Observer based output feedback regulation of a class of feedforward nonlinear systems with uncertain input and state delays using adaptive gain

We consider a global regulation problem of a class of feedforward nonlinear systems with uncertain delays by output feedback. The considered system is a generalized feedforward time-delay nonlinear system in the sense that an additional uncertain constant delay exists in the main control input to the system and feedforward nonlinearity includes states and input which have uncertain time-varying delays. Moreover, when feedforward nonlinearity satisfies some restrictive condition, we extend our control problem to the case such that the delay in the main control input is also a time-varying delay. To globally regulate the considered system, we develop an output feedback controller whose gain-scaling factor involves an adaptive dynamic. Two examples are given for illustration.     

Discrete-time sliding mode control for uncertain systems with state and input delays

This article presents a discrete-time sliding mode control method for the robust stabilisation of linear uncertain multi-input discrete-time systems with state and input delays. The systems are assumed to have structured mismatched time-varying parameter uncertainties. A specified switching surface is proposed and a sliding mode controller is derived to ensure the existence of the quasi-sliding mode. Based on the improved Lyapunov function and linear matrix inequality technique, delay-independent sufficient conditions for the design of a stable switching surface are given and the stability of the overall closed-loop system is guaranteed. Neither chattering phenomenon will occur nor the knowledge of upper bound of uncertainties is required. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed control methodology.     

Guaranteed cost control of discrete-time uncertain systems with both state and input delays

The paper proposes a guaranteed cost feedback control for discrete-time uncertain systems with both state and input delays. The delays are assumed to be time-varying and bounded. In addition to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties, the class of admissible uncertainties and nonlinearities of the system comprehend several types of uncertainties frequently investigated in the literature. Using some recent developments, new sufficient conditions for the existence of the guaranteed cost control are given by bilinear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

带有状态和输入时滞的不确定广义系统的鲁棒预测控制

针对一类同时具有状态和输入时滞的不确定广义系统, 研究其鲁棒预测控制问题, 给出了鲁棒预测控制器的综合方法. 运用Lyapunov稳定性理论和线性矩阵不等式方法, 近似求解无穷时域二次性能指标优化问题, 从而得到鲁棒预测控制器存在的充分条件和显式表达式. 证明了优化问题在初始时刻的可行解, 可以保证广义闭环时滞系统是渐近稳定且正则无脉冲的. 仿真算例验证了所提出方法的有效性.     

Delay-dependent stability analysis and controller synthesis for Markovian jump systems with state and input delays

This paper focuses on the problem of delay-dependent robust stochastic stability analysis and controller synthesis for Markovian jump systems with state and input delays. It is assumed that the delays are constant and unknown, but their upper bounds are known. By constructing a new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and introducing some appropriate slack matrices, new delay-dependent stochastic stability and stabilization conditions are proposed by means of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). An important feature of the results proposed here is that all the robust stability and stabilization conditions are dependent on the upper bound of the delays. Memoryless state feedback controllers are designed such that the closed-loop system is robustly stochastically stable. Some numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Design of large-scale time-delayed systems with dead-zone input via variable structure control

To deal with time delay in the interconnection and dead-zone nonlinearity in the input, a new decentralized variable structure control (DVSC) law is proposed for a class of uncertain large-scale system (LSS) in this paper. The developed DVSC for the interconnected systems is realized independently through the delay terms. The applied control effort of the DVSC law is always out of the dead-band to eliminate the effects arisen from the dead-zone nonlinearity in the input function. In the sliding mode, it can be seen that the invariance condition also holds. It is worth noting that the traditional large-scale time-delayed system is only a special case in this work. Illustrative examples are given to verify the validity of the developed controller.     

Robust stabilization of uncertain systems with unknown input delay

This paper is concerned with the robust controller design for uncertain input-delayed systems. The time delay is assumed to be an unknown constant. A controller with delay feedback for the robust stabilization of the system is proposed. The stability criterion of the closed-loop system is derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Examples show that in many cases our method can give less conservative results than those by the existing methods. Moreover, for the same cases, our controllers have lower feedback gains than the existing ones.     

Adaptive control for a class of nonlinear systems with time-varying delays in state and input

This paper is concerned with the adaptive stabilization problem of uncertain input delayed systems.A solution to this problem is given for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with time-varying delays in both state and input.An adaptive asymptotically stabilizing controller,which can guarantee the stability of the closed-loop system and the convergence of the original system state,is designed by means of the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional stability theory combined with linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) an...     

Adaptive backstepping control of uncertain systems with unknown input time-delay

In this paper, we establish the robustness of adaptive controllers designed using the standard backstepping technique with respect to unmodeled dynamics involving unknown input time delay. While noting that some results on robust stabilization of non-minimum phase systems using the backstepping technique are available, we realize that the standard adaptive backstepping technique has only been shown applicable to unknown minimum phase systems. Another significance of our result is to enable the class of systems stablizable by adaptive backstepping controllers to cross the boundary of minimum phase systems, since systems with input time delay belong to non-minimum phase systems. Moreover, the L₂ and L_∞ norms of the system output are also established as functions of design parameters. This implies that the transient system performance can be adjusted by choosing suitable design parameters.     

