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Second-order terminal sliding mode control for hypersonic vehicle in cruising flight with sliding mode disturbance observer

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This paper focuses on the design of nonlinear robust controller and disturbance observer for the longitudinal dynamics of a hypersonic vehicle (HSV) in the presence of parameter uncertainties and external disturbances. First, by combining terminal sliding mode control (TSMC) and second-order sliding mode control (SOSMC) approach, the secondorder terminal sliding control (2TSMC) is proposed for the velocity and altitude tracking control of the HSV. The 2TSMC possesses the merits of both TSMC and SOSMC, which can provide fast convergence, continuous control law and high-tracking precision. Then, in order to increase the robustness of the control system and improve the control performance, the sliding mode disturbance observer (SMDO) is presented. The closed-loop stability is analyzed using the Lyapunov technique. Finally, simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, as well as the improved overall performance over the conventional sliding mode control (SMC).

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  1. School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing Jiangsu, 210096, China

    Ruimin Zhang, Changyin Sun, Jingmei Zhang & Yingjiang Zhou

  2. School of Mathematics & Statistics, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang Henan, 471003, China

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This work was supported by the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation (No. 61125306), and the National Natural Science Foundation of Major Research Plan (No. 91016004).

Ruimin ZHANG received his M.S. degree from the Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University, in 2004. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the School of Automation, Southeast University. His research interests include nonlinear control and flight control.

Changyin SUN is a professor at the School of Automation at Southeast University, China. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2001 and in 2003, respectively. His research interests include intelligent control, neural networks, SVM, data-driven control, theory and design of intelligent control systems, optimization algorithms, and pattern recognition. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Neural Processing Letters, and International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research and Recent Patents on Computer Science.

Jingmei ZHANG received her M.S. degree from the School of Mathematical Science, Shanxi University, in 2006. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the School of Automation, Southeast University. Her research interests include nonlinear control and flight control.

Yingjiang ZHOU received his M.S. degree from the College of Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, in 2010. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the School of Automation, Southeast University. His research interests include nonlinear control and flight control.

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Zhang, R., Sun, C., Zhang, J. et al. Second-order terminal sliding mode control for hypersonic vehicle in cruising flight with sliding mode disturbance observer. J. Control Theory Appl. 11, 299–305 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11768-013-1164-5

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