Adaptive Neural Command Filtered Tracking Control for Flexible Robotic Manipulator With Input Dead-Zone

In this paper, an adaptive neural network (NN) command filtered tracking control method is developed for a flexible robotic manipulator with dead-zone input. To deal with the input dead-zone nonlinearity, it is viewed as a combination of a linear part and bounded disturbance-like term. The Neural networks (NNs) are used to estimate the uncertain nonlinearities appeared in the control system. By using the command filter technique, the problem of ‘explosion of complexity’ is overcome. The proposed controller guarantees that all the closed-loop signals are bounded and the system output can track the given reference signal. The simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.