Universal integral controllers for minimum-phase nonlinear systems

We consider a single-input-single-output (SISO) nonlinear system that has a well-defined normal form with asymptotically stable zero dynamics. Using only knowledge of the relative degree and the sign of the high-frequency gain, we design an output feedback integral controller that asymptotically regulates the output to a bounded time-varying reference signal with a constant limit. We give regional as well as semi-global results. We also show that, for relative degree one and two systems, the proposed integral controller reduces to the classical PI and PID controllers, respectively     

静止无功补偿器的自适应逆推无源反馈控制设计

通过将耗散系统理论和自适应逆推(adaptive backstepping)非线性控制算法相结合, 克服了无源反馈方法只能为输入输出相对阶为1的系统设计控制律的限制, 为带有静止无功补偿器的单机无穷大电力系统设计了鲁棒自适应控制器. 设计中兼顾了系统遭受不确定扰动以及阻尼系数难以精确测量情况下控制器的鲁棒性和自适应能力. 理论分析证明所提算法可保证系统内所有状态变量一致有界且渐近稳定, 系统误差全局渐近稳定. 仿真结果也表明, 所提算法使系统母线电压, 发电机功角以及转子角速度的暂态响应性能优于传统逆推算法, 系统误差迅速收敛至零, 与理论证明结果一致.     

Semi‐Global Output Feedback Stabilization for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

This paper addresses the problem of semi‐global stabilization by output feedback for a class of nonlinear systems whose output gains are unknown. For each subsystem, we first design a state compensator and use the compensator states to construct a control law to stabilize the nominal linear system without the perturbing nonlinearities. Then, combining the output feedback domination approach with block‐backstepping scheme, a series of homogeneous output feedback controllers are constructed recursively for each subsystem and the closed‐loop system is rendered semi‐globally asymptotically stable.     

Robust output tracking for uncertain/nonlinear systems subject to almost constant disturbances

In this paper, we consider uncertain/nonlinear systems subject to unknown constant disturbance inputs. We wish to design state feedback controllers which ensure that the system output asymptotically tracks a specified constant reference signal and all states are bounded. The controllers we consider are PI in the sense that they consist of a piece which depends linearly on the state and another piece which depends on the integral of the output tracking error. Our main result reduces the original problem to a stabilization problem for an associated augmented system which we call the derivative augmented system. We obtain controller design procedures for specific classes of uncertain/nonlinear systems. Then we extend these results to the situation in which the reference signal and the disturbance are not necessarily constant but asymptotically approach a constant.     

机器人灵巧手基关节交叉耦合同步控制

为了提高机器人灵巧手基关节的轨迹跟踪精度,提出了包含同步误差和位置误差反馈项及平滑鲁棒非 线性反馈补偿项的交叉耦合同步控制策略,并建立了手指动力学模型．基于李亚普诺夫稳定性理论证明了所提出的 控制策略能够使同步误差和位置误差均收敛到0,并且保证了系统的渐近稳定性．与传统非同步控制的PD 加摩擦 力补偿算法和轨迹跟踪控制算法进行比较,实验结果验证了所提出控制策略的有效性．     

非线性微分——代数系统的输出反馈镇定控制

对满足线性增长条件的非线性微分--代数系统, 研究了其输出反馈镇定控制问题. 通过将状态观测器与控制器耦合在一起设计, 构造出一种非初始化的线性高增益状态观测器, 具有良好的鲁棒性. 基于反推设计方法构造出一个线性的动态输出补偿器, 使得整个闭环系统是渐近稳定的. 仿真结果验证了本文所提控制方法的有效性.     

Control over the output of nonlinear systems with unaccounted-dynamics

The article is the development of the results published earlier, which include the found serviceability conditions of the method of a sequential compensator for the case of stabilization over the output of a linear, parametrically indeterminate object under the conditions of the unaccounted-for, asymptotically stable dynamics. In this article the analysis is made of the serviceability conditions of the mentioned method for the case of a nonlinear object with unaccounted-for dynamics.     

STATCOM无源性控制与PI控制的比较研究

针对新型静止同步发生器(STATCOM)的传统控制方法对电网突发较大扰动不能快速反应调节的情况,建立欧拉-拉格朗日方程模型,并提出了利用无源性控制原理的控制方案。该设计方案没有对系统的非线性结构进行简化,因此具有更好的性能。通过STATCOM的无源性控制器与PI控制器的比较,仿真结果表明该基于无源性控制原理的控制器能够更快、更有效地抑制扰动,使电网在更短时间内保持稳定、恢复正常工作状态。     

Global asymptotic stabilisation in probability of nonlinear stochastic systems via passivity

The purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic method for global asymptotic stabilisation in probability of nonlinear control stochastic systems with stable in probability unforced dynamics. The method is based on the theory of passivity for nonaffine stochastic differential systems combined with the technique of Lyapunov asymptotic stability in probability for stochastic differential equations. In particular, we prove that a nonlinear stochastic differential system whose unforced dynamics are Lyapunov stable in probability is globally asymptotically stabilisable in probability provided some rank conditions involving the affine part of the system coefficients are satisfied. In this framework, we show that a stabilising smooth state feedback law can be designed explicitly. A dynamic output feedback compensator for a class of nonaffine stochastic systems is constructed as an application of our analysis.     

Universal adaptive control of feedforward nonlinear systems with unknown input and state delays

This paper considers the problem of global asymptotic regulation via output feedback for a class of uncertain feedforward nonlinear systems with input and state delays, where the bounds of time delays are unknown. With the help of the high-gain scaling approach and the idea of universal adaptive control, we explicitly construct an adaptive output compensator with a novel positive dynamic gain which compensates simultaneously the unknown delays and the output growth rate with unknown constant. Based on such output compensator, we reduce the conservatism of the restrictive conditions imposed on nonlinearities to generalise the existing results. By the Lyapunov–Krasovskii theorem, a delay-independent controller design scheme is proposed to guarantee that all the closed-loop signals are globally bounded while rendering the states of original system and the estimate states to globally asymptotically converge to zero. Finally, two illustrative examples are given to show the usefulness of the proposed design method.     

一类非线性不确定系统的自适应积分滑模控制

针对一类具有不确定参数的复杂非线性系统,提出了一种自适应积分滑模控制方法。控制器的设计分两步进行：首先,基于被控对象模型构造一个简化子系统,设计出该子系统的一个全局渐近稳定控制律;然后构造一个积分滑模面,设计自适应积分滑模补偿器以处理系统中含有不确定参数的部分,保证了滑模面的可达性和原系统的闭环稳定性。补偿后,系统的完整自适应控制律由简化子系统的控制律加补偿控制器两部分组成。所提设计方法简单,便于工程实现。最后,通过仿真结果验证了设计方案的有效性。     

直驱小惯量表贴式永磁同步电机的转速脉动抑制

非线性电流测量误差和电压源逆变器(VSI)非线性畸变电压造成了直驱小惯量表贴式永磁同步电机(SPMSN)的转速脉动.本文将q轴非线性电流测量误差等效为扰动负载电流,提出一种复合PI(CPI)调速器抑制电机转速脉动.该调速器由传统PI调节器与偏差补偿器并联构成,偏差补偿器用以抑制非线性负载电流.同时,用分段线性函数建立IGBT关闭时间模型,并推导了VSI非线性畸变电压表达式.引入积分型模型预测控制(MPC)作为电流环控制器,利用MPC的滚动时域最优预测特性抑制VSI的非线性畸变电压,消除了零电流钳位现象.最后,通过仿真分析验证了所提控制策略的有效性.     

Simultaneous stabilization of nonlinear systems

We study the problem of simultaneous stabilization of a given set of nonlinear plants by one nonlinear, not necessarily stable compensator. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition under which there is a single compensator which stabilizes a given set ofnnonlinear plants. This note emphasizes the importance of the following problem: when is a nonlinear unstable plant stabilizable by an incrementally stable compensator.     

On decentralised control of non-linear interconnected systems

The asymptotic stabilisation problem of a class of large-scale interconnected systems is considered, where the non-linear interconnections between subsystems satisfy quadratic constraints that are functions of the whole system's state vector. A decentralised combined observer-controller compensator is proposed and analysed, where the subsystems’ state vectors are estimated using local sliding mode observers. The closed-loop system driven by the proposed decentralised compensator is guaranteed to be asymptotically stable subject to two conditions that are easily verifiable. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed decentralised combined observer-controller compensator.     

