Output reachable set estimation for discrete-time switched systems with persistent dwell-time

This paper is concerned with the output reachable set estimation for discrete-time switched systems. The switching signal is considered as persistent dwell-time (PDT), which is more general and flexible compared with the common dwell-time and average dwell-time switching. The estimation of output reachable set is determined by a collection of bounding ellipsoids based on a family of quasi-time-dependent (QTD) Lyapunov functions. Furthermore, a set of non-fragile QTD controllers is designed. Finally, two examples are employed to illustrate the potentials of proposed methods.     

Finite-time asynchronous filtering for switched linear systems with an event-triggered mechanism

This paper investigates the event-triggered finite-time H_∞ filtering for a class of continuous-time switched linear systems. Considering that the system may switch within an inter-event interval, the asynchronous problem is taken into account for the system and filter modes. By adopting the average dwell time (ADT) technique and multiple Lyapunov functions, new conditions are obtained to guarantee that the filtering error system is finite-time bounded with a prescribed disturbance attenuation performance. Further, the finite-time H_∞ filter together with event-triggered mechanism is co-designed for the switched linear systems. Finally, a numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper.     

Stability of mode-dependent linear switched singular systems with stable and unstable subsystems

This paper studies the E-exponential stability of mode-dependent linear switched singular systems with stable and unstable subsystems. First, by constructing an appropriate multiple discontinuous Lyapunov function, new sufficient conditions of E-exponential stability for linear switched singular systems are established. Considering the feature of mode-dependent average dwell time switching, we adopt the switching strategy where fast switching and slowing switching are respectively applied to unstable and stable subsystems. Compared with the existing results, our approach is more flexible and tighter bounds can be obtained. Finally, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed criteria.     

Stabilization of discrete-time switched singular systems with state,output and switching delays

This paper is concerned with state feedback stabilization of discrete-time switched singular systems with time-varying delays existing simultaneously in the state, the output and the switching signal of the switched controller. On the basis of equivalent dynamics decomposition and Lyapunov–Krasovskii method, exponential estimates for the response of slow states of the closed-loop subsystems running in asynchronous and synchronous periods are first given. Exponential estimates for the response of fast states are also provided by establishing an analytic equation to solve the fast states and using some algebraic techniques. Then, by employing the obtained exponential estimates and the piecewise Lyapunov function approach with average dwell time (ADT) switching, sufficient conditions for the existence of a class of stabilizing switching signals and state feedback gains are derived, which explicitly depend on upper bounds on the delays and a lower bound on the ADT. Finally, two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained theoretical results.     

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.     

Finite-time adaptive control for a class of switched stochastic uncertain nonlinear systems

This paper addresses the problem of global finite-time adaptive control for a class of switched stochastic uncertain nonlinear systems under arbitrary switchings. By applying the delicate introduction of coordinate transformations and adding a power integrator technique, an adaptive controller is constructed to guarantee that the system state is regulated to the origin almost surely in a finite time while maintaining the boundedness of the resulting closed-loop systems in probability. Two examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.     

Output feedback stabilization of switching discrete-time linear systems with parameter uncertainties

This paper deals with observer-based control design for a class of switched discrete-time linear systems with parameter uncertainties. The main contribution of the paper is to propose a convenient way based on Finsler’s lemma to enhance the synthesis conditions, expressed in terms of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). Indeed, this judicious use of Finsler’s lemma provides additional decision variables, which render the LMIs less conservative and more general than all those existing in the literature for the same class of systems. Two numerical examples followed by a Monte Carlo evaluation are proposed to show the superiority of the proposed design technique.     

