Design of a robust tracker and disturbance attenuator for uncertain systems with time delays

Abstract

This article considers the composite nonlinear feedback control method for robust tracker and disturbance attenuator design of uncertain systems with time delays. The proposed robust tracker improves the transient performance and steady state accuracy simultaneously. The asymptotic robust tracking conditions are provided in the form of linear matrix inequalities and the resultant conditions yield the controller gains. Moreover, to improve the reference tracking performance, a new nonlinear function for the composite feedback control law is offered. Simulation results are presented to verify the theoretical results. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 340–348, 2015