Sliding mode control with system constraints for aircraft engines

This paper proposes a constraint-tolerant design with sliding mode strategy to improve the stability of aircraft engine control. To handle the difficulties associated with the high-frequency switching laws, merely attenuating the chattering is far from satisfactory. System constraints on input, output, and input rate should be addressed in the design process. For a sort of uncertain nonlinear systems subjected to the constraints, sliding mode regulators are designed using Lyapunov analysis. A turbofan engine is adopted for simulation, which shows that the methodology developed in this paper can handle the speed tracking and limit protection problem in a stable fashion, despite the negative influence posed by the system constraints

Chattering-free discrete-time sliding mode control with event-trigger strategy

In this paper, a novel discrete-time sliding mode control (DSMC) method based on event-trigger strategy is proposed. The DSMC method here used is a chattering-free method. With the introduction of event-trigger strategy, the system performance is improved in terms of the control updating times. Hence, less resource is required in control execution. It is shown that the proposed control techniques ensure the reachability of the sliding surface with a small band. Finally, simulations are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods