Input-to-State Stability of Time-Delay Systems: A Link With Exponential Stability

The main contribution of this technical note is to establish a link between the exponential stability of an unforced system and the input-to-state stability (ISS) via the Liapunov–Krasovskii methodology. It is proved that a system which is (globally, locally) exponentially stable in the unforced case is (globally, locally) input-to-state stable when it is forced by a measurable and locally essentially bounded input, provided that the functional describing the dynamics in the unforced case is (globally, on bounded sets) Lipschitz and the functional describing the dynamics in the forced case satisfies a Lipschitz-like hypothesis with respect to the input. Moreover, a new feedback control law is provided for delay-free linearizable and stabilizable time-delay systems, whose dynamics is described by locally Lipschitz functionals, by which the closed-loop system is ISS with respect to disturbances adding to the control law, a typical problem due to actuator errors.      

Distributed Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems: A Cyclic-small-gain Approach

This paper presents a cyclic-small-gain approach to distributed control of nonlinear multi-agent systems for output agreement. Through a novel nonlinear control law design, the output agreement problem is transformed into a stabilization problem, and the closed-loop multi-agent system is transformed into a large-scale system composed of input-to-state stability (ISS) subsystems which are interconnected with each other through redefined outputs. By forcing the redefined outputs to go to arbitrarily small neighborhoods of the origin, practical consensus is achieved for the agents in the sense that their outputs ultimately converge to each other within an arbitrarily small region. A recently developed cyclic-small-gain result is adopted to assign appropriately the ISS gains to the transformed interconnected system. Moreover, if the system is disturbancefree, then consensus can be guaranteed. Interestingly, the closedloop multi-agent system is also robust to bounded time-delays and disturbances in information exchange.      

基于输入状态稳定的离散广义系统预测控制

针对一类具有持续扰动和输入约束的离散广义系统, 研究其鲁棒预测控制器的设计问题. 将输入状态稳定的概念引入广义系统预测控制, 在quasi-min-max 性能指标下, 提出了广义系统双模鲁棒预测控制器的设计方法, 证明了基于双模鲁棒预测控制器的闭环广义系统输入状态稳定, 且具有正则、因果性. 数值仿真结果验证了所提出方法的有效性.

     

Design and stability analysis of an indirect variable structure model reference adaptive control

This paper presents the stability and robustness analysis of an indirect adaptive control based variable structure algorithm for uncertain plants with relative degree one. The indirect approach has been proposed as a way to get an easier design of the switching laws, compared to the direct relationship between the plant transfer function parameters and the physical parameters of the system. Here, a singular perturbation approach is used to establish the robustness of the controller in the presence of unmodelled dynamics and disturbances. It is shown that, for sufficiently small parasitics, the system remains stable with respect to some small residual set.     

Quantized stabilization of strict-feedback nonlinear systems based on ISS cyclic-small-gain theorem

This paper proposes a new tool for quantized nonlinear control design of dynamic systems transformable into the dynamically perturbed strict-feedback form. To address the technical challenges arising from measurement and actuator quantization, a new approach based on set-valued maps is developed to transform the closed-loop quantized system into a large-scale system composed of input-to-state stable (ISS) subsystems. For each ISS subsystem, the inputs consist of quantization errors and interacting states, and moreover, the ISS gains can be assigned arbitrarily. Then, the recently developed cyclic-small-gain theorem is employed to guarantee input-to-state stability with respect to quantization errors and to construct an ISS-Lyapunov function for the closed-loop quantized system. Interestingly, it is shown that, under some realistic assumptions, any n-dimensional dynamically perturbed strict-feedback nonlinear system can be globally practically stabilized by a quantized control law using 2n three-level dynamic quantizers.     

一类前馈系统的鲁棒镇定

Two kinds of saturated controllers are designed for a class of feedforward systems and the closed-loop resulted is locally input-to-state stable and input-to-state stable, respectively. By the word "locally", it is meant that there are restrictions on the amplitude of inputs. At first, under the guidance of suitable energy functions, two kinds of saturated controllers are designed as locally input-to-state stabilizers for a class of perturbed linear systems, from which explicit gain estimations can be obtained for the subsequent design. Then under the conditions that two subsystems of the feedforward system are respectively of locally input-to-state stability and input-to-state stability, the small gain theory is used to determine saturated degrees for corresponding robust stabilizers. The stability proofs are given by using a new characterization of input-to-state stability that is based on the concept of ultimate boundedness. As an application, saturated controllers are designed for the partial dynamics of a certain inverted pendulum.     

Connections between Razumikhin-type theorems and the ISS nonlinearsmall gain theorem

A Razumikhin-type theorem that guarantees input-to-state stability for functional differential equations with disturbances is established using the nonlinear small-gain theorem. The result is used to show that input-to-state stabilizability for nonlinear finite-dimensional control systems is robust, in an appropriate sense, to small time delays at the input. Also, relaxed Razumikhin-type conditions guaranteeing global asymptotic stability for differential difference equations are given     

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.     

延时系统输入状态稳定性的Lyapunov逆理论

研究了延时系统输入状态稳定性的局部Lipschitz连续的Lyapunov逆理论. 针对含有任意可测局部本质有界扰动的延时系统, 一个局部Lipschitz连续的Lyapunov泛函被证实是存在的, 如果该系统是鲁棒渐进稳定的. 根据该结论, 延时系统输入状态稳定性的Lyapunov特征被进一步得到.     

Quantised control of nonlinear systems: analysis of robustness to parameter uncertainty,measurement errors,and exogenous disturbances

We propose a variant of the recently introduced strategy for stabilisation with limited information by D. Liberzon and J.P. Hespanha and analyse its robustness properties. We show that, if the nominal plant can be made input-to-state stable with respect to measurement errors, parameter uncertainty and exogenous disturbances, then this robustness is preserved with this quantised feedback. More precisely, if a sufficient bandwidth is available on the communication network, then the resulting closed loop is shown to be semiglobally input-to-state practically stable.     

On input‐to‐state stability of rigid‐body attitude control with quaternion representation

The concept of input‐to‐state stability (ISS) is important in robust control, as the state of an ISS system subject to disturbances can be stably regulated to a small region around the origin. In this study, the ISS property of the rigid‐body attitude system with quaternion representation is thoroughly investigated. It has been known that the closed loop with continuous controllers is not ISS with respect to arbitrarily small external disturbances. To deal with this problem, hybrid proportional‐derivative controllers with hysteresis are proposed to render the attitude system ISS. The controller is far from new, but it is investigated in a new aspect. To illustrate the applications of the results about ISS, 2 new robust hybrid controllers are designed. In the case of large bounded time‐varying disturbances, the hybrid proportional‐derivative controller is designed to incorporate a saturated high‐gain feedback term, and arbitrarily small ultimate bounds of the state can be obtained; in the case of constant disturbances, a hybrid adaptive controller is proposed, which is robust against small estimate error of inertia matrix. Finally, simulations are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategies.     

具有扰动输入的不确定性非线性系统的输出调节极限性能

本文研究了一类具有扰动输入的不确定性非线性系统的输出调节问题, 给出了该类系统在最差的不确定性参数和扰动输入情况下系统输出调节的极限性能. 所讨论的非线性系统是可镇定非最小相位系统, 并且该系统的零动态由“鲁棒输入对状态稳定(robust input-to-state stable)部分”和“不稳定但可镇定部分”组成. 假设系统的不确定性参数和扰动输入分别以非线性函数和仿射形式同时出现在系统零动态的鲁棒输入对状态稳定部分和系统的可线性化部分, 而且其可线性化部分的不确定性具有下三角形结构形式. 该系统输出调节问题的性能以其输出信号能量作为度量. 对于上述非线性系统, 在最差的不确定性参数和扰动输入情况下, 输出调节问题的极限性能只取决于镇定其零动态“不稳定部分”所需的最小能量.     

Prescribed Performance Control of One-DOF Link Manipulator With Uncertainties and Input Saturation Constraint

In this paper, we mainly address the position control problem for one-degree of freedom (DOF) link manipulator despite uncertainties and the input saturation via the backstepping technique, active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) as well as predefined tracking performance functions. The extended state observer (ESO) is employed to compensate uncertain dynamics and disturbances, and it does not rely on the accurate model of systems. The tracking differentiator (TD) is utilized to substitute the derivative of the virtual control signals, and the explosion of complexity caused by repeated differentiations of nonlinear functions is removed. The auxiliary system is used to deal with the control input limitation, and the tracking accuracy and speed are improved by predefined tracking performance functions. With the help of the input-to-state stability (ISS) and Lyapunov stability theories, it is proven that the tracking error can be gradually converged into arbitrarily small neighborhood of the origin, and the tracking error is adjusted by suitable choice of control parameters. The simulation results are presented for the verification of the theoretical claims.      

Robust control for spacecraft rendezvous with disturbances and input saturation

This paper deals with the stabilization problem of spacecraft rendezvous in the presence of disturbances and input saturation. A dead zone operator based model is used to describe the saturation phenomenon. By using Lyapunov method, two groups of control laws are obtained, which ensure the input-to-state stability and the input-to-state practical stability of the closed-loop systems respect to disturbance acceleration, respectively. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.     

Input-to-state stability of networked control systems

A new class of Lyapunov uniformly globally asymptotically stable (UGAS) protocols in networked control systems (NCS) is considered. It is shown that if the controller is designed without taking into account the network so that it yields input-to-state stability (ISS) with respect to external disturbances (not necessarily with respect to the error that will come from the network implementation), then the same controller will achieve semi-global practical ISS for the NCS when implemented via the network with a Lyapunov UGAS protocol. Moreover, the ISS gain is preserved. The adjustable parameter with respect to which semi-global practical ISS is achieved is the maximal allowable transfer interval (MATI) between transmission times.     

On the Liapunov-Krasovskii methodology for the ISS of systems described by coupled delay differential and difference equations

The input-to-state stability of time-invariant systems described by coupled differential and difference equations with multiple noncommensurate and distributed time delays is investigated in this paper. Such equations include neutral functional differential equations in Hale’s form (which model, for instance, partial element equivalent circuits) and describe lossless propagation phenomena occurring in thermal, hydraulic and electrical engineering. A general methodology for systematically studying the input-to-state stability, by means of Liapunov-Krasovskii functionals, with respect to measurable and locally essentially bounded inputs, is provided. The technical problem concerning the absolute continuity of the functional evaluated at the solution has been studied and solved by introducing the hypothesis that the functional is locally Lipschitz. Computationally checkable LMI conditions are provided for the linear case. It is proved that a linear neutral system in Hale’s form with stable difference operator is input-to-state stable if and only if the trivial solution in the unforced case is asymptotically stable. A nonlinear example taken from the literature, concerning an electrical device, is reported, showing the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.     

Robust near-optimal output feedback control of non-linear systems

This work proposes a robust near-optimal non-linear output feedback controller design for a broad class of non-linear systems with time-varying bounded uncertain variables. Both vanishing and non-vanishing uncertainties are considered. Under the assumptions of input-to-state stable (ISS) inverse dynamics and vanishing uncertainty, a robust dynamic output feedback controller is constructed through combination of a high-gain observer with a robust optimal state feedback controller synthesized via Lyapunov's direct method and the inverse optimal approach. The controller enforces exponential stability and robust asymptotic output tracking with arbitrary degree of attenuation of the effect of the uncertain variables on the output of the closed-loop system, for initial conditions and uncertainty in arbitrarily large compact sets, provided that the observer gain is sufficiently large. Utilizing the inverse optimal control approach and singular perturbation techniques, the controller is shown to be near-optimal in the sense that its performance can be made arbitrarily close to the optimal performance of the robust optimal state feedback controller on the infinite time-interval by selecting the observer gain to be sufficiently large. For systems with non-vanishing uncertainties, the same controller is shown to ensure boundedness of the states, uncertainty attenuation and near-optimality on a finite time-interval. The developed controller is successfully applied to a chemical reactor example.     

有界扰动下约束非线性系统鲁棒经济模型预测控制EI北大核心CSCD

针对未知但有界扰动下约束非线性系统,提出一种新的鲁棒经济模型预测控制(Economic model predictive control,EMPC)策略,保证闭环系统对扰动输入具有输入到状态稳定性(Input-to-state stability,ISS).基于微分对策原理,分别优化经济目标函数和关于最优经济平衡点的鲁棒稳定性目标函数,其中经济最优性与鲁棒稳定性是具有冲突的两个控制目标.利用鲁棒稳定性目标最优值函数构造EMPC优化的隐式收缩约束,建立鲁棒EMPC的递推可行性和闭环系统关于最优经济平衡点相对于有界扰动输入到状态稳定性结果.最后以连续搅拌反应器为例,对比仿真验证本文策略的有效性.     

Local ISS of large-scale interconnections and estimates for stability regions

We consider interconnections of locally input-to-state stable (LISS) systems. The class of LISS systems is quite large, in particular it contains input-to-state stable (ISS) and integral input-to-state stable (iISS) systems.Local small-gain conditions both for LISS trajectory and Lyapunov formulations guaranteeing LISS of the composite system are provided in this paper. Notably, estimates for the resulting stability region of the composite system are also given. This in particular provides an advantage over the linearization approach, as will be discussed.     

Switched nonlinear systems with state-dependent dwell-time

The asymptotic convergence of a switched nonlinear system in the presence of disturbances is studied. The system switches among a family of integral input-to-state stable systems. The time between two consecutive switchings is not less than a value τ_D. This dwell-time τ_D is allowed to take different values according to a function whose argument is the state of the system at the switching times. We propose a dwell-time function which depends on the comparison functions which characterize the integral input-to-state stability property and guarantees the state of the switched system to converge to zero under the action of disturbances with “bounded energy”. The main feature of the analysis is that it does not rely on the property for the switching to stop in finite time. The two important cases of locally exponentially stable and feedforward systems are analyzed in detail.