Finite-Time Composite Position Control for a Disturbed Pneumatic Servo System

This paper investigates the finite-time position tracking control problem of pneumatic servo systems subject to hard nonlinearities and various disturbances. A finite-time disturbance observer is firstly designed, which guarantees that the disturbances can be accurately estimated in a finite time. Then, by combining disturbances compensation and state feedback controller together, a nonsmooth composite controller is developed based on sliding mode control approach and homogeneous theory. It is proved that the tracking errors under the proposed composite control approach can be stabilized to zero in finite time. Moreover, compared with pure state feedback control, the proposed composite control scheme offers a faster convergence rate and a better disturbance rejection property. Finally, numerical simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme