2023/10/24 by Thomas Berger, Berger, Thomas, Christoph M. Hackl +3
Engineering · #Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems #Advanced Control Systems Optimization #Extremum Seeking Control Systems #FOS: Mathematics #Optimization and Control (math.OC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.15544
openalex publication_date 2023/10/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Funnel control achieves output tracking with guaranteed tracking performance for unknown systems and arbitrary reference signals. In particular, the tracking error is guaranteed to satisfy time-varying error bounds for all times (it evolves in the funnel). However, convergence to zero cannot be guaranteed, but the error often stays close to the funnel boundary, inducing a comparatively large feedback gain. This has several disadvantages (e.g. poor tracking performance and sensitivity to noise due to the underlying high-gain feedback principle). In this paper, therefore, the usually known reference signal is taken into account during funnel controller design, i.e. we propose to combine the well-known internal model principle with funnel control. We focus on linear systems with linear reference internal models and show that under mild adjustments of funnel control, we can achieve asymptotic tracking for a whole class of linear systems (i.e. without relying on the knowledge of system parameters).