New results on delay-dependent robust stability criteria of uncertain fuzzy systems with state and input delays

This paper focuses on the delay-dependent stability analysis and stabilization for uncertain T-S fuzzy control systems with state and input delays. The key features of the approach include the introduction of uncorrelated augmented matrix items into the Lyapunov functional and the use of a tighter bounding technology. In fact, these techniques lead to more general and less conservative stability conditions that guarantee a wide stability region. Our delay-dependent stability conditions thus obtained are given in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, some examples are included to show that the proposed criteria improve the existing results significantly.     

一类输入受限不确定时滞系统的准Min-Max模型预测控制

针对一类输入受限离散不确定时滞系统,提出一种基于准Ｍｉｎ-Ｍａｘ的模型预测控制器设计方法．定义了时滞系统的鲁棒性能指标,给出了系统稳定的充分条件,通过求解ＬＭＩ凸优化获得控制器．准Ｍｉｎ-Ｍａｘ预测控制将当前控制量作为独立优化变量,与其他作为反馈控制的时域控制序列分开处理,有效地降低了算法的保守性,提高了可行性．仿真算例验证了所提出控制方法的有效性．     

Delay-dependent robust and non-fragile guaranteed cost control for uncertain singular systems with time-varying state and input delays

This paper considers the design problems of a delay-dependent robust and non-fragile guaranteed cost controller for singular systems with parameter uncertainties and time-varying delays in state and control input. The designed controller, under the possibility of feedback gain variations, can guarantee that a closed-loop system is regular, impulse-free, stable, an upper bound of guaranteed cost function, and non-fragility in spite of parameter uncertainties, time-varying delays, and controller fragility. The existence condition of the controller, the controller’s design method, the upper bound of guaranteed cost function, and the measure of non-fragility in the controller are proposed using the linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness and less conservatism of the proposed design method. Recommended by Editorial Board member Guang-Hong Yang under the direction of Editor Young Il Lee. Jong-Hae Kim received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics from Kyungpook National University in 1993, 1995, and 1998, respectively. He was with STRC at Kyungpook National University from Nov. 1998 to Feb. 2002. He has been with Sun Moon University since March, 2002. His research interests focus on robust control, signal processing, and industrial application systems.     

Robust adaptive tracking control of uncertain systems with time-varying input delays

In this paper, the problem of robust adaptive tracking control of uncertain systems with time-varying input delays is studied. Under some mild assumptions, a robust adaptive controller is designed by using adaptive backstepping technique such that the system is globally stable and the system output can track a given reference signal. At the same time, a root mean square type of bound is obtained for the tracking error as a function of design parameters and thus can be adjusted. Finally, one numerical example is given to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Design of state estimators for uncertain linear systems using quadratic boundedness

The notion of quadratic boundedness, which allows one to address the stability of a dynamic system in the presence of bounded disturbances, is applied to the design of state estimators for discrete-time linear systems with polytopic uncertainties. Necessary and sufficient stability conditions are stated and upper bounding sequences on the estimation error are derived. For the purpose of design, such conditions can be expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), thus guaranteeing the numerical tractability. Simulation results are reported to show the effectiveness of the approach.     

含状态和输入时滞的网络控制系统镇定

研究含有更广泛被控对象的网络控制系统镇定问题．假定被控对象含有时变状态和输入时滞,采用Lyapunov-Krasovskii泛函方法分析了系统的稳定性．所提出的方法可转化为线性矩阵不等式的形式,因而可较为容易地求得控制器和广义最大允许时延．仿真结果说明了所提出方法的有效性．     

Control of large scale interconnected systems with input and state delays using decentralized adaptive state observers

This paper investigates the problem of decentralized model reference adaptive control (MRAC) for a class of large scale interconnected systems with both state and input delays. The upper bounds of the interconnection terms are considered to be unknown. Time varying delays in the nonlinear interconnection terms are bounded and nonnegative continuous functions and their derivatives are not necessarily less than one. For exact prediction, a decentralized adaptive state observer is designed and a nested predictor based approach is established to predict the future states of the input delay compensation. It is shown that the solutions of uncertain large‐scale time‐delay interconnected systems converge uniformly exponentially to a desired small ball. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches is illustrated by two examples.     

Delay-dependent stabilization of linear systems with time-varying state and input delays

The integral-inequality method is a new way of tackling the delay-dependent stabilization problem for a linear system with time-varying state and input delays: . In this paper, a new integral inequality for quadratic terms is first established. Then, it is used to obtain a new state- and input-delay-dependent criterion that ensures the stability of the closed-loop system with a memoryless state feedback controller. Finally, some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate that control systems designed based on the criterion are effective, even though neither (A,B₁) nor (A+A₁,B₁) is stabilizable.     

Adaptive robust control of uncertain systems with state and input delay

In this paper, adaptive robust control of uncertain systems with multiple time delays in states and input is considered. It is assumed that the parameter uncertainties are time varying norm-bounded whose bounds are unknown but their functional properties are known. To overcome the effect of input delay on the closed loop system stability, new Lyapunov Krasovskii functional will be introduced. It is shown that the proposed adaptive robust controller guarantees globally uniformly exponentially convergence of all system solutions to a ball with any certain convergence rate. Moreover, if there is no disturbance in the system, asymptotic stability of the closed loop system will be established. The proposed design condition is formulated in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI) which can be easily solved by LMI Toolbox in Matlab. Finally, an illustrative example is included to show the effectiveness of results developed in this paper.