Neural Network–Based Event-Triggered Adaptive Control Algorithms for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems with Actuator Failures

The adaptive control for strict-feedback nonlinear systems has drawn a lot of attention in various communities. Since neural network is a useful universal-approximator to approximate unknown plant model, the neural network–based adaptive control for nonlinear systems has attracted substantial interest over decades. Furthermore, to reduce the controller updating and save the control resource, the event-triggered mechanism has been widely applied. In this paper, the RBF neural network is applied to construct the state and composite disturbance observers and the back-stepping and Lyapunov-like method are applied to design the event-triggered adaptive controller. The theoretical framework of adaptive fault-tolerant control issue for strict-feedback nonlinear system that suffer from both unknown mismatched disturbance and actuator failures is formulated. This paper comes up with a novel event-triggered control strategy to guarantee that the tracking issue is resolved with better desired performance. In this study, a unified theoretical mechanism is developed to tackle the case where some factors consisting of unknown state variables, unknown mismatched disturbance, and actuator failures as well as event-triggered effects are merged together. We expect to extend the proposed method for the self-triggered case.