Fractional order adaptive MRAC controller design for high-accuracy position control of an industrial robot arm
by Tounes Seghiri; Samir Ladaci; Salim Haddad
International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems (IJAMECHS), Vol. 10, No. 1, 2023

Abstract: Most of conventional feedback controllers become inefficient in hard industrial environments like in steel industry, because of uncertainties in the plant model, or process dynamics variation due to nonlinear actuators, and changes in the character of the disturbances. This paper proposes an adaptive control design based on fractional order model reference adaptive control (FOMRAC) strategy in order to deal with an uncertain horizontal positioning control of an unloading machine in a rotary hearth furnace for hot rolling operation. The proposed FOMRAC scheme uses the MIT rule as an adaptive mechanism with two main modifications comparatively to the conventional MRAC: the reference model is an adequate fractional order system and the parameter adjustment rule contains a fractional order integrator. Stability analysis of the proposed control scheme is performed using the Lyapunov stability theorem. Numerical simulations are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed fractional adaptive schemes applied to an industrial robot arm loading round steel blocks from inside a rotary hearth furnace. After comparison with the conventional MRAC, it is shown that the performances of FOMRAC are superior to classical control schemes.

Online publication date: Mon, 09-Jan-2023

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