ROBUST H∞ CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS WITH MARKOVIAN SWITCHING AND TIME‐VARYING DELAYS

This paper is concerned with the problem of robust H_∞ control for uncertain stochastic systems with Markovian jump parameters and time‐varying state delays. A linear matrix inequality approach is developed and state feedback controllers are designed, which guarantee mean square asymptotic stability of the closed‐loop system and a prescribed H_∞ performance level for all modes and admissible uncertainties. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the application of the proposed method.     

ROBUST STABILITY AND STABILIZATION OF A CLASS OF SINGULAR SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE TIME‐VARYING DELAYS

This paper deals with the problem of robust stability and robust stabilization for uncertain continuous singular systems with multiple time‐varying delays. The parametric uncertainty is assumed to be norm bounded. The purpose of the robust stability problem is to give conditions such that the uncertain singular system is regular, impulse free, and stable for all admissible uncertainties. The purpose of the robust stabilization problem is to design a feedback control law such that the resulting closed‐loop system is robustly stable. This problem is solved via generalized quadratic stability approach. A strict linear matrix inequality (LMI) design approach is developed. Finally, a numerical example is provided to demonstrate the application of the proposed method.     

AN LMI APPROACH TO ROBUST H∞ CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN CONTINUOUS‐TIME SYSTEMS

This paper investigates the problems of robust H∞ control for uncertain continuous‐time systems with time‐varying, norm‐bounded uncertainties in all system matrices. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the above problems are proposed. All conditions are represented in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The robust H∞ controller can be easily designed from the solutions of the LMI conditions. Unlike earlier works, the proposed method does not involve any parameter tuning. Thus the robust H∞ optimization control problem, which has not been discussed in earlier reports, can be dealt with using this newly proposed method.     

STABILIZATION AND H∞ CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN STOCHASTIC TIME‐DELAY SYSTEMS VIA NON‐FRAGILE CONTROLLERS

This paper considers the problems of robust non‐fragile stochastic stabilization and H_∞ control for uncertain time‐delay stochastic systems with time‐varying norm‐bounded parameter uncertainties in both the state and input matrices. Attention is focused on the design of memoryless state feedback controllers which are subject to norm‐bounded uncertainties. For both the cases of additive and multiplicative controller uncertainties, delay‐independent sufficient conditions for the solvability of the above problems are obtained. The desired state feedback controller can be constructed by solving a certain linear matrix inequality.     

GENERALIZED QUADRATIC STABILIZATION FOR DISCRETE‐TIME SINGULAR SYSTEMS WITH TIME‐DELAY AND NONLINEAR PERTURBATION

This paper discusses a generalized quadratic stabilization problem for a class of discrete‐time singular systems with time‐delay and nonlinear perturbation (DSSDP), which the satisfies Lipschitz condition. By means of the S‐procedure approach, necessary and sufficient conditions are presented via a matrix inequality such that the control system is generalized quadratically stabilizable. An explicit expression of the static state feedback controllers is obtained via some free choices of parameters. It is shown in this paper that generalized quadratic stability also implies exponential stability for linear discrete‐time singular systems or more generally, DSSDP. In addition, this new approach for discrete singular systems (DSS) is developed in order to cast the problem as a convex optimization involving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), such that the controller can stabilize the overall system. This approach provides generalized quadratic stabilization for uncertain DSS and also extends the existing robust stabilization results for non‐singular discrete systems with perturbation. The approach is illustrated here by means of numerical examples.     

IMPROVED CONDITIONS FOR DELAY‐DEPENDENT ROBUST STABILITY AND STABILIZATION OF UNCERTAIN DISCRETE TIME‐DELAY SYSTEMS

This paper provides improved delay‐dependent conditions for the robust stability and robust stabilization of discrete time‐delay systems with norm‐bounded parameter uncertainties. It is theoretically established that the proposed conditions are less conservative than those discussed in the literature. The new approach proposed in this paper in a derivation of delay‐dependent conditions and involves the use of neither model transformation nor bounding techniques for some cross terms. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the reduced conservatism of the proposed conditions.     

DELAY‐DEPENDENT ROBUST CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN SINGULAR TIME‐DELAY SYSTEMS

The problem of delay‐dependent robust stabilization for uncertain singular time‐delay systems is investigated in this paper. The parameter uncertainty is assumed to be norm‐bounded and possibly time‐varying, while the time delay considered here is assumed to be constant but unknown. A delay‐dependent condition is presented for a singular time‐delay system to be regular, impulse free, and stable, based on which robust stability analysis and the robust stabilization problem are studied. An explicit expression for the desired state‐feedback control law is also given. The obtained results are formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), which involve no decomposition of the system matrices. Some numerical examples are given to show the efficiency of the theoretical conditions.     

