Disturbance decoupling control design for switched Boolean control networks

This paper investigates a kind of disturbance decoupling problems (DDPs) for switched Boolean control networks (BCNs), that is, the disturbance-independent output decoupling problem, via the semi-tensor product of matrices. By converting the dynamics of switched BCNs into an algebraic form and using the redundant variable separation technique, all possible state feedback controllers are designed for the disturbance-independent output decoupling problem. Then, based on the obtained state feedback disturbance decoupling controllers and the system’s output equation, a constructive procedure is proposed to design all possible output feedback disturbance decoupling controllers. The study of two illustrative examples shows that the new results obtained in this paper are effective in designing disturbance decoupling controllers for switched BCNs.     

随机非线性系统鲁棒自适应反馈控制器的积分反推方法设计

考虑了一类随机非线性系统的鲁棒自适应控制问题.采用Ito随机微分方程描述系统, 进而在概率意义下研究系统的鲁棒稳定性.应用积分反推(backstepping)方法,系统地给出了设 计状态反馈及输出反馈鲁棒自适应控制器的方法.同时构造出了适当形式的四次型的自适应控 制Lyapunov函数(CLF).     

Adaptive fault-tolerant control of linear systems with actuator saturation and L_2-disturbances

This paper studies the problem of designing adaptive fault-tolerant H-infinity controllers for linear timeinvariant systems with actuator saturation.The disturbance tolerance ability of the closed-loop system is measured by an optimal index.The notion of an adaptive H-infinity performance index is proposed to describe the disturbance attenuation performances of closed-loop systems.New methods for designing indirect adaptive fault-tolerant controllers via state feedback are presented for actuator fault compe...     

Stabilization of uncertain chained nonholonomic systems using adaptive output feedback

In this paper, adaptive output feedback control is presented to solve the stabilization problem of nonholonomic systems in chained form with strong nonlinear drifts and uncertain parameters using output signals only. The objective is to design adaptive nonlinear output feedback laws which can steer the closed‐loop systems to globally converge to the origin, while the estimated parameters remain bounded. The proposed systematic strategy combines input‐state scaling with backstepping technique. Motivated from a special case, adaptive output feedback controllers are proposed for a class of uncertain chained systems. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Output feedback tracking control of robot manipulators with model uncertainty via adaptive fuzzy logic

Many robot controllers require not only joint position measurements but also joint velocity measurements; however, most robotic systems are only equipped with joint position measurement devices. In this paper, a new output feedback tracking control approach is developed for the robot manipulators with model uncertainty. The approach suggested herein does not require velocity measurements and employs the adaptive fuzzy logic. The adaptive fuzzy logic allows us to approximate uncertain and nonlinear robot dynamics. Only one fuzzy system is used to implement the observer-controller structure of the output feedback robot system. It is shown in a rigorous manner that all the signals in a closed loop composed of a robot, an observer, and a controller are uniformly ultimately bounded. Finally, computer simulation results on three-link robot manipulators are presented to show the results which indicate good position tracking performance and robustness against payload uncertainty and external disturbances.     

Fuzzy dynamic output feedback control with adaptive rotor imbalance compensation for magnetic bearing systems

This paper presents a dynamic output feedback control with adaptive rotor-imbalance compensation based on an analytical Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model for complex nonlinear magnetic bearing systems with rotor eccentricity. The rotor mass-imbalance effect is considered with a linear in the parameter approximator. Through the robust analysis for disturbance rejection, the control law can be synthesized in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Based on the suggested fuzzy output feedback design, the controller may be much easier to implement than conventional nonlinear controllers. Simulation validations show that the proposed robust fuzzy control law can suppress the rotor imbalance-induced vibration and has excellent capability for high-speed tracking and levitation control.     

Adaptive force and position control of manipulators

The article presents simple methods for the design of adaptive force and position controllers for robot manipulators within the hybrid control architecture. The force controller is composed of an adaptive PID feedback controller, an auxiliary signal, and a force feedforward term, and achieves tracking of desired force setpoints in the constraint directions. The position controller consists of adaptive feedback and feedforward controllers as well as an auxiliary signal, and accomplishes tracking of desired position trajectories in the free directions. The controllers are capable of compensating for dynamic cross-couplings that exist between the position and force control loops in the hybrid control architecture. The adaptive controllers do not require knowledge of the complex dynamic model or parameter values of the manipulator or the environment. The proposed control schemes are computationally fast and suitable for implementation in online control with high sampling rates. The methods are applied to a two-link manipulator for simultaneous force and position control. Simulation results confirm that the adaptive controllers perform remarkably well under different conditions.     

