Differential games,partial-state stabilization,and model reference adaptive control

In this paper, we develop a unified framework to find state-feedback control laws that solve two-player zero-sum differential games over the infinite time horizon and guarantee partial-state asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system. Partial-state asymptotic stability is guaranteed by means of a Lyapunov function that is positive definite and decrescent with respect to part of the system state. The existence of a saddle point for the system?s performance measure is guaranteed by the fact that this Lyapunov function satisfies a partial differential equation that corresponds to a steady-state form of the Hamilton–Jacobi–Isaacs equation. In the second part of this paper, we show how our differential game framework can be applied not only to solve pursuit-evasion and robust optimal control problems, but also to assess the effectiveness of a model reference adaptive control law. Specifically, the model reference adaptive control architecture is designed to guarantee satisfactory trajectory tracking for uncertain nonlinear dynamical systems, whose matched nonlinearities are captured by the regressor vector. By modeling matched and unmatched nonlinearities, which are not captured by the regressor vector, as the pursuer?s and evader?s control inputs in a differential game, we provide an explicit characterization of the system?s uncertainties that do not disrupt the trajectory tracking capabilities of the adaptive controller. Two numerical examples illustrate the applicability of our results.     

Memoryless parameter-dependent control strategy of stochastic strict-feedback time delay systems

For a class of stochastic strict-feedback nonlinear systems subject to different time delay states, this paper mainly concerns the problem of global asymptotic stabilization. Two new control strategies that the memoryless parameter-dependent state feedback control and the memoryless parameter-dependent output feedback control are taken into consideration, respectively. By skillfully constructing the Lyapunov-Krasovskii (L-K) functional, taking the proper determined parameter and employing the stochastic nonlinear time delay system (SNTDS) stability theory, the global asymptotic stability of the stochastic closed-loop system can be achieved. The proposed output feedback control scheme is finally utilized for the control design of the one-link manipulator system and two-stage chemical reactor system, which can verify the availability of the control approach.     

Finite-time stabilization of a class of upper-triangular switched nonlinear systems

This paper investigates the finite-time stabilization for a class of upper-triangular switched nonlinear systems, where nonlinearities are allowed to be lower-order growing. Due to the special structure of the considered system, the presented methods for lower-triangular switched nonlinear systems in the literature can not be directly utilized. To solve the problem, a state feedback control law with a new structure is designed to guarantee the global finite-time stability of the closed-loop system under arbitrary switching signals by using the recursive design approach and the nested saturation method. A simulation example is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Observer-based sliding mode control for a class of uncertain nonlinear neutral delay systems

In this paper, the observer-based sliding mode control (SMC) problem is investigated for a class of uncertain nonlinear neutral delay systems. A new robust stability condition is proposed first for the sliding mode dynamics, then a sliding mode observer is designed, based on which an observer-based controller is synthesized by using the SMC theory combined with the reaching law technique. Then, a sufficient condition of the asymptotic stability is proposed in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI) for the overall closed-loop system composed of the observer dynamics and the state estimation error dynamics. Furthermore, the reachability problem is also discussed. It is shown that the proposed SMC scheme guarantees the reachability of the sliding surfaces defined in both the state estimate space and the state estimation error space, respectively. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed design scheme.     

Model transformation based sliding mode control of discrete-time two-dimensional Fornasini–Marchesini systems

This paper investigates the problem of sliding mode control (SMC) for discrete-time two-dimensional (2-D) systems subject to external disturbances. Given a 2-D Fornasini–Marchesini (FM) local state space model, attention is focused on designing the 2-D sliding surface and sliding mode controller, which guarantees the resultant closed-loop system to be asymptotically stable. Particularly, this problem is solved using the model transformation based method. First of all, sufficient conditions are formulated for the existence of a linear sliding surface guaranteeing the asymptotic stability of the equivalent sliding mode dynamics. Based on this, a sliding mode controller is synthesized to ensure that the associated 2-D FM system satisfies the reaching condition. The efficiency of the proposed 2-D SMC law design is shown by a numerical example. This paper extends the idea of model transformation to the 2-D systems and solves the SMC problem of a more general 2-D model in FM type for the first time.     

