Dynamic anti-windup design for anticipatory activation：enlargement of the domain of attraction

Traditional anti-windup compensators are designed for activation immediately at the occurrence of actuator saturation.Recently,anti-windup compensators were designed for actuation either after the saturation has reached a certain level or in anticipation of its occurrence.In the case of static anti-windup compensators,it has been shown that an anti-windup compensator designed for activation in anticipation of actuator saturation would lead to better performance than those designed for immediate or delayed activation could,both in terms of transient performance and the size of the domain of attraction.More recently,it has been shown that a dynamic anti-windup compensator designed for anticipatory activation would also result in better transient performance than those designed for immediate or delayed activation could.In this paper,we design dynamic anti-windup compensators for the enlargement of the domain of attraction.These compensators are designed respectively for immediate,delayed and anticipatory activation.We will show by simulation that a dynamic anti-windup compensator designed for anticipatory activation would result in a larger domain of attraction than a dynamic anti-windup compensator designed for immediate or delayed activation could.     

Anti-windup design of uncertain discrete-time Markovian jump systems with partially known transition probabilities and saturating actuator

This paper carries out a study on the design of anti-windup gains for uncertain discrete-time Markovian jump systems subject to both actuator saturation and partially known transition probabilities. The parameter uncertainties appearing in both the state and input matrices are assumed to be time-varying and norm-bounded. Under the assumption that a set of linear dynamic output feedback controllers have been designed to stabilise the Markovian jump system in the absence of actuator saturation, anti-windup compensation gains are designed for maximising the domain of attraction of the closed-loop system with actuator saturation. Then, by solving a convex optimisation problem with constraints of a set of linear matrix inequalities, the anti-windup compensation gains are obtained. A simulation example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.     

Dynamic anti‐windup design in anticipation of actuator saturation

In a traditional anti‐windup design, the anti‐windup mechanism is set to be activated as soon as the control signal saturates the actuator. A recent innovation of delaying the activation of the anti‐windup mechanism, both static and dynamic, until the saturation reaches a certain level of severity has led to a performance improvement of the resulting closed‐loop system. It has been shown that significant further performance improvements can be obtained by activating a static anti‐windup mechanism in anticipation of actuator saturation, instead of immediate or delayed activation. This paper demonstrates that anticipatory activation of a dynamic anti‐windup mechanism would also lead to significant performance improvements over both the immediate and delayed activation schemes.Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stability analysis and anti-windup design of switched systems with actuator saturation

The stability analysis and anti-windup design problem is investigated for two linear switched systems with saturating actuators by using the single Lyapunov function approach. Our purpose is to design a switching law and the anti-windup compensation gains such that the maximizing estimation of the domain of attraction is obtained for the closed-loop system in the presence of saturation. Firstly, some sufficient conditions of asymptotic stability are obtained under given anti-windup compensation gains based on the single Lyapunov function method. Then, the anti-windup compensation gains as design variables are presented by solving a convex optimization problem with linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints. Two numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

单输入线性系统的改进型动态抗饱和设计

本文基于状态重置的改进型动态抗饱和补偿方案, 研究了具有单输入的线性饱和系统的抗饱和控制问题. 相比较于传统的动态抗饱和补偿方案, 当执行器不饱和时, 改进的动态抗饱和补偿方案把动态抗饱和补偿器的状态重置为零. 所以当执行器不饱和时, 改进的动态抗饱和补偿器将不会对控制器进行补偿. 进一步的, 提出了一个时间依赖的Lyapunov函数来分析闭环系统的稳定性, 并以LMIs的形式给出了闭环系统的控制综合条件. 最后, 通过压电纳米运动平台验证了所提出的改进型动态抗饱和补偿方案的有效性。     

Anti-windup design of output tracking systems subject to actuator saturation and constant disturbances

This paper considers the design of output tracking systems subject to actuator saturation and integrator windup. An optimization-based approach is developed to design feedback and anti-windup gains of a controller structure involving intelligent integrators. The design goal is to increase stability region and output tracking and disturbance rejection ability of the closed-loop system.     

一类饱和不确定非线性系统静态抗饱和控制设计

研究一类执行器幅值与速率饱和的不确定非线性系统静态抗饱和控制问题.采用线性微分包含的方法处理系统模型中的非线性项.给出了抗饱和补偿器设计方法,该方法能同时保证闭环鲁棒稳定及鲁棒性能.给出了此类非线性系统代数环良定的充要条件,从而将抗饱和补偿器设计问题转化为线性矩阵不等式约束的凸优化问题.最后通过仿真算例说明了所提出方法的有效性.     

Anti-windup controller design using linear parameter-varying control methods

In this paper, we seek to provide a systematic anti-windup control synthesis approach for systems with actuator saturation within a linear parameter-varying (LPV) design framework. The closed-loop induced L2 gain control problem is considered. Different from conventional two-step anti-windup design approaches, the proposed scheme directly utilizes saturation indicator parameters to schedule accordingly the parameter-varying controller. Hence, the synthesis conditions are formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) that can be solved very efficiently. The resulting gain-scheduled controller is non-linear in general and would lead to graceful performance degradation in the presence of actuator saturation non-linearities and linear performance recovery. An aircraft longitudinal dynamics control problem with two input saturation non-linearities is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed LPV anti-windup scheme.     

基于系统输出的嵌套饱和系统抗饱和补偿器设计

针对嵌套输入饱和系统的吸引域扩大问题,本文提出了一种基于系统输出的抗饱和补偿器激发策略,将被控系统输出信号经性能补偿器馈入到抗饱和补偿器激发环节中,形成蕴含系统实时性能信息的抗饱和激发新机制,克服了传统抗饱和激发机制无法直接反映系统性能的缺点.基于上述抗饱和控制新框架,本文建立了抗饱和补偿器及性能补偿器存在的充分条件,并依此构建了优化问题求解最优补偿器增益以实现扩大闭环系统吸引域的目的.仿真结果表明本文方法的有效性.     

A Switching Anti-windup Design Using Multiple Lyapunov Functions

This technical note proposes a switching anti-windup design, which aims to enlarge the domain of attraction of the closed-loop system. Multiple anti-windup gains along with an index function that orchestrates the switching among these anti-windup gains are designed based on the min function of multiple quadratic Lyapunov functions. In comparison with the design of a single anti-windup gain which maximizes a contractively invariant level set of a single quadratic Lyapunov function as a way to enlarge the domain of attraction, the use of multiple Lyapunov functions and switching in the proposed design allows the union of the level sets of the multiple Lyapunov functions, each of which is not necessarily contractively invariant, to be contractively invariant and within the domain of attraction. As a result, the resulting domain of attraction is expected to be significantly larger than the one resulting from a single anti-windup gain and a single Lyapunov function. Indeed, simulation results demonstrate such a significant improvement.      

The input amplitude saturation problem in QFT: A survey

In this work the input amplitude saturation problem is analysed in the Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT) framework. This paper reviews previous works in the literature dealing with the input amplitude saturation problem in the presence of an uncertain plant in the frequency domain using QFT. The objective of this paper is to compare the different available approaches and summarize the design process for each case so that this paper can be used as a tutorial; there are six main approaches to this problem. Two of these approaches use the classical two degrees of freedom control scheme for QFT; in both of these, the design constraints of a linear QFT compensator are added in the loop shaping stage: they are added in the first approach to avoid excitation of the actuator saturation and in the second one to guarantee global stability. The other three techniques are considered as anti-windup (AW) approaches. Starting from a base design in QFT with two degrees of freedom, the first AW approach introduces a third degree of freedom that guarantees the stability of the system, allowing for base designs for high performance. The other two AW approaches also introduce a third degree of freedom, but they take simple stability considerations into account and focus on the performance of the system. The last solution consists of using a reference governor technique, which guarantees the computation of a reference signal for an inner control loop that is shaped using QFT in such a way that robust stability will be guaranteed. The reference governor technique is a time domain approach that implies the resolution of an optimization problem. The rest of the approaches are frequency domain techniques based on a loop shaping method in the traditional QFT sense.     

