Event-Triggered Prescribed Performance Fuzzy Fault-Tolerant Control for Unknown Euler–Lagrange Systems With Any Bounded Initial Values

This article investigates the tracking problem of event-triggered prescribed performance fuzzy fault-tolerant control (FTC) for unknown Euler–Lagrange systems with actuator faults and external disturbances. First, the barrier Lyapunov functions (BLFs) and prescribed performance functions are synthesized to guarantee that the tracking errors satisfy the preset transient performance. Different from existing prescribed performance control methods, which require the initial values of the tracking errors to be within the prescribed performance functions, an error transformation method is introduced to ensure that the tracking errors with any bounded initial values can enter the preset boundaries within a preset time. Then, considering the unavailability of system parameters, the fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate unknown parameters of the system. What is more, to solve the problem of limited communication and computing resources in practical systems, an improved event-triggered control (ETC) scheme is proposed, which can reduce the communication and computation burden without satisfying the input-to-state stability assumption. Meanwhile, the Zeno phenomenon can be avoided. Furthermore, the effects of actuator faults and the event-triggered mechanism are handled by Nussbaum gain technology. Finally, the superiority of the proposed control algorithm is verified by simulation results.