Hildebrando DE CASTRO^*, Pedro PAGLIONE, Carlos RIBEIRO
Aeronautics Technological Institute,
Praça Marechal Eduardo Gomes, 50, São José dos Campos, 12.228-900, Brazil
hildebrando.castro@hotmail.com; paglione@ita.br; carlos@ita.br

*  Corresponding author

Abstract: Industrial control engineers, who are often faced with the problem of dealing with projects involving unknown or poorly modelled systems, usually have at their disposal a limited number of options to develop, implement, and maintain controllers, namely PID and, lately, fuzzy-based controllers. The large use of the PID controller comes from the widespread knowledge of its theory and easy tuning methods and its prompt availability in control equipment and supervisory systems. Nevertheless, depending on the manufacturer’s discretion, at least five gains have to be set. Fuzzy controllers for a SISO system usually demand between fifteen and twenty parameters. That’s also a problem for the maintenance personnel. The proposed SISO controller needs two heuristically defined gains to be set, based on knowledge about the free response of the plant and expected disturbances. Its simplicity allows its implementation on devices with memory and processor constraints.

Keywords: Nonlinear control, Sliding-Mode Control, Fuzzy Logic Control.

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Hildebrando DE CASTRO, Pedro PAGLIONE, Carlos RIBEIRO, Exponential Mapping Function for Nonlinear Control, Studies in Informatics and Control, ISSN 1220-1766, vol. 24 (4), pp. 449-460, 2015. https://doi.org/10.24846/v24i4y201509

1.  Introduction

Control Systems

The fundamental control problem, according to [2] is “… to find a technically feasible way to act on a given system or process so that it adheres, as closely as possible, to some desired behaviour. This approximate behaviour should be achieved in the face of uncertainty of the process and in the presence of uncontrollable external disturbances acting on the process” (italics belong to the authors). Worth noting here is that control should exhibit or approximate some behaviour without a perfect model of the process, defined by uncertainty in the amount and value of parameters and degree of modeling abstraction. A perfect model, furthermore, is practically impossible to obtain and, when a model is used, one should have in mind the constraints and trade-offs that are taken into consideration in its design.

This paper is then organized as follows:

• A brief discussion about issues with model-based control;
• A way to streamline Sliding Mode Control (SMC);
• Prior works on how to dynamically tune an SMC;
• A brief explanation of how a Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) can be simplified;
• The EMC (Exponential Mapping Function) derivation and its use in control;
• A procedure showing how to implement it in a real system;
• An example of its implementation on a rigorously simulated system;
• Conclusion.

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