Decentralized robust control for a class of uncertain large-scale interconnected nonlinear dynamical systems

The problem of the decentralized robust control for a class of large-scale interconnected nonlinear dynamical systems with input interconnection and external interconnection perturbations is considered. Based on the stabilizability of each nominal isolated subsystem (i.e., the isolated subsystem in the absence of interconnection perturbations), a class of decentralized local state feedback controllers is proposed, and some sufficient conditions are derived by making use of the Lyapunov stability criterion such that uncertain large-scale interconnected systems can be stabilized asymptotically by these decentralized state feedback controllers. For large-scale systems with only input interconnection perturbations, such decentralized controllers become a class of decentralized stabilizing state feedback controllers. That is, the decentralized stability of such large-scale systems can be guaranteed always by using the decentralized state feedback controllers proposed in the paper. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the validity of the results.     

基于输出反馈的一类大型互联Holder非线性系统的全局实际镇定

本文研究基于输出反馈的一类大型互联Holder连续非线性系统的全局实际镇定问题.通过构造每个子系统的状态观测器,并对观测器的状态作线性变换,得到分散输出反馈控制器.当输出反馈控制律作用于该系统时,闭环系统是全局实际稳定的.     

Decentralized Robust Tracking and Model Following for Uncertain Large-Scale Interconnected Systems

The problem of the decentralized robust tracking and model following is considered for a class of large-scale interconnected systems with uncertainties. A class of continuous (nonlinear) decentralized state feedback controllers is proposed. The proposed robust decentralized controllers can guarantee that the tracking errors between each subsystem and the local reference model decrease to zero asymptotically. Finally, an illustrative example is given to demonstrate the validity of the results.     

Decentralized Reliable Control of Interconnected Systems with Time-Varying Delays

In this paper, we study the problem of designing decentralized reliable feedback control methods under a class of control failures for a class of linear interconnected continuous-time systems having internal subsystem time-delays and additional time-delay couplings. These failures are described by a model that takes into consideration possible outages or partial failures in every single actuator of each decentralized controller. The decentralized control design is performed through two steps. First, a decentralized stabilizing reliable feedback control set is derived at the subsystem level through the construction of appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and, second, a feasible linear matrix inequalities procedure is then established for the effective construction of the control set under different feedback schemes. Two schemes are considered: the first is based on state measurement and the second utilizes static output feedback. The decentralized feedback gains in both schemes are determined by convex optimization over LMIs. We characterize decentralized linear matrix inequalities (LMIs)-based feasibility conditions such that every local closed-loop subsystem of the linear interconnected delay system is delay-dependent robustly asymptotically stable with a γ-level ℒ₂-gain. The developed results are tested on a representative example.     

Decentralized Output Feedback Sliding Mode Control of Nonlinear Large-Scale Systems with Uncertainties

In this paper, a class of nonlinear large-scale interconnected systems with mismatched uncertainties is considered. Based on sliding mode control ideas, a kind of decentralized robust control scheme using only output information is presented to stabilize the system. The approach allows more general uncertain interconnections than all of the associated existing work and better robustness is achieved. Compared with existing decentralized output feedback schemes, it is unnecessary to solve Lyapunov equations and the so-called strict structural condition is avoided. Also, it is not necessary that the nominal subsystem is output feedback stabilizable. Finally, a simulation example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the results.     

Resilient Decentralized Stabilization for Interconnected Discrete-Time Systems

The robust decentralized feedback stabilization problem of a class of nonlinear interconnected discrete-time systems is considered. This class of systems has uncertain nonlinear perturbations satisfying quadratic constraints that are functions of the overall state vector. Decentralized state and output feedback schemes are proposed and analyzed such that the overall closed-loop system guarantees global stability condition, derived in terms of local subsystem variables. Incorporating feedback gain perturbations, new resilient decentralized feedback schemes are subsequently developed. The proposed approach is formulated within the framework of convex optimization over LMIs. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed decentralized output-feedback controllers.     

Decentralized Reliable Control of Interconnected Time-Delay Systems Against Sensor Failures

In this paper, we study the problem of designing decentralized reliable feedback control methods under a class of control failures for a class of linear interconnected continuous-time systems having internal subsystem time-delays and additional time-delay couplings. These failures are described by a model that takes into consideration possible outages or partial failures in every single actuator of each decentralized controller. The decentralized control design is performed through two steps. First, a decentralized stabilizing reliable feedback control set is derived at the subsystem level through the construction of appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and, second, a feasible linear matrix inequalities procedure is then established for the effective construction of the control set under different feedback schemes. Two schemes are considered: the first is based on state-measurement and the second utilizes static output-feedback. The decentralized feedback gains in both schemes are determined by convex optimization over linear matrix inequalities. We characterize decentralized linear matrix inequality-based feasibility conditions such that every local closed-loop subsystem of the linear interconnected delay system is delay-dependent robustly asymptotically stable with an γ-level ℒ₂-gain. The developed results are tested on a representative example.     

Decentralized Adaptive Robust Tracking and Model Following for Large-Scale Systems Including Delayed State Perturbations in the Interconnections

The problem of decentralized robust tracking and model following is considered for a class of uncertain large-scale systems including delayed state perturbations in the interconnections. In this paper, it is assumed that the upper bounds of the delayed state perturbations, uncertainties, and external disturbances are unknown. A modified adaptation law with σ-modification is introduced to estimate such unknown bounds, and on the basis of the updated values of these unknown bounds, a class of decentralized local memoryless state feedback controllers is constructed for robust tracking of dynamical signals. The proposed decentralized adaptive robust tracking controllers can guarantee that the tracking errors between each time-delay subsystem and the corresponding local reference model without time-delay decrease uniformly asymptotically to zero. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the validity of the results.     

基于输出反馈的一类非线性不确定互联大系统的分散H∞控制

本文研究基于输出反馈的一类大型互联非线性不确定系统的分散H∞控制问题,通过构造每个子系统收敛的状态观测器,得到分散输出反馈控制器.当反馈控制律作用于该系统时,无扰动输入的闭环系统是全局渐近稳定的,而对允许的不确定性,干扰抑制的大小可以任意小,且控制器的设计也无需解任何的Hamilton-Jacobi方程或不等式.     

具有对称循环结构线性大系统的分散镇定特征

研究一类具有对称循环结构的连续和离散线性大系统的分散镇定特征,充分利用对称循环的特点,建立了判断这类系统可分散镇定的充分条件．在连续情形下,通过引进耦合结构模这一概念,揭示了这类系统分散镇定的重要特征,这就是当整个系统的耦合结构模给定之后,系统的分散镇定特性可以完全由各孤立子系统的结构所决定．这表明在这类系统的实际设计中,不管系统内中各子系统之间的耦合结构多么复杂,只要按一定的条件适当设计或修正各孤立子系统的结构参数,就能使所设计的大系统具有分散镇定特征,并提供了相应的分散镇定算法．对离散情形也进行了讨论,结果表明,连续系统与离散系统的分散镇定特征有着很大的差异．     

基于输出反馈的一类大型互联非线性系统的鲁棒全局指数稳定

研究基于输出反馈的一类新的大型互联非线性不确定系统的鲁棒全局指数稳定问题,通过构造每个子系统收敛的状态观测器,并对观测器的状态作线性变换,得到鲁棒分散输出反馈控制器.当该反馈控制律作用于该系统时,闭环系统是全局指数稳定的.     

Hybrid decentralized maximum entropy control for large-scale dynamical systems

In the analysis of complex, large-scale dynamical systems it is often essential to decompose the overall dynamical system into a collection of interacting subsystems. Because of implementation constraints, cost, and reliability considerations, a decentralized controller architecture is often required for controlling large-scale interconnected dynamical systems. In this paper, a novel class of fixed-order, energy-based hybrid decentralized controllers is proposed as a means for achieving enhanced energy dissipation in large-scale lossless and dissipative dynamical systems. These dynamic decentralized controllers combine a logical switching architecture with continuous dynamics to guarantee that the system plant energy is strictly decreasing across switchings. The general framework leads to hybrid closed-loop systems described by impulsive differential equations. In addition, we construct hybrid dynamic controllers that guarantee that each subsystem–subcontroller pair of the hybrid closed-loop system is consistent with basic thermodynamic principles. Special cases of energy-based hybrid controllers involving state-dependent switching are described, and an illustrative combustion control example is given to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.     

