Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Mobile Robots with Fractional-Order Exponential Super-Twisting Sliding Mode

Industrial mobile robots easily experience actuator loss of some effectiveness and additive bias faults due to the working scenarios, resulting in unexpected performance degradation. This article proposes a novel adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy for nonholonomic mobile robot systems su...

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Main Authors: Hao Wu, Shuting Wang, Yuanlong Xie, Hu Li
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Published: MDPI AG 2024-10-01
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Hu Li
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description Industrial mobile robots easily experience actuator loss of some effectiveness and additive bias faults due to the working scenarios, resulting in unexpected performance degradation. This article proposes a novel adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy for nonholonomic mobile robot systems subject to simultaneous actuator lock-in-place (LIP) and partial loss-of-effectiveness (LOE) faults. First, a nominal fractional-order sliding mode controller based on the designed exponential super-twisting reaching law is investigated to reduce the reaching phase time and eliminate the chattering. To address the time-varying LIP faults and uncertainties, a novel barrier function (BF)-based gain is explored to assist the super-twisting law. An estimator is designed to estimate the lower bound of the time-varying partial LOE fault coefficients, thus without requiring the boundary information of faults that is commonly requested in traditional FTC schemes. Combined with the nominal controller clubbed with BF and estimator-based LOE fault compensation term, the fault-tolerant controller is finally constructed. The proposed FTC scheme achieves fast convergence and the sliding variables can be confined in a predetermined neighborhood of the sliding manifold under actuator faults. The results show that the proposed controller has superior tracking performance under faulty conditions compared with other state-of-the-art adaptive FTC approaches.
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spelling doaj-art-e83d54a016f14e06b8b76a0362dfd5cb2025-08-20T02:11:09ZengMDPI AGFractal and Fractional2504-31102024-10-0181061210.3390/fractalfract8100612Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Mobile Robots with Fractional-Order Exponential Super-Twisting Sliding ModeHao Wu0Shuting Wang1Yuanlong Xie2Hu Li3School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, ChinaIndustrial mobile robots easily experience actuator loss of some effectiveness and additive bias faults due to the working scenarios, resulting in unexpected performance degradation. This article proposes a novel adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy for nonholonomic mobile robot systems subject to simultaneous actuator lock-in-place (LIP) and partial loss-of-effectiveness (LOE) faults. First, a nominal fractional-order sliding mode controller based on the designed exponential super-twisting reaching law is investigated to reduce the reaching phase time and eliminate the chattering. To address the time-varying LIP faults and uncertainties, a novel barrier function (BF)-based gain is explored to assist the super-twisting law. An estimator is designed to estimate the lower bound of the time-varying partial LOE fault coefficients, thus without requiring the boundary information of faults that is commonly requested in traditional FTC schemes. Combined with the nominal controller clubbed with BF and estimator-based LOE fault compensation term, the fault-tolerant controller is finally constructed. The proposed FTC scheme achieves fast convergence and the sliding variables can be confined in a predetermined neighborhood of the sliding manifold under actuator faults. The results show that the proposed controller has superior tracking performance under faulty conditions compared with other state-of-the-art adaptive FTC approaches.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3110/8/10/612adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC)exponential super-twisting reaching lawfractional-order sliding modelock-in-place (LIP)mobile robot partial loss-of-effectiveness (LOE)
spellingShingle Hao Wu
Shuting Wang
Yuanlong Xie
Hu Li
Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Mobile Robots with Fractional-Order Exponential Super-Twisting Sliding Mode
Fractal and Fractional
adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC)
exponential super-twisting reaching law
fractional-order sliding mode
lock-in-place (LIP)
mobile robot partial loss-of-effectiveness (LOE)
title Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Mobile Robots with Fractional-Order Exponential Super-Twisting Sliding Mode
title_full Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Mobile Robots with Fractional-Order Exponential Super-Twisting Sliding Mode
title_fullStr Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Mobile Robots with Fractional-Order Exponential Super-Twisting Sliding Mode
title_full_unstemmed Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Mobile Robots with Fractional-Order Exponential Super-Twisting Sliding Mode
title_short Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Mobile Robots with Fractional-Order Exponential Super-Twisting Sliding Mode
title_sort adaptive fault tolerant control of mobile robots with fractional order exponential super twisting sliding mode
topic adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC)
exponential super-twisting reaching law
fractional-order sliding mode
lock-in-place (LIP)
mobile robot partial loss-of-effectiveness (LOE)
url https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3110/8/10/612
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