Learning-Based Adaptive Optimal Tracking Control of Strict-Feedback Nonlinear Systems

Weinan Gao, Zhong Ping Jiang

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel data-driven control approach to address the problem of adaptive optimal tracking for a class of nonlinear systems taking the strict-feedback form. Adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) and nonlinear output regulation theories are integrated for the first time to compute an adaptive near-optimal tracker without any a priori knowledge of the system dynamics. Fundamentally different from adaptive optimal stabilization problems, the solution to a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, not necessarily a positive definite function, cannot be approximated through the existing iterative methods. This paper proposes a novel policy iteration technique for solving positive semidefinite HJB equations with rigorous convergence analysis. A two-phase data-driven learning method is developed and implemented online by ADP. The efficacy of the proposed adaptive optimal tracking control methodology is demonstrated via a Van der Pol oscillator with time-varying exogenous signals.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2614-2624
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Volume29
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2018

Keywords

  • Adaptive dynamic programming (ADP)
  • adaptive optimal tracking
  • optimal control
  • uncertain nonlinear systems

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Artificial Intelligence

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