Output regulation of nonlinear systems using conditional servocompensators

Abstract

This paper studies the output regulation of nonlinear systems using conditional servocompensators. Previous work introduced the conditional servocompensator, which acts as a traditional servocompensator in the neighborhood of a zero-error manifold while acting as a stable system otherwise, leading to improvement in the transient response while achieving zero steady-state regulation error. The conditional servocompensator tool was introduced for sliding-mode feedback controllers. This paper extends the technique to more general feedback controllers by using Lyapunov redesign and saturated high-gain feedback.