Feedforward Nonlinear Control Using Neural Gas Network

Nonlinear systems control is a main issue in control theory. Many developed applications suffer from a mathematical foundation not as general as the theory of linear systems.This paper proposes a control strategy of nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics bymeans of a set of local linear models obtained by a supervised neural gas network.The proposed approach takes advantage of the neural gas feature bywhich the algorithm yields a very robust clustering procedure.The directmodel of the plant constitutes a piecewise linear approximation of the nonlinear system and each neuron represents a local linear model for which a linear controller is designed. The neural gas model works as an observer and a controller at the same time. A state feedback control is implemented by estimation of the state variables based on the local transfer function that was provided by the local linear model. The gradient vectors obtained by the supervised neural gas algorithm provide a robust procedure for feedforward nonlinear control, that is, supposing the inexistence of disturbances.

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