One of the best nonlinear robust controllers which can be used in uncertain nonlinear systems is sliding mode controller (SMC), but pure SMC results in chattering in a noisy environment. This effect can be eliminated by optimizing the sliding surface slope. This paper investigates a novel methodology in designing a SMC by a new heuristic search, so called "colonial competitive algorithm "in order to tune the sliding surface slope and the switching gain of the discontinuous part in SMC structure. This process decreases the integral of absolute errors which results in tracking the desired inputs by the outputs in designing a controller for robot manipulator. Simulation results prove that the optimized performance obtained through CCA significantly reduces the chattering phenomena and results in better trajectory tracking compared to typical trial and error methods.

The main purpose of this paper is to design a suitable control scheme that confronts the uncertainties in a robot. Sliding mode controller (SMC) is one of the most important and powerful nonlinear robust controllers which has been applied to many non-linear systems. However, this controller has some intrinsic drawbacks, namely, the chattering phenomenon, equivalent dynamic formulation, and sensitivity to the noise. This paper focuses on applying artificial intelligence integrated with the sliding mode control theory. Proposed adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller optimized by Particle swarm algorithm (AFSMC-PSO) is a Mamdani’s error based fuzzy logic controller (FLS) with 7 rules integrated with sliding mode framework to provide the adaptation in order to eliminate the high frequency oscillation (chattering) and adjust the linear sliding surface slope in presence of many different disturbances and the best coefficients for the sliding surface were found by offline tuning Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Utilizing another fuzzy logic controller as an impressive manner to replace it with the equivalent dynamic part is the main goal to make the model free controller which compensate the unknown system dynamics parameters and obtain the desired control performance without exact information about the mathematical formulation of model.