Backstepping tracking control for nonlinear time-delay systems

1. INTRODUCTION The presence of time delay has a significant effect on system performance and destroys the stability of closed-loop system[1]. Therefore, the study on time-delay systems has important practical significance. Recen- tly,considerable progress has been made in this field[1~10]. According to the dependency of the designed contr-oller depends on the time delay, the control approa-ches for time-delay systems can be classified into two categories: delay-dependent[2~3,10] and dela…

Backstepping tracking control for nonlinear time-delay systems

Two design approaches of state feedback and output feedback tracking controllers are proposed for a class of strict feedback nonlinear time-delay systems by using backstepping technique. When the states of system cannot be observed, the time-delay state observer is designed to estimate the system states. Domination method is used to deal with nonlinear time-delay function under the assumption that the nonlinear time-delay functions of systems satisfy Lipschitz condition. The global asymptotical tracking of the reference signal is achieved and the bound of all signals of the resultant closed-loop system is also guaranteed. By constructing a Lyapunov-Krasoviskii functional, the stability of the closed-loop system is proved. The feasibility of the proposed approach is illustrated by a simulation example.