Prescribed performance fixed-time recurrent neural network control for uncertain nonlinear systems

This paper investigates fixed-time prescribed performance control problem for uncertain strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown dead zone. First, a novel prescribed performance function (PPF) is proposed and a coordinate transformation is employed to transform the prescribed performance constrained system into an unconstrained one. Next, recurrent neural network is introduced to estimate the uncertain dynamics and fixed-time differentiator is utilized to obtain the derivative of virtual control. Then, a fixed-time dynamic surface control is developed to deal with dead zone and guarantee the convergence of the tracking error within a fixed time. Lyapunov stability analysis shows that the presented control scheme can achieve the fixed-time convergence of the error variables, while the other closed-loop system signals are bounded. Finally, numerical simulation validates the effectiveness of the presented control scheme. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.