Memory-based controller design for neutral time-delay systems with input saturations: A novel delay-dependent polytopic approach

In this paper, a new memory-based control problem is addressed for neutral systems with time-varying delay, input saturations and energy bounded disturbances. Attention is focused on the design of a memory-based state feedback controller such that the closed-loop system achieves the desirable performance indices including the boundedness of the state trajectories, the H_∞ disturbance rejection/attenuation level as well as the asymptotic stability. By using the combination of a novel delay-dependent polytopic approach, augmented Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals and some integral inequalities, delay-dependent sufficient conditions are first proposed in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Then, three convex optimization problems are formulated whose aims are to, respectively, maximize the disturbance tolerance level, minimize the disturbance attenuation level and maximize the initial condition set. Finally, simulation examples demonstrate the effectiveness and benefits of the obtained results.     

Robust observer-based fault estimation and accommodation of discrete-time piecewise linear systems

In this paper a new integrated observer-based fault estimation and accommodation strategy for discrete-time piecewise linear (PWL) systems subject to actuator faults is proposed. A robust estimator is designed to simultaneously estimate the state of the system and the actuator fault. Then, the estimate of fault is used to compensate for the effect of the fault. By using the estimate of fault and the states, a fault tolerant controller using a PWL state feedback is designed. The observer-based fault-tolerant controller is obtained by the interconnection of the estimator and the state feedback controller. We show that separate design of the state feedback and the estimator results in the stability of the overall closed-loop system. In addition, the input-to-state stability (ISS) gain for the closed-loop system is obtained and a procedure for minimizing it is given. All of the design conditions are formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMI) which can be solved efficiently. Also, performance of the estimator and the state feedback controller are minimized by solving convex optimization problems. The efficiency of the method is demonstrated by means of a numerical example.     

Decentralized low-complexity tracking of uncertain interconnected high-order nonlinear systems with unknown high powers

A global decentralized low-complexity tracker design methodology is proposed for uncertain interconnected high-order nonlinear systems with unknown high powers. It is assumed that interconnected nonlinearities are bounded by completely unknown nonlinearities, rather than, a linear combination of high-ordered state variables. Compared with the existing decentralized results for interconnected nonlinear systems with known high powers, the decentralized robust controller, which achieves the pre-designable transient and steady-state tracking performance for each subsystem, is designed by employing nonlinear error surfaces with time-varying performance functions, regardless of unknown nonlinear interactions and high powers related to virtual and actual control variables. The proposed decentralized continuous robust low-complexity tracker is realized without the use of any adaptive or function approximation techniques for estimating unknown parameters and nonlinearities. The stability and preassigned tracking performance of the resulting decentralized low-complexity control system are thoroughly analyzed in the Lyapunov sense. Finally, simulation results on coupled underactuated mechanical systems are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical result.     

Global stabilization of linear systems subject to input saturation and time delays

This note is concerned with global stabilization of linear systems subject to input saturation and time delays. Based on the Luenberger canonical form, two new decoupling methods are proposed. For the decoupled system, according to some special canonical forms, we propose two control laws for systems with input time-delays and systems with input saturation and time-delays, and give explicit conditions to ensure the global stability of the closed-loop system. Two special canonical forms contain time delays in input and state vectors, which is essential in recursive design. In addition, for the system subject to input saturation and time-delay, we introduce some free parameters when designing the controller, which can improve the instantaneous performance of the closed-loop system. Finally, the proposed approach is applied on the multi-agent system to design global stabilizing controllers and the effectiveness of the proposed controllers are illustrated by numerical simulations.     

Co-design of an event-triggered dynamic output feedback controller for discrete-time LPV systems with constraints

This paper investigates an event-triggered control design approach for discrete-time linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems under control constraints. The proposed conditions can simultaneously design a parameter-dependent dynamic output feedback controller and an event generator, ensuring the closed-loop system’s regional asymptotic stability. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory, these conditions are given in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Moreover, using some proposed optimization procedures, it is possible to minimize the number of sensor transmissions, maximize the estimation of the region of attraction of the origin, and incorporate optimal control criteria into the formulation. Through numerical examples, some comparisons with other approaches in the literature evidence the proposed technique’s efficacy.     

