This paper proposes the adaptive fuzzy total sliding-mode control systems with integral (I-AFTSMC) and proportional-integral (PI-AFTSMC) learning algorithms for the unknown nonlinear systems. These AFTSMC systems are comprised of a fuzzy total sliding-mode controller and a robust controller. The fuzzy total sliding-mode controller is utilized to approximate an ideal controller and the robust co...