基于事件触发的互联电力系统分布式负荷频率预测控制

针对具有约束和扰动的多区域互联电力系统负荷频率控制(load frequency control, LFC)问题,本文提出了一种事件触发分布式模型预测控制(event-triggered distributed model predictive control,ET-DMPC)策略.将大规模互联电力系统分解成多个动态耦合的子系统,考虑发电机变化率约束(generation rate constraint, GRC)和调速器阀门位置限制,建立分布式预测控制优化问题.为了降低系统计算负担,减少计算资源的消耗和浪费,基于预测值和系统实际状态的误差构造事件触发条件.在事件触发机制下,只有子系统满足相应的事件触发条件时,控制器才传输状态信息和求解优化问题,并与邻域子系统交互最优解作用下的关联信息.仿真结果表明,本文提出的控制策略在负荷扰动和系统参数不确定的情况下具有良好的鲁棒性,同时极大地降低了系统的计算负担.     

基于非合作博弈的分布式模型预测控制优化算法

针对基于纳什最优的分布式模型预测控制求解算法中存在的迭代次数多、收敛精度不高的缺点,提出了一种基于非合作博弈的分布式模型预测控制优化算法。该方法借鉴非合作博弈论中的针锋相对策略,将每个子系统看作博弈的参与者,在线优化过程中,各个子系统在该策略影响下使所有参与者更快促成合作,从而快速求得整体最优解。仿真表明,与传统的基于纳什最优的迭代求解相比,在给定精度情况下,提出的算法所需的迭代次数要低于传统算法;在给定迭代次数情况下,提出的算法的跟踪性能更优,在外界产生随机扰动时,该算法也具有较好的抗干扰能力。此外,将提出的算法应用于设施环境控制系统中,进一步说明了算法的有效性。     

网络化热方程的集中事件触发控制

本文对热方程建模的分布式参数化多智能体系统进行研究,设计了基于事件触发控制下的一致性边界控制器,将网络化热方程的状态驱动到相同的稳定状态.其中每一个子系统的边界信息能被测量,并且所有的智能体由无向静态拓扑连接.事件触发控制器由以下两部分组成:一是基于网络拓扑的边界局部交互作用,驱动所有子系统达到相同的状态;二是由事件触发条件建立的触发时刻.本文证明了在事件触发的边界一致性控制下两个连续触发时刻之间存在最小停留时间以避免Zeno现象;同时利用李雅普诺夫函数分析并保证了闭环系统的稳定性和适定性.最后,给出了由5个热方程组成的多智能体系统的仿真算例,结果证实了本文所设计事件触发控制器的真实性.     

基于分布式事件触发的交互系统研究

针对在多目标交互系统中,因查询方式致使交互节点资源受限的问题,提出了由事件触发的分布式控制方案。设计了分布式多目标虚拟交互系统,并采用Phantom Omni设备作为交互主端进行了仿真实验。在事件触发机制的情况下,系统每次单个对象交互视为完成一次事件触发,多个对象交互产生的触发事件采用分布式处理。在交互过程中,交互对象依据自身节点信息向控制系统发送交互过程中的采样值,并在Phantom Omni设备完成再现,操作者经由Phantom 0mni设备对交互状态进行感知。实验结果表明,该控制方案能够充分利用系统的节点资源,系统的动态特性能满足交互控制需求。     

风电介入下的多区域互联电力系统分布式经济模型预测负荷频率控制

针对风电介入下的多区域互联电力系统,提出一种分布式经济模型预测负荷频率控制策略.通过将大规模互联电力系统分解成若干个动态耦合的子系统,这些子系统能够利用网络交流并共享信息,使得各区域的控制器实现各自优化问题的求解.同时,在满足状态约束和控制输入约束的前提下,遵循传统火力发电优先、风力发电配合的原则,通过在线求解优化问题,实现风电介入下的多区域互联电力系统的负荷频率控制.为了提高系统整体运行经济性,所提出的分布式经济模型预测控制器将负荷调频成本、燃料消耗成本以及风力发电成本等经济性指标考虑在内.仿真结果表明,在阶跃负荷扰动下,所设计的控制器不仅可以满足调频要求,在降低计算负担和提高经济性能方面也具有一定优势.     