H∞ filtering for nonlinear systems via neural networks

A novel H_∞ filter design methodology has been presented for a general class of nonlinear systems. Different from existing nonlinear filtering design, the nonlinearities are approximated using neural networks, and then are modeled based on linear difference inclusions, which makes the structure of the desired filter simpler and parameter turning easier and has the advantages of guaranteed stability, numeral robustness, bounded estimation accuracy. A unified framework is established to solve the addressed H_∞ filtering problem by exploiting linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach. A numerical example shows that the filtering error systems will work well against bounded error between a nonlinear dynamical system and a multilayer neural network.     

Hybrid state observer‐based event‐triggered control for switched linear systems with quantized input

The paper investigates the design of hybrid state observer-based event-triggered controller for switched linear systems subject to quantized input and unknown but bounded additional disturbance and measurement noise. Firstly, by introducing a hybrid state observer and constructing a mode-dependent event-triggered mechanism, we design event-triggered controller for the considered switched linear systems. Then, by modeling the closed-loop system as an augmented asynchronous switched time-delay system, we deal with the asynchronous control problem caused by the switching between two consecutive trigger instants for the switched linear system. Thirdly, based on merging signal technique and multiple Lyapunov functional method, we obtain the sufficient criteria to guarantee the stability of the switched system when the switching signal meets an average dwell time condition, and further establish the hybrid observer-based event-triggered controller gains. Finally, a simulation example illustrates the validity of the results.     

Fuzzy sliding mode control design of Markovian jump systems with time-varying delay

This paper studies the robust stochastic stabilization problem for a class of fuzzy Markovian jump systems with time-varying delay and external disturbances via sliding mode control scheme. Based on the equivalent-input-disturbance (EID) approach, an online disturbance estimator is implemented to reject the unknown disturbance effect on the considered system. Specifically, to obtain exact EID estimation Luenberger fuzzy state observer and a low-pass filter incorporated to the closed-loop system. Moreover, novel fuzzy EID-based sliding mode control law is constructed to ensure the stability of the closed-loop system with satisfactory disturbance rejection performance. By employing Lyapunov stability theory and some integral inequalities, a new set of delay-dependent robust stability conditions is derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The resulting LMI is used to find the gains of the state-feedback controller and the state observer a for the resulting closed-loop system. At last, numerical simulations based on the single-link arm robot model are provided to illustrate the proposed design technique.     

Linear output-feedback-based semi-global stabilization for switched nonlinear time-delay systems

This paper focuses on the problem of semi-global output-feedback stabilization for a class of switched nonlinear time-delay systems in strict-feedback form. A switched state observer is first constructed, then switched linear output-feedback controllers for individual subsystems are designed. By skillfully constructing multiple Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals and successfully solving several troublesome obstacles, such as time-varying delay and switching signals and nonlinearity in the design procedure, the switched linear output-feedback controllers designed can render the resulting closed-loop switched system semi-globally stabilizable under a class of switching signals with average dwell time. Furthermore, under some milder conditions on nonlinearities, the semi-global output-feedback stabilization problem for switched nonlinear time-delay systems is also studied. Simulation studies on two examples, which include a continuous stirred tank reactor, are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Sparsely distributed sliding mode control for interconnected systems

This paper proposes a framework for the design of sparsely distributed output feedback discrete-time sliding mode control (ODSMC) for interconnected systems. The major target here is to develop an observer based discrete-time sliding mode controller employing a sparsely distributed control network structure in which local controllers exploit some other sub-systems’ information as well as its own local information. As the local controllers/observers have access to some other sub-systems’ states, the control performance will be improved and the applicability region will be widened compared to the decentralised structure. As the first step, a stability condition is derived for the overall closed-loop system obtained from applying ODSMC to the underlying interconnected system, by assuming a priori known structure for the control/observer network. The developed LMI based controller design scheme provides the possibility to employ different information patterns such as fully distributed, sparsely distributed and decentralised patterns. In the second step, we propose a methodology to identify a sparse control/observer network structure with the least possible number of communication links that satisfies the stability condition given in the first step. The boundedness of the obtained overall closed-loop system is analysed and a bound is derived for the augmented system state which includes the closed-loop system state and the switching function.     

