Boundary control for a flexible string system with input saturation constraint

In this study, we focus on the boundary control problem for a vibrating string system with saturated input under the condition of external disturbances. Based on the backstepping approach, a boundary vibration control scheme is proposed to globally stabilize the string around the equilibrium position. A smooth hyperbolic tangent function is exploited to restrict the control input, an auxiliary system and a Nussbaum function are adopted to cope with the nonlinear term derived from the input saturation, and a disturbance observer is employed to tackle the boundary disturbance. The developed controller can assure the convergence of the closed‐loop system state to a small neighbourhood of zero. By the appropriate choice of control design parameters, numerical simulation is conducted to show the effectiveness of the derived control.     

Disturbance Rejection Control for a Vibrating String System

This paper is concerned with disturbance rejection control for a vibrating flexible string system in the presence of unknown disturbances. First, the boundary disturbance observer is proposed to deal with the boundary disturbance and the infinite dimensional disturbance observer is introduced to mitigate the effects of the distributed disturbance. Subsequently, the boundary control and distributed control are developed to suppress the vibration and globally stabilize the string system at its equilibrium position. Under the control proposed, the uniformly bounded stability of the controlled system is testified employing rigorous analysis without resorting to discretization of the partial differential equation dynamics depending on the time and space. Finally, the simulation and comparison results verify the performance of the derived control.     

Boundary control of an axially moving accelerated/decelerated belt system

In this paper, a boundary controller with disturbance observer is proposed for the vibration suppression of an axially moving belt system. The model of the belt system is described by a nonhomogeneous partial differential equation and a set of ordinary differential equations with consideration of the high‐acceleration/deceleration and unknown spatiotemporally varying distributed disturbance. Applying the finite‐dimensional backstepping control and Lyapunov's direct method, a boundary controller is developed to stabilize the belt system at the small neighborhood of its equilibrium position and a disturbance observer is introduced to attenuate the effect of unknown external disturbance. The S‐curve acceleration/deceleration method is adopted to plan the speed of the belt. With the proposed control scheme, the spillover instability problems are avoided, the uniform boundedness and the stability of the closed‐loop belt system can be achieved. Simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

LMI-based boundary and distributed control design for a flexible string subject to disturbance

In this paper, boundary and distributed controllers are proposed to reduce the vibration of a flexible string with external disturbance. To accurately represent the flexible string's behaviour, partial differential equations are introduced for the flexible string modelling. Boundary and distributed disturbance observers, which are proved exponentially stable, are designed to compensate unknown disturbance. Based on the proposed disturbance observers, the boundary and distributed controllers are developed by linear matrix inequality and the asymptotic stability of the system with controllers is demonstrated by Lyapunov's direct method. Extensive numerical simulations are presented to validate the good performance of the proposed control laws.     

Stabilisation of an anti-stable joint string with boundary disturbance

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we consider the boundary stabilisation for a one-dimensional joint anti-stable string equation with input disturbance entering the control end. A backstepping transformation is used to design a suitable boundary controller so that the system is equivalent to a target system which is exponentially stable when the disturbance is absent. The active disturbance rejection control approach (ADRC) is adopted to estimate and eliminate the external disturbance. The well-posedness and stability of the target system are presented. Some numerical stimulations indicate the effectiveness of the control law.     

具有输入饱和的近空间飞行器鲁棒控制

针对近空间飞行器这一类存在外部扰动,输入饱和和参数不确定的多输入多输出线性系统,提出了一种基于干扰观测器的抗饱和鲁棒控制方案.将干扰观测器与抗饱和控制技术相结合,从而消除系统存在的未知外部扰动、输入饱和和不确定性对系统控制的影响.首先,设计干扰观测器对线性外部系统产生的未知扰动进行估计.然后根据干扰观测器输出,通过超前抗饱和方法设计抗饱和补偿器,并将其加入到鲁棒控制器的设计中,保证闭环系统存在输入饱和、未知外部扰动和参数不确定情况下的稳定性.为便于设计,干扰观测器、抗饱和补偿器和控制器设计矩阵均通过求解线性矩阵不等式得到.最后,将提出的鲁棒抗饱和控制方法应用于近空间飞行器,仿真结果验证了该控制方案的有效性.     

Output feedback stabilisation for a cascaded wave PDE-ODE system subject to boundary control matched disturbance

In this paper, we consider output feedback stabilisation for a wave PDE-ODE system with Dirichlet boundary interconnection and external disturbance flowing the control end. We first design a variable structure unknown input type state observer which is shown to be exponentially convergent. Then, we estimate the disturbance in terms of the estimated state, an idea from active disturbance rejection control. These enable us to design an observer-based output feedback stabilising control to this uncertain PDE-ODE system.     

Inertia‐free attitude stabilization for flexible spacecraft with active vibration suppression

This paper addresses the inertia‐free attitude control problem for flexible spacecraft in the presence of inertia uncertainties, external disturbances, actuator faults, measurement errors, and input magnitude and rate constraints (MRCs). By analyzing the influence of external disturbances, faulty signals, and actual inertial matrix, a lumped disturbance is reconstructed to facilitate the controller design. Then, a new intermediate observer is developed to estimate the attitude and modal information and the lumped disturbance. The Lyapunov stability analysis shows that the developed controller can achieve the objectives of the attitude stabilization and vibration suppression with input MRCs. Finally, numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed control method.     

轧机主传动系统自抗扰控制器设计与应用

轧钢过程中的负荷扰动容易激起机电振动,这严重影响板带材的产量和质量.为了抑制机电振动,针对轧机主传动系统存在不确定外部扰动和未建模动态的特点,首先建立了轧机主传动系统的模型,将不确定性外扰和未建模动态视为一个综合扰动项,然后利用扩张状态观测器对综合扰动项进行观测和补偿,设计了一种不依赖于对象模型的轧机主传动系统鲁棒控制器.仿真结果证明:该控制器比外扰负荷观测器控制系统具有更好的抗扰动能力,同时对系统内部参数如负载转动惯量、转矩常数等的摄动也具有较强的鲁棒性,有效抑制了由于轧制负荷周期性变化和轧制负荷突变引起的机电振动.首次将扩张状态观测器和自抗扰控制技术应用到轧机主传动系统机电振动控制中,并通过实验证明了该方法的有效性和优越性.     

Partial differential equation boundary control of a flexible manipulator with input saturation

In this study, we consider the boundary control problem of a flexible manipulator in the presence of input saturation and input disturbances. The dynamics of the flexible system are represented by partial differential equations (PDEs). Based on disturbance observers, a boundary control scheme is designed to regulate angular position and suppress elastic vibration simultaneously. The proposed control scheme allows the application of smooth hyperbolic functions, which satisfy physical conditions and input restrictions, easily be realised. It is proved that the proposed control scheme can be guaranteed in handling input saturation and external disturbances. The stability is achieved through rigorous analysis without any simplification of the dynamics. Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Boundary and Distributed Control for a Nonlinear Three‐Dimensional Euler‐Bernoulli Beam Based On Infinite Dimensional Disturbance Observer

Control problems in spatially distributed systems are challenging because the disturbance is of infinite dimensions. To this end, this paper discusses an infinite dimensional disturbance observer design, which is illustrated based on a partial differential equation (PDE) model of a nonlinear three‐dimensional Euler‐Bernoulli beam. The basic idea of the observer design is to modify the estimations based on the difference between the estimated output and actual output. Moreover, an auxiliary parameter system is established to help with the analysis. Then a Lyapunov function candidate consisting of the energy of the system, the observer error and an auxiliary term is given. After a series of analyses of the function, distributed controllers and boundary controllers based on the proposed observer are given to restrain vibration. Finally, by numerical simulations, the convergence of the observer is demonstrated, and the efficacy of control performance is also shown.     

轴向运动弦线横向振动控制的Lyapunov方法

研究轴向运动弦线和作动器组成的耦合系统的横向振动控制．此系统被作动器分成未控和受控两部分,通过作用在作动器上的控制力对受控部分进行主动控制．分析未控弦线的横向振动的有界性．采用Lyapunov方法获得控制规律,并证实受控弦线横向振动的指数稳定性．在初始扰动和激励力作用下,通过数值仿真证实控制规律的有效性．     

Modelling and control for a class of axially moving nonuniform system

In this paper, we deal with the active control problem for a class of axially moving system. The system is nonuniform due to the spatial-varying mass and spatiotemporally varying tension. The infinite dimensional model of the nonuniform system represented by the hybrid partial-ordinary differential equations is derived with consideration of the spatiotemporally varying distributed disturbance. To suppress the vibration of the nonuniform system, full state feedback boundary control is developed. For the case that the system states cannot be measured, output feedback boundary control is proposed by using the high-order observers for the estimation of the unmeasurable states. The disturbance observer is introduced to mitigate the effects of the boundary disturbance. With the proposed boundary control, the stability of the closed-loop nonuniform system is achieved through rigorous analysis and the uniform boundedness of the all closed-loop signals is guaranteed. Numerical simulations are performed to validate the performance of the control scheme proposed.     

