摘要

This paper is aimed at exploring dynamic surface control (DSC) for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems in strict-feedback form with time delays. Combining the Finite Covering Lemma (Heine-Borel Theorem) with neural networks, a novel method is proposed to approximate time delay terms, which leads to the abandonment of traditional Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals. Then, a surface error modification and an initialization technique are proposed to guarantee the Script capital L infinity tracking performance. Moreover, by applying a newly-developed neural network based adaptive control technique, it is shown that the update law for the proposed DSC scheme is needed only at the last design step with only one parameter being estimated online, which significantly reduces the computational burden, compared with current DSC schemes. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme.