Unit Sliding Mode Control for Disturbed Crowd Dynamics System Based on Integral Barrier Lyapunov Function

This paper presents a new tracking controller for a crowd dynamics system. The crowd dynamics are described by a continuum model in the macro-scale. An appropriate control variable is chosen to solve the problem of the multi-directionality of crowd movement. In order to stabilize the state density of the disturbed crowd dynamics system at a given reference density, a unit sliding mode controller based on the integral barrier Lyapunov function is designed, and the reaching law approach is used to avoid chattering. By ensuring the boundedness of the integral barrier Lyapunov function in the closed-loop, the global constraints of the system state variables are obtained. The design of the controller and the stability analysis of the closed-loop system are all done in the distributed parameter system. A numerical example illustrates the utility of the proposed controller.