Bounded controls for discrete-time linear systems subject to input time delay

This paper investigates the global stabilization of discrete-time linear systems with input time delay by bounded controls. Based on some special canonical forms containing time delays both in its input and state, two special discrete-time linear systems---multiple integrators and oscillators are first considered. The global stabilizing controllers are respectively established, and moreover, explicit conditions are established to guarantee the stability of the closed-loop systems. Subsequently, a concise design method is proposed for globally stabilizing general discrete-time linear system by combining the design methods for multiple integrators and oscillators. The designed controller is in the explicit form with explicit stability conditions being given, and thus is easier to use than the existing results. Finally, numerical simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.     

Probabilistic-constrained control of interval type-2 T–S fuzzy systems under the multi-node round-robin scheduling protocol

This work concentrates on the control design of interval type-2 (IT2) T–S fuzzy systems under probabilistic saturation constraints. The actual control signals are allowed to exceed some preset thresholds with a certain frequency. Meanwhile, the sensors are governed by the multi-node round-robin scheduling protocol, which permits more than one sensors to transmit their information at every moment. The main objective is to synthesize a fuzzy controller such that the closed-loop system is locally stochastically stable under probabilistic saturated constraints and the multi-node round-robin scheduling protocol. To this end, the probabilistic saturation constraints are characterized by a Bernoulli-distributed stochastic process, and the received state at the controller side is formulated based on an updating rule and a compensation strategy. By constructing new membership functions, a token-dependent control law is subsequently designed. The stability analysis is facilitated by a modified sector condition dealing with the saturation nonlinearities. With suitable selection of initial states, sufficient conditions are derived to achieve the local stochastic stability of the closed-loop IT2 T–S fuzzy system. A larger domain of stochastic stability can be obtained via a searching algorithm. Finally, the proposed method is illustrated via a simulation example.     

Global finite-time stabilization for switched stochastic nonlinear systems via output feedback

This paper is concerned with the problem of global finite-time stabilization via output feedback for a class of switched stochastic nonlinear systems whose powers are dependent of the switching signal. The drift and diffusion terms satisfy the lower-triangular homogeneous growth condition. Based on adding a power integrator technique and the homogeneous domination idea, output-feedback controllers of all subsystems are constructed to achieve finite-time stability in probability of the closed-loop system. Distinct from the existing results on switched stochastic nonlinear systems, the delicate change of coordinates are introduced for dominating nonlinearities. Moreover, by incorporating a multiplicative design parameter into the coordinate transformations, the obtained control method can be extended to switched stochastic nonlinear systems with nonlinearities satisfying the upper-triangular homogeneous growth condition. The validity of the proposed control methods is demonstrated through two examples.     

Dissipative state observer design for nonlinear time-delay systems

This paper is concerned with the design of dissipative state observers for a family of time-delay nonlinear systems. The Dissipativity method, proposed by one of the authors for delay-free nonlinear systems, is extended here to a class of time-delay nonlinear systems. The design method consists in decomposing the time-delay estimation error dynamics into a time-delay linear subsystem and a time-varying memoryless nonlinearity, connected in a negative feedback loop. By using some storage functionals, both delay-independent and delay-dependent dissipativity criteria are derived in order to guarantee the exponential convergence property of the observer. The exponential stability of the estimation error is then ensured, assuming that the nonlinearity is dissipative with respect to a quadratic supply rate and the linear part is designed, through the observer gains, to be dissipative with respect to a complementary supply rate. The design conditions are formulated in terms of tractable bilinear (BMI’s) or linear matrix inequalities (LMI’s). An interesting advantage is that the proposed dissipative design extends and generalizes under a unified framework several methods available in the literature, since a wide diversity of nonlinearities can be considered. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.