Stability and stabilization of switched stochastic systems under asynchronous switching

This paper studies the stability and stabilization problems for a class of switched stochastic systems under asynchronous switching. The asynchronous switching refers to that the switching of the candidate controllers does not coincide with the switching of system modes. Two situations are considered: (1) time-delayed switching situation, that is, the switching of the candidate controllers has a lag to the switching of the system modes; (2) mismatched switching situation, the switching of the candidate controllers does not match the switching of the system modes. Using average dwell time and Lyapunov-like function, sufficient conditions are established for stochastic input-to-state stability of the whole system. Also, the stabilizing controller design approach is proposed for switched stochastic linear systems. The minimal average dwell time and the controller gain are achieved. Finally, a numerical example is used to demonstrate the validity of the developed results.     

基于模型依赖驻留时间的异步切换控制

研究在模型依赖平均驻留时间切换策略下切换线性系统的异步切换控制问题,同时考虑模型依赖的控制器滞后时间的约束问题.在实际情况下,信号传输和系统检测等原因会导致控制器的切换滞后于子系统.基于这类情况,首先将子系统运行的区间划分为子系统与控制器相匹配的区间和非匹配的区间,根据模型依赖的驻留时间策略设计出各子系统的控制器;然后,结合模型依赖的控制器滞后时间、系统参数和Lyapunov稳定条件推导出合适的驻留时间设计参数,且使得异步切换系统全局一致指数稳定;最后通过数值仿真验证了所提出方法的有效性.     

Stabilisation of a class of positive switched nonlinear systems under asynchronous switching

This paper addresses the stabilisation problem for a class of positive switched nonlinear systems under asynchronous switching, which means that the switches between the candidate controllers and the system modes are not synchronous. The continuous and discrete cases are considered respectively. Sufficient conditions are firstly provided for the existence of the asynchronous switching controllers to guarantee the closed-loop system to be positive and exponentially stable, and the corresponding admissible switching signals are presented. As a special case, the stabilisation results for positive switched linear systems under asynchronous switching are provided accordingly. Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

Positive stabilization for switched linear systems under asynchronous switching

This paper is concerned with the positive stabilization for a class of switched systems under asynchronous switching signals. Because it inevitably takes some time to identify the active subsystem in the real systems and activate the corresponding controller, the switching of controllers lags behind that of subsystems, which arises the problem of the asynchronous switching. By analyzing the solution of dynamic systems, the mode‐dependent controllers are designed to guarantee the positivity and exponential stability for the resultant closed‐loop switched linear systems under asynchronous switching signals in continuous‐time and discrete‐time cases, respectively. Sufficient conditions for the existence of admissible state‐feedback controllers are developed, and the corresponding switching signals are designed. Furthermore, a synchronous switching phenomenon is discussed as a special case. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the results. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Control discrete-time switched singular systems with state delays under asynchronous switching

This article is concerned with the problem of state feedback control for a class of discrete-time switched singular systems with time-varying state delays under asynchronous switching. The asynchronous switching considered here means that the switching instants of the candidate controllers lag behind those of the system modes. The concept of mismatched control rate is introduced. By using the multiple Lyapunov function approach and the average dwell time technique, a sufficient condition for the existence a stabilising switching law is first derived to guarantee the regularity, causality and exponential stability of the closed-loop system in the presence of asynchronous switching. The stabilising switching law is characterised by a upper bound on the mismatched control rate and a lower bound on the average dwell time. Then, the corresponding solvability condition for a set of mode-dependent state feedback controllers is established by using the linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. Finally, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Robust stabilisation and L2 -gain analysis for switched systems with actuator saturation under asynchronous switching

Robust stabilisation and L₂-gain analysis for a class of switched systems with actuator saturation are studied in this paper. The switching signal of the controllers lags behind that of the system modes, which leads to the asynchronous switching between the candidate controllers and the subsystems. By combining the piecewise Lyapunov function method with the convex hull technique, sufficient conditions in terms of LMIs for the solvability of the robust stabilisation and weighted L₂-gain problems are presented respectively under the dwell time scheme. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed results.     

线性切换系统经周期切换渐近稳定性研究

研究一类含有两个子系统的线性切换系统经周期切换渐近稳定问题.首先给出了特殊周期切换,即等时切换下线性切换系统渐近稳定的充要条件;然后将所得结论进行了推广,使之适合于一般的周期切换情形,并结合自适应思想提出了实现系统周期切换的方法,使之能应用于工程实际.特别指出,一个系统可经切换达到二次稳定的充要条件是该系统可经周期切换渐近稳定.对于一类线性切换系统,采用周期切换可使切换信号的设计变得相对简单.仿真结果表明了所提出的方法简洁而有效.     

异步时滞切换正系统的有限时间镇定

研究异步切换下时滞切换正系统的有限时间控制问题,即针对控制器切换滞后于子系统切换形成的异步现象,基于平均驻留时间切换方法对切换正系统开展有限时间镇定研究.首先,将每个正子系统运行的区间划分为子系统与控制器匹配和失配区间,并构造多余正Lyapunov-Krasovskii泛函;其次,基于有限时间稳定理论,实现平均驻留时间切换律及异步时滞切换正系统有限时间镇定控制器的联合设计,并给出连续时间和离散时间两种情形下系统有限时间镇定的充分条件;最后,通过两个仿真例子验证所提出方法的有效性.     

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.     

Stability of Delayed Switched Systems With State-Dependent Switching

This paper investigates the stability of switched systems with time-varying delay and all unstable subsystems. According to the stable convex combination, we design a state-dependent switching rule. By employing Wirtinger integral inequality and Leibniz-Newton formula, the stability results of nonlinear delayed switched systems whose nonlinear terms satisfy Lipschitz condition under the designed state-dependent switching rule are established for different assumptions on time delay. Moreover,some new stability results for linear delayed switched systems are also presented. The effectiveness of the proposed results is validated by three typical numerical examples.     

Stabilization of positive switched systems with time-varying delays under asynchronous switching

This paper investigates the state feedback stabilization problem for a class of positive switched systems with time-varying delays under asynchronous switching in the frameworks of continuous-time and discrete-time dynamics. The so-called asynchronous switching means that the switches between the candidate controllers and system modes are asynchronous. By constructing an appropriate co-positive type Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and further allowing the functional to increase during the running time of active subsystems, sufficient conditions are provided to guarantee the exponential stability of the resulting closed-loop systems, and the corresponding controller gain matrices and admissible switching signals are presented. Finally, two illustrative examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

Stability analysis of switched systems with stable and unstable subsystems: An average dwell time approach

We study the stability properties of switched systems consisting of both Hurwitz stable and unstable linear time-invariant subsystems using an average dwell time approach. We propose a class of switching laws so that the entire switched system is exponentially stable with a desired stability margin. In the switching laws, the average dwell time is required to be sufficiently large, and the total activation time ratio between Hurwitz stable subsystems and unstable subsystems is required to be no less than a specified constant. We also apply the result to perturbed switched systems where nonlinear vanishing or non-vanishing norm-bounded perturbations exist in the subsystems, and we show quantitatively that, when norms of the perturbations are small, the solutions of the switched systems converge to the origin exponentially under the same switching laws.     

Controller switching based on output prediction errors

We consider a switched nonlinear feedback control strategy for controlling a plant with unknown parameters so that the output asymptotically tracks a reference signal. The controller is selected online from a given set of controllers according to a switching rule based on output prediction errors. For control problems requiring asymptotic tracking of a reference input we provide sufficient conditions under which the switched closed-loop control system is exponentially stable and asymptotically achieves good control even if the switching does not stop, Our results are illustrated with three examples     

Input-to-state stability of switched systems and switching adaptive control

In this paper we prove that a switched nonlinear system has several useful input-to-state stable (ISS)-type properties under average dwell-time switching signals if each constituent dynamical system is ISS. This extends available results for switched linear systems. We apply our result to stabilization of uncertain nonlinear systems via switching supervisory control, and show that the plant states can be kept bounded in the presence of bounded disturbances when the candidate controllers provide ISS properties with respect to the estimation errors. Detailed illustrative examples are included.     