Model reference adaptive control for switched linear systems using switched multiple models control strategy

In this paper, the multiple model strategy is applied to the adaptive control of switched linear systems to improve the transient performance. The solvability of the adaptive stabilization problem of each subsystem is not required. Firstly, the two-layer switching mechanism is designed. The state-dependent switching law with dwell time constraint is designed in the outer-layer switching to guarantee the stability of the switched systems. During the interval of dwell time constraint, the parameter resetting adaptive laws are designed in the inner-layer switching to improve the transient performance. Secondly, the minimum dwell time constraint providing enough time for multiple model adaptive control strategy to work fully and maintaining the stability of the switched systems is found. Finally, the proposed switched multiple model adaptive control strategy guarantees that all the closed-loop system signals remain bounded and the state tracking error converges to zero.     

Adaptive control of output feedback nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics and output constraint

This paper is concerned with the adaptive control problem of a class of output feedback nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics and output constraint. Two dynamic surface control design approaches based on integral barrier Lyapunov function are proposed to design controller ensuring both desired tracking performance and constraint satisfaction. The radial basis function neural networks are utilized to approximate unknown nonlinear continuous functions. K-filters and dynamic signal are introduced to estimate the unmeasured states and deal with the dynamic uncertainties, respectively. By theoretical analysis, the closed-loop control system is proved to be semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded, while the output constraint is never violated. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.     

Event-triggered dynamic output feedback tracking control for large-scale interconnected systems with disturbances

This paper is concerned with the event-triggered dynamic output feedback tracking control for large-scale interconnected systems with disturbances. For each node, a novel event-triggered mechanism is driven by local relative output tracking error to determine whether the signal will be transmitted. A two-step optimization is applied for dynamic output feedback controller design which guarantees robust stability of the system with an optimal H_∞ disturbance attenuation level. Finally, a simulation example of master-slave multiple vehicles is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Distributed event-triggered control co-design for large-scale systems via static output feedback

This work investigates the problem of distributed control for large-scale systems, in which a communication network is available to exchange information. To avoid the unnecessary communication, an event-triggered control (ETC) mechanism is introduced, in which the transmission occurs only when a certain event is triggered. Under the assumption that only the output signal is available, the static output feedback (SOF) is considered in this work. The aim of the co-design is to design an SOF controller and an ETC condition simultaneously such that the overall closed-loop system is stabilized with a certain level of performance. To this end, an event-triggering scheme based on output signals is proposed to determine when the event is triggered. Then the closed-loop system is modeled as a linear perturbed system. The distributed control co-design is formulated as a convex optimization problem with linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) constraints. Finally, a numerical example is presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed design method.     

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.     

Finite-time control in probability for time-varying systems with measurement censoring

This paper considers a parameter-dependent controller design problem for a class of discrete-time uncertain systems subject to censored measurement. First, a set of mutually independent stochastic variables obeying uniform distribution is used to describe the system uncertainty. Then, an array of new bounded variables is introduced to characterize the boundedness of the censored measurement. In addition, a novel definition, named as finite-time boundedness in probability (FTBP), is presented to depict the dynamic behavior of addressed systems in the sense of probability. In this case, the norm of controlled system states cannot exceed a given boundary under a probability constraint. By means of the hyper-rectangle depending on the value range of stochastic variables, a sufficient condition is presented to ensure that the system is FTBP. Finally, the corresponding controller design problem is formulated as an algorithm based on the recursive linear matrix inequality. Two simulation examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.     

Improved approaches on adaptive event-triggered output feedback control of networked control systems

This paper studies the static output-feedback control in a class of networked control systems. Different from the existing results, the transmission of control signals is based on a novel adaptive event-triggered scheme, where the adaptive thresholds depend on the dynamic error of the system rather than predetermined constants as the traditional ones. The amount of the releasing data is regulated by the adaptive thresholds that play an essential role in decision of whether releasing the sampled data or not. Through fully using the information on network-induced delay and introducing two adjusting parameters, an augmented Lyapunov–Krasovskii (L–K) functional is constructed. Especially, some novel Wirtinger-based integral inequalities are utilized to reconsider those previously ignored information, which can help reduce the conservatism. Furthermore, a novel constructive method is developed to obtain the controller gain by solving the achieved linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, three numerical examples are given to illustrate the efficiency of the presented results.     

Stabilization of switched linear singular systems with state reset

This paper investigates the stability and stabilization of switched linear singular systems with state reset at switching instants. Based on the dynamics decomposition of singular subsystems, a sufficient stability condition for the system with the given state reset is obtained. Then, the stabilization problem by state reset is investigated and an algorithm for computing the reset matrices is presented. The obtained results extend some previous works on both singular switched systems and reset control for normal switched systems. Finally, a numerical example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Synchronization for chaotic systems via mixed-objective dynamic output feedback robust model predictive control

This paper focuses on mixed-objective dynamic output feedback robust model predictive control (OFRMPC) for the synchronization of two identical discrete-time chaotic systems with polytopic uncertainties, energy bounded disturbances, and input constraint. Using active control strategy, the chaos synchronization is transformed into standard dynamic OFRMPC scenarios tractable through receding horizon min–max optimization. Utilizing the notion of quadratic boundedness, the augmented closed-loop stability is further characterized. Then, the concepts of mixed performance criteria are firstly incorporated into the dynamic OFRMPC scheme to guarantee both the robust stability and the disturbance attenuation ability while preserving better dynamical behaviors. Necessary and/or sufficient conditions for desired mixed-objective dynamic OFRMPC are formulated involving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, two numerical examples are given to demonstrate the theoretical results.     

Controller design for discrete-time hybrid linear parameter-varying systems with semi-Markov mode switching

The paper is concerned with the stability and stabilization problems for a family of hybrid linear parameter-varying systems with stochastic mode switching. The switching phenomenon is modeled by a semi-Markov stochastic process which is more generalized than a Markov stochastic process. With the construction of a Lyapunov function that depends on both the parameter variation and operating mode, numerical testable stability and stabilization criteria are established in the sense of σ-error mean square stability with the aid of some mathematical techniques that can eliminate the terms containing products of matrices. To test the effectiveness of the designed stabilizing controller, we apply the developed theoretical results to a numerical example.     

Non-fragile finite-time extended dissipative control for a class of uncertain discrete time switched linear systems

In this paper, the issues of finite-time extended dissipative analysis and non-fragile control are investigated for a class of uncertain discrete time switched linear systems. Based on average dwell-time approach, sufficient conditions for the finite-time boundedness and finite-time extended dissipative performance of the considered systems are proposed by solving some linear matrix inequalities, where using the concept of extended dissipative, we can solve the H_∞, $L_2?L_{\infty },$ Passivity and (Q, S, R)-dissipativity performance in a unified framework. Furthermore, two form of non-fragile state feedback controllers are designed to guarantee that the closed-loop systems satisfy the finite-time extended dissipative performance. Finally, simulation example is given to show the efficiency of the proposed methods.     

Fault-tolerant control for a class of linear interconnected hyperbolic systems by boundary feedback

This paper considers a fault-tolerant control problem for a class of interconnected linear hyperbolic partial differential equation systems. Both subsystem faults and coupling faults are considered. Firstly, the well-posedness of the faulty system is analyzed by using semigroup theory. Secondly, for the fault-free case, a stabilizing boundary feedback control based on small-gain theorem is proposed. Consequently, in the presence of faults, fault recoverability conditions are established that maintain the stability of the faulty systems. The fault-tolerant control strategies are also provided. A heat exchanger example is taken to illustrate the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed methods.     

Neural networks-based adaptive output feedback control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with input delay and disturbances

This paper focuses on the problem of adaptive output feedback control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with input delay and disturbances. Radial basis function neural networks (NNs) are employed to approximate the unknown functions and an NN observer is constructed to estimate the unmeasurable system states. Moreover, an auxiliary system is introduced to compensate for the effect of input delay. With the aid of the backstepping technique and Lyapunov stability theorem, an adaptive NN output feedback controller is designed which can guarantee the boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop systems. Finally, a simulation example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.