Design Modified Sliding Mode Controller with Parallel Fuzzy Inference System Compensator to Control of Spherical Motor

The increasing demand for multi-degree-of-freedom (DOF) actuators in a number of industries has motivated a flurry of research in the development of non-conventional actuators, spherical motor. This motor is capable of providing smooth and isotropic three-dimensional motion in a single joint. Not only can the spherical motor combine 3-DOF motion in a single joint, it has a large range of motion with no singularities in its workspace. The spherical motor, however, exhibits coupled, nonlinear and very complex dynamics that make the design and implementation of feedback controllers very challenging. The orientation-varying torque generated by the spherical motor also contributes to the challenges in controller design. This paper contributes to the on-going research effort by exploring alternate methods for nonlinear and robust controlling the motor. The robust sliding mode controller proposed in this paper is used to further demonstrate the appealing features exhibited by the spherical motor. In opposition, sliding mode controller is used in many applications especially to control of highly uncertain systems; it has two significant drawbacks namely; chattering phenomenon and nonlinear equivalent dynamic formulation in uncertain dynamic parameter. The nonlinear equivalent dynamic formulation problem and chattering phenomenon in uncertain system (e.g., spherical motor) can be solved by using artificial intelligence theorem and applied a modified linear controller to switching part of sliding mode controller. Using Lyapunov-type stability arguments, a robust modified linear fuzzy sliding mode controller is designed to achieve this objective. The controller developed in this paper is designed in a robust stabilizing torque is designed for the nominal spherical motor dynamics derived using the constrained Lagrangian formulation. The eventual stability of the controller depends on the torque generating capabilities of the spherical motor.