Adaptive neural nonsingular terminal sliding mode control for MEMS gyroscope based on dynamic surface controller

A novel adaptive dynamic surface control (DSC) method for the micro-electromechanical systems gyroscope, which combined the approaches of a radial basis function neural networks (RBFNN) and a nonsingular terminal sliding mode (NTSM) controller was proposed in this paper. In the DSC, a first-order filter was introduced to the conventional adaptive backstepping technique, which not only maintains the advantage of original backstepping technique, but also reduces the number of parameters and avoids the problem of parameters expansion. The RBFNN is an approximation to the gyroscope’s dynamic characteristics and external disturbances. By introducing a nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller which ensuring the control system could reach the sliding surface and converge to equilibrium point in a finite period of time from any initial state. Finally, simulation results prove that the proposed approach could reduce the chattering of inputs, improve the timeliness and effectiveness of tracking in the presence of model uncertainties and external disturbances, demonstrating the excellent performance compared to nonsingular terminal sliding mode control (NTSMC).