15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A MULTIPLE-LOOP SLIDING MODE CONTROL SYSTEM WITH SECOND-ORDER BOUNDARY LAYER DYNAMICS
I. A. Shkolnikov and Y. B. Shtessel,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Alabama in Huntsville,
Huntsville, AL 35899, USA,
shtessel@ece.uah.edu

Presented is a method of continuous sliding mode control design to provide for the second-order sliding mode on the selected sliding surfaces in a three-loop control system, where two outer-loop virtual control signals must be smooth enough to be tracked in the inner loops. The control law in the vicinity of the sliding surface is a nonlinear dynamic feedback that in absence of unknown disturbances provides for finite-time convergence of the second-order reaching phase dynamics. The controller with a second-order disturbance observer in a combination with the proposed continuous dynamic feedback attracts the system trajectories to boundary layers around two sliding surfaces of the outer control loops with the second-order sliding accuracy in presence of unknown disturbances and the discrete-time control update.
Keywords: sliding mode control, multiloop control, dynamic control, tracking systems.
Session slot T-Tu-M07: Sliding mode control/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems