Remarks on robust stability of saturation controllers

In active structural vibration control, actuator's saturation and robust stability with respect to parameter uncertainties are practical and important issues. Saturated sliding mode controller and robust saturation controller, which were presented in previous researches, are suitable in this case. In this paper, robust stabilities of the two controllers are examined and compared through numerical simulations for a 2dof vibrating system.     

Energy-to-peak control for seismic-excited buildings with actuator faults and parameter uncertainties

This paper deals with the problem of robust reliable energy-to-peak controller design for seismic-excited buildings with actuator faults and parameter uncertainties. It is assumed that uncertainties mainly exist in damping and stiffness of the buildings because they are difficult to be measured precisely. The objective of designing controllers is to guarantee the asymptotic stability of closed-loop systems and attenuate disturbance from earthquake excitation. Energy-to-peak performance is believed to be of great significance when conditions and requirements of active building vibration control are carefully considered. Based on energy-to-peak control theory and linear matrix inequality techniques, a new approach for reliable building vibration control with satisfactory energy-to-peak performance is presented. An n-degree-of-freedom linear building structure under earthquake excitation is analyzed and simulations are employed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in reducing seismic-excited building vibration. Some comparisons are also made between energy-to-peak control systems and H_∞ control systems to further prove the importance of the method raised in this paper.     

变时延遥操作交会的Smith模糊控制

针对地面遥操作空间航天器进行交会的情况,研究了变时延条件下遥操作交会逼近段的轨道控制问题.利用根轨迹法分析了时延对遥操作交会控制的影响;通过设计时延缓冲器,将变时延系统转化成了定常时延系统;基于相对轨道动力学方程建立了被控对象的预测模型,利用Smith预测原理设计了定常时延下的多变量Smith预测器,使得控制器与执行器的输入不受时延的影响;同时采用模糊控制方法,以消除模型不确定性等因素的影响;最后,利用半实物仿真系统开展仿真试验,对本文所述方法进行了验证.仿真结果表明,通过采用带时延缓冲器的Smith模糊控制的方法,能有效降低地面遥操作交会过程中变时延以及模型不确定性的影响,提高交会成功率和精度.     

Input shaping and variable structure control for simultaneous precision positioning and vibration reduction of flexible spacecraft with saturation compensation

This paper treats the question of simultaneous robust attitude control and vibration suppression of orbiting spacecraft with flexible appendages. The spacecraft consists of a rigid body and two flexible appendages and the finite dimensional representation of the flexible spacecraft is assumed to be of arbitrary order. Robust nonlinear variable structure control (VSC) strategy integrated with input shaping technique is concerned for the pitch angle control and elastic vibration suppression under actuator saturation limit. More specially, the input shaper is implemented outside of the feedback loop, which is designed for the reference model and achieves the exact elimination of residual vibration; while for the feedback loop, the variable structure controller is designed to make the closed-loop system behave like the reference model with the input shaper in the presence of parametric uncertainty, external disturbances and actuator saturation. To prevent the presence of input saturation from destroying the system performance, a saturation compensator is designed as well for the variable structure attitude control system. For the synthesis of the attitude controller, only the pitch angel and its derivative are used. Simulation results are presented which show that in the closed loop, pitch angel control and elastic mode stabilization are accomplished in spite of uncertainty and external disturbance.     

Observer-based passive control for uncertain linear systems with delay in state and control input

This paper deals with the robust passivity synthesis problem for a class of uncertain linear systems with time-varying delay in state and control input. The parameter uncertainties are norm-bounded and allowed to appear in all matrices of the model. The problem aims at designing an observer-based dynamic output-feedback controller that robustly stabilizes the uncertain systems and achieves the strict passivity of closed-loop systems for all admissible uncertainties. By converting the problem at hand into a class of strictly passive control problem for a parameterized system, the explicit solution is established and expressed in terms of a linear matrix inequality. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach.     

Robust control synthesis for seat suspension systems with actuator saturation and time-varying input delay

The control synthesis problem is investigated in this paper for a class of semi-active seat suspension systems with norm-bounded parameter uncertainties, time-varying input delay and actuator saturation. A vertical vibration model of human body is introduced in order to make the modeling of seat suspension systems more precise. By employing a delay-range-dependent Lyapunov function and exploring the property of the saturation nonlinearity, the existence conditions of the desired state-feedback controller are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The controller is derived by solving the LMIs and the corresponding closed-loop system is asymptotically stable with a guaranteed H_∞ performance. A design example is presented to show the usefulness and advantages of the developed theoretical results.     

一类Hopf分岔系统的通用鲁棒稳定控制器设计方法

针对一类多项式形式的Hopf分岔系统, 提出了一种鲁棒稳定的控制器设计方法. 使用该方法设计控制器时不需要求解出系统在分岔点处的分岔参数值, 只需要估算出分岔参数的上下界, 然后设计一个参数化的控制器, 并通过Hurwitz判据和柱形代数剖分技术求解出满足上下界条件的控制器参数区域, 最后在得到的这个区域内确定出满足鲁棒稳定的控制器参数值. 该方法设计的控制器是由包含系统状态的多项式构成, 形式简单, 具有通用性, 且添加控制器后不会改变原系统平衡点的位置. 本文首先以Lorenz系统为例说明了控制器的推导和设计过程, 然后以van der Pol振荡系统为例, 进行了工程应用. 通过对这两个系统的控制器设计和仿真, 说明了文中提出的控制器设计方法能够有效地应用于这类Hopf分岔系统的鲁棒稳定控制, 并且具有通用性.     

Power oscillation suppression by robust SMES in power system with large wind power penetration

The large penetration of wind farm into interconnected power systems may cause the severe problem of tie-line power oscillations. To suppress power oscillations, the superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) which is able to control active and reactive powers simultaneously, can be applied. On the other hand, several generating and loading conditions, variation of system parameters, etc., cause uncertainties in the system. The SMES controller designed without considering system uncertainties may fail to suppress power oscillations. To enhance the robustness of SMES controller against system uncertainties, this paper proposes a robust control design of SMES by taking system uncertainties into account. The inverse additive perturbation is applied to represent the unstructured system uncertainties and included in power system modeling. The configuration of active and reactive power controllers is the first-order lead–lag compensator with single input feedback. To tune the controller parameters, the optimization problem is formulated based on the enhancement of robust stability margin. The particle swarm optimization is used to solve the problem and achieve the controller parameters. Simulation studies in the six-area interconnected power system with wind farms confirm the robustness of the proposed SMES under various operating conditions.     

OPTIMAL CONTROL METHOD WITH TIME DELAY IN CONTROL

Optimal control method for active vibration control of linear time-delay systems is investigated in this paper. In terms of two cases that time delay is integer and non-integer times of sampling period, motion equation with time delay is transformed as standard discrete forms which contain no time delay by using zero order holder respectively. Discrete quadratic function is used as objective function in design of controller to guarantee good control efficiency on sampling points. In every step of computation of the deduced controller, it contains not only current step of state feedback but also linear combination of some former steps of control. Because the controller is deduced directly from time-delay differential equation, system stability can be guaranteed easily, thus this method is generally applicable to ordinary control systems. The performance of the control method proposed and system stability when using this method are all demonstrated by numerical simulation results. Simulation results demonstrate that the presented method is a viable and attractive control strategy for applications to active vibration control. Instability in responses occurs possibly if the systems with time delay are controlled using controller designed in case of no time delay.     

Instantaneous optimal method for vibration control of linear sampled-data systems with time delay in control

In an actively controlled system, time delay exists inevitably. Neglecting time delay may cause degradation of control performance or even induce instability to the dynamic system. In this paper, instantaneous optimal control method for vibration control of linear sampled-data systems with time delay in control is investigated. By a peculiar integral transformation, the first order state equation with time delay is transformed into the standard first order state equation, which contains no time delay. Then the optimal controller is designed based on the numerical algorithm of the regular fourth order Runge-Kutta method. Since the obtained controller contains integral term, which is not practical for control implementation, the numerical algorithm for this integral term is investigated too. Since the controller is deduced directly from the time-delay differential equation, the control method presented is prone to guarantee system stability. Thus the presented control method can be applicable to the case of large time delay. The performance of the control method is demonstrated by numerical simulation. Simulation results indicate that this control method is feasible and is an attractive strategy for dealing with the time delay in vibration control systems and is effective in suppressing maximum structural responses. Instability in structural responses may occur if the systems with time delay are controlled using the controller designed in the case of no time delay.     

Dynamic effects of delayed feedback control on nonlinear vibration isolation floating raft systems

Vibration suppression and chaotification are the key issues in the study of the concealment capability of underwater vehicles. Time delay control is superior in chaotification, but the involved dynamics are sensitive and complex. This paper presents an analysis to obtain an analytical solution of the nonlinear delay differential equations and determine the effect of delay control on the vibration amplitude. Besides, by checking the stability of the analytical solution, dependence of chaotification upon the time delay control parameters is examined. Based on the theoretical derivation, the effects of different configurations of system parameters and delay control parameters on vibration amplitude are demonstrated in numerical simulation. What?s more, the outcome of our results shows the significant role the time delay control plays in vibration suppression and chaotification. According to the analytical solution and stability analysis, not only can the appropriate delay be found to reduce the vibration amplitude, but also the suitable delay control setting can be selected for chaotification.     

Robust H_∞ control for uncertain systems with heterogeneous time-varying delays via static output feedback

This paper is concerned with the problem of robust H∞ control for a novel class of uncertain linear continuous-time systems with heterogeneous time-varying state/input delays and norm-bounded parameter uncertainties.The objective is to design a static output feedback controller such that the closed-loop system is asymptotically stable while satisfying a prescribed H∞ performance level for all admissible uncertainties.By constructing an appropriate Lyapunov-Krasvskii functional,a delay-dependent stability criterion of the closed-loop system is presented with the help of the Jensen integral inequality.From the derived criterion,the solutions to the problem are formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities and hence are tractable numerically.A simulation example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method.     

Stability analysis on uncertain stochastic impulsive systems with time-delay

This Letter deals with the problem of stochastic robust stability analysis and control on a class of stochastic hybrid system. The system under study involves Markovian jump, norm-bounded uncertainties, time delay and impulsive effects. Sufficient conditions for the stochastic hybrid system stochastically robustly stable are obtained, we also give some criteria on how to design a memoryless feedback controller and an impulsive controller to stabilize such stochastic hybrid system.     

用滑模控制方法实现具有扇区非线性输入的主从混沌系统同步

分析了一个具有扇区非线性输入且含有参数不确定性以及外部噪声干扰的主从混沌系统的同 步控制问题.设计了一类同步滑模变结构控制器，并从理论上证明了该控制器的有效性.研究 表明该控制器不受受控系统的参数变化和噪声干扰的影响，具有很强的鲁棒性.最后通过对 主从Duffing_Holmes系统的仿真研究，验证了该控制器的有效性. 关键词： 混沌同步 滑模变结构控制 扇区非线性输入 不确定性     

基于径向小波神经网络的混沌系统鲁棒自适应反演控制

设计了一种具有自适应性和鲁棒性的反演控制律, 实现了对含有系统不确定性的类Rossler系统的控制. 首先通过小波神经网络辨识系统的非线性部分, 将系统转化为含有结构不确定性和参数不确定性的参数化模型; 然后, 对于系统中的参数不确定性, 设计自适应控制律, 在线估计未知参数; 对于系统中的结构不确定性, 设计鲁棒控制律, 使得系统具有鲁棒性. 最后, 通过仿真实现, 验证了以上控制方法的有效性.     

Aeroelastic dynamic response and control of an airfoil section with control surface nonlinearities

Nonlinearities in aircraft mechanisms are inevitable, especially in the control system. It is necessary to investigate the effects of them on the dynamic response and control performance of aeroelastic system. In this paper, based on the state-dependent Riccati equation method, a state feedback suboptimal control law is derived for aeroelastic response and flutter suppression of a three degree-of-freedom typical airfoil section. With the control law designed, nonlinear effects of freeplay in the control surface and time delay between the control input and actuator are investigated by numerical approach. A cubic nonlinearity in pitch degree is adopted to prevent the aeroelastic responses from divergence when the flow velocity exceeds the critical flutter speed. For the system with a freeplay, the responses of both open- and closed-loop systems are determined with Runge-Kutta algorithm in conjunction with Henon’s method. This method is used to locate the switching points accurately and efficiently as the system moves from one subdomain into another. The simulation results show that the freeplay leads to a forward phase response and a slight increase of flutter speed of the closed-loop system. The effect of freeplay on the aeroelastic response decreases as the flow velocity increases. The time delay between the control input and actuator may impair control performance and cause high-frequency motion and quasi-periodic vibration.     

Robust Stabilization and Synchronization of a Novel Chaotic System with Input Saturation Constraints

In this paper, the robust stabilization and synchronization of a novel chaotic system are presented. First, a novel chaotic system is presented in which this system is realized by implementing a sigmoidal function to generate the chaotic behavior of this analyzed system. A bifurcation analysis is provided in which by varying three parameters of this chaotic system, the respective bifurcations plots are generated and evinced to analyze and verify when this system is in the stability region or in a chaotic regimen. Then, a robust controller is designed to drive the system variables from the chaotic regimen to stability so that these variables reach the equilibrium point in finite time. The robust controller is obtained by selecting an appropriate robust control Lyapunov function to obtain the resulting control law. For synchronization purposes, the novel chaotic system designed in this study is used as a drive and response system, considering that the error variable is implemented in a robust control Lyapunov function to drive this error variable to zero in finite time. In the control law design for stabilization and synchronization purposes, an extra state is provided to ensure that the saturated input sector condition must be mathematically tractable. A numerical experiment and simulation results are evinced, along with the respective discussion and conclusion.     

含有不确定项的混沌系统自适应修正函数投影同步

针对一类含有不确定项的混沌系统修正函数投影同步问题, 提出了自适应修正函数投影同步方法.根据Lyapunov稳定性理论, 给出了两种响应系统的设计方案,并设计了控制器和自适应律. 研究表明,所设计的控制策略对外界干扰有较强的鲁棒性, 且不需要事先已知不确定项的上界,通过引入加速因子,可任意配置同步响应速度, 具有较高的使用价值.理论分析及仿真结果验证了该方法的有效性.     

A ROBUST CONTROL OF A DYNAMIC BEAM STRUCTURE WITH TIME DELAY EFFECT

The objective of this paper is to present a feasible methodology that can achieve good control performance of a dynamic beam structure system with time delay effect. To achieve good control, a robust control called the modified fuzzy sliding mode control (FSMC) with phase shift method is introduced in this paper. Conventionally, the FSMC is easily designed without precise system modelling and needs very little information for online calculation. However, numerical simulation results show that increasing the time delay will reduce its performance and the system will become unstable for a large time delay. The phase shift method can assist the system in predicting the real status value as a compensation for time delay effect. The results also show improvement on both the system's robustness and stability. Furthermore, by comparing the maximum and average bending displacement reduction rates of the beam structure, it is found that the FSMC with phase shift compensation will improve the system's performance.     

Robust adaptive synchronization of general dynamical networks with multiple delays and uncertainties

In this article, a general complex dynamical network which contains multiple delays and uncertainties is introduced, which contains time-varying coupling delays, time-varying node delay, and uncertainties of both the inner- and outer-coupling matrices. A robust adaptive synchronization scheme for these general complex networks with multiple delays and uncertainties is established and raised by employing the robust adaptive control principle and the Lyapunov stability theory. We choose some suitable adaptive synchronization controllers to ensure the robust synchronization of this dynamical network. The numerical simulations of the time-delay Lorenz chaotic system as local dynamical node are provided to observe and verify the viability and productivity of the theoretical research in this paper. Compared to the achievement of previous research, the research in this paper seems quite comprehensive and universal.