通讯信息约束下具有全局稳定性的分布式系统预测控制（英文）

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.     

具有不确定性的非线性切换系统的约束预测控制

针对一类具有不确定性和变量约束的非线性切换系统, 提出了一种基于Lyapunov函数的预测控制方法, 其中状态约束分为两种情况: 1)要求状态变量在所有时刻都满足约束(称为硬约束); 2)允许状态在某些时刻超出约束(称为软约束). 主要思想是: 对切换系统的每一个子系统, 在输入和状态均受约束的情况下, 设计基于Lyapunov函数的有界控制器和预测控制器, 在两者之间适当切换, 得到初始稳定区域的描述并使得子闭环系统保持稳定. 对整个切换系统, 设计适当的切换律以保证: 1)在切换时刻, 闭环系统的状态处在切入系统的稳定区域内; 2)切入模块的Lyapunov函数是非增的, 从而可保证稳定性. 在状态变量的约束是软约束时, 对每一子模块首先设计一个控制策略, 尽快将状态控制到初始稳定区域, 然后再利用稳定区域内的控制律使系统稳定.     

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.     

网络信息模式下分布式系统协调预测控制

工业系统中广泛存在一类由多个相互关联的子系统组成的大系统. 尽管分布式控制结构的性能没有集中式控制好,但由于其具有较高的灵活性和容错性,相对于集中控制更加适合控制上述系统.在保持容错性的情况下如何提高系统的整体性能是分布式控制的一个难点问题.本文提出了一种分布式预测控制(Distributed model predictive control, DMPC)方法,该方法通过在各子系统预测控制器的性能指标中加入输入变量对其下游子系统的影响的二次函数,来扩大分布式预测控制的协调度,进而在不增加网络连通度,不改变系统容错性的前提下,提高系统的性能.另外,本文给出了基于该协调策略的带输入约束的分布式预测控制器的设计方法,在初始可行的前提下,该方法相继可行并可保证系统渐近稳定.     

滑模预测离散变结构控制

研究了不确定离散时间系统的变结构控制设计问题,提出了基于滑模预测思想的离散变结构控制系统设计新思路.该方法综合考虑抖振、鲁棒性以及控制量约束等指标要求,利用当前及过去时刻的滑模信息预测未来时刻的滑模动态,实现了滚动优化求解.仿真结果表明,该方法可有效消除抖振现象,并能够保证闭环系统的鲁棒稳定性.     

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.     

基于分层滑模控制的VTOL飞行器轨迹跟踪

针对VTOL飞行器的轨迹跟踪和稳定性问题,在考虑输入耦合前提下,提出了一种分层滑模控制方案.首先,将整个系统分成两个子系统,分别设计两个子系统的滑模面;然后利用其中一个子系统滑模量来构造中间变量,进而构造出整个系统总的滑模面;再利用等效控制法求取系统在该滑模面上的等效控制量,采用李雅普诺夫方法设计了系统的切换控制量,从而获得系统总的控制量.该控制器能够保证各个滑模面的稳定性和误差闭环系统的全局渐近稳定性.最后的仿真结果表明了该方法的有效性和可行性.     

多变量分数阶滞后系统预测控制参数解析调优

提出了一种针对各子系统由一阶加分数阶滞后模型描述的多变量系统模型预测控制参数解析调优方法.首先推导了多变量分数阶滞后系统的状态空间模型;其次,基于该模型构建模型预测控制优化问题,并获得了控制信号的解析表达式;再次,对闭环控制系统进行解耦分析,揭示了模型预测控制器参数与系统闭环性能间的定量关系,通过将参数调优问题转化为极点配置问题,得到能够保证闭环系统性能的模型预测控制器参数取值的解析表达式;最后通过仿真实验验证了本文所设计的参数解析调优算法的有效性.     

基于输入输出线性化的连续系统非线性模型预测控制

非线性约束预测控制关键是求得可行性优化解. 输入输出反馈线性化是非线性控制一种常用的方法, 其系统的初始线性输入约束转化成非线性基于状态的约束, 因而无法采用常规的二次规划(QP)求解优化问题. 针对连续状态空间模型系统, 本文提出迭代二次规划方法来寻求非线性优化解. 为了保证算法的收敛性, 系统加入另外一种迭代算法来保证其在整个预测时域上能得到可行解. 仿真控制结果表明了该方法的有效性.     

约束非线性系统构造性模型预测控制

研究了连续时间约束非线性系统模型预测控制设计.利用控制Lyapunov函数离线构造单变量可调预测控制器,再根据性能指标在线优化可调参数,其中该参数近似于闭环系统的"衰减率".同时,控制Lyapunov函数保证了算法的可行性和闭环系统的稳定性.最后通过数值仿真验证了该算法的有效性.     

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.     