Sufficient and necessary conditions for the stability of second-order switched linear systems under arbitrary switching

Many practical systems can be modelled as switched systems, whose stability problem is challenging even for linear subsystems. In this article, the stability problem of second-order switched linear systems with a finite number of subsystems under arbitrary switching is investigated. Sufficient and necessary stability conditions are derived based on the worst-case analysis approach in polar coordinates. The key idea of this article is to partition the whole state space into several regions and reduce the stability analysis of all the subsystems to analysing one or two worst subsystems in each region. This article is an extension of the work for stability analysis of second-order switched linear systems with two subsystems under arbitrary switching.     

Passivity analysis and control for discrete-time two-dimensional switched systems in Roesser model

This paper investigates the passivity issues of discrete-time two-dimensional switched systems in Roesser model under a state-dependent switching law. Conditions for passivity of discrete-time two-dimensional switched systems are obtained without the requirement of passivity of subsystems. When the system states are completely available, state feedback controllers and switching laws are designed. In the case of partial state measurements, dynamic output feedback controllers and switching laws depending only on the state of the output feedback controllers are constructed to guarantee passivity of the closed-loop switched system. Finally, numerical examples are provided to illustrate the efficiency of the results.     

Two slow stabilizing switching laws for discrete time positive switched systems

On the basis of a linear copositive Lyapunov function (LF) and a diagonal quadratic LF, respectively, two slow stabilizing switching laws are proposed for discrete time positive switched systems composed of subsystems. Under these two stabilizing switching laws, the LFs are allowed to increase in state‐driven intervals while the stability of positive switched systems is maintained. In addition, it is shown that positive switched systems under these two slow switching laws are robust against certain classes of perturbations. Furthermore, when the states of the systems are not available, observer‐based stabilizing switching laws for positive switched systems are also proposed. Some numerical examples are finally given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed stabilizing switching laws. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On modeling and secure control of cyber‐physical systems with attacks/faults changing system dynamics: An average dwell‐time approach

The problem of secure control in cyber‐physical systems is considered in this work. A new modeling framework is first introduced, ie, cyber‐physical systems with attacks/faults changing system dynamics is modeled as a switched system, where the switching among subsystems is triggered by a rule generated by attackers but unknown for defenders. Based on an average dwell‐time approach incorporated by the attack frequency and duration properties, a convergence condition of the Lyapunov function on active intervals of subsystems (ie, the attack and healthy modes), under the developed switched controller, is given. Next, the unknown rule, however, leads to the asynchronous switching problem between the candidate controllers and system modes. As a result, degradation of the system performance (eg, a large chatter occurred in the system state trajectories) in the asynchronous intervals is caused. To address the difficulty, a novel switching law based on a prescribed performance is proposed, and it is shown that the asynchronous intervals are shortened by reducing adjustable parameters in the switching law. An illustrative example verifies the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

不确定切换时滞非线性系统状态切换的指数稳定性

利用状态依赖控制策略对切换信号进行设计,使得一类参数不确定时滞非线性切换系统指数稳定且具有一定的??∞抗干扰性能。利用Lyapunov-Krasovskii (LK)函数方法,以线性矩阵不等式组的方式,给出了稳定切换律存在的充分条件,并且该系统是指数稳定的。通过引入自由矩阵并结合积分不等式技巧,得到了保守性较低的稳定性条件。仿真算例表明了所提出方法的有效性和较低的保守性。     

Necessary and sufficient conditions for regional stabilisability of second-order switched linear systems with a finite number of subsystems

In this paper, the switching stabilisation problem of second-order switched linear systems is studied. By extending the best case switching signal (BCSS) criteria for second-order switched linear systems with two subsystems to the general case with any finite number of subsystems, necessary and sufficient conditions for regional stabilisability of second-order switched linear systems with any finite number of subsystems are proposed in this paper. The main idea of this paper is to divide all the subsystems in a region into two groups based on their trajectory directions in that region. By comparing pairwise, the most “stable” subsystem for each group in a region can be determined and the BCSS analysis among all the subsystems in that region is reduced to the BCSS analysis between the two most “stable” subsystems in that region.