Adaptive fault-tolerant control of linear systems with actuator saturation and L2-disturbances

This paper studies the problem of designing adaptive fault-tolerant H-infinity controllers for linear timeinvariant systems with actuator saturation. The disturbance tolerance ability of the closed-loop system is measured by an optimal index. The notion of an adaptive H-infinity performance index is proposed to describe the disturbance attenuation performances of closed-loop systems. New methods for designing indirect adaptive fault-tolerant controllers via state feedback are presented for actuator fault compensations. Based on the on-line estimation of eventual faults, the adaptive fault-tolerant controller parameters are updated automatically to compensate for the fault effects on systems. The designs are developed in the framework of the linear matrix inequality （LMI） approach, which can guarantee the disturbance tolerance ability and adaptive H-infinity performances of closed-loop systems in the cases of actuator saturation and actuator failures. An example is given to illustrate the efficiency of the design method.     

Adaptive stabilization of a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems with backstepping control

In this paper, we focus on the problem of adaptive stabilization for a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems, whose non-switching part consists of feedback linearizable dynamics. The main result is that we propose adaptive controllers such that the considered switched systems with unknown parameters can be stabilized under arbitrary switching signals. First, we design the adaptive state feedback controller based on tuning the estimations of the bounds on switching parameters in the transformed system, instead of estimating the switching parameters directly. Next, by incorporating some augmented design parameters, the adaptive output feedback controller is designed. The proposed approach allows us to construct a common Lyapunov function and thus the closed-loop system can be stabilized without the restriction on dwell-time, which is needed in most of the existing results considering output feedback control. A numerical example and computer simulations are provided to validate the proposed controllers.     

Frequency selective dual control for periodic disturbance cancellation

This work combines two well‐known approaches to control: dual control and harmonic control. The combination results in high speed of adaptation and the possibility of using feedback controllers in practical situations where traditionally feedforward controllers were preferred. The use of frequency‐selective filters results in fast adaptation without substantial increase in on‐line computing effort. The approach proposed is more suitable for adaptive cancellation of periodic output disturbances. Dual controllers are computed around each relevant frequency of the disturbance and the control input to the plant is synthesized from them. Simulations illustrate how the control scheme works. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A scheduling approach for tracking of general signals

We modify a class of scheduled controllers, originally developed to address actuator saturation in the disturbance attenuation problem, for the problem of tracking of generally unknown signals. The main assumption is that some (possibly conservative) bounds are known for peak magnitude and rate of the tracking signal. Both state feedback, for comparison, and output feedback controllers are presented. The solvability conditions and effectiveness are shown through an example.     

可反馈线性化系统的鲁棒自适应容错控制设计

针对存在不确定执行器故障和未知不匹配干扰的可反馈线性化非线性系统, 提出一种鲁棒自适应容错控 制策略. 首先分别给出系统输入和扰动关于系统输出的相对阶, 针对两种相对阶之间的不同关系设计鲁棒控制器, 抑制干扰对系统输出的影响; 然后针对各故障情况分别设计容错控制器; 最后将各控制器进行融合得到一个综合 故障补偿控制器, 从而有效解决故障模式、类型、大小、时间和外界干扰等多重不确定性, 保证闭环系统稳定和渐近 输出跟踪性能. 仿真结果验证了所设计控制方案的可行性与有效性.     

基于有界扰动分区的多模型自适应控制

对于含有界扰动的离散时间系统,将有界扰动变化范围分割成若干小区间,针对这些区间建立多个自适应模型,并针对每一个自适应模型建立相应的控制器.给定一个指标切换函数,基于多个自适应模型控制器和给定的指标切换函数构成多模型自适应控制器.可以证明多模型自适应控制器能够保证闭环系统是输入输出有界稳定的.仿真实例表明,当被控对象的有界扰动随时间变化的时候,采用单一模型自适应控制,系统输出很难跟踪设定值,而多模型自适应控制器却极大地改善了控制品质.     

Dynamic control of systems with variable state-delay

The problem of designing dynamic controllers for a class of linear dynamical systems with time-varying delays subject to input disturbance as well as output measurement error and in which some parameters are unknown-but-bounded is considered. It is establishing that when certain structural constraints are met, then two stabilizing controllers can be constructed to render the closed-loop system ‘globally practically stable’. The controllers have three terms: a growth term, an output-driven term and a nonlinear term. Robustness of the developed dynamic controllers against mismatched uncertainties is also proved. Simulation studies are carried out on a water-quality model to illustrate the potential of the control methodology.     

Adaptive NN control for a class of strict-feedback discrete-time nonlinear systems

In this paper, both full state and output feedback adaptive neural network (NN) controllers are presented for a class of strict-feedback discrete-time nonlinear systems. Firstly, Lyapunov-based full-state adaptive NN control is presented via backstepping, which avoids the possible controller singularity problem in adaptive nonlinear control and solves the noncausal problem in the discrete-time backstepping design procedure. After the strict-feedback form is transformed into a cascade form, another relatively simple Lyapunov-based direct output feedback control is developed. The closed-loop systems for both control schemes are proven to be semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded.     

Disturbance localization for left invertible linear periodic discrete-time systems

The disturbance localization problem for left invertible linear periodic discrete-time systems is solved using periodic state feedback controllers. The proposed technique is of algebraic nature and has the following two main characteristics: (i) It yields simple algebraic criteria for testing the solvability of the problem, as compared to known geometric criteria, which may not be so easy to check. (ii) It derives analytically the general expressions of all periodic controllers admissible for disturbance localization, as compared to known techniques, which lead to nonanalytic parametrizations of the admissible controllers via constructive procedures. Moreover, for the aforementioned class of periodic systems, the state feedback simultaneous disturbance localization and stabilization or pole placement problem is treated, and conditions for its solvability are established, on the basis of a decentralized control approach, that makes use of the equivalence between the above problem and the stabilization or pole placement problem of a general proper multichannel system by decentralized static output feedback.     

Adaptive output tracking of inherently nonlinear systems with nonlinear parameterization

We address the problem of output tracking for a class of nonlinearly parameterized systems with unstabilizable linearization. To achieve practical output tracking globally in the case when both the bound of reference signals and the bound of unknown time-varying parameters are not known a priori, we present a robust adaptive control method that is based on the idea of universal control combined with the new adaptive feedback design method developed recently for controlling uncertain systems with nonlinear parameterization. Continuous adaptive tracking controllers are explicitly constructed in this paper. The proposed adaptive tracking controllers use only the information of a prescribed reference signal but not its derivatives, nor its bound.     

Output regulation of uncertain nonlinear systems with nonlinear exosystems

An adaptive control algorithm is proposed for output regulation of uncertain nonlinear systems in output feedback form under disturbances generated from nonlinear exosystems. A new nonlinear internal model is proposed to generate the desired input term for suppression of the disturbances. The proposed internal model design is based on boundedness of the disturbance, high gain design and saturation. It is capable to tackle disturbances in any specified initial conditions. Some uncertainties in the systems are allowed, provided that they do not affect the desired feedforward control term, and they are tackled by using nonlinear dominant functions and an adaptive control coefficient. The proposed control algorithm ensures the global convergence of the state variables to the invariant manifold, which implies that the measurement or the tracking error approaches to zero asymptotically.     

Robust adaptive vibration control for an uncertain flexible Timoshenko robotic manipulator with input and output constraints

The problems of the constraints and the vibration suppression are investigated for the flexible Timoshenko robotic manipulator in this paper. Robust adaptive boundary control laws with the disturbance observes are designed to guarantee the convergence of the feedback flexible Timoshenko robotic manipulator system with the uncertain parameters and the states are proven to be uniform bounded. In addition, the proposed boundary controls are verified to be effectiveness by the numeral experiments.     

Deadbeat control with disturbance rejection

A deadbeat control problem with disturbance rejection is considered for a SISO discrete time plant. Disturbances are supposed to enter into the input to the plant and the output from the plant. The two-degree-of-freedom controllers are employed to internally stabilize the feedback control system, to make the output of the plant track a reference signal and to reject the disturbances in the sense of the deadbeat response. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the problem to have a solution are shown. And the set of all controllers meeting the design requirements are represented using two free polynomials.