Discrete-time sliding mode control for uncertain systems with state and input delays

This article presents a discrete-time sliding mode control method for the robust stabilisation of linear uncertain multi-input discrete-time systems with state and input delays. The systems are assumed to have structured mismatched time-varying parameter uncertainties. A specified switching surface is proposed and a sliding mode controller is derived to ensure the existence of the quasi-sliding mode. Based on the improved Lyapunov function and linear matrix inequality technique, delay-independent sufficient conditions for the design of a stable switching surface are given and the stability of the overall closed-loop system is guaranteed. Neither chattering phenomenon will occur nor the knowledge of upper bound of uncertainties is required. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed control methodology.     

LMI-based robust admissible control for uncertain singular delta operator systems

This paper investigates the problem of state feedback robust admissible control for singular delta operator systems with norm-bounded coefficient matrix uncertainties. A necessary and sufficient condition is derived to ensure the admissibility of the closed-loop singular delta operator system for all allowable uncertainties. Then, by specifying the structure of some matrix variables, the existence condition and explicit expression of a robust admissible controller are obtained in terms of strict linear matrix inequalities. Moreover, from the relation between singular discrete systems and singular delta operator systems, the corresponding results are also presented for uncertain singular discrete systems. Finally, some numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the results in this paper.     

Design of decentralised variable structure observer for mismatched nonlinear uncertain large-scale systems

Although the state feedback approach is quite popular in control engineering, it cannot be used while the system states cannot be measured. The state observer approach may be used to overcome such a shortcoming. Also, most control systems have become larger and more complicated; therefore, based on the variable structure control theory, a new decentralised variable structure observer (DVSO) for a class of nonlinear large-scale systems with mismatched uncertainties will be considered in this article. The switching surface function is determined such that the equivalent system will have the desired behaviour once the system reaches the switching surface. And then a new DVSO is designed such that the estimated states will approach the system states. Using the Lyapunov stability theory and using the generalised matrix inverse concept, the uncertain nonlinear error system trajectories can be driven onto the sliding manifold and then the existence of a sliding mode and the attractiveness to the sliding surface is ensured. With the proposed DVSO, the estimation errors asymptotically tend to zero if the matching condition is satisfied, and the effects of the mismatched parts can be uniformly ultimately bounded if the matching condition is not satisfied. Finally, a numerical example with a succession of computer simulations is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Design of a simplified adaptive fuzzy backstepping control for uncertain discrete-time nonlinear systems

This paper presents a simplified adaptive fuzzy backstepping control for uncertain discrete-time nonlinear systems. It is assumed that the systems are described by a discrete-time equation with nonlinear uncertainties to be viewed as the modelling errors and the unknown external disturbances, and the states are observed with measurement noises. To design the simplified adaptive fuzzy backstepping control, the modelling errors are approximated by using the fuzzy inference approach based on the extended single-input rule modules, and the estimates for the unmeasurable states and the adjustable parameters are derived by using the weighted and its simplified weighted least squares estimators. It is proved that the states are ultimately bounded, and the estimation errors remain in the vicinity of zero. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is indicated through the simulation experiment of a simple numerical system.     

Delay-dependent robust ℋ ∞ control for uncertain stochastic time-delay system

This article deals with the problem of robust stabilisation and ?_∞ control for a class of uncertain stochastic time-delay system. The parametric uncertainties are real time-varying and norm bounded. The aim is to design a memoryless state-feedback control law such that the closed-loop system are robustly stochastically asymptotically stable in the mean square and the effect of the disturbance input on the controlled output is less than a prescribed level for all admissible parameter uncertainties. New sufficient conditions for the existence of such control law are presented based on the linear matrix inequalities approach. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the developed techniques.     

Passivity-based sliding mode control for a polytopic stochastic differential inclusion system

Passivity-based sliding mode control for a polytopic stochastic differential inclusion (PSDI) system is considered. A control law is designed such that the reachability of sliding motion is guaranteed. Moreover, sufficient conditions for mean square asymptotic stability and passivity of sliding mode dynamics are obtained by linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, two examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

On polytopic inclusions as a modeling framework for systems with time-varying delays

One of the important issues in networked control systems is the appropriate handling of the nonlinearities arising from uncertain time-varying delays. In this paper, using the Cayley-Hamilton theorem, we develop a novel method for creating discrete-time models of linear systems with time-varying input delays based on polytopic inclusions. The proposed method is compared with existing approaches in terms of conservativeness, scalability and suitability for controller synthesis.     

Simultaneous ℋ︁2/ℋ︁∞ control of uncertain jump systems with functional time‐delays

This paper presents new results pertaining to the control design of a class of linear uncertain systems with Markovian jump parameters. An integral part of the system dynamics is a delayed state in which the time‐delays are mode dependent. The jumping parameters are modelled as a continuous‐time, discrete‐state Markov process and the uncertainties are norm‐bounded. We construct an appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and design a simultaneous ℋ︁₂/ℋ︁_∞ controller which minimizes a quadratic ℋ︁₂ performance measure while satisfying a prescribed ℋ︁_∞‐norm bound on the closed‐loop system. It is established that sufficient conditions for the existence of the simultaneous ℋ︁₂/ℋ︁_∞ controller and the associated performance upper bound are cast in the form of linear matrix inequalities. Simulation results are provided and extension to the case where the jumping rates are subject to uncertainties is presented. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive robust control of a class of nonlinear systems in semi‐strict feedback form with non‐uniformly detectable unmeasured internal states

This paper proposes a novel control method for a special class of nonlinear systems in semi‐strict feedback form. The main characteristic of this class of systems is that the unmeasured internal states are non‐uniformly detectable, which means that no observer for these states can be designed to make the observation error exponentially converge to zero. In view of this, a projection‐based adaptive robust control law is developed in this paper for this kind of system. This method uses a projection‐type adaptation algorithm for the estimation of both the unknown parameters and the internal states. Robust feedback term is synthesized to make the system robust to uncertain nonlinearities and disturbances. Although the estimation error for both the unknown parameters and the internal states may not converge to zero, the tracking error of the closed‐loop system is proved to converge to zero asymptotically if the system has only parametric uncertainties. Furthermore, it is theoretically proved that all the signals are bounded, and the control algorithm is robust to bounded disturbances and uncertain nonlinearities with guaranteed output tracking transient performance and steady‐state accuracy in general. The class of system considered here has wide engineering applications, and a practical example—control of mechanical systems with dynamic friction—is used as a case study. Simulation results are obtained to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed control methodology. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.