A robust distributed model predictive control algorithm

Although distributed model predictive control (DMPC) has received significant attention in the literature, the robustness of DMPC with respect to model errors has not been explicitly addressed. In this paper, a novel online algorithm that deals explicitly with model errors for DMPC is proposed. The algorithm requires decomposing the entire system into N subsystems and solving N convex optimization problems to minimize an upper bound on a robust performance objective by using a time-varying state-feedback controller for each subsystem. Simulations examples were considered to illustrate the application of the proposed method.     

Event‐triggered MPC design for distributed systems toward global performance

This paper studies the coordination control problem of stabilizing large‐scale dynamically coupled systems via a novel event‐triggered distributed model predictive control (DMPC) approach. In order to achieve global performance, certain constraints relevant to the triggering instant are imposed on the DMPC optimization problem, and triggering mechanisms are designed by taking into account coupling influences. Specifically, the triggering conditions derived from the feasibility and stability analysis are based on the local subsystem state and the information received from its neighbors. Based on these triggering mechanisms, the event‐triggered DMPC algorithm is built, and a dual‐mode strategy is adopted. As a result, the controllers solve the optimization problem and coordinate with each other asynchronously, which reduces the amount of communication and lowers the frequency of controller updates while achieving global performance. The recursive feasibility of the proposed event‐triggered DMPC algorithm is proved, and sufficient parameter conditions about the prediction horizon and the triggering threshold are established. It shows that the system state can be gradually driven into the terminal set under the proposed strategy. Finally, an academic example and a realistic simulation problem to the water level of a 4‐tank system are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

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 Model Predictive Load Frequency Control of Multi-area Power System with DFIGs

Reliable load frequency control (LFC) is crucial to the operation and design of modern electric power systems. Considering the LFC problem of a four-area interconnected power system with wind turbines, this paper presents a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) based on coordination scheme. The proposed algorithm solves a series of local optimization problems to minimize a performance objective for each control area. The generation rate constraints (GRCs), load disturbance changes, and the wind speed constraints are considered. Furthermore, the DMPC algorithm may reduce the impact of the randomness and intermittence of wind turbine effectively. A performance comparison between the proposed controller with and without the participation of the wind turbines is carried out. Analysis and simulation results show possible improvements on closed-loop performance, and computational burden with the physical constraints.      

Rapid distributed model predictive control design using singular value decomposition for linear systems

The issue of model predictive control design of distribution systems using a popular singular value decomposition (SVD) technique is addressed. Namely, projection to a set of conjugate structure is dealt with in this paper. The structure of the resulting predictive model is decomposed into small sets of subsystems. The optimal inputs can be separately designed at each subsystem in parallel without any interaction problems. The optimal inputs can be directly obtained and the communication among the subsystems can be significantly reduced. In addition, the design of distribution model predictive control (DMPC) with constraints using the SVD framework is also presented. The unconstraint inputs are checked in parallel in the conjugate space. Without solving the QP problem of each subsystem, the suboptimal solution can be quickly obtained by selecting the bigger singular values and discarding the small singular values in the singular value space. The convergence condition of the proposed algorithm is also proved. Two case studies are used to illustrate the distribution control systems using the suggested approach. Comparisons between the centralized model predictive control method and the proposed DMPC method are carried out to show the advantages of the newly proposed method.     

面向大规模网络化系统的分布式预测控制

本文将近年来关于网络化分布式预测控制(distributed model predictive contro, DMPC)设计的结果进行了总结 概述. DMPC不仅仅继承了预测控制的优点而且还有分布式控制框架的特点. 首先, 介绍了分布式控制的系统结构设计; 然后, 依据预测控制中的性能指标, 从3个方面对DMPC进行了介绍: 基于局部性能指标的DMPC, 基于邻域指标的 DMPC和基于全局指标的DMPC. 最后, 选取3个典型例子来说明一些DMPC的有效性.     

Distributed nonlinear model predictive control based on contraction theory

A novel distributed model predictive control algorithm for continuous‐time nonlinear systems is proposed in this paper. Contraction theory is used to estimate the prediction error in the algorithm, leading to new feasibility and stability conditions. Compared to existing analysis based on Lipschitz continuity, the proposed approach gives a distributed model predictive control algorithm under less conservative conditions, allowing stronger couplings between subsystems and a larger sampling interval when the subsystems satisfy the specified contraction conditions. A numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness and advantage of the proposed approach.     

Distributed model predictive control with hierarchical architecture for communication: application in automated irrigation channels

This paper is concerned with a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) method that is based on a distributed optimisation method with two-level architecture for communication. Feasibility (constraints satisfaction by the approximated solution), convergence and optimality of this distributed optimisation method are mathematically proved. For an automated irrigation channel, the satisfactory performance of the proposed DMPC method in attenuation of the undesired upstream transient error propagation and amplification phenomenon is illustrated and compared with the performance of another DMPC method that exploits a single-level architecture for communication. It is illustrated that the DMPC that exploits a two-level architecture for communication has a better performance by better managing communication overhead.