Dual terminal sliding mode control design for rigid robotic manipulator

Abstract This paper proposes a dual terminal sliding mode control scheme for tracking tasks of rigid robotic manipulators. As a significant novelty, the presented design technique integrates the individual sliding mode surfaces to achieve the finite time convergence of tracking errors utilizing specially designed construct, and accordingly the convergence time is easily obtained due to the integral design. The underactuated issue and input limitation are specially considered in this paper, i.e., the underactuated issue is solved by introducing the hierarchical methodology into the basic dual sliding mode controller. The proposed method can easily combine with the adaptive technique to eliminate the negative effect caused by the input limitation in the rigorous stability analysis. These newly proposed methods also have the characteristics of nonsingularity and chattering suppression, and the effectiveness and high efficiency are verified by stabilizing the motions of the overhead crane and the tracking tasks of the rigid robotic manipulator. Simulation results validate the theoretical analyses about the proposed method.