Event-triggered finite-time dynamic output feedback control for switched affine systems with asynchronous switching

This paper investigates the event-triggered finite-time dynamic output feedback control for switched affine systems (SASs) with asynchronous switching. A key point of the study is to set up a dynamic output feedback switched affine controller together with an event-triggered mechanism (ETM). By using an average dwell time (ADT) approach and resorting to a controller-mode-dependent Lyapunov functional, the finite-time stability (FTS) performance is achieve for the closed-loop SASs. The system dynamics under the proposed ETM are fully discussed during the synchronous and asynchronous switching intervals. The existence of the lower bound on interevent intervals is discussed emphatically, which excludes the occurrence of Zeno behavior. Finally, an application example of the DC-DC converter is given to show effectiveness of the acquired control algorithm.     

Decentralised adaptive control for a class of stochastic switched interconnected nonlinear systems

In this paper, we focus on the problem of adaptive stabilisation for a class of interconnected uncertain switched stochastic nonlinear systems. Classical adaptive and backstepping technique are employed for control synthesis. Instead of estimating the switching parameters directly, we design the adaptive controller based on the estimations of bounds on switching time-varying parameters. A smooth function is introduced to deal with the difficulties caused by unknown interactions and tuning function approach is used to circumvent the overparameter problem. It is shown that under the action of the proposed controller all the signals of the overall closed-loop systems are globally uniformly bounded in probability under arbitrary switching. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Adaptive fuzzy output-feedback fault-tolerant tracking control of a class of uncertain nonlinear switched systems

ABSTRACT

This paper considers the output-feedback fault-tolerant tracking control problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear switched systems with nonlinear faults and strict-feedback form, where the faults which are nonaffine occur on the actuator. As a kind of specialised function approximating tool, fuzzy logic systems (FLSs), are employed to approximate the unknown smooth nonlinear functions. A switched fuzzy observer is designed to address the problem of unmeasurable states, filtered signals are used to address algebraic loop problem and the average dwell time (ADT) method is further utilised to prove the stability of the resulting closed-loop systems under a type of slowly switching signals. Based on the backstepping recursive design technique and Lyapunov function method, an adaptive fuzzy output-feedback control scheme is developed. The developed control method can ensure all the signals are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded (SGUUB) and the system output tracks the reference signal tightly even if unknown fault occurs. A simulation carried on an example demonstrates the validity of the obtained control scheme.     

Decentralised output-feedback control for a class of large-scale stochastic high-order upper-triangular nonlinear systems

Under the weaker conditions on the drift and diffusion terms, this paper focuses on the global decentralised output-feedback control for a class of large-scale stochastic high-order upper-triangular nonlinear systems. By introducing an appropriate coordinate transformation, the original system is transformed into an equivalent one with tunable gain. After that, by reasonably combing the homogeneous domination approach with stochastic nonlinear systems stability criterion, and skillfully choosing the low gain scale, the decentralised output-feedback controller is constructed for each subsystem to ensure that the closed-loop system is globally asymptotically stable in probability. The simulation example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design scheme.     

Adaptive fuzzy decentralised control for stochastic nonlinear large-scale systems in pure-feedback form

This paper is concerned with the problem of adaptive fuzzy decentralised output-feedback control for a class of uncertain stochastic nonlinear pure-feedback large-scale systems with completely unknown functions, the mismatched interconnections and without requiring the states being available for controller design. With the help of fuzzy logic systems approximating the unknown nonlinear functions, a fuzzy state observer is designed estimating the unmeasured states. Therefore, the nonlinear filtered signals are incorporated into the backstepping recursive design, and an adaptive fuzzy decentralised output-feedback control scheme is developed. It is proved that the filter system converges to a small neighbourhood of the origin based on appropriate choice of the design parameters. Simulation studies are included illustrating the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Decentralised direct adaptive output feedback fuzzy controller for a class of large-scale nonaffine nonlinear systems and its applications

A novel cooperation-based decentralised direct adaptive fuzzy control via output feedback is developed for a class of large-scale nonaffine uncertain nonlinear systems using a direct adaptive fuzzy approach in this article. Under assumption that all the controllers share their prior information about the subsystem reference models, the interconnections between subsystems are relaxed to arbitrarily strong nonlinearities without matching conditions. The assumption on input gains is extended from typical positive constants to highly nonlinear functions. The feedback and adaptation mechanisms require neither the typical observation error filtering nor the famous strictly positive-real condition. Based on Lyapunov's direct method, the tracking errors of the closed-loop large-scale system are guaranteed to converge to tunable neighbourhoods of the origin. The proposed algorithm is applied to controlling two mechanical large-scale systems and simulation results substantiate its effectiveness.     

