Stabilization for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems via the PWM control law

Abstract

This paper studies the PWM control problem of a class of nonlinear systems. During a modulation period, the PWM control signal maintains a pulse waveform with tunable width and fixed magnitude. The PWM control only possesses finite states, and has relatively limited control capability. This causes the degradation of system performance, and even the instability when implementing into a nonlinear system. We will introduce a novel method to design both the state feedback stabilizer and the output feedback stabilizer for strict-feedback nonlinear systems via the PWM control. The system performance is analyzed in a novel framework and the stability criteria is derived to ensure the system convergence. At last, two examples are considered to illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.