通讯信息约束下具有全局稳定性的分布式系统预测控制

本文针对一类由状态相互耦合的子系统组成的分布式系统, 提出了一种可以处理输入约束的保证稳定性的非 迭代协调分布式预测控制方法(distributed model predictive control, DMPC). 该方法中, 每个控制器在求解控制率时只与 其它控制器通信一次来满足系统对通信负荷限制; 同时, 通过优化全局性能指标来提高优化性能. 另外, 该方法在优化 问题中加入了一致性约束来限制关联子系统的估计状态与当前时刻更新的状态之间的偏差, 进而保证各子系统优化问 题初始可行时, 后续时刻相继可行. 在此基础上, 通过加入终端约束来保证闭环系统渐进稳定. 该方法能够在使用较少 的通信和计算负荷情况下, 提高系统优化性能. 即使对于强耦合系统同样能够保证优化问题的递推可行性和闭环系统的 渐进稳定性. 仿真结果验证了本文所提出方法的有效性.     

基于鞍点法的自适应分布式资源分配算法

研究一类带有不等式约束为凸函数的多智能体系统分布式资源分配问题.在资源分配问题中,各智能体拥有仅自身可知的局部成本函数和局部凸不等式约束.分布式资源分配旨在如何利用智能体间的信息交互设计一种分布式优化算法,完成定量资源分配的同时还保证最小化全局成本函数.针对该问题,基于卡罗需-库恩-塔克条件和比例积分控制思想,首先提出一种自适应分布式优化算法,其中凸不等式约束的对偶变量可实现自适应获取;然后,为了降低系统的通信资源消耗,设计一种动态事件触发控制策略以实现离散时间通信的分布式资源分配算法;最后,通过数值仿真验证所设计算法的有效性.     

基于Tube不变集的鲁棒模型预测控制北大核心CSCD

针对具有持续有界扰动的线性变参数系统,设计一种基于Tube不变集的鲁棒模型预测控制算法。离线算法结合系统多胞体模型参数变化的影响,构建系统的Tube不变集。在对应标称模型状态变量的多面体不变集算法基础上,得到系统的多面体状态允许不变集序列。在线算法通过强控制优化得到标称模型系统的控制量,以得到符合实际控制过程的系统控制量,给出本算法的详细步骤和系统稳定性证明。仿真结果验证了本算法的有效性,表明本算法将持续有界扰动对系统的影响限制在Tube不变集中,实现了系统的快速稳定控制。     

多智能体系统输入约束下的一致性与轨迹规划研究

针对多智能体系统提出了一种分布式预测控制方法. 首先, 研究了有输入约束下的一致性问题. 其次, 对环境中有障碍物的多智能体轨迹规划进行了研究, 其中只有当障碍物进入智能体有限感知区域内时, 障碍物状态信息才能被获取. 基于预测控制方法, 设计了一种分布式控制算法来解决上面两个问题. 构造一个与每个智能体动力学相交互的代价函数, 设计相应最优控制问题, 从而实现优化控制算法. 智能体间交互信息是其邻居在上一时刻的最优控制状态. 系统稳定性可以通过构造代价函数中的一个终点状态控制器与最优控制问题中的一个终点状态区域来保证. 仿真研究表明所提方法的有效性.     

有界扰动多变量Hammerstein系统输入到 状态稳定模型预测控制

考虑具有状态和控制约束的有界未知扰动多变量Hammerstein系统,提出一种具有输入到状态稳定和有限L_2增益性能的鲁棒非线性模型预测控制策略.基于多变量线性子系统H_∞控制律,滚动预测非线性代数方程的解算误差,继而在线优化计算满足系统约束条件的预测控制量.利用输入到状态稳定性概念和L_2增益思想,建立闭环系统关于该扰动信号具有鲁棒稳定性和L_2增益的充分条件,使闭环系统不仅满足系统约束,而且对不确定扰动输入和解算误差具有鲁棒性.最后以工业聚丙烯多牌号切换过程控制为例,仿真验证本文算法的有效性.     

Distributed stochastic MPC for systems with parameter uncertainty and disturbances

A distributed stochastic model predictive control algorithm is proposed for multiple linear subsystems with both parameter uncertainty and stochastic disturbances, which are coupled via probabilistic constraints. To handle the probabilistic constraints, the system dynamics is first decomposed into a nominal part and an uncertain part. The uncertain part is further divided into 2 parts: the first one is constrained to lie in probabilistic tubes that are calculated offline through the use of the probabilistic information on disturbances, whereas the second one is constrained to lie in polytopic tubes whose volumes are optimized online and whose facets' orientations are determined offline. By permitting a single subsystem to optimize at each time step, the probabilistic constraints are then reduced into a set of linear deterministic constraints, and the online optimization problem is transformed into a convex optimization problem that can be performed efficiently. Furthermore, compared to a centralized control scheme, the distributed stochastic model predictive control algorithm only requires message transmissions when a subsystem is optimized, thereby offering greater flexibility in communication. By designing a tailored invariant terminal set for each subsystem, the proposed algorithm can achieve recursive feasibility, which, in turn, ensures closed‐loop stability of the entire system. A numerical example is given to illustrate the efficacy of the algorithm.     

Observer-based event-triggered distributed model predictive control for a class of nonlinear interconnected systems

In this paper, an observer-based event-triggered distributed model predictive control method is proposed for a class of nonlinear interconnected systems with bounded disturbances, considering unmeasurable states. First of all, the state observer is constructed. It is proved that the observation error is bounded. Second, distributed model predictive controller is designed by using observed value. Meanwhile, the event-triggered mechanism is set by using the error between the actual output and the predicted output. The setting of event-triggered mechanism not only ensures the error between the actual output and the predicted output within a certain range, but also reduces the calculation amounts of solving the optimization problem. The states of each subsystem enter the terminal invariant set by distributed model predictive control, and then are stabilized in the invariant set under the action of output feedback control law. In addition, sufficient conditions are given to ensure the feasibility of the algorithm and the stability of the closed-loop system. Finally, the numerical example is given, and the simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

Distributed model predictive control of dynamically decoupled systems with coupled cost

This paper considers the distributed model predictive control (DMPC) of systems with interacting subsystems having decoupled dynamics and constraints but coupled costs. An easily-verifiable constraint is introduced to ensure asymptotic stability of the overall system in the absence of disturbance. The constraint introduced has a parameter which allows for the performance of the DMPC system to approach that controlled by a centralized model predictive controller. When the subsystems are linear and additive disturbance is present, the added constraint ensures the state of each subsystem converges to its respective minimal disturbance invariant set. The approach is demonstrated via several numerical examples.     

Enhanced information reconfiguration for distributed model predictive control for cyber‐physical networked systems

This paper considers a class of cyber‐physical networked systems, which are composed of many interacted subsystems, and are controlled in a distributed framework. The operating point of each subsystem changes with the varying of working conditions or productions, which may cause the change of the interactions among subsystems correspondingly. How to adapt to this change with good closed‐loop optimization performance and appropriate information connections is a problem. To solve this problem, the impaction of a subsystem's control action on the performance of related closed‐loop subsystems is first deduced for measuring the coupling among subsystems. Then, a distributed model predictive control (MPC) for tracking, whose subsystems online reconfigure their information structures, is proposed based on this impaction index. When the operating points changed, each local MPC calculates the impaction indices related to its structural downstream subsystems. If and only if the impaction index exceeds a defined bound, its behavior is considered by its downstream subsystem's MPC. The aim is to improve the optimization performance of entire closed‐loop systems and avoid the unnecessary information connections among local MPCs. Besides, contraction constraints are designed to guarantee that the overall system converges to the set points. The stability analysis is also provided. Simulation results show that the proposed impaction index is reasonable along with the efficiency of the proposed distributed MPC.     

Distributed MPC of polytopic uncertain systems: handling quantised communication and packet dropouts

In this paper, we study the distributed model predictive control (MPC) of polytopic uncertain systems with quantised communication and packet dropouts. The model of the whole plant is divided into a certain number of incomplete subsystems. Due to the nature of the distributed control structure, there is generally a lack of information about the state of the overall system. Each subsystem shares its information with neighbour subsystems via reliable connection. Distributed MPC controllers are designed for each subsystem by solving the linear matrix inequalities optimisation problem. The distributed state feedback laws are quantised and transmitted via communication network. An iterative algorithm is presented to make coordination among distributed state feedback laws. The communication is assumed to be affected by random packet dropouts in a representation of Bernoulli distributed white sequences with known conditional probabilities. A case study is carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed distributed MPC technique.     