一类不确定离散切换模糊时滞系统的鲁棒非脆弱控制

针对一类不确定离散切换模糊时滞系统,研究了在控制器增益存在摄动情况下的稳定性问题.利用切换技术和多Lyapunov函数方法,并以矩阵不等式形式给出了非脆弱状态反馈控制器存在的充分条件和切换律设计.最后通过数值仿真算例验证了设计方法的有效性和可行性.     

H-infinity control for switched and impulsive singular systems

A new model of dynamical systems is proposed which consists of singular systems with impulsive effects, i.e., switched and impulsive singular systems （SISS）. By using the switched Lyapunov functions method, a sufficient condition for the solvability of the H-infinity control problem for SISSs is given which generalizes the H-infinity control theory for singular systems to switched singular systems with impulsive effects. Then the sufficient condition of solvablity of the H-infinity control problem is presented in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, the effectiveness of the developed aooroach for switched and imoulsive singular svstems is illustrated by a numerical example.     

Decentralised output-feedback LQG control with one-step communication delay

This paper studies the output-feedback LQG control of a two-player system with one-step communication delay. A novel information pattern is considered and a new controller structure is introduced. The proposed controller consists of two parts: the first part is based on estimated system state; the second part is based on current local measurement output. The form of the optimal controller is established using the method of independence decomposition. A necessary condition is established to construct the optimal controller gains. Two iterative algorithms are used to find the optimal gains numerically. Finally, the effectiveness of the theoretical results is illustrated through a numerical example.     

Decentralised direct adaptive fuzzy control for a class of large-scale nonaffine nonlinear systems and application to AHS

A novel decentralised direct adaptive fuzzy controller design is presented for a class of large-scale nonaffine uncertain nonlinear systems in this article. By integrating a fuzzy logic system and H _∞ tracking technique, the designed controller is able to adaptively compensate for interconnections and disturbances with unknown bounds, but none of the control and adaptation laws contains a sign function so that control chattering can be shunned. The closed-loop large-scale system is guaranteed to be asymptotically stable and obtain good H _∞ tracking performance. The control approach developed is applied to the following control problem of a string of vehicles within an automated highway system (AHS) and simulation results verify its validity.     

Decentralised sampled-data control for large-scale systems with nonlinear interconnections

This paper presents a decentralised sampled-data control technique for a class of large-scale systems, which are considered to consist of linear subsystems and nonlinear interconnections. The decentralised sampled-data controller design problem is established using a closed-loop subsystem. Based on the controller design problem, the stability condition is derived for a closed-loop large-scale system, and the maximum interconnection bound is guaranteed to satisfy the stability condition. Also, its sufficient condition is formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed technique is verified by using an example of the multi-machine power system.     

Asynchronously switched control of switched linear systems with average dwell time

This paper concerns the asynchronously switched control problem for a class of switched linear systems with average dwell time (ADT) in both continuous-time and discrete-time contexts. The so-called asynchronous switching means that the switchings between the candidate controllers and system modes are asynchronous. By further allowing the Lyapunov-like function to increase during the running time of active subsystems, the extended stability results for switched systems with ADT in nonlinear setting are first derived. Then, the asynchronously switched stabilizing control problem for linear cases is solved. Given the increase scale and the decrease scale of the Lyapunov-like function and the maximal delay of asynchronous switching, the minimal ADT for admissible switching signals and the corresponding controller gains are obtained. A numerical example is given to show the validity and potential of the developed results.     

Event-triggered control for switched systems in the presence of actuator saturation

In this paper, the event-triggered stabilisation problem for a class of switched systems with actuator saturation is investigated. Based on multiple Lyapunov function method and the average dwell time approach, a sufficient condition for exponential stability of such systems under event-triggered state-feedback controller is derived. To avoid Zeno behaviour, it is shown that there exists a positive lower bound for any two consecutive inter-event instants. Finally, two examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Decentralised adaptive architectures for control of large-scale active–passive modular systems with stability and performance guarantees

ABSTRACT

Decentralised control of large-scale active–passive modular systems is considered in this paper. The considered class of large-scale systems consist of physically interconnected and generally heterogeneous modules, where local control signals can only be applied to a subset of these modules (i.e. active modules) and the rest do not admit any control signals (i.e. passive modules). Specifically, based on a set-theoretic model reference adaptive control approach predicated on restricted potential functions, we design and analyse decentralised command following control laws for each active module such that they can effectively perform their tasks in the presence of unknown physical interconnections between modules and module-level system uncertainties. The key feature of our framework allows the system error trajectories of the active modules to be contained within a-priori, user-defined compact sets. Thus, they are guaranteed to achieve strict performance guarantees, where this is of paramount importance for practical applications. In addition to our theoretical findings and research contributions, the efficacy of the proposed decentralised adaptive control architecture is demonstrated in an illustrative numerical example.     

