Virtual Signal Calculation Using Radial Neural Model Applied in a State Controller of a Two-Mass System

Abstract

Neural network approaches have commonly been used to solve complex mathematical equations in the literature. They have inspired the modifications of state controllers and are often implemented for electrical drives with an elastic connection. Given that the addition of a virtual signal can provide adaptive properties to classical controllers and that selected feedback signals can also be replaced with a virtual state variable from a neural network, several combinations can be considered and compared. In this paper, Radial Basis Function neural-network-based control algorithms are proposed in which online updating of the output weights is used. Analyses of simulation experiment results reveal that the proposed control algorithms significantly improve the operation of classic-state feedback controllers applied to two-mass systems in the presence of parameter uncertainty.