Adaptive state-feedback stabilization of stochastic nonholonomic systems with an unknown time-varying delay and perturbations

The problem of adaptive state-feedback stabilization of stochastic nonholonomic systems with an unknown time-varying delay and perturbations is studied in this paper. Without imposing any assumptions on the time-varying delay, an adaptive state-feedback controller is skillfully designed by using the input-state scaling technique and an adaptive backstepping control approach. Then, by adopting the switching strategy to eliminate the phenomenon of uncontrollability, the proposed adaptive state-feedback controller can guarantee that the closed-loop system has an almost surely unique solution for any initial state, and the equilibrium of interest is globally asymptotically stable in probability. Finally, the simulation example shows the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.