H_∞ controller synthesis of piecewise discrete time linear systems

This paper presents an H∞ controller design method for pieccwise discrete time linear systems based on a piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function. It is shown that the resulting closed loop system is globally stable with guaranteed H∞ perfomiance and the controller can be obtained by solving a set of bilinear lnatrLx inequalities. It has been shown that piecewise quadratic Lyapunov functions are less conservative than the global qnadnmc Lyapunov functions. A simulation example is also given to illustrate the advantage of the proposed approach.     

Output feedback controller design for uncertain piecewise linear systems

This paper proposes output feedback controller design methods for uncertain piecewise linear systems based on piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function. The α-stability of closed-loop systems is also considered. It is shown that the output feedback controller design procedure of uncertain piecewise linear systems with α-stability constraint can be cast as solving a set of bilinear matrix inequalities （BMIs）. The BMIs problem in this paper can be solved iteratively as a set of two convex optimization problems involving linear matrix inequalities （LMIs） which can be solved numerically efficiently. A numerical example shows the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

Enhanced H∞ Filtering for Continuous-time State-delayed Systems

The H∞ filtering problem for continuous-time polytopic uncertain time-delay systems is investigated. Attention is focused on the design of full-order filters guaranteeing a prescribed H∞ attenuation level for the filtering error system. First, a simple alternative proof is given for an improved linear matrix inequality （LMI） representation of H∞ performance. Then, based on the performance criterion which keeps Lyapunov matrices out of the product of system dynamic matrices, a suficient condition for the existence of robust estimators is formulated in terms of LMIs, and the corresponding filter design is cast into a convex optimization problem which can be effciently handled by using standard numerical algorithms. It is shown that the proposed design strategy allows the use of parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions and hence it is less conservative than some earlier results. A numerical example is employed to demonstrate the feasibility and advantage of the proposed design.     

Output Feedback Tracking Control for a Class of Switched Nonlinear Systems with Time-varying Delay

This paper studies the problem of tracking control for a class of switched nonlinear systems with time-varying delay. Based on the average dwell-time and piecewise Lyapunov functional methods, a new exponential stability criterion is obtained for the switched nonlinear systems. The designed output feedback H∞controller can be obtained by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities(LMIs).Moreover, the proposed method does not need that a common Lyapunov function exists for the switched systems, and the switching signal just depends on time. A simulation example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design scheme.     

Distributed \begin{document}$H_{2}/H_\infty$\end{document} Filter Design for Discrete-Time Switched Systems

This paper addresses an infinite horizon distributed H2/H∞ filtering for discrete-time systems under conditions of bounded power and white stochastic signals. The filter algorithm is designed by computing a pair of gains namely the estimator and the coupling. Herein, we implement a filter to estimate unknown parameters such that the closed-loop multi-sensor accomplishes the desired performances of the proposed H2 and H∞ schemes over a finite horizon. A switched strategy is implemented to switch between the states once the operation conditions have changed due to disturbances. It is shown that the stability of the overall filtering-error system with H2/H∞ performance can be established if a piecewise-quadratic Lyapunov function is properly constructed. A simulation example is given to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Quantized H ∞ fault-tolerant control for networked control systems

Quantized H_∞ fault-tolerant control for networked control systems (NCSs) with partial actuator fault with respect to actuators is concerned in this paper. Considering transmission delay, packet dropout and quantization, a synthesis model with partial actuator fault is established. The piecewise constant controller is adopted to model NCS with the transmission delay and packet dropout. Due to data transmitted in practical NCSs should be quantized before they are sent to the next network node, the logarithmic static and time-invariant quantizers at the sensor and controller sides are proposed in the paper. For the established model, an appropriate type of Lyapunov functions is provided to investigate the delay-dependent H_∞ control problem. According to an optimal problem, the controller that makes the system achieve the best performance is designed. Finally, an illustrative example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Robust H_∞ control for discrete-time polytopic uncertain systems with linear fractional vertices

The robust H∞ control problem for discrete-time uncertain systems is investigated in this paper. The uncertain systems are modelled as a polytopic type with linear fractional uncertainty in the vertices. A new linear matrix inequality (LMI) characterization of the H∞ performance for discrete systems is given by introducing a matrix slack variable which decouples the matrix of a Lyapunov function candidate and the parametric matrices of the system. This feature enables one to derive sufficient conditions for discrete uncertain systems by using parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions with less conservativeness. Based on the result, H∞ performance analysis and controller design are carried out. A numerical example is included to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.     

