Decentralized Adaptive Control for Interconnected Nonlinear Systems with Input Quantization

In this paper, a decentralized adaptive control scheme is proposed for a class of uncertain nonlinear interconnected systems with input quantization. A hysteresis uniform quantization is introduced to reduce chattering. In the control design, a smooth function is introduced with backstepping technique to compensate for the effects of interactions. It is shown that the proposed decentralized adaptive controllers can ensure global boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop interconnected systems and the tracking errors of subsystem converge to a residual, which can be adjusted by choosing suitable design parameters. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme. (C) 2017, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.