基于扩张状态观测器的动态抗饱和补偿器设计方法

针对一类受外界扰动以及执行器饱和影响的不确定非线性系统,提出一种基于扩张状态观测器的动态抗饱和补偿器设计方法.首先通过将系统的不确定项以及外部扰动作为扩张状态,设计线性扩张状态观测器(ESO)对系统的总扰动进行估计;然后,在控制器中引入对扩张状态的估计值,对系统的总扰动进行补偿,设计了动态抗饱和补偿器,将控制器、观测器以及动态抗饱和补偿器的参数求解问题转化为基于LMI不等式组约束的优化问题,确保系统具有尽可能大的收敛域;最后通过数值仿真验证所提出设计方法的有效性.     

Optimal anti-windup synthesis for repetitive controllers

Repetitive controllers use internal models that provide very high gain at a selected fundamental frequency and its harmonics, additionally, some of the internal models may result unstable, as in the high order repetitive control approach. These characteristics make the repetitive control system susceptible to exhibit wind-up when actuator saturation occurs. This paper proposes an anti-windup scheme for repetitive control based on the model recovery anti-windup strategy. The proposed scheme provides low order, low computational burden and also isolation of the controller from the saturation effects. The anti-windup compensator is constructed from the plant model and provides an additional linear feedback path aimed at enhancing system performance. This feedback path is designed to obtain a deadbeat behaviour, which makes the system recovery faster. Finally, internal stability and deadbeat features are designed in a compact procedure based on linear matrix inequalities and an optimal linear quadratic design. Experimental validation of the proposed anti-windup compensator is provided using a mechatronic plant.     

A switching anti-windup design based on partitioning of the input space

This paper revisits the problem of enlarging the domain of attraction of a linear system with multiple inputs subject to actuator saturation by designing a switching anti-windup compensator. The closed-loop system consisting of the plant, the controller and the anti-windup compensator is first equivalently formulated as a linear system with input deadzone. We then partition the input space into several regions. In one of these regions, all inputs saturate with the time-derivative of the saturated input being zero. In each of the remaining regions, there is a unique input that does not saturate. The time derivative of the deadzone function associated with the unsaturating input is zero. By utilizing these special properties of the inputs on an existing piecewise Lyapunov function of the augmented state vector containing the deadzone function of inputs, we design a separate anti-windup gain for each region of the input space. The switching from one anti-windup gain to another is activated when the input signals leave one region for another, which can be implemented online since only the measurement of the input signals is required. Simulation results indicate that the proposed approach has the ability to obtain a significantly larger estimate of the domain of attraction than the existing approaches.     

共轴八旋翼无人飞行器的偏航静态抗饱和补偿控制

设计了一种共轴八旋翼无人飞行器,与四旋翼飞行器相比,其具有更大的驱动能力、更强的带载能力和一定的冗余能力．首先,建立了飞行器的动力学模型．针对共轴八旋翼飞行器偏航运动能力比俯仰、滚转运动能力弱,偏航容易出现执行器饱和现象的问题,从实际工程出发提出了基于线性自抗扰控制器的静态抗饱和补偿器．线性自抗扰算法易于工程调节,能够实时估计与补偿外界扰动．静态抗饱和补偿器不增加系统阶次,有效抑制偏航执行器饱和．利用李亚普诺夫稳定理论证明了基于线性自抗扰控制器的静态抗饱和偏航控制系统的稳定性．最后,通过共轴八旋翼飞行器的仿真实验与原型机比较实验验证了算法的有效性与鲁棒性．原型机实验结果表明：在室内固定干扰下,执行器退出饱和的最长时间约为4 s,偏航角误差收敛到±0.085 rad;在室外变干扰下,执行器退出饱和的最长时间约为9 s,偏航角误差收敛到±0.127 rad．基于线性自抗扰控制器的静态抗饱和补偿器在外界干扰情况下能够有效地抑制执行器饱和,具有良好的偏航控制性能与强鲁棒性．     

