Robust stability and stabilization of discrete singular systems with interval time-varying delay and linear fractional uncertainty

The robust stability and robust stabilization problems for discrete singular systems with interval time-varying delay and linear fractional uncertainty are discussed. A new delay-dependent criterion is established for the nominal discrete singular delay systems to be regular, causal and stable by employing the linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach. It is shown that the newly proposed criterion can provide less conservative results than some existing ones. Then, with this criterion, the problems of robust stability and robust stabilization for uncertain discrete singular delay systems are solved, and the delay-dependent LMI conditions are obtained. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the e?ectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Observer‐based Reliable Control for Discrete Time Systems: An Average Dwell Time Approach

This paper deals with the problem of reliable control for discrete time systems with actuator failures. The actuator is assumed to fail occasionally and can recover over a time interval. During the time of suffering failures, the considered closed‐loop system is assumed unstable. Using an average dwell time method and under the condition that the activation time ratio between the system without actuator failures and the system with actuator failures is not less than a specified constant, an observer‐based feedback controller is developed in terms of linear matrix inequalities such that the resulting closed‐loop system is exponentially stable. An example is included to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Input‐to‐state stability of min‐max MPC scheme for nonlinear time‐varying delay systems

This paper studies the robustness problem of the min–max model predictive control (MPC) scheme for constrained nonlinear time‐varying delay systems subject to bounded disturbances. The notion of the input‐to‐state stability (ISS) of nonlinear time‐delay systems is introduced. Then by using the Lyapunov–Krasovskii method, a delay‐dependent sufficient condition is derived to guarantee input‐to‐state practical stability (ISpS) of the closed‐loop system by way of nonlinear matrix inequalities (NLMI). In order to lessen the online computational demand, the non‐convex min‐max optimization problem is then converted to a minimization problem with linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints and a suboptimal MPC algorithm is provided. Finally, an example of a truck‐trailer is used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed results. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Augmented Lyapunov functional approach for stability of neutral systems with mixed delays

This paper is concerned with the neutral‐delay‐dependent and discrete‐delay‐dependent stability for uncertain neutral systems with mixed delays and norm‐bounded uncertainties. Through constructing a new augmented Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional and proving its positive definiteness, introducing some slack matrices and using integral inequality, the improved delay‐dependent stability criteria are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the significant improvement on the conservatism of the delay bound over some existing results. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Comments on “Wirtinger-based integral inequality: Application to time-delay systems [Automatica 49 (2013) 2860–2866]”

In a recent paper (Automatica 49 (2013) 2860–2866), the Wirtinger-based inequality has been introduced to derive tractable stability conditions for time-delay or sampled-data systems. We point out that there exist two errors in Theorem 8 for the stability analysis of sampled-data systems, and the correct theorem is presented.     

具有一步随机时滞和多丢包的网络系统H∞滤波器设计

在网络系统中由于连接传感器和滤波器的网络带宽有限,系统测量数据在传输中会出现随机时延甚至丢失. 本文讨论了具有一步随机时延和丢包的网络系统的H∞滤波器设计问题.基于新近提出的同时描述随机时延和丢包的模型,利用线性矩阵不等式方法设计线性滤波器,使得滤波误差系统均方指数稳定,并具有给定的H∞性能. 滤波器参数通过求解一个线性矩阵不等式得到.仿真研究说明了所提出算法的有效性.     

A virtual actuator and sensor approach for fault tolerant control of LPV systems

In this paper, a fault tolerant control (FTC) strategy using virtual actuators and sensors for linear parameter varying (LPV) systems is proposed. The main idea of this FTC method, initially developed for LTI systems, is to reconfigure the control loop such that the nominal controller could still be used without need of retuning it. The plant with the faulty actuator/sensor is modified adding the virtual actuator/sensor block that masks the actuator/sensor fault. The suggested technique is an active FTC strategy that reconfigures the virtual actuator/sensor on-line taking into account faults and operating point changes. The stability of the reconfigured control loop is guaranteed if the faulty plant is stabilizable/detectable. The LPV virtual actuator/sensor is designed using polytopic LPV techniques and linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). A two-tank system simulator is used to assess the performance of the proposed method. In particular, it is shown that the application of the proposed technique results in an improvement, in terms of performance, with respect to the LTI counterpart.     

一类离散混沌系统的传输受限同步问题

研究了一类离散混沌系统信息受限条件下的同步问题.将具有离散形式的混沌驱动系统和具有控制输入的响应系统通过一个有限容量信道的通讯网络进行连接.在这种情况下,设计了合适的编解码方法使得传输误差在一定的条件下达到渐近稳定.同时,在线性矩阵不等式条件下,获得了同步误差方程关于传输误差是输入状态稳定,从而实现了混沌系统在信道容量有限条件下的完全同步.最后,通过Fold混沌系统验证了本文方法的有效性.     

宏观过程的方向与限度——可逆性判据(Ⅱ)

本文从平衡判据的普遍规律--克劳修斯不等式出发,按照不同的过程条件,分别讨论了熵判据、亥氏函数和吉氏函数判据以及相变化和化学变化的可逆性判据.同时指出了这些平衡判据所包含的物理意义及它们间的一些内在联系.