Adaptive sliding-mode control for induction servomotor drive

Abstract

An adaptive sliding-mode control system is proposed to control the position of an induction servomotor drive. First, a newly designed total sliding-mode control system, which is insensitive to uncertainties including parameter variations and external disturbance in the whole control process, is introduced. The total sliding-mode control comprises the baseline model design and the curbing controller design. In the baseline model design a computed torque controller is designed to cancel the nonlinearity of the nominal plant. In the curbing controller design an additional controller is designed using a new sliding surface to ensure the sliding motion through the entire state trajectory. Therefore, in the total sliding-mode control system the controlled system has a total sliding motion without a reaching phase. Then, to relax the requirement for the bound of uncertainties, an adaptive sliding-mode control system is investigated to control the induction servomotor. In the adaptive sliding-mode control system a simple adaptive algorithm is utilised to estimate the bound of uncertainties. Simulated and experimental results due to periodic sinusoidal command show that the dynamic behaviours of the proposed control systems are robust with regard to uncertainties.