Neuroadaptive Asymptotic Tracking Control With Guaranteed Performance Under Mismatched Uncertainties and Saturated Inputs

It is still an open problem to achieve asymptotic tracking meanwhile maintaining specific performance for nonlinear systems with structurally mismatched uncertainties and strictly constrained inputs. In this work, we present a solution to this problem by using neural network (NN)-based adaptive control embedded with the robust integral of the sign of the error (RISE) technique. Most existing prescribed performance control (PPC) can only ensure uniformly ultimately bounded stability, and the RISE-based control, although capable of achieving asymptotic stability, does not guarantee transient behavior (especially, when the system is in strict-feedback form with saturated input). Here, in this study, we make use of NNs to accommodate the unknown nonlinearities, where the NN approximation error, together with other uncertainties, is fully compensated by using a RISE unit. The constraints imposed on the inputs are addressed by the hyperbolic tangent function, resulting in a solution capable of guaranteeing asymptotic tracking with prescribed transient performance, in the presence of mismatched modeling uncertainties and actuation saturation. A numerical simulation is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.