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Vol: 53(67) No: 4 / December 2008 

Shifted Switching Plane Design for Second Order Systems with Velocity and Input Signal Constraints
Aleksandra Nowacka-Leverton
Institute of Automatic Control, Technical University of Lódź, 18/22 Stefanowskiego St., 90-924 Lódź, Poland, e-mail: ola.nowacka@gmail.com, web: http://zneiap.p.lodz.pl
Andrzej Bartoszewicz
Institute of Automatic Control, Technical University of Lódź, 18/22 Stefanowskiego St., 90-924 Lódź, Poland, e-mail: andrzej.bartoszewicz@p.lodz.pl


Keywords: variable structure systems, sliding mode control, time-varying switching lines, reaching phase elimination

Abstract
In this paper a new sliding mode control (SMC) algorithm for second order systems subject to input signal and velocity constraints is presented. The proposed method ensures the reaching phase elimination and furthermore, it guarantees fast and monotonic tracking error convergence to zero without violating the input signal and velocity constraints. The presented algorithm employs a time-varying switching line. At the initial time t = t0 the switching line passes through the representative point of the system in the error state space. Afterwards, the line moves with a constant velocity and a constant angle of inclination to the origin of the space and having reached the origin it stops moving. By this means insensitivity of the system with respect to external disturbance and model uncertainty from the very beginning of the control action is ensured. The parameters of the line are selected in such a way that introduced control quality criterion – integral absolute error (IAE) – is minimized.

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