In this paper, a novel control scheme is proposed to guarantee global asymptotic stability of bilateral teleoperation systems that are subjected to time-varying time delays in their communication channel and sandwich linearity in their actuators. This extends prior art concerning control of nonlinear bilateral teleoperation systems under time-varying time delays to the case where the local and ...

Observer based stochastic disturbance accommodating control scheme utilizes an estimator to determine the necessary corrections to the nominal control input and thus minimizes the adverse effects of both model uncertainties and external disturbances on the controlled system. The total control input, which includes the nominal control as well as the control corrections to the nominal control to ...

Using the idea of ‘shaping the control signal’, the authors generalise the time-delayfilter-based deadbeat control for processes with dead time to a two-level control so that actuator saturation is avoided. The controller mimics experienced manual operation to provide a two-level control signal. At the first stage (level), the controller outputs a value very close to the actuator saturation bou...

A direct adaptive nonlinear tracking control framework for multivariable nonlinear uncertain systems with actuator amplitude and rate saturation constraints is developed. To guarantee asymptotic stability of the closed-loop tracking error dynamics in the face of amplitude and rate saturation constraints, the adaptive control signal to a given reference (governor or supervisor) system is modifie...

This paper presents neural adaptive control methods for a class of nonlinear systems in the presence of actuator saturation. Backstepping technique is widely used for the control of nonlinear systems. By introducing alternative state variables and implementing state transformation, the system can be reformulated as output feedback of a canonical system, which ensures that the controllers can be...

This paper presents neural adaptive control methods for a class of nonlinear systems in the presence of actuator saturation. Backstepping technique is widely used for the control of nonlinear systems. By introducing alternative state variables and implementing state transformation, the system can be reformulated as output feedback of a canonical system, which ensures that the controllers can be...

In this paper, the path following controller of an omnidirectional mobile robot (OMR) has been extended in such a way that the forward velocity has been optimized and the actuator velocity constraints have been taken into account. Both have been attained through the proposed model predictive control (MPC) framework. The forward velocity has been included into the objective function, while the a...