GPIO-Based Continuous Sliding Mode Control for Networked Control Systems Under Communication Delays with Experiments on Servo Motors

To handle input and output time delays that com-monly exist in many networked control systems (NCSs), a new robust continuous sliding mode control (CSMC) scheme is proposed for the output tracking in uncertain single input-single-out-put (SISO) networked control systems. This scheme consists of three consecutive steps. First, although the network-induced delay in those systems can be effectively handled by using Pade approximation (PA), the unmatched disturbance cames out as another difficulty in the control design. Second, to actively estimate this unmatched disturbance, a generalized proportional integral observer (GPIO) technique is utilized based on only one measured state. Third, by constructing a new…