DELAY‐DEPENDENT ROBUST CONTROL OF DESCRIPTOR SYSTEMS WITH TIME DELAY

This paper deals with the problem of stability and robust control for both certain and uncertain continuous‐time singular systems with state delay. Systems with norm‐bounded parameter uncertainties are considered. Robust delay‐dependent stability criteria and linear memoryless state feedback controllers based on linear matrix inequality are obtained. By choosing some Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functionals, neither model transformation nor bounding for cross terms is required in the derivation of our delay‐dependent results. Finally, numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

STOCHASTIC STABILIZATION AND H∞ CONTROL FOR DISCRETE JUMPING SYSTEMS WITH TIME DELAYS

In this paper, robust stochastic stabilization and H_∞ control for a class of uncertain discrete‐time linear systems with Markovian jumping parameters are considered. Based on a new bounded real lemma derived upon an inequality recently proposed, a new iterative state‐feedback controller design procedure for discrete time‐delay systems is presented. Sufficient conditions for stochastic stabilization are derived in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) based on an equivalent model transformation, and the corresponding H_∞ control law is given. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the solvability of the problems and effectiveness of the results.     

ON ROBUST STABILITY OF LINEAR NEUTRAL SYSTEMS WITH MIXED DELAYS AND NORM‐BOUNDED UNCERTAINTY

This paper investigates the robust stability of linear neutral systems with mixed delays and norm‐bounded uncertainty. Using new Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functionals, less conservative delay‐dependent robust stability conditions for such systems in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) are derived. Numerical examples show that the results obtained in this paper significantly improve the estimate of the stability limit over some existing results in other literature.     

秩-1型不确定性时滞系统鲁棒控制器设计——LMI方法

1　引言由于工程系统中大量存在时滞现象,有关时滞系统的报道愈来愈多,采用黎卡提方程方法研究时滞系统的鲁棒控制问题在近一、二十年一直是控制领域的研究热点之一[1].应用黎卡提方程方法时,有关参数的选取直接关系到所得结果的好坏,但如何找到合适参数的问题至今没有解决.而近几年发展成熟的线性矩阵不等式(LMI)方法不需要调整参数就可得到问题的解,因此用LMI方法研究时滞系统鲁棒控制问题的文献相继出现[2—3].尽管不确定性时滞系统鲁棒控制方面的报道很多,但大部分结果与系统时滞无关[1—3],这些独立于时滞的结论无疑是保守的,而依赖…     

ADAPTIVE ROBUST CONTROL OF UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS WITH TIME‐VARYING STATE DELAY

In this paper, a new adaptive robust control scheme is developed for a class of uncertain dynamical systems with time‐varying state delay, unknown parameters and disturbances. By incorporating adaptive techniques into the robust control method, we propose a continuous adaptive robust controller which guarantees the uniform boundedness of the system and at the same time, the regulating error enters an arbitrarily designated zone in a finite time. The proposed controller is independent of the time‐delay, hence it is applicable to a class of dynamical systems with uncertain time delays. The paper includes simulation studies demonstrating the performance of the proposed control scheme.     

LMI OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR DELAY‐DEPENDENT H∞ CONTROL OF TIME‐VARYING DELAY SYSTEMS

In this paper, the robust delay‐dependent H_∞ control for a class of uncertain systems with time‐varying delay is considered. An improved state feedback H_∞ control is proposed to minimize the H_∞‐norm bound via the LMI optimization approach. Based on the proposed result, delay‐dependent criteria are obtained without using the model transformation technique or bounded inequalities on cross product terms. The linear matrix inequality (LMI) optimization approach is used to design the robust H_∞ state feedback control. Some numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the approach.     

ON THE STABILITY AND STABILIZATION OF TIME‐VARYING NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS

Many stability and stabilization problems of nonlinear time‐varying systems lead to asymptotic behavior of (–K + L)‐type systems, which consist of a K‐function and an L‐function. The stability of these systems is of fundamental importance for a series of stabilization problems of time‐varying nonlinear control systems. Even though the asymptotical stability of such systems has been used widely and (in most cases) implicitly, we do not find a rigorous proof, in the literature, and the existing proof for a particular case is questionable. Under quite general conditions, we prove that the solution of these systems tends to 0 as t →. Some generalizations are also obtained. As an immediate consequence, a general theorem is obtained for the stabilization of time‐varying systems. Using the new framework, we examine several stability and stabilization problems. First of all, for cascade systems, two sets of sufficient conditions are obtained for uniformly asymptotical stability and globally asymptotical stability, respectively. Then we consider the stability of ISS and IISS systems. A new concept, namely, strong IISS, is proposed. Several stability properties for autonomous systems are extended to time‐varying systems. Finally, we consider stabilization via detection. A rigorous proof is given for a smooth state feedback time‐varying system with weak detectability to be stabilizable by means of an observer.     

广义不确定系统鲁棒稳定性及鲁棒镇定的矩阵不等式方法

考虑广义不确定系统的鲁棒稳定性及鲁棒镇定问题.提出了广义不确定系统'广义二次稳定'及'广义二次可镇定'的概念,利用矩阵不等式,分别得到了所考虑广义不确定系统广义二次稳定及广义二次可镇定的充要条件,而且,使广义不确定系统鲁棒镇定的状态反馈控制律的设计可通过求解一给定的矩阵不等式而得到.     

STABILITY ANALYSIS OF UNCERTAIN DISCRETE‐TIME SYSTEMS WITH TIME‐VARYING STATE DELAY: A PARAMETER‐DEPENDENT LYAPUNOV FUNCTION APPROACH

This paper presents several new robust stability conditions for linear discrete‐time systems with polytopic parameter uncertainties and time‐varying delay in the state. These stability criteria, derived by defining parameter‐dependent Lyapunov functions, are not only dependent on the maximum and minimum delay bounds, but also dependent on uncertain parameters in the sense that different Lyapunov functions are used for the entire uncertainty domain. It is established, theoretically, that these robust stability criteria for the nominal and constant‐delay case encompass some existing result as their special case. The delay‐dependent and parameter‐dependent nature of these results guarantees the proposed robust stability criteria to be potentially less conservative.     

AN LMI APPROACH TO ROBUST STABILITY OF UNCERTAIN DISCRETE SINGULAR TIME‐DELAY SYSTEMS

The problem of robust stability analysis for uncertain discrete singular time‐delay systems is investigated in this paper. By decomposing the nominal system into slow and fast subsystems, a linear matrix inequality (LMI) condition is proposed for a discrete singular time‐delay system to be regular, causal and stable. Based on this, an LMI criterion is obtained for robust stability of an uncertain discrete singular time‐delay system. Two numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.     

LMI APPROACH TO ROBUST FILTERING FOR DISCRETE TIME‐DELAY SYSTEMS WITH NONLINEAR DISTURBANCES

This paper investigates the problem of robust filtering for a class of uncertain nonlinear discrete‐time systems with multiple state delays. It is assumed that the parameter uncertainties appearing in all the system matrices reside in a polytope, and that the nonlinearities entering into both the state and measurement equations satisfy global Lipschitz conditions. Attention is focused on the design of robust full‐order and reduced‐order filters guaranteeing a prescribed noise attenuation level in an H∞ or l₂‐l∞ sense with respect to all energy‐bounded noise disturbances for all admissible uncertainties and time delays. Both delay‐dependent and independent approaches are developed by using linear matrix inequality (LMI) techniques, which are applicable to systems either with or without a priori information on the size of delays.     

线性不确定时滞系统指定衰减度鲁棒镇定

研究了一类线性不确定时滞系统时滞依赖型具有指定衰减度的无记忆状态反馈鲁棒镇定问题.所考虑的线性不确定时滞系统含有时变未知但有界的不确定参数和状态滞后.通过应用Razumikhin定理和Lyapunov定理,导出了系统鲁棒稳定且具有指定衰减度的判据和具有指定衰减度的无记忆状态反馈鲁棒镇定控制律存在的充分条件及相应的控制器设计方法.所得时滞相关的结果用一组线性矩阵不等式(LMI)表示.     

GLOBAL ROBUST H∞ CONTROL OF A CLASS OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS

This paper considers the problem of robust disturbance attenuation for a class of systems with both Lipschitz bounded and nonlinear uncertainties. The nonlinear uncertainty is assumed to satisfy a ‘matching condition’ and bounded by a known nonlinear function. The Lipschitz bounded one could be with any mismatched uncertainties. We develop a Riccati equation approach for designing a state feedback controller such that the so-called ℒ︁₂-gain from the exogenous input noise to the state is minimized or guaranteed to be no larger than a prescribed value. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.