Effectiveness of Sliding Mode Control for Robust Vision Stabilization under Plant-Binding Conditions
The Effectiveness of Sliding Mode Control for Robust Vision Stabilization under the Plant-Binding Condition
This research investigates the operational conditions for Boundary-layer Sliding Mode Control (SMC) in vision-based stabilization. The authors identify 'plant binding'—where disturbance velocity approaches actuator slew limits—as the critical condition where SMC outperforms simpler baselines like LPF and PID. Validated across handheld translation stabilization and angular re-framing against a slew-rate-limited PTZ plant, results show that outside binding conditions, SMC is statistically indistinguishable from LPF for translation but loses to PID in angular pointing offset; inside binding conditions, SMC significantly outperforms PID on the angular worst case. The study uses 12 1080p clips and simulated slew limits to demonstrate these findings.
The study validates that Boundary-layer Sliding Mode Control (SMC) provides robustness specifically under 'plant binding' conditions where disturbance velocity approaches actuator slew limits, whereas simpler baselines like LPF and PID perform comparably or better outside these bounds.
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s in two independent vision domains: handheld translation stabilization (12 1080p clips; LPF, PID, SMC, L1) and angular re-framing against a virtual slew-rate-limited pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) plant. Outside binding, leave-one-out cross-validation makes SMC and LPF on translation statistically indistinguishable, and PID beats SMC on the angular 99th-percentile pointing offset by 5.85 degrees (95% CI clear of zero); inside
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arXiv:2611.06028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Boundary-layer Sliding Mode Control (SMC) has been applied to vision-based stabilization, but identifying its activation condition against simpler causal baselines (LPF, PID) has been elusive. The operational condition is plant binding: the disturbance velocity approaches or exceeds the actuator slew limit, so the bounded per-step actuation budget binds. We validate thi
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s in two independent vision domains: handheld translation stabilization (12 1080p clips; LPF, PID, SMC, L1) and angular re-framing against a virtual slew-rate-limited pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) plant. Outside binding, leave-one-out cross-validation makes SMC and LPF on translation statistically indistinguishable, and PID beats SMC on the angular 99th-percentile pointing offset by 5.85 degrees (95% CI clear of zero); inside
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binding -- reached only by sweeping the simulated slew limit, as both captured datasets land outside it -- the translation gap stays a tie and SMC beats PID on the angular worst case (Cohen's d up to +0.83). The PTZ plant's 100 degrees/s default sits on the cross-over, which explains a small-margin PID result previously reported in the angular setting. A complementary ablation shows raising the SMC reaching gain k co
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sts mean tracking outside a narrow window.
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