Anti‐windup design for uncertain nonlinear systems subject to actuator saturation and external disturbance

A novel anti‐windup design method is provided for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems subject to actuator saturation and external disturbance. The controller considered incorporates both an active disturbance rejection controller as well as an anti‐windup compensator. The dynamical uncertainties and external disturbance are treated as an extended state of the plant, and then estimate it using an extended state observer and compensate for it in the control action, in real time. The anti‐windup compensator produces a signal based on the difference between the controller output and the saturated actuator output, and then augment the signal to the control to deal with the windup phenomenon caused by actuator saturation. We first show that, with the application of the proposed controller, the considered nonlinear system is asymptotically stable in a region including the origin. Then, in the case that the controller in linear form, we establish a linear matrix inequality‐based framework to compute the extended state observer gain and the anti‐windup compensation gain that maximize the estimate of the domain of attraction of the resulting closed‐loop system. The effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated by a numerical example. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Properties of optimal stochastic control systems with dead-time

Structural, stability and sensitivity properties of optimal stochastic control systems for dead-time, stable minimum phase as well as non-minimum phase processes are presented. The processes are described by rational transfer functions plus dead-times and the disturbances by rational spectral densities. It is shown that although the frequency domain design techniques guarantee asymptotically stable systems for given process and disturbance models, many of the designs might be practically unstable. Necessary and sufficient conditions that must be imposed on the design to assure practically stable optimal systems are derived. The uncertainties in the parameters and in the structure of the process model are measured by means of an ignorance function. Sufficient conditions in terms of the ignorance function, which guarantee stable design and by means of which the bounds of the uncertainties for a given design may be estimated, are stated. Conditions under which the optimal designs possess attractive relative stability properties, namely gain and phase margins of at least 2 and 60°, respectively, are stated, too. It is further shown that any optimal controller, for the type of processes discussed in this paper, may be separated into a primary controller and into a dead-time compensator where the latter is completely independent of the cost and the disturbance properties. Such a decomposition gives excellent insight into the role of the cost and the disturbance in the design. When low order process and disturbance models are used, the conventional PI and PID control laws coupled with the dead-time compensator emerge.     

一类非线性不确定系统的神经网络控制

针对一类非线性不确定系统,提出了一种自适 应神经网络控制方案．被控系统是部分已知的,其中系统已知的动态特性被用来设计保证标 称模型稳定的反馈控制器,而基于神经网络的动态补偿器则用于补偿系统的非线性不确定性 ,从而可以保证系统输出跟踪误差渐近收敛于0．     

Adaptive stabilization using a nonlinear time-varying controller

Byrnes et al. (1986) showed that there is no smooth, finite-dimensional, nonlinear time-invariant (NLTI) controller which asymptotically stabilizes every finite-dimensional, stabilizable and detectable, linear time-invariant (LTI) plant (with a fixed number of inputs and outputs). Here we construct a finite-dimensional nonlinear time-varying (NLTV) controller which does exactly that; we treat both the discrete-time and continuous-time cases. With p equal to one in the discrete-time case and the number of plant outputs in the continuous-time case, we first show that for every stabilizable and detectable plant, there exists a p-dimensional linear time-varying (LTV) compensator which provides exponential stabilization; we then construct a (p+1)-dimensional NLTV controller which asymptotically stabilizes every admissible plant by switching between a countable number of such LTV compensators     

Backstepping controller design for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems with Markovian switching

A more general class of stochastic nonlinear systems with irreducible homogenous Markovian switching are considered in this paper. As preliminaries, the stability criteria and the existence theorem of strong solutions are first presented by using the inequality of mathematic expectation of a Lyapunov function. The state-feedback controller is designed by regarding Markovian switching as constant such that the closed-loop system has a unique solution, and the equilibrium is asymptotically stable in probability in the large. The output-feedback controller is designed based on a quadratic-plus-quartic-form Lyapunov function such that the closed-loop system has a unique solution with the equilibrium being asymptotically stable in probability in the large in the unbiased case and has a unique bounded-in-probability solution in the biased case.     

A further note on the robustness of output feedback control methods to modeling errors

In an earlier note it was shown that designing a nonstrictly proper output feedback compensator using a model that neglects parasitic elements might lead to an unstable closed-loop system even when the neglected modes are asymptotically stable. The purpose of this note is to show that this instability phenomenon might take place even when the reduced-order design model is strictly proper.