On Line Tuning Premise and Consequence FIS Based on Lyaponuv Theory with Application to Continuum Robot

Classical sliding mode controller is robust to model uncertainties and external disturbances. A sliding mode control method with a switching control low guarantees asymptotic stability of the system, but the addition of the switching control law introduces chattering in to the system. One way of attenuating chattering is to insert a saturation function inside of a boundary layer around the sliding surface. Unfortunately, this addition disrupts Lyapunov stability of the closed-loop system. Classical sliding mode control method has difficulty in handling unstructured model uncertainties. One can overcome this problem by combining a sliding mode controller and fuzzy system together. Fuzzy rules allow fuzzy systems to approximate arbitrary continuous functions. To approximate a time-varying nonlinear system, a fuzzy system requires a large amount of fuzzy rules. This large number of fuzzy rules will cause a high computation load. The addition of an adaptive law to a fuzzy sliding mode controller to online tune the parameters of the fuzzy rules in use will ensure a moderate computational load. Refer to this research; tuning methodology can online adjust both the premise and the consequence parts of the fuzzy rules. Since this algorithm for is specifically applied to a robot manipulator.