时滞不确定采样控制系统的鲁棒稳定性

本文给出了一种可定量分析采样控制系统的时滞鲁棒稳定性的方法.因为采样系统的对象是连续时间的,所以对象中的时滞也应该是按连续时间来处理.文中指出,一个整数倍时滞是稳定的采样系统,可能会因为有并不很大的连续时间时滞而失稳.定义了一个新的变量w(t),用来描述这个不确定连续时间时滞带来的动特性.将w(t)的反馈回路分成与时滞无关和有关的两个部分,并提出了一种用频率响应来确定是否存在由不确定时滞引起的周期解的方法.用修正z-变换法和仿真验证了这个由图解解析所求得的解.本方法既可用于采样系统,也可用于一般的连续时间系统.     

Stability and stabilization of linear sampled-data systems with multi-rate samplers and time driven zero order holds

In multi-rate sampled-data systems, a continuous-time plant is controlled by a discrete-time controller which is located in the feedback loop between sensors with different sampling rates and actuators with different refresh rates. The main contribution of this paper is to propose sufficient Krasovskii-based stability and stabilization criteria for linear sampled-data systems, with multi-rate samplers and time driven zero order holds. For stability analysis, it is assumed that an exponentially stabilizing controller is already designed in continuous-time and is implemented as a discrete-time controller. For each sensor (or actuator), the problem of finding an upper bound on the lowest sampling frequency (or refresh rate) that guarantees exponential stability is cast as an optimization problem in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Furthermore, sufficient conditions for controller synthesis are formulated as LMIs. It is shown through examples that choosing the right sensors (or actuators) with adequate sampling frequencies (or refresh rates) has a considerable impact on stability of the closed-loop system.     

一类受扰线性采样数据系统的鲁棒执行器故障估计

针对一类含有外部干扰的线性采样数据系统, 本文研究了执行器故障估计问题. 首先, 文章设计了一种用于估计系统执行器故障的鲁棒故障估计观测器, 在连续采样时间间隔内, 观测器增益矩阵指数变化. 之后, 通过联合增广状态估计误差与故障误差, 并利用Lyapunov-Krasovskii泛函和线性矩阵不等式技术, 给出了保证误差系统全局渐近稳定的充分条件. 同时, 建立的线性矩阵不等式条件涉及调谐参数和最大采样间隔, 可以较好改善状态和故障估计性能. 最后, 通过对某型民航飞机模型实例进行仿真, 验证了本文所提方法具有更好的跟踪效果     

Lyapunov design of time-shared sampled-data control systems†

This paper is concerned with the problem of sampled-data control of a multi-variable system when only one control variable may be used at a time. A quasi-optimal system for time-sharing control is designed via the direct method of Lyapunov. The design specifies control lows and the decision criterion for utilization of the controller. It is shown that even with simplified decision criteria, stability properties are preserved. The method is developed for continuous plants containing at most a single integration. The results also apply to the classical adaptive-sampling problem where the objective is simply to conserve the number of controlling sampling intervals for a single process. A numerical example is presented of the time-shared control of four second-order systems, each containing an integration.     

Absolute stability analysis of sampled-data scaled bilateral teleoperation systems

Stability of a bilateral teleoperation system may be jeopardized by controller discretization, which has been shown to involve energy leaks. This paper proposes a novel approach to analyzing the absolute stability of sampled-data bilateral teleoperation systems consisting of discrete-time controllers and continuous-time master, slave, operator, and environment. The proposed stability analysis permits scaling and delay in the master and the slave positions and forces. The absolute stability conditions reported here impose bounds on the gains of the discrete-time controller, the damping terms of the master and the slave, and the sampling time. A design-related application of these results is in proper selection of various control parameters and the sampling rate for stable teleoperation under discrete-time control. To explore the trade-off between the control gains and the sampling time, it is studied that how large sampling times, which require low control gains for maintaining stability, can lead to unacceptable teleoperation transparency and human task performance in a teleoperated switching task. This shows that the effect of sampling time must be taken into account because neglecting it (as in the absolute stability literature) undermines both stability and transparency of teleoperation. The resulting absolute stability condition has been verified via experiments with two Phantom Omni robots.     

Sampled-data optimal control of continuous systems for quadratic criterion function taking account of delayed control action

This paper is concerned with the sampled-data control of a continuous system in the situation where there exists delay for the control action after the measurement of the output at each sampling instant. The optimal control with the quadratic criterion function defined for the continuous system is adopted in this control problem. This paper shows that the problem can be transformed into the optimal control of a discrete system for the quadratic criterion function, and the variation of the control law to the sampling period and to the delay of the control action is clarified. The deterioration of cost performance with respect to delay is derived. A numerical example is also presented.     

Stability of sampled-data piecewise affine systems: A time-delay approach

This paper addresses the stability analysis of sampled-data piecewise-affine (PWA) systems consisting of a continuous-time plant in feedback connection with a discrete-time emulation of a continuous-time state feedback controller. The sampled-data system is first considered as a continuous-time system with a variable time delay. Conditions under which the trajectories of the sampled-data closed-loop system will converge to an attracting invariant set are then presented. It is also shown that when the sampling period converges to zero, these conditions coincide with sufficient conditions for non-fragility of the stabilizing continuous-time PWA state feedback controller. The results are successfully applied to a helicopter example.     

Inter-sample output predictor based sampled-data ADRC supporting high precision control of VCM servo systems

Ultra high precision servo control systems usually require fast sampling rate to achieve desired digital control performance, where output sampling restrictions (such as sensor bandwidth) pose major challenges for such applications. In this paper, we propose a novel sampled-data multi-rate active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) architecture under sampling rate restrictions, where a digital extended state observer (ESO) with inter-sample output prediction structure is employed to construct inter-sample dynamics between two consecutive sampling instants, such that high frequency disturbances can be better rejected. The convergence of the estimation and the stability of the closed-loop system are analyzed based on Lyapunov function method and separation principle. The proposed control architecture is implemented on a voice coil motor (VCM) actuated micro–nano servo gantry, demonstrating significant performance improvement over existing single-rate or multi-rate ADRC methods.     

Output feedback sampled-data control of nonlinear systems usinghigh-gain observers

This paper studies sampled-data control of nonlinear systems using high-gain observers. The observer is designed in continuous time, then discretized using three different discretization methods. Closed-loop analysis shows that the sampled-data controller recovers the performance of the continuous time controller as the sampling frequency and observer gain become sufficiently large. The theory is illustrated by experimental results     

Saddle point MPC approach to nonlinear robust sampled-data control problem

This paper presents a robust nonlinear model predictive control strategy to consider the control of systems described by nonlinear ordinary differential equation in a sampled-data framework. The optimal couple controldisturbances is calculated as a time continuous function at each sampling instant by solving a saddle point problem. Using this controller, it is proved that the system is ultimately bounded and satisfies an exponential stability property at each sampling instants. To validate the efficiency of our approach, the presented methodology is illustrated on a cart, spring and damper example.     

线性切换系统的采样数据输出调节问题

本文基于采样控制,解决了线性切换系统的输出调节问题.首先考虑了外部输入信号是常数的情况,给出了采样周期与平均驻留时间的关系.通过构造一类Lyapunov-Krasovskii泛函,使得闭环系统内部稳定且调节输出趋于零.其次考虑了外部输入信号是导数有界且时变的情况,给出了采样数据状态反馈控制器,并依据采样周期和平均驻留时间关系给出的切换条件得到了切换系统实用输出调节问题可解的充分条件.最后通过两个数值例子验证了方法的有效性.     

Exponential stability of impulsive systems with application to uncertain sampled-data systems

We establish exponential stability of nonlinear time-varying impulsive systems by employing Lyapunov functions with discontinuity at the impulse times. Our stability conditions have the property that when specialized to linear impulsive systems, the stability tests can be formulated as Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). Then we consider LTI uncertain sampled-data systems in which there are two sources of uncertainty: the values of the process parameters can be unknown while satisfying a polytopic condition and the sampling intervals can be uncertain and variable. We model such systems as linear impulsive systems and we apply our theorem to the analysis and state-feedback stabilization. We find a positive constant which determines an upper bound on the sampling intervals for which the stability of the closed loop is guaranteed. The control design LMIs also provide controller gains that can be used to stabilize the process. We also consider sampled-data systems with constant sampling intervals and provide results that are less conservative than the ones obtained for variable sampling intervals.     

Sampling-interval-dependent stability for linear sampled-data systems with non-uniform sampling

This paper is concerned with the sampling-interval-dependent stability of linear sampled-data systems with non-uniform sampling. A new Lyapunov-like functional is constructed to derive sampling-interval-dependent stability results. The Lyapunov-like functional has three features. First, it depends on time explicitly. Second, it may be discontinuous at the sampling instants. Third, it is not required to be positive definite between sampling instants. Moreover, the new Lyapunov-like functional can make use of the information fully of the sampled-data system, including that of both ends of the sampling interval. By making a new proposition for the Lyapunov-like functional, a sampling-interval-dependent stability criterion with reduced conservatism is derived. The new sampling-interval-dependent stability criterion is further extended to linear sampled-data systems with polytopic uncertainties. Finally, examples are given to illustrate the reduced conservatism of the stability criteria.     

