Abstract
This paper designed a smooth fixed-time-convergent sliding mode controller for a missile flight system considering aerodynamic uncertainties. Fixed-time convergence theory is incorporated with the sliding mode control technique to ensure that the system tracks desired commands within uniform bounded time under different initial conditions. Unlike previous terminal sliding mode approaches, not only is the bound of settling time independent of initial state, indicating that performance metrics like convergence rate can be predicted beforehand, but the control input is designed to be smooth based on adaptive estimations and some mathematical results without introducing any discontinuous items like the signum function, which avoids the problem of chattering consequently. A cascade control structure is employed with the derived control algorithm, and therein, the control input signal is obtained. Finally, a number of simulations are carried out and demonstrate the effectiveness of the designed controller.
Highlights
Increasing demand for high accuracy and system reliability has stimulated the development of control techniques in the past decades
Reference [4] divided the missile attitude dynamic and kinematic model into fast and slow loops according to time scalar separations, which is the common idea that is widely adopted by almost all the control works for missile controller design
In [5], an acceleration autopilot design methodology was developed based on optimal control theory, which revealed better performance and stability robustness compared with the classic three-loop controller
Summary
Increasing demand for high accuracy and system reliability has stimulated the development of control techniques in the past decades. The designed smooth fixedtime-convergent sliding mode controller motivates missile control variables to converge to the equilibrium point before the uniform bounded settling time in the presence of aerodynamic uncertainties with its input inherently continuous without using any discrete items, like the signum function. With a uniform bounded convergence time, the controller can track the desired command in the presence of aerodynamic uncertainties under different initial state situations, which is very helpful for both preliminary design and performance evaluation. The fixed-time convergence characteristic is fully reflected under the cases of various controller gains and initial states, and the smooth input exhibits nice continuity through comparison with the conventional terminal sliding mode method. Various simulations are performed in the last section and demonstrate the satisfactory performance of the designed controller
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