Output regulation of periodic signals for DPS: an infinite-dimensional signal Generator

In this note, we consider output regulation and disturbance rejection of periodic signals via state feedback in the setting of exponentially stabilizable linear infinite-dimensional systems. We show that if an infinite-dimensional exogenous system is generating periodic reference signals, solvability of the state feedback regulation problem is equivalent to solvability of the so called equations. This result allows us to consider asymptotic tracking of periodic reference signals which only have absolutely summable Fourier coefficients, while in related existing work the reference signals are confined to be infinitely smooth. We also discuss solution of the regulator equations and construct the actual feedback law to achieve output regulation in the single-input-single-output (SISO) case: The output regulation problem is solvable if the transfer function of the stabilized plant does not have zeros at the frequencies i/spl omega//sub n/ of the periodic reference signals and if the sequence ([CR(i/spl omega//sub n/, A+BK)B]/sup -1/ /spl times/(Q/spl phi//sub n/-CR(i/spl omega//sub n/, A+BK)P/spl phi//sub n/)) /sub n/spl isin/z//spl isin/l/sup n2/. A one-dimensional heat equation is used as an illustrative example.     

Output regulation of nonlinear singularly perturbed systems based on T-S fuzzy model

Based on the T_S model,the output regulation of nonlinear singularly perturbed systems via state feedback is discussed.It is shown that,under standard assumptions,this problem is solvable if and only if certain linear matrix equations are solvable.Once these equations are solvable, the state feedback regulator can easily be constructed.     

Output regulation of nonlinear singularly perturbed systems based on T-S fuzzy model

1IntroductionNonlinear singularly perturbed systems arise in a widevariety of engineering applications,representative examplesinclude catalytic continuous stirred_tank reactors[1],biochemical reactors[2],fluidized catalytic crackers[3],flexible mechanical systems[4],electromechanical networks[5],etc.For such systems,the output regulation problem,i.e.the problem of having the output tracking reference(or rejecting disturbance)signals produced by someexternal generator,is ofimportance.In linear …     

Output regulation of time-varying systems

In this paper the output regulation problem for linear time-varying systems is considered. Replacing the regulator equation by a regulator differential equation we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the problem to be solvable. As in the time-invariant case we first solve the output regulation problem by state feedback and obtain the required condition. Then with the aid of observers we show that the same condition solves the general problem with measurement feedback. We then consider the classes of almost periodic and periodic systems and refine the main results. A simple example of an almost periodic system and simulation results are given to illustrate the theory.     

Output regulation of linear plants subject to constraints

Output regulation problems for continuous-time linear systems with state and/or input constraints are studied. The problems are formulated in global and semi-global setting by using state or full information feedback. The goal of this paper is to develop solvability conditions for the posed problems. Moreover, appropriate regulators are constructed under the solvability conditions. To state the solvability conditions clearly, a taxonomy of constraints is introduced which delineates the constraints into several categories. Such a taxonomy of constraints provides a classification of linear plants with constraints and identifies what types of output regulation problems are solvable. Results developed here include as a special case the results obtained in the literature for systems with only input constraints. The constraint taxonomy also identifies some intrinsically hard constraints (non-right invertible constraints) for which the solvability conditions of global/semi-global output regulation problems are not clear yet. As a special case of output regulation, we also consider tracking problems with constraints. It is shown that if there exists a state feedback controller with a stabilizing domain of attraction, then one can find a regulator with a tracking domain of attraction arbitrarily close to the stabilizing domain.     

非线性控制系统的全局输出调节1)

讨论了非线性控制系统的全局输出调节.首先推广精确线性化方法,通过状态反馈和微分同胚将非线性系统的全局输出调节问题,转化为线性系统对非线性系统的跟踪问题.通过提出可解性的概念,得到线性系统对非线性系统全局跟踪的条件,该结果是线性系统结果的推广.在反馈同胚变换全局成立条件下,得到非线性控制系统全局输出调节问题的充分条件,该条件对外部系统只做较弱的可解性假设,在反馈同胚变换局部成立的条件下,可得局部结果.     

非线性控制系统的全局输出调节

讨论了非线性控制系统的全局输出调节.首先推广精确线性化方法,通过状态反馈 和微分同胚将非线性系统的全局输出调节问题,转化为线性系统对非线性系统的跟踪问题. 通过提出可解性的概念,得到线性系统对非线性系统全局跟踪的条件,该结果是线性系统结 果的推广.在反馈同胚变换全局成立条件下,得到非线性控制系统全局输出调节问题的充分 条件,该条件对外部系统只做较弱的可解性假设,在反馈同胚变换局部成立的条件下,可得局 部结果.     