Fully distributed optimization of second-order systems with disturbances based on event-triggered control

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem of second-order multiagent systems containing external disturbances. To reject the external disturbances and lead agents' states to converge to the optimal consensus point, an adaptive event-triggered controller is proposed based on the internal model principle. With the adaptive mechanism, both the controller and the event-triggering condition do not contain the parameters related to global information, such as the maximum Lipschitz constant and the minimum strongly convex constant of local cost functions, and hence the event-triggered controller is fully distributed. By utilizing the event-triggered scheme, the consumption of communication among neighbors and the computing resources are saved. Furthermore, with the Lyapunov analysis framework, the optimal consensus can be proved to achieve and Zeno behavior is excluded from the event-triggering condition. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed protocol is verified by numerical simulations.     

Distributed model predictive control over network information exchange for large-scale systems

A class of large scale systems, which is naturally divided into many smaller interacting subsystems, are usually controlled by a distributed or decentralized control framework. In this paper, a novel distributed model predictive control (MPC) is proposed for improving the performance of entire system. In which each subsystem is controlled by a local MPC and these controllers exchange a reduced set of information with each other by network. The optimization index of each local MPC considers not only the performance of the corresponding subsystem but also that of its neighbours. The proposed architecture guarantees satisfactory performance under strong interactions among subsystems. A stability analysis is presented for the unconstrained distributed MPC and the provided stability results can be employed for tuning the controller. Experiment of the application to accelerated cooling process in a test rig is provided for validating the efficiency of the proposed method.     

Periodic event‐triggered control for distributed networked multiagents with asynchronous communication: A predictive control approach

This paper investigates the periodic event‐triggered control problem for distributed networked multiagent systems with interconnected nonlinear dynamics subject to asynchronous communication. A method of state trajectory estimation for the interconnected neighboring agents over each prediction horizon with guaranteed error bounds is addressed to handle the asynchronous communication. Based on it, a distributed robust model predictive control (MPC) is proposed with a distributed periodic event‐triggered scheme for each agent. According to this algorithm, each subsystem generates presumed state trajectories for all its upstream neighbors and computes its own control locally. By checking the designed triggering condition periodically, the optimization problem of MPC will be implemented and solved when the local error of the subsystem exceeds a specified threshold. Then, the optimized control input will be determined and applied until the next time instant when the triggering condition is invoked. Moreover, sufficient condition for ensuring feasibility of the designed algorithm is conducted, along with the analysis of asymptotic stabilization of the closed‐loop system. The illustrative example for a set of coupled Van der Pol oscillators is reported to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

带有界扰动的一类大型互联非线性系统的鲁棒分散控制

研究带有界扰动的一类大型互联非线性系统的鲁棒分散控制问题, 该系统的第i个子系统的标称模型具有相对阶r_i及指数稳定的零动态, 且每个子系统的互联项满足匹配条件. 通过子系统状态的线性变换得到鲁棒分散状态反馈控制器, 当该控制律作用于系统时, 系统的状态能够收敛到原点的一个小邻域内, 并给出仿真算例说明该结论的可行性和有效性.     

Networked model predictive control based on neighbourhood optimization for serially connected large-scale processes

In this paper, two novel networked model predictive control schemes based on neighbourhood optimization are presented for on-line optimization and control of a class of serially connected processes (known as the cascade processes in some references), in which the on-line optimization of the whole system is decomposed into that of several small-scale subsystems in distributed structures. Under network environment, the connectivity of the communication network is assumed to be sufficient for each subsystem to exchange information with its neighbour subsystems. An iterative algorithm for networked MPC and a networked MPC algorithm with one-step delay communication are developed according to different network capacities. The optimality of the iteration based networked MPC algorithm is analyzed and the nominal stability is derived for unconstrained distributed control systems. The nominal stability with one-step delay communication is employed for distributed control systems without the inequality constraints. Finally, an illustrative example and the simulation study of the fuel feed flow control for the walking beam reheating furnace are provided to test the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed networked MPC algorithms.