Robust control for a class of uncertain switched fuzzy systems

A model of uncertain switched fuzzy systems whose subsystems are uncertain fuzzy systems is presented. Robust controllers for a class of switched fuzzy systems are designed by using the Lyapunov function method. Stability conditions for global asymptotic stability are developed and a switching strategy is proposed. An example shows the effectiveness of the method.     

Finite-time output feedback control of uncertain switched systems via sliding mode design

The problem of sliding mode control (SMC) is investigated for a class of uncertain switched systems subject to unmeasurable state and assigned finite (possible short) time constraint. A key issue is how to ensure the finite-time boundedness (FTB) of system state during reaching phase and sliding motion phase. To this end, a state observer is constructed to estimate the unmeasured states. And then, a state estimate-based SMC law is designed such that the state trajectories can be driven onto the specified integral sliding surface during the assigned finite time interval. By means of partitioning strategy, the corresponding FTB over reaching phase and sliding motion phase are guaranteed and the sufficient conditions are derived via average dwell time technique. Finally, an illustrative example is given to illustrate the proposed method.     

Decentralised adaptive robust control of uncertain large-scale interconnected systems with multiple time-varying delays

The problem of decentralised adaptive robust stabilisation is considered for a class of uncertain large-scale time-delay interconnected dynamical systems. It is assumed that the upper bounds of the uncertainties, interconnection terms and external disturbances are unknown, and that the time-varying delays are any nonnegative continuous and bounded functions, and do not require that their derivatives have to be less than one. For such a class of uncertain large-scale time-delay interconnected systems, a new method is presented whereby a class of continuous memoryless decentralised local adaptive robust state feedback controllers is proposed. It is also shown that the solutions of uncertain large-scale time-delay interconnected systems can be guaranteed to be uniformly exponentially convergent towards a ball which can be as small as desired. In addition, since the proposed decentralised local adaptive robust state feedback controllers are completely independent of time delays, the results obtained in this article may also be applicable to a class of large-scale interconnected dynamical systems with uncertain time delays. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the validity of the results.     

Bumpless switching control for switched systems with partial actuator failures

This study is concerned with the bumpless transfer problem for switched systems with partial actuator failures, in order to obtain smooth system performance output transition. Taking into account that the system requires a controller switching from current sub-controller to a fault-tolerant sub-controller after actuator fault. And bumpless transfer for control input cannot be traditionally designed when the actuator fault occurs, while performance smoothing can be considered and it is actually the ultimate goal of bumpless transfer. Specifically, the actuator fault model is firstly established and partial actuator fault is considered. Then, the system performance output signal is deemed as the main design variable of bumpless transfer, and closed-loop control systems both previous and after controller switching are constructed. Moreover, by using model matching thought and the adaptive sliding mode control technique, a bumpless transfer compensator design strategy is given to drive the performance output variable (after controller switching) to track the one of reference model. At last, simulation results of numeric and application examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed bumpless transfer strategy.     

Adaptive fuzzy switched control design for uncertain nonholonomic systems with input nonsmooth constraint

In this paper, a fuzzy adaptive switched control approach is proposed for a class of uncertain nonholonomic chained systems with input nonsmooth constraint. In the control design, an auxiliary dynamic system is designed to address the input nonsmooth constraint, and an adaptive switched control strategy is constructed to overcome the uncontrollability problem associated with x₀(t₀) = 0. By using fuzzy logic systems to tackle unknown nonlinear functions, a fuzzy adaptive control approach is explored based on the adaptive backstepping technique. By constructing the combination approximation technique and using Young's inequality scaling technique, the number of the online learning parameters is reduced to n and the ‘explosion of complexity’ problem is avoid. It is proved that the proposed method can guarantee that all variables of the closed-loop system converge to a small neighbourhood of zero. Two simulation examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.     

模糊非脆弱动态输出反馈H∞控制器设计

本文考虑受有限字长影响的离散时间模糊系统的非脆弱H∞控制问题. 假定所设计的控制器具有加性区间型增益变量, 该增益变量反映了控制器数字执行过程中有限字长的影响. 区间型增益变量导致控制器设计具有数值计算问题, 而模糊性质的引入进一步增加了控制器设计的复杂性, 使问题变得更具有挑战性. 本文采用结构的顶点分离器方法来解决数值计算问题, 从而给出一个基于线性矩阵不等式的模糊非脆弱H∞控制器设计的两步算法. 该设计结果保证闭环系统渐进稳定并具有指定的H∞性能指标. 最后给出一个数值例子验证所提出方法的有效性.