Stability analysis of the Euler-Bernoulli beam with multi-delay controller

In this paper, we investigate the stabilization of an Euler-Bernoulli beam with time delays in the boundary controller. The boundary velocity feedback law is applied to obtain the closed-loop system. It is shown that this system generates a C0- semigroup of linear operators. Moreover, the stability of the closed-loop system is discussed for different values of the controller constants and time delays via using spectral analysis and a suitable Lyapunov function.     

Transfigured loop shaping controller and its application to underwater vehicle

1 Introduction It is di?cult to directly design the controller for an underwater vehicle using a H∞ standard problem. This is because there is a pole at the origin in the mathe- matical model[1]. A Loop shaping method can be used to design a H∞ robust controller so as to solve this problem, however, the output response to step inputs results in large overshoot when applied practically. It is not very e?ective to solve this problem by iterative tuning of weighting functions, because this re…     

Event-triggered H∞ consensus control for input-constrained multi-agent systems via reinforcement learning

This article presents an event-triggered H∞ consensus control scheme using reinforcement learning (RL) for nonlinear second-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with control constraints. First, considering control constraints, the constrained H∞ consensus problem is transformed into a multi-player zero-sum game with non-quadratic performance functions. Then, an event-triggered control method is presented to conserve communication resources and a new triggering condition is developed for each agent to make the triggering threshold independent of the disturbance attenuation level. To derive the optimal controller that can minimize the cost function in the case of worst disturbance, a constrained Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) equation is defined. Since it is difficult to solve analytically due to its strongly non-linearity, reinforcement learning (RL) is implemented to obtain the optimal controller. In specific, the optimal performance function and the worst-case disturbance are approximated by a time-triggered critic network; meanwhile, the optimal controller is approximated by event-triggered actor network. After that, Lyapunov analysis is utilized to prove the uniformly ultimately bounded (UUB) stability of the system and that the network weight errors are UUB. Finally, a simulation example is utilized to demonstrate the effectiveness of the control strategy provided.     

On a general class of quadratic hopping sequences

Based upon quadratic polynomials over the finite field, a new class of frequency hopping sequences with large family size suitable for applications in time/frequency hopping CDMA systems, multi-user radar and sonar systems is proposed and investigated. It is shown that the new time/frequency hopping sequences have at most one hit in their autocorrelation functions and at most two hits in their crosscorrelation functions except for a special case, and their family size is much larger than the conventional quadratic hopping sequences. The percentage of full collisions for the new quadratic hopping sequences is discussed. In addition, the average number of hits for the new quadratic hopping sequences, quadratic congruence sequences, extended quadratic congruence sequences and the general linear hopping sequences are also derived.     

Mixed <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript>/<Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis><Subscript>∞</Subscript> filtering for a class of high-speed sampling uncertain systems

The problem of mixed H2/H∞ filtering for polytopic Delta operator systems is investigated. The aim is to design a linear asymptotically stable filter which guarantees that the filtering error system has different performances in different filtering channels. Based on a parameter-dependent Lyapunov function, a new mixed H2/H∞ performance criterion is presented. Upon this performance criterion, a sufficient condition for the full-order mixed H2/H∞ filter is derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. The filter can be obtained from the solution of a convex optimization problem. The proposed filter design procedure is less conservative than the strategy based on the quadratic stability notion. A numerical example is given to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.     