变周期采样系统指数稳定的新条件

本文研究了线性采样系统在变周期采样下的指数稳定性问题.基于离散时间Lyapunov理论,构造了一个新的类Lyapunov泛函.该泛函不仅是时变的,还增加了对状态二次项的积分,而且不要求在采样区间内正定.利用这一新的类Lyapunov泛函,本文首先针对一类非线性采样系统提出了指数稳定性定理,再结合改进的Wirtinger积分不等式,导出了使变周期线性采样系统指数稳定以及渐近稳定的线性矩阵不等式条件.最后举例说明了所得稳定性结果比现存的某些文献报道的结果保守性较小.     

Dissipative based adaptive reliable sampled-data control of time-varying delay systems

This paper is concerned with the problem of dissipative based adaptive reliable controller for a class of time delay systems subject to actuator failures and time-varying sampling with a known upper bound on the sampling intervals. By constructing a proper Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional which fully uses the available information about the actual sampling pattern and time delays, a new set of sufficient conditions is derived to obtain the required result. Then, a dissipative based adaptive sampled-data controller is designed such that the resulting closed-loop system is reliable in the sense that it is asymptotically stable and has the prescribed dissipative performance under given constraints. The existence condition of the desired dissipative based adaptive reliable sampled-data controller is obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Further, the performance of the proposed controller is implemented on a liquid propellant rocket motor with a pressure feeding system model. The simulation results show the effectiveness and better performance of the proposed adaptive reliable sampled-data controller over conventional reliable controller.     

Finite-time quantised feedback asynchronously switched control of sampled-data switched linear systems

This paper studies the problem of stabilising a sampled-data switched linear system by quantised feedback asynchronously switched controllers. The idea of a quantised feedback asynchronously switched control strategy originates in earlier work reflecting actual system characteristic of switching and quantising, respectively. A quantised scheme is designed depending on switching time using dynamic quantiser. When sampling time, system switching time and controller switching time are all not uniform, the proposed switching controllers guarantee the system to be finite-time stable by a piecewise Lyapunov function and the average dwell-time method. Simulation examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the developed results.     

TS-based sampled-data model predictive controller for continuous-time nonlinear systems

This paper proposes a new fuzzy model predictive control approach for continuous-time nonlinear systems in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The proposed approach is based on the Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy modeling, a quadratic Lyapunov function, and a sampled-data parallel distributed compensation controller with constant sampling time. The goal is designing the sampled-data controller such that at each sampling time, the stability of the closed-loop system is guaranteed and an infinite horizon cost function is minimised. The main advantage of the proposed approach is to eliminate the approximations induced from discretizing the original system and cost function upper bound minimisation. Consequently, a lower bound of the cost function is obtained and the performance of the proposed model predictive controller is improved compared to the recently published papers in the same field of interest. In addition, the Euclidean norm constraint of the control input vector is derived in terms of LMIs. To illustrate the merits of the proposed approach, the proposed technique is applied to a continuous stirred tank reactor system.     

A limiting property of the inverse of sampled-data systems on afinite-time interval

If one considers a sampled-data system derived from a continuous-time system with a relative degree of one or two on a finite-time interval, it is not simple to predict the behavior of the output of the inverse of the sampled-data system as the sampling period goes to zero. This is because the number of sample points increases while the zeros of the pulse-transfer function tend to the boundary between the stable and unstable areas. The paper shows that the output of the sampled-data inverse systems converges to the output of the continuous-time inverse systems independently of the stability of zeros     

一类非线性状态时滞系统的基于采样控制器的渐近稳定问题

针对一类含有状态时滞的非线性系统,利用采样控制方法研究其渐近稳定问题.解决这一问题的关键在于对系统时滞的处理,以及对由于采样方法而产生的状态增长误差进行估计.由于所考虑的时滞是常时滞,可以利用分割方法对系统时滞进行分割,将时滞划分成与采样时间长度相同的数个时间区间,并基于这种分割,通过数学归纳法对系统状态增长误差进行估计.通过坐标变换引入一个比例增益压制系统的非线性项,然后设计含有比例增益的状态采样观测器和采样控制器,结合非线性时滞系统的Lyapunov泛函方法分析闭环系统的稳定性,最终确定比例增益和采样时间需要满足的条件,以保证闭环系统的渐近稳定性.最后通过数值例子表明所用研究方法以及所得研究结果是有效的.     

Stability of sampled-data piecewise-affine systems under state feedback

This paper addresses stability of sampled-data piecewise-affine (PWA) systems consisting of a continuous-time plant and a discrete-time emulation of a continuous-time state feedback controller. The paper presents conditions under which the trajectories of the sampled-data closed-loop system will exponentially converge to a neighborhood of the origin. Moreover, the size of this neighborhood will be related to bounds on perturbation parameters related to the sampling procedure, in particular, related to the sampling period. Finally, it will be shown that when the sampling period converges to zero the performance of the stabilizing continuous-time PWA state feedback controller can be recovered by the emulated controller.