A global state feedback output regulating control for uncertain systems in strict feedback form

A family of single-input, single-output, nonlinear systems in strict feedback form with uncertain constant parameters which appear linearly and belong to a known compact set Π is considered. A global robust output regulation problem via state feedback is addressed and solved under the assumptions that the regulator equations are solvable in Π, the output equation does not depend on uncertain parameters, no modelled disturbances affect the system and the output reference signal is generated by a known exosystem whose state is bounded and available for feedback. Robust adaptive techniques are used to guarantee closed loop boundedness and to achieve, without requiring persistency of excitation, global asymptotic output regulation for a class of feedback linearizable systems which may have unbounded uncertain tracking dynamics or may not have a well-defined global relative degree.     

Fixed-time output regulation of linear delay systems by smooth time-varying control

This article investigates the fixed-time output regulation problem (FxTORP) for linear systems in the presence of input delay. A linear controller consisting of the linear periodic delayed feedback (PDF) gain and the feedforward gain obtained by solving regulator equations is designed, such that FxTORP is addressed. If only the measurable output can be used for feedback, a linear observer with periodic coefficient and artificial delay is designed so that its state converges to the state of the augmented system at a prescribed finite time. Based on the estimated state, the output regulation problem can also be solved by using observer-based output feedback. The most significant advantages of this article are that the PDF gain can be taken as smooth and the output regulation problem is achieved within a prespecified regulation time. Finally, a simulation example is given to substantiate the validity of the proposed approaches.     

Cooperative global optimal preview tracking control of linear multi-agent systems: an internal model approach

This paper investigates the cooperative global optimal preview tracking problem of linear multi-agent systems under the assumption that the output of a leader is a previewable periodic signal and the topology graph contains a directed spanning tree. First, a type of distributed internal model is introduced, and the cooperative preview tracking problem is converted to a global optimal regulation problem of an augmented system. Second, an optimal controller, which can guarantee the asymptotic stability of the augmented system, is obtained by means of the standard linear quadratic optimal preview control theory. Third, on the basis of proving the existence conditions of the controller, sufficient conditions are given for the original problem to be solvable, meanwhile a cooperative global optimal controller with error integral and preview compensation is derived. Finally, the validity of theoretical results is demonstrated by a numerical simulation.     

一类非线性控制系统的输出调节

对一类非线性控制系统的输出调节问题,首先通过推广的精确线性化方法,将其转化为一类特殊的受扰线性控制系统对非线性系统的跟踪问题,然后利用可解性的概念解决了该问题,得到了非线性系统输出调节问题的局部和全局的结果。     

Analysis of an iterative scheme for approximate regulation for nonlinear systems

This paper concerns the analysis of an iterative scheme delivering approximate control laws for the tracking regulation problems for nonlinear systems. The procedure can be applied to finite‐ and infinite‐dimensional systems, and the underlying methodology derives from the geometric methods, which have been developed for both linear and nonlinear systems. In the nonlinear case, the main tool is the center manifold theorem. Indeed, in the geometric methodology, under the assumption that the signals to be tracked are generated by a finite‐dimensional exo‐system, the desired control is obtained by solving a pair of operator equations called the regulator equations. In this paper, we extend the concept of regulator equations to what we refer to as the dynamic regulator equations. Just as it is generally quite difficult to solve the regulator equations, it can be equally difficult to solve the dynamic regulator equations. As the authors have already shown in the linear case, a straightforward attempt to solve the dynamic regulator equations leads to a singular system, which can be regularized to obtain an iterative scheme that provides approximate control laws that provide accurate tracking with very a small tracking error after only a couple of iterations. In this paper, we generalize the iterative scheme to nonlinear systems and provide error estimates for the first 3 iterations. Both finite‐ and infinite‐dimensional examples are given to validate the estimates. We comment that the method has also been applied to a wide range of nonlinear distributed parameter examples described in the references.     

一类线性切换系统的事件触发输出调节问题

通过设计事件触发状态反馈控制器,研究一类线性切换系统的输出调节问题.相比于时间触发控制,事件触发控制可显著地降低控制任务执行的次数.由于事件触发时刻与切换时刻的相互混合,导致切换系统控制器的设计十分困难.本文通过给出事件触发机制、状态反馈控制器和满足平均驻留时间的切换信号联合设计的方案,得到系统输出调节问题可解的充分条件.非共同坐标变换突破原有各子系统的调节器方程组具有共同解的限制.此外,为了避免Zeno现象,给出相邻事件触发间隔时间存在一个正下界.最后,应用切换RLC电路系统进行仿真验证结论的有效性.     

