Adaptive control for electromechanical systems considering dead-zone phenomenon

The electromechanical gyrostat is a fourth-order nonautonomous system that exhibits very rich behavior such as chaos. In recent years, synchronization of nonautonomous chaotic systems has found many useful applications in nonlinear science and engineering fields. On the other hand, it is well known that the finite-time control techniques demonstrate good robustness and disturbance rejection properties. This paper studies the potential application of the finite-time control techniques for synchronization of nonautonomous chaotic electromechanical gyrostat systems in finite time. It is assumed that all the parameters of both drive and response systems are unknown parameters in advance. Moreover, the effects of dead-zone nonlinearities in the control inputs are also taken into account. Some adaptive controllers are introduced to synchronize two gyrostat systems in different scenarios within a given finite-time. Two illustrative examples are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the proposed finite-time synchronization strategy.