On topology optimization of linear and nonlinear plate problems

In this paper we propose a new restriction method based on employing C ⁰-continuous fields of density defined on a set of meshes different from the one used for the finite element analysis. The optimization procedure starts with using a coarse density-mesh compared to the finite element one. Once the convergence is obtained in the optimization steps, a finer density-mesh is nominated for the further steps. Linear and nonlinear plate behaviors are considered and formulated by Kirchhoff or Mindlin–Reissner hypothesis. Comparison is made with element/nodal based approaches using filter. The results show excellent and robust performance of the proposed method.     

Stability analysis and controller design for a class of delay systems via observer based on network

This paper focuses on the problem of stability analysis and controller design for a class of delay systems based on networked control systems. By introducing some free matrix variables, some criteria for stability analysis and observer-based control law design can be obtained by the solving of linear matrix inequalities. A numerical example is also offered to prove the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Control of 1-D parabolic PDEs with Volterra nonlinearities, Part I: Design

Boundary control of nonlinear parabolic PDEs is an open problem with applications that include fluids, thermal, chemically-reacting, and plasma systems. In this paper we present stabilizing control designs for a broad class of nonlinear parabolic PDEs in 1-D. Our approach is a direct infinite dimensional extension of the finite-dimensional feedback linearization/backstepping approaches and employs spatial Volterra series nonlinear operators both in the transformation to a stable linear PDE and in the feedback law. The control law design consists of solving a recursive sequence of linear hyperbolic PDEs for the gain kernels of the spatial Volterra nonlinear control operator. These PDEs evolve on domains T_n of increasing dimensions n+1 and with a domain shape in the form of a “hyper-pyramid”, 0≤ξ_n≤ξ_n−1?≤ξ₁≤x≤1. We illustrate our design method with several examples. One of the examples is analytical, while in the remaining two examples the controller is numerically approximated. For all the examples we include simulations, showing blow up in open loop, and stabilization for large initial conditions in closed loop. In a companion paper we give a theoretical study of the properties of the transformation, showing global convergence of the transformation and of the control law nonlinear Volterra operators, and explicitly constructing the inverse of the feedback linearizing Volterra transformation; this, in turn, allows us to prove L² and H¹ local exponential stability (with an estimate of the region of attraction where possible) and explicitly construct the exponentially decaying closed loop solutions.     

Delay-range-dependent control synthesis for time-delay systems with actuator saturation

The control synthesis problem for a class of linear time-delay systems with actuator saturation is investigated in this paper. The time delay is considered to be time-varying and has lower and upper bounds. A delay-range-dependent approach is adopted and the corresponding existence conditions of the stabilizing state-feedback controller are derived in terms of LMIs. An estimate for the domain of attraction of the origin can be obtained for the underlying systems with different time-delay ranges. Two numerical examples are presented to show the effectiveness and less conservatism of the developed theoretical results.     

理想条件下混合态量子系统的Lyapunov稳定化策略

在假定被控系统满足非退化、没有退化跃迁和完全连通的理想条件下,借助于带有附加自由度的Lyapunov函数研究了混合态量子系统的稳定化问题.基于LaSalle原理推导了闭环系统的最大不变集和任一初始态下的收敛状态集,给出了系统对最大不变集中任一平衡态渐近稳定化的自由度的构造原则.最后通过一个两能级系统的数值仿真,验证了所得理论结果的正确性.     

Stabilization for nonlinear systems via a limited capacity communication channel with data packet dropout

This paper addresses the stabilization problem for a class of nonlinear systems. It is assumed that the controller can only receive the transmitted sequence of finite coded signals via a limited digital communication channel. Both state and output feedback coder-decoder-controller procedures are proposed. Stabilization conditions involving the size of coding alphabet, the sampling period, system state growth rate and data packet dropout rate are obtained. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the design procedures and effectiveness of the proposed results.     

Dynamic feedback robust stabilization of nonholonomic mobile robots based on visual servoing

This paper investigates the visual servoing robust stabilization of nonholonomic mobile robots. The calibration of visual parameters is not only complicated, but also needs great consumption of calculated time so that the accurate calibration is impossible in some situations for high requirement of real timing. Hence, it is interesting and important to consider the design of stabilizing controllers for nonholonomic kinematic systems with uncalibrated visual parameters. A novel uncertain model of these nonholonomic kinematic systems is proposed. Based on this model, a stabilizing controller is discussed by using dynamic feedback and two-step techniques. The proposed robust controller makes the mobile robot image pose and the orientation converge to the desired configuration despite the lack of depth information and the lack of precise visual parameters. The stability of the closed loop system is rigorously proved. The simulation is given to show the effectiveness of the presented controllers.     

Tracking control for boundary controlled parabolic PDEs with varying parameters: Combining backstepping and differential flatness

The combination of backstepping-based state-feedback control and flatness-based trajectory planning and feedforward control is considered for the design of an exponentially stabilizing tracking controller for a linear diffusion-convection-reaction system with spatially and temporally varying parameters and nonlinear boundary input. For this, in a first step the backstepping transformation is utilized to determine a state-feedback controller, which transforms the original distributed-parameter system into an appropriately chosen exponentially stable distributed-parameter target system of a significantly simpler structure. In a second step, the flatness property of the target system is exploited in order to determine the feedforward controller, which allows us to realize the tracking of suitably prescribed trajectories for the system output. This results in a systematic procedure for the design of an exponentially stabilizing tracking controller for the considered general linear diffusion-convection-reaction system with varying parameters, whose applicability and tracking performance is evaluated in simulation studies.     

Stabilizing switching design for switched linear systems: A state-feedback path-wise switching approach

This paper addresses the problem of switching stabilization for discrete-time switched linear systems. Based on the abstraction-aggregation methodology, we propose a state-feedback path-wise switching law, which is a state-feedback concatenation from a finite set of switching paths each defined over a finite time interval. We prove that the set of state-feedback path-wise switching laws is universal in the sense that any stabilizable switched linear system admits a stabilizing switching law in this set. We further develop a computational procedure to calculate a stabilizing switching law in the set.     

A systematic approach to improve multiple Lyapunov function stability and stabilization conditions for fuzzy systems

This paper presents a systematic approach for decreasing conservativeness in stability analysis and control design for Takagi-Sugeno (TS) systems. This approach is based on the idea of multiple Lyapunov functions together with simple techniques for introducing slack matrices. Unlike some previous approaches based on multiple Lyapunov functions, both the stability and the stabilization conditions are written as linear matrix inequality (LMI) problems. The proposed approach reduces the number of inequalities and guarantees extra degrees of freedom to the LMI problems. Numeric examples illustrate the effectiveness of this method.