The linear periodic output regulation problem

The problem of asymptotic output regulation for linear systems driven by time-varying, T-periodic exosystems is considered in this paper. Necessary and sufficient condition for its solvability based on the existence of periodic solutions of differential Sylvester equations are derived. These conditions constitute a generalization to the periodic case of the celebrated algebraic regulator equations of Francis. A general algorithm for the synthesis of an error-feedback regulator is given. For the case of minimum-phase systems, it is shown that the regulator design can be carried out without the knowledge of the Floquet decomposition of the exosystem, thus extending significantly the applicability of the general result. The more challenging issue of robust regulation by error feedback is also addressed, and solved under a stronger observability condition.     

Output regulation of nonaffine nonlinear systems using singular perturbation theory

A control synthesis method for output regulation based on singular perturbation theory combined with inverting design is considered for a class of nonaffine nonlinear systems. The resulting control signal is defined as a solution to ＂fast＂ dynamics which inverts a series error model, whose state is exponentially stable. It is shown that, under sufficient conditions being consistent with the assumptions of singular perturbation theory, this problem is solvable with （ε） tracking error if and only if a set of first-order nonlinear partial differential equations are solvable. The control law can be easily constructed and the simulations show the feasibility and effectiveness of the controller.     

Incremental passivity and output regulation for switched nonlinear systems

This paper studies incremental passivity and global output regulation for switched nonlinear systems, whose subsystems are not required to be incrementally passive. A concept of incremental passivity for switched systems is put forward. First, a switched system is rendered incrementally passive by the design of a state-dependent switching law. Second, the feedback incremental passification is achieved by the design of a state-dependent switching law and a set of state feedback controllers. Finally, we show that once the incremental passivity for switched nonlinear systems is assured, the output regulation problem is solved by the design of global nonlinear regulator controllers comprising two components: the steady-state control and the linear output feedback stabilising controllers, even though the problem for none of subsystems is solvable. Two examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

A feedforward–feedback controller for infinite‐dimensional systems and regulation of bounded uniformly continuous signals

We design a controller for infinite‐dimensional linear systems (with bounded control, observation and feedthrough operators) which, under certain assumptions, achieves asymptotic tracking of arbitrary bounded uniformly continuous reference signals in the presence of disturbances. The proposed controller is of feedforward–feedback type: The dynamic feedback part is used to stabilize the closed‐loop system consisting of the plant and the controller, whereas the feedforward part is tuned using the regulator equations to achieve the regulation of desired signals. We also completely solve the regulator equations for SISO systems, and we discuss robustness properties of the proposed controller. A useful feature in our design is that the feedforward part of the controller can be designed independently of the feedback part. This automatically leads to a degree of robustness in the stabilizing part of the controller, which is not present in the existing state feedback controllers solving the same output regulation problem. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An optimal control approach to robust tracking of linear systems

In our early work, we show that one way to solve a robust control problem of an uncertain system is to translate the robust control problem into an optimal control problem. If the system is linear, then the optimal control problem becomes a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem, which can be solved by solving an algebraic Riccati equation. In this article, we extend the optimal control approach to robust tracking of linear systems. We assume that the control objective is not simply to drive the state to zero but rather to track a non-zero reference signal. We assume that the reference signal to be tracked is a polynomial function of time. We first investigated the tracking problem under the conditions that all state variables are available for feedback and show that the robust tracking problem can be solved by solving an algebraic Riccati equation. Because the state feedback is not always available in practice, we also investigated the output feedback. We show that if we place the poles of the observer sufficiently left of the imaginary axis, the robust tracking problem can be solved. As in the case of the state feedback, the observer and feedback can be obtained by solving two algebraic Riccati equations.     

Finite-time output regulation by bounded linear time-varying controls with applications to the satellite formation flying

This article studies the finite-time output regulation problem for linear time-invariant continuous-time systems. By using the solution to a parametric Lyapunov equation (PLE) and regulator equations, three bounded linear time-varying (LTV) state controllers composed of the LTV feedback gain and the LTV feedforward gain are designed, such that (prescribed) finite-time output regulation is solved. As a further result, a linear LTV observer-based controller is also designed. The most significant advantages of this article are that the system under consideration is more general and the output regulation problem is achieved within a user-chosen regulation time. Finally, the developed LTV state controllers are utilized to the design of the satellite formation flying control system and simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.     

Constraint adaptive output regulation of output feedback systems with application to electrostatic torsional micromirror

This paper studies a constraint adaptive output regulation design for a class of nonlinear systems with an unknown exosystem by output feedback control. First, by introducing an internal model with some known design parameter, our concerned problem may be formulated as a specific regulation problem with output constraint. Then, the barrier Lyapunov function technique is further integrated to approach the problem. It is shown that such a constraint adaptive output regulation problem is solvable without constraint violation. In particular, the constructed regulator cannot only keep the boundedness of the closed‐loop system signals but also guarantees the parameter convergence for the unknown parameter vector in the exosystem. As an application, it is illustrated that our result is applicable in tracking the control of an electrostatic torsional micromirror with physical geometry constraint. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.