Boundary Control of a Flexible Robotic Manipulator With Output Constraints

In this study, we consider a boundary control problem of a flexible manipulator with input disturbances and output constraints, achieving pre‐set performance attributes on position tracking error and the deflection error at the end of the beam. The dynamics of the system are represented by partial differential equations (PDEs). With the Lyapunov's direct method, a boundary controller with disturbance observer is designed to regulate the angular position and suppress elastic vibration simultaneously. The proposed control scheme allows the errors to converge to an arbitrarily small residual set, with convergence rate larger than a pre‐specified value. Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Robust discrete‐time nonlinear sliding mode state estimation of uncertain nonlinear systems

In this paper, we propose a discrete‐time nonlinear sliding mode observer for state and unknown input estimations of a class of single‐input/single‐output nonlinear uncertain systems. The uncertainties are characterized by a state‐dependent vector and a scalar disturbance/unknown input. The discrete‐time model is derived through Taylor series expansion together with nonlinear state transformation. A design methodology that combines the discrete‐time sliding mode (DSM) and a nonlinear observer design is adopted, and a strategy is developed to guarantee the convergence of the estimation error to a bound within the specified boundary layer. A relation between sliding mode gain and boundary layer is established for the existence of DSM, and the estimation is made robust to external disturbances and uncertainties. The unknown input or disturbance can also be estimated through the sliding mode. The conditions for the asymptotical stability of the estimation error are analysed. Application to a bioreactor is given and the simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Observer-based approximate optimal tracking control for time-delay systems with external disturbances

This paper proposes a successive approximation design approach of observer-based optimal tracking controllers for time-delay systems with external disturbances. To solve a two-point boundary value problem with time-delay and time-advance terms and obtain the optimal tracking control law, two sequences of vector differential equations are constructed first. Second, the convergence of the sequences of the vector differential equations is proved to guarantee the existence and uniqueness of the control law. Third, a design algorithm of the optimal tracking control law is presented and the physically realisable problem is addressed by designing a disturbance state observer and a reference input state observer. An example of an industrial electric heater is given to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.     

基于干扰观测器的终端滑模控制研究

针对一类非线性不确定系统,提出一种带干扰观测器的终端滑模控制TSMC方案.在不考虑外部干扰的影响下,设计了终端滑模控制,保证系统状态在有限时间内收敛到零;当存在干扰时,构造了非线性干扰观测器系统,以在线逼近未知外部干扰,消除其影响.考虑输人通道的不确定性,采用自适应方法在线逼近不确定的上界,并采用Lyapunov方法严格证明了自适应闭环系统的稳定性.对一级倒立摆系统进行仿真,仿真结果表明了所设计控制方案的有效性.     

Active Vibration Control for a Flexible‐Link Manipulator with Input Constraint Based on a Disturbance Observer

This paper mainly focuses on designing an active vibration control for a flexible‐link manipulator in the presence of input constraint and unknown spatially infinite dimensional disturbances. The manipulator we studied can be taken as an Euler–Bernoulli beam, the dynamic model of which has the form of partial differential equations. As the existence of spatially infinite dimensional disturbances on the beam, we first design a disturbance observer to estimate infinite dimensional disturbances. The proposed disturbance observer is guaranteed exponentially stable. Then, taking input saturation into account, a novel disturbance‐observer‐based controller is developed to regulate the joint angular position and rapidly suppress vibrations on the beam, which is the main contribution of this study. The closed‐loop system is validated asymptotically stable by theoretical analysis. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by numerical simulations.     

非仿射纯反馈非线性系统的自抗扰控制

针对一类具有外部扰动的不确定非仿射纯反馈非线性系统,结合反演和自抗扰技术,提出了一种新的控制设计方案,该方案中反演设计的每一步引入了自抗扰设计,同时采用微分器和扩展状态观测器分别估计虚拟控制的导数和系统的未知部分.与现有设计方法不同,它不是直接利用逼近定理来构建理想的控制器.该方案设计过程简单,并且通过输入状态稳定性分析证明了系统状态能渐近收敛到原点的任意小邻域内.仿真结果证实了该方法的有效性.     

Design of an Optimal Unknown Input Observer for Load Compensation in Motion Systems

Recently, several model‐based control designs have been proposed for motion systems and computerized numerical control (CNC) machines to improve motion accuracy. However, in real applications, their performance is seriously degraded when significant disturbances or cutting forces are applied. In this paper, we derive straightforward design procedures for a general‐structured unknown input observer (UIO) which perfectly decouples the effect of the external disturbance from the state estimation. Furthermore, we derive the optimal UIO by minimizing the estimation errors for both the state and the disturbance via the Riccati equation. Experimental results show that the performance of alladvanced motion controllers suffers when external loads are applied. By compensating for the disturbance of a servo motor using the proposed optimal‐UIO, the original contouring accuracy, which is degraded by the external loading, can be successfully recovered.