Adaptive neural tracking control for non-affine nonlinear systems with finite-time output constraint

In this paper, an adaptive neural tracking control approach is presented for a class of non-affine nonlinear systems with finite-time output constraint. The non-affine form of the original system is converted to the affine form by means of the mean value theorem. To constraint the output tracking error within a predefined boundary in finite time, a modified performance function, i.e., finite-time performance function, is introduced. During the process of controller design, the dynamic surface control is employed to handle the 'explosion of complexity' problem occurred in the conventional backstepping method. According to the approximation of radial basis functions neural networks, an adaptive neural control scheme is developed which guarantees that the output tracking error is preserved within a specified prescribed performance and all the signals in closed-loop system are bounded by appropriately choosing the design parameters. The stability of the closed-loop system is proved by Lyapunov stability analysis and the simulation results are proposed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed control approach. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.