TITLE:
Fault Tolerant Neuro-Robust Position Control of DC Motors
AUTHORS:
Ran Zhang, Marwan Bikdash
KEYWORDS:
Fault-Tolerant, Neuro-Robust, Position Control, DC Motors
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications,
Vol.3 No.10,
October
24,
2011
ABSTRACT: DC motors are widely used in industry such as mechanics, robotics, and aerospace engineering. In this paper, we present a high performance control method for position control of DC motors. Fault-tolerant control model are also addressed to combine with neuro-robust control approach. It is shown that with the proposed control algorithms, external disturbances and coupled dynamics inherent in the system are effectively compensated using neural network unit in which no analytical estimation on the upper bound of the reconstruction error and uncertainties is needed. Simulations on various flight conditions also confirm the effectiveness of the proposed methods.