Practical Tracking Control of Linear Motor With Adaptive Fractional Order Terminal Sliding Mode Control

• Published in: IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 2643 - 2653
• Main Authors: Sun, Guanghui, Ma, Zhiqiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adaptive control; Convergence; Disturbance observers; Fractional order (FO) terminal sliding mode; Friction; linear motor (LM); Motion control; Robustness; Sliding mode control; Tracking; Tracking control; Twisting; Uncertainty
• ISSN: 1083-4435; 1941-014X
• DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2017.2766279

This paper proposes a practical adaptive fractional order (FO) terminal sliding mode control (SMC) strategy for tracking control of the linear motor. Compared with conventional fast nonsingular SMC, the proposed approach, with a FO integral sliding surface and the adaptive switching input, can obtain higher convergence precision, even though the motion control system suffers from system uncertainties. The adaptive term is designed to guarantee finite-time high-precision convergence of the sliding mode variable, and meanwhile to degenerate the effect of uncertainties by selecting the proper adaptive gain. Moreover, continuous input due to cancelling the sign term ensures that the motion control system is chattering-free. Finally, to further improve precision, we introduce the super-twisting sliding mode disturbance observer for reducing unknown bounded disturbance, i.e., the quantization noise caused by velocity estimation. Experimental results indicate that the control system with the proposed controller is easily implemented, and has higher tracking precision and considerable robustness to uncertainties compared with the existing controllers.