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In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy controller is constructed for a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems with unknown functions and bounded disturbances. The main characteristics of the systems are that they take into account the effect of discrete-time dead zone and the system states are not required to be measurable. The stability problem of this class of systems is for the first time to be addressed in this paper. Due to the unavailability of the states and the presence of the discrete-time dead zone, the controller design becomes more difficult. To stabilize the uncertain nonlinear discrete-time systems, the fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate the unknown functions, a fuzzy state observer is designed to estimate the immeasurable states, and the effect caused by discrete-time dead zone can be solved via establishing an adaptation auxiliary signal. Based on the Lyapunov approach, it is proved that all the signals of the closed-loop system are the semiglobal uniformly ultimately bounded, and the tracking error is made within a small neighborhood around zero. The feasibility of the developed control scheme is verified via two simulation examples. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The adaptive fuzzy identification and control problems are considered for a class of multi-input multi-output nonlinear systems with unknown functions and unknown dead-zone inputs. The main characteristics of the considered systems are that 1) they are composed of n subsystems and each subsystem is in nested lower triangular form, 2) dead-zone inputs are in nonsymmetric nonlinear form, and 3) dead-zone inputs appear nonlinearly in the systems and their parameters are not required to be known. The controller design for this class of systems is a difficult and complicated task because of the existences of unknown functions, the couplings among the nested subsystems, and the dead-zone inputs. In the controller design, the fuzzy logic systems are employed to approximate the unknown functions and the differential mean value theorem is used to separate dead-zone inputs. To compensate for dead-zone inputs, the compensative terms are designed in the controllers. The stability of the closed-loop system is proved via the Lyapunov stability theorem. A simulation example is provided to validate the feasibility of the approach. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An adaptive fuzzy controller design is studied for uncertain nonlinear systems in this paper. The considered systems are of the discrete-time form in a triangular structure and include the backlash and the external disturbance. By using the prediction function of future states, the systems are transformed into an n-step ahead predictor. The fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) are used to approximate the unknown functions, unknown backlash, and backlash inversion, respectively. A discrete-time tuning algorithm is developed to estimate the optimal fuzzy parameters. Compared with the previous works for the discrete-time systems with backlash, the main contributions of the paper are that 1) the rigorous restriction for the functional estimation error is removed, and 2) the external disturbance is bounded, but the bound is not required to be known. A novel controller and the adaptation laws are constructed by using the discrete Taylor series expansion and the difference Lyapunov analysis, and thus, those limitations in the previous works are overcome. It is proven that all the signals in the closed-loop system are bounded and that the system output can be to follow the reference signal to a bounded compact set. A simulation example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This brief studies an adaptive neural output feedback tracking control of uncertain nonlinear multi-input–multi-output (MIMO) systems in the discrete-time form. The considered MIMO systems are composed of n subsystems with the couplings of inputs and states among subsystems. In order to solve the noncausal problem and decouple the couplings, it needs to transform the systems into a predictor form. The higher order neural networks are utilized to approximate the desired controllers. By using Lyapunov analysis, it is proven that all the signals in the closed-loop system is the semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded and the output errors converge to a compact set. In contrast to the existing results, the advantage of the scheme is that the number of the adjustable parameters is highly reduced. The effectiveness of the scheme is verified by a simulation example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article extends the application of the adaptive neural network control to a new class of uncertain MIMO non-linear systems, which are composed of interconnected subsystems where each interconnected subsystem is in the non-affine pure-feedback form. Because both the variables which are used as virtual controllers and the actual controllers appear non-linearly in unknown functions of the MIMO systems, thus, this class of systems is difficult to control. The radial basis function neural networks are utilised to approximate the desired virtual controllers and the desired actual controllers which are obtained by using implicit function theorem. The salient property of the proposed approach is that the number of the adjustable parameters is less than the numerous alternative approaches existing in the literature. It is proven that, under appropriate assumptions, all the signals in the closed-loop system are uniformly bounded and the tracking errors converge to a small neighbourhood of the origin by appropriately choosing design parameters. The feasibility of the developed approach is verified by two simulation examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]