Robust stability analysis and stabilisation of uncertain neutral singular systems

This paper studies the problem of robust stability and stabilisation of uncertain neutral singular systems and develops a new stability criterion of the differential operator, ? by the final value theorem for Laplace transform. By utilising Lyapunov functional and free-weight matrix method, we employ the linear matrix inequality technique and the stability condition to derive some new criteria which ensure the robustly asymptotical stability of the studied system. State feedback controllers with disturbance are designed to guarantee the robustly asymptotical stability of the uncertain system. Numerical examples are provided to validate the effectiveness of the obtained results.     

Robust stability analysis of singular linear system with delay and parameter uncertainty

1Introduction It is well known that the existence of a delay in adynamical system may induce instability or poorperformances in various systems suchas electric,pneumatic,and hydraulic networks,chemical processes,longtransmission lines,etc.For a survey of time_delay systems,the reader can refer to a recent overview paper[1].Control of singular systems has been extensively studied inthe past years due to the fact that singular systems betterdescribe physical systems than regular ones.Agreat numb…     

具有方差和极点约束的不确定系统鲁棒H∞输出反馈控制

针对一类具有范数有界不确定性的连续系统和二次矩阵不等式区域,考虑系统具有方差和区域极点约束的输出反馈控制器设计问题．为此首先导出闭环系统区域稳定的充分必要条件．然后用线性矩阵不等式方法给出输出反馈控制器存在的一个充分条件．在此充分条件下闭环系统是鲁棒区域稳定的且具有H∞性能以及当干扰为白噪声信号时其稳态状态方差有限．接下来用矩阵分解方法给出输出反馈控制器增益矩阵的求解过程．最后通过一个仿真实例说明本文所提出的控制器设计方法的有效性．     

Finite-time output feedback stabilization of high-order uncertain nonlinear systems

This paper studies the problem of finite-time output feedback stabilization for a class of high-order nonlinear systems with the unknown output function and control coefficients. Under the weaker assumption that output function is only continuous, by using homogeneous domination method together with adding a power integrator method, introducing a new analysis method, the maximal open sector Ω of output function is given. As long as output function belongs to any closed sector included in Ω, an output feedback controller can be developed to guarantee global finite-time stability of the closed-loop system.     

Quantised and sampled output feedback for nonlinear systems

In this paper we consider the analysis and design of an output feedback controller for a perturbed nonlinear system in which the output is sampled and quantised. Using the attractive ellipsoid method, which is based on Lyapunov analysis techniques, together with the relaxation of a nonlinear optimisation problem, sufficient conditions for the design of a robust control law are obtained. Since the original conditions result in nonlinear matrix inequalities, a numerical algorithm to obtain the solution is presented. The obtained control ensures that the trajectories of the closed-loop system will converge to a minimal (in a sense to be made specific) ellipsoidal region. Finally, numerical examples are presented in order to illustrate the applicability of the proposed design method.     

A global state feedback output regulating control for uncertain systems in strict feedback form

A family of single-input, single-output, nonlinear systems in strict feedback form with uncertain constant parameters which appear linearly and belong to a known compact set Π is considered. A global robust output regulation problem via state feedback is addressed and solved under the assumptions that the regulator equations are solvable in Π, the output equation does not depend on uncertain parameters, no modelled disturbances affect the system and the output reference signal is generated by a known exosystem whose state is bounded and available for feedback. Robust adaptive techniques are used to guarantee closed loop boundedness and to achieve, without requiring persistency of excitation, global asymptotic output regulation for a class of feedback linearizable systems which may have unbounded uncertain tracking dynamics or may not have a well-defined global relative degree.     

Robust stability analysis of uncertain switched linear systems with unstable subsystems

The problem of robust stability for switched linear systems with all the subsystems being unstable is investigated. Unlike the most existing results in which each switching mode in the system is asymptotically stable, the subsystems may be unstable in this paper. A necessary condition of stability for switched linear systems is first obtained with certain hypothesis. Then, under two assumptions, sufficient conditions of exponential stability for both deterministic and uncertain switched linear systems are presented by using the invariant subspace theory and average dwell time method. Moreover, we further develop multiple Lyapunov functions and propose a method for constructing multiple Lyapunov functions for the considered switched linear systems with certain switching law. Several examples are included to show the effectiveness of the theoretical findings.     

Output feedback controller design for uncertain piecewise linear systems

This paper proposes output feedback controller design methods for uncertain piecewise linear systems based on piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function. The α-stability of closed-loop systems is also considered. It is shown that the output feedback controller design procedure of uncertain piecewise linear systems with α-stability constraint can be cast as solving a set of bilinear matrix inequalities （BMIs）. The BMIs problem in this paper can be solved iteratively as a set of two convex optimization problems involving linear matrix inequalities （LMIs） which can be solved numerically efficiently. A numerical example shows the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

Robust output feedback stabilization of uncertain dynamic systems with bounded controllers

We propose a new class of infinitely many bounded output feedback controllers for uncertain dynamic systems with bounded uncertainties. No statistical information about the uncertainties is assumed. A variable structure systems approach is employed in the synthesis of the proposed output feedback controllers. The role of the system zeros in the output feedback stabilization using the variable structure approach is discussed. We show that the proposed controllers guarantee the practical stability of the closed-loop system and give estimates of the regions of practical stability.     

Global output feedback control for uncertain nonlinear feedforward systems

This paper considers a class of uncertain nonlinear feedforward systems with unknown constant growth rate, output polynomial function growth rate and system input function growth rate. Under the most general growth rate condition, only one dynamic gain is used to compensate simultaneously these three types of growth rates, an output feedback controller is constructed to guarantee the boundedness of closed-loop system states and the convergence of original system states.     

Robust control of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems

This paper considers the robust control of a class of nonlinear systems with real time-varying parameter uncertainty. Interest is focused on the design of linear dynamic output feedback control and two problems are addressed. The first one is the robust stabilization and the other is the problem of robust performance in an H_∞ sense. A technique is proposed for designing stabilizing controllers for both problems by converting them into ‘scaled’ H_∞ control problems which do not involve parameter uncertainty.     

Robust stability of a class of hybrid dynamic uncertain systems

This paper considers the robust stability of a class of hybrid dynamic uncertain systems. It derives conditions for a class of hybrid dynamic uncertain systems with uncertainties in the continuous variable dynamic systems, variations in the ‘switching’ conditional set and variations in the reset map to be stable. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.     

Robust static output feedback control for linear discrete-time systems with time-varying uncertainties

This paper is concerned with the problem of designing robust static output feedback controllers for linear discrete-time systems with time-varying polytopic uncertainties. Sufficient conditions for robust static output feedback stabilizing controller designs are given in terms of solutions to a set of linear matrix inequalities, and the results are extended to H₂ and H_∞ static output feedback controller designs. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design methods.     

Observer-based output feedback control of networked control systems with non-uniform sampling and time-varying delay

This paper investigates the problem of observer-based output feedback control for networked control systems with non-uniform sampling and time-varying transmission delay. The sampling intervals are assumed to vary within a given interval. The transmission delay belongs to a known interval. A discrete-time model is first established, which contains time-varying delay and norm-bounded uncertainties coming from non-uniform sampling intervals. It is then converted to an interconnection of two subsystems in which the forward channel is delay-free. The scaled small gain theorem is used to derive the stability condition for the closed-loop system. Moreover, the observer-based output feedback controller design method is proposed by utilising a modified cone complementary linearisation algorithm. Finally, numerical examples illustrate the validity and superiority of the proposed method.     

Further results on the robust stability of linear systems with a single time delay

For linear systems with a single time-varying delay time, we propose a method to characterize how large the deviation of the delay time can be compared to the nominal zero value, such that the system still preserves its asymptotic stability. Both cases of linear time-delay systems with and without uncertainties are considered. The criteria developed are seen to give less conservative results in simulation examples.     

Static output feedback controller design for fuzzy systems: An ILMI approach

This paper examines the problem of static output feedback control of a Takagi-Sugeno (TS) fuzzy system. The existence of a static output feedback control law is given in terms of the solvability of bilinear matrix inequalities. An iterative algorithm based on the linear matrix inequality is proposed to compute the static output feedback gain. To reduce the conservatism of the design, the structural information of the membership function of the fuzzy rules is incorporated. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the validity of the methods.     

Robust stability of feedback control systems with uncertain parameters and unmodeled dynamics

Recent results on a generalization of Kharitonov’s interval polynomial problem allow linearly dependent perturbations in the coefficients of a polynomial, and the main objective is to provide computationally tractable criteria for robust stability. In this paper robust-stability criteria are provided in an even more general setting—one which also accommodates unmodeled dynamics. In addition, the test given for robust stability totally avoids so-called “edge combinatorics,” greatly facilitating numerical computation. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants ECS-8612948 and ECS-8451519 and in part by AFOSR Grant 880020, Honeywell and GE.     

具有脉冲模的奇异摄动系统鲁棒稳定分析与仿真研究

本文研究了当摄动参数为零时存在脉冲模的奇异摄动系统的鲁棒稳定性问题,得到了使系统鲁棒稳定的摄动参数上界,给出了一个数值仿真例子。     

Global output feedback stabilisation of nonlinear time-delay systems with unknown output function

This paper studies the problem of global output feedback stabilisation for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems with the unknown output function. By constructing the appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and observer, skillfully combining generalised adding a power integrator technique, sign function and homogeneous domination approach, an output feedback controller is designed to guarantee globally uniformly asymptotical stability of nonlinear time-delay systems with the unknown output function.