POLE-PLACEMENT DESIGN WITH ADJUSTABLE ROBUSTNESS USING SLIDING-MODE TECHNIQUE

A pole-placement design with adjustable performance robustness is prop osed in this paper, in which the effect of parameter uncertainties and external disturbances on system performance can be arbitrarily attenu ated to cluster all closed-loop eigenvalues within specified regions i n the complex plane. Due to parameter uncertainties or variations in a real system, closed-loop eigenvalues through linear state feedback ar e perturbed away from desired ones, and would not be retained within s pecified regions in the complex plane. In conventional sliding-mode co ntrol, the system constrained in a sliding mode is completely insensit ive to system perturbations satisfying the matching condition. However , this invariance property of a sliding mode almost always brings unde rsirable chatter phenomenon. In this paper, the proposed scheme using the sliding-mode technique is designed to attenuate the effect of unce rtainties to an acceptable extent, instead of being completely insensi tive. One advantage of this design over the conventional sliding-mode control is the reduction of chatter level, chatter alleviation. Moreov er, the sliding mode in this design exists during an entire response, while in the conventional sliding-mode control there exists a reaching phase before the existence of a sliding mode and no invariance proper ty is guaranteed during this phase.