On decoupled or coupled control of bank-to-turn missiles

In this paper, the differences between decoupled and coupled control of bank-to-turn(BTT) missiles have been studied in detail from three aspects: stabilizability, linear quadratic regulator(LQR) control and tracking control. It is found that for some parameters the BTT missile can be controlled by a decoupled way,especially for stabilizability and LQR control. However, for some others, the BTT missile cannot be decoupled and a coupled control method is needed. Therefore, for a practical flight control system, the decouplability should be studied before giving a decoupled control method. In addition, in order to avoid the disadvantages of LQR control method, an improved H∞controller design method is given. Combined with tracking control problem, a new H∞control method is established for trajectory tracking.     

具有块三角结构非线性切换系统的二次稳定性

The problem of globally quadratic stability of switched nonlinear systems in block-triangular form under arbitrary switching is addressed. Under the assumption that all block-subsystems are zero input-to-state stable, a sufficient condition for the problem to be solvable is presented. A common Lyapunov function is constructed iteratively by using the Lyapunov functions of block-subsystems.     

线性离散奇异系统的不定二次最优控制问题: Krein空间方法

The finite time horizon indefinite linear quadratic(LQ) optimal control problem for singular linear discrete time-varying systems is discussed. Indefinite LQ optimal control problem for singular systems can be transformed to that for standard state-space systems under a reasonable assumption. It is shown that the indefinite LQ optimal control problem is dual to that of projection for backward stochastic systems. Thus, the optimal LQ controller can be obtained by computing the gain matrices of Kalman filter. Necessary and sufficient conditions guaranteeing a unique solution for the indefinite LQ problem are given. An explicit solution for the problem is obtained in terms of the solution of Riccati difference equations.     

H2 /H∞ control of networked control system with random time delays

This paper investigates the H 2 /H ∞ control problem for a class of discrete-time networked control systems with random communication time delays. Both sensor-to-controller (S-C) and controller-to-actuator (C-A) random network-induced delays are considered. Two independent Markov chains are used to model the S-C and C-A random delays. The resulting closed-loop system is a jump linear time-delay system induced by two Markov chains. Sufficient conditions for existence of H 2 /H ∞ controller are established by free-weighting matrix and stochastic Lyapunov functions. A simulation example illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

H∞ Design for Sampled-Data Systems via Lifting Technique： Conditions and Limitation

The initial motivation of the lifting technique is to solve the H∞ control problems. However, the conventional weighted H∞ design does not meet the conditions required by lifting, so the result often leads to a misjudgement of the design. Two conditions required by using the lifting technique are presented based on the basic formulae of the lifting. It is pointed out that only the H∞ disturbance attenuation problem with no weighting functions can meet these conditions, hence, the application of the lifting technique is quite limited.     

H_∞ Design for Sampled-Data Systems via Lifting Technique: Conditions and Limitation

The initial motivation of the lifting technique is to solve the H∞control problems. However, the conventional weighted H∞design does not meet the conditions required by lifting, so the result often leads to a misjudgement of the design. Two conditions required by using the lifting technique are presented based on the basic formulae of the lifting. It is pointed out that only the H∞disturbance attenuation problem with no weighting functions can meet these conditions, hence, the application of the lifting technique is quite limited.     

采样系统的提升法H∞ 设计:条件和局限性

The initial motivation of the lifting technique is to solve the H∞ control problems. However, the conventional weighted H∞ design does not meet the conditions required by lifting, so the result often leads to a misjudgement of the design. Two conditions required by using the lifting technique are presented based on the basic formulae of the lifting. It is pointed out that only the H∞ disturbance attenuation problem with no weighting functions can meet these conditions, hence, the application of the lifting technique is quite limited.     

Improved Results on Robust H∞ Control of Uncertain Discrete-time Systems with Time-varying Delay

In this paper, the robust H∞ control problem for uncertain discrete-time systems with time-varying state delay is con- sidered. Based on the Lyapunov functional method, and by resorting to the new technique for estimating the upper bound of the difference of the Lyapunov functional, a new less conservative sufficient condition for the existence of a robust H∞ controller is obtained. Moreover, the cone complementary linearisation procedure is employed to solve the nonconvex feasibility problem. Finally, several numerical examples are presented to show the effectiveness and less conservativeness of the proposed method.