Fault-tolerant practical tracking control for uncertain robotic system with general reference trajectory and output constraint

This paper is devoted to the fault-tolerant tracking control for a class of uncertain robotic systems under time-varying output constraints. Notably, both actuator fault and the disturbances are present while all the dynamic matrices are not necessarily to be parameterized by unknown parameters or have known nominal parts, and moreover, the reference trajectories as well as the output constraints functions are not necessarily twice continuously differentiable without any time derivatives of them being available for feedback. These remarkable characteristics greatly relax the corresponding assumptions of the related literature and in turn to bring the ineffectiveness of the traditional schemes on this topic. For this, a powerful adaptive control methodology is established by incorporating adaptive dynamic compensation technique into the backstepping framework based on Barrier Lyapunov functions. Then, an adaptive state feedback controller with the smart choices of adaptive law and virtual controls is designed which guarantees that all the states of the closed-loop system are bounded and the system output practically tracks the reference trajectory while not violates the output constraints. (c) 2023 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.