Discrete-time adaptive sliding mode control for uncertain systems based on multi-rate output measurement

This article presents the design of a discrete-time adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) for uncertain systems using the noisy multi-rate output measurement. It is assumed that the dynamic systems are described by a discrete-time state equation with mismatched uncertainties. The proposed discrete-time adaptive SMC is composed of the equivalent and the nonlinear switching controls, and it is derived based on a new sliding surface. A new least squares estimator (LSE) to take the estimates for the un-measurable states and the uncertainties is designed without the information of the statistics for the measurement noises and the initial state. In the design of the proposed discrete-time adaptive SMC, the un-measurable states and the uncertainties are, respectively, replaced as their estimates obtained from the proposed LSE, and the sliding coefficient matrices are selected such that the states for the systems are ultimately bounded, and the effect of the external disturbances to give the states is reduced as small as possible. The effectiveness of the proposed method is indicated through the simulation experiment in a simple system.