Adaptive robust dynamic surface control of DC torque motors with true parameter estimates

This paper presents an adaptive robust dynamic surface control (ARDSC) algorithm for the position control of DC torque motors which are modeled as third-order nonlinear systems with parametric and nonlinear uncertainties. Based on the dynamic surface control (DSC) approach, the “explosion of terms” problem in the normal adaptive robust control (ARC) is avoided, which enhances the practicability of the controller. Furthermore, besides theoretically proving that the tracking error is uniformly ultimate bounded or asymptotically converge to zero in presence of parametric uncertainties only, the true estimates of the unknown parameters are achieved by designing a novel adaptation law, which improves the system performance and can be used in system monitor and diagnosis on-line as byproducts. Finally, the comparative simulation results illustrate that the proposed algorithm is very effective.