Modeling and time delay control of shape memory alloy actuators

Shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators possess hard nonlinearities including backlash-like hysteresis and saturation. These nonlinearities result in steady-state error and limit-cycle problems when conventional controllers such as the proportional integral derivative (PID) are used for trajectory control. In this study, a dynamics for an SMA actuator was newly derived using the modified Liang's model. The derived dynamics showed continuity at the change of the phase transformation process, but the original model could not. SMA actuator characteristics could be well described using this dynamics. The derived dynamics could be also used effectively for the prediction of control performance and gain tuning of the time delay control (TDC). The dynamics consisted of first-order linear and second-order nonlinear equations. Accordingly, a control strategy was established for the TDC to regulate only the second-order nonlinear part for simplicity and for the internal closed loop to regulate the rest. The control strategy was examined from the point of view of influence of an antiwindup scheme and high gain tuning on control performance. An anti-windup scheme was essential to protect windup phenomenon and high gain tuning was effective when a temperature disturbance existed. In the robustness test, the TDC with high gains showed robustness to inertia variation and temperature disturbance in comparison with the TDC with low gains.     

An approximated scalar sign function approach to optimal anti-windup digital controller design for continuous-time nonlinear systems with input constraints

This article presents an approximated scalar sign function-based digital design methodology to develop an optimal anti-windup digital controller for analogue nonlinear systems with input constraints. The approximated scalar sign function, a mathematically smooth nonlinear function, is utilised to represent the constrained input functions, which are often expressed by mathematically non-smooth nonlinear functions. Then, an optimal linearisation technique is applied to the resulting nonlinear system (with smooth nonlinear input functions) for finding an optimal linear model, which has the exact dynamics of the original nonlinear system at the operating point of interest. This optimal linear model is used to design an optimal anti-windup LQR, and an iterative procedure is developed to systematically adjust the weighting matrices in the performance index as the actuator saturation occurs. Hence, the designed optimal anti-windup controller would lie within the desired saturation range. In addition, the designed optimal analogue controller is digitally implemented using the prediction-based digital redesign technique for the effective digital control of stable and unstable multivariable nonlinear systems with input constraints.     

Actuator saturation and anti-windup compensation in event-triggered control

Event-triggered control aims at reducing the communication load over the feedback link in networked control systems by sending information only if certain event conditions, which guarantee a desired control performance, are satisfied. This article investigates the consequences of actuator saturation on the behavior of the event-triggered control loop in terms of its stability and information exchange. Stability properties are derived using linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which show how the stability of the event-triggered control loop depends on the selection of the event threshold. Moreover, it is shown that a lower bound on the minimum inter-event time exists being likewise affected by the event threshold. As actuator saturation might severely degrade the performance of the event-triggered closed-loop system, the scheme is extended by incorporating an anti-windup mechanism in order to overcome this problem. The results are illustrated by simulations and experiments.     

Incorporating anti-windup gain in improving stability of actuator constrained linear multiple state delays systems

This paper proposes the design of anti-windup compensator gain for improving stability of actuator input constrained linear multiple state delays systems. The system state delays are classified into mixed delay-dependent/delay-independent analysis and described by delay-differential equations. The real scalar delays are assumed to be fixed and unknown, but with known coefficient matrices. It is shown that the closed-loop system containing the controller plus the anti-windup gain can be modeled as a linear system with dead-zone nonlinearity. The formulation of anti-windup compensator gain is based on convex optimization using linear matrix inequalities (LMI) that ensure closed-loop asymptotic stability of the system while accounting upper-bound delays. The devised LMIs based on Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals prove significantly less conservative in giving higher upper bounds delays in the formulation of anti-windup gain besides ensuring closed-loop asymptotic stability.     

Wavelet based control for a class of delayed nonlinear systems with input constraints

In this paper, a delay independent adaptive control strategy is presented for a class of uncertain, delayed nonlinear system subjected to actuator saturation. In proposed control scheme wavelet networks are used for approximation of unknown system dynamics as well as a wavelet based compensator is designed to deal with actuator saturation. Delayed wavelet networks are used for identification of unknown system dynamics having state delayed terms, thereby the approximation capabilities of delayed wavelet network are utilized. Adaptation laws are developed for the online tuning of wavelet parameters. Adaptation singularity problem is solved by employing a switching scheme. The stability of closed loop system and ultimate upper boundedness all closed loop signals is proved by constructing a Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional.