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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
May. 26, 2000
Katsumi Kono, Toyota, JP;
Toshinari Suzuki, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yoshikazu Tanaka, Toyota, JP;
Ryoichi Hibino, Aichi-ken, JP;
Eiichi Ono, Aichi-ken, JP;
Masataka Osawa, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus for controlling a control system having a sliding resistance by using a sliding mode control method determines a deviation of an actual value of a quantity of state that is to be caused to follow a target value from the target value (step 1), calculates a switching surface &sgr; from the deviation (step 2), and determines a corrected switching surface &sgr;′ by adding a carrier wave to the calculated switching surface &sgr; (step 3). The carrier wave is expressed by a periodic function, for example, a sine wave, a sawtooth pulse wave, or the like, and has finite gradients on its waveform. Then, the control apparatus outputs an amount of operation u based on the value of the corrected switching surface &sgr;′ (step 4). The amount of operation u behaves in a manner similar to that in an ordinary sliding mode control method when the switching surface &sgr; is not close to zero. When the switching surface &sgr; is close to zero, the amount of operation u periodically changes similarly to a dither signal. Therefore, the control apparatus is able to prevent deterioration of the controlling performance with respect to the sliding resistance and retain excellent robustness of the sliding mode control.