一类含参数的分块对称矩阵的正定性及应用

首先给出一种判断分块对称矩阵正定的方法,提供了确定一组尽可能小的参数,使一类含参数的分块对称矩阵正定的简单算法,然后,将其结果用于研究线性定常大系统的分散镇定性,得到了一类可分散镇定的线性大系统,并给出了相应的分散镇定算法,同文献中提供的方法相比,该算法不仅扩大了所考虑的系统范围,而且不会引起过高的反馈增益,同时还简单易算。     

Decentralized control by rational controllers

A strongly decentralized control problem is considered where only local information is available on both states and goals (the desired states) of each subsystem. A theory is presented which allows one to optimize the behavior of a system with such an information structure.The development is based on a notion of rational controllers which are ergodic dynamical systems with some additional property of optimality. Analysis of the interacting rational controllers gives the conditions under which a system of rational controllers also exhibits a rational behavior. The knowledge of these conditions allows one to suggest a control technique for a strongly decentralized situation.Dedicated to R. Bellman     

A locally computed suboptimal control strategy for a class of interconnected systems

In this paper, a locally computed suboptimal control strategy for a class of interconnected systems is introduced. First, optimal statefeedback control equations are derived for a finite-horizon quadratic cost. Then, the control for each subsystem is separated into two portions. The first portion stabilizes the isolated subsystem, and the second portion corresponds to the interactions. To achieve a locally calculable control, an approximation to the optimal control equations is introduced, and two iterative suboptimal control algorithms are developed. In the first algorithm, the initial conditions of subsystems are assumed to be known; in the second algorithm, this information is replaced by statistical distributions. The orders of errors in the iterations of the algorithm and in the suboptimality are given in terms of interconnections. An example with comparisons is also included to show the performance of the approach.     

一类非线性系统的分段迭代学习控制

本文提出并研究一类非线性系统的分段迭代学习控制问题.基于P型学习律和D型学习律构建得到分段迭代学习控制律,利用压缩映射原理,证明这种分段迭代学习律能使得系统的输出跟踪误差沿迭代轴方向收敛.仿真算例验证了算法的有效性.     

Decentralized event-based control: Stability analysis and experimental evaluation

Event-based control aims at reducing the amount of information which is communicated between sensors, actuators and controllers in a networked control system. The feedback link is only closed at times at which an event indicates the need for an information update to retain a desired performance. Between consecutive event times the control loop acts as a continuous system, whereas at the event times it performs a state jump. Thus, the event-based control loop belongs to the class of hybrid dynamical systems. In this paper a new method for decentralized event-based control is proposed. Two methods are presented for the stability analysis of the decentralized event-based state feedback control of physically interconnected systems. The comparison principle leads to a stability criterion that provides an upper bound for the coupling strength for which the stability of the uncoupled event-based control loops implies ultimate boundedness of the interconnected event-based system. It is shown that ultimate boundedness of the event-based state-feedback loop is implied by the asymptotic stability of the continuous state-feedback system. Furthermore, it is explained how the number of events can be reduced by estimating the interconnection signals between the subsystems and two different estimation methods are proposed. The derived methods are demonstrated for a thermofluid process by simulation and experiments.     

Decentralized robust model reference adaptive control for interconnected time-delay systems

In this paper, the problem of decentralized robust model reference control for a class of interconnected time-delay systems is investigated. The interconnections with time-varying time delays considered are high order and the gains are not known. A class of decentralized adaptive feedback controllers are proposed, which can render the resulting closed-loop error system uniformly ultimately bounded stable. A numerical example is given to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed design techniques.     

Decentralized Control of Nonlinear Large-Scale Systems Using Dynamic Output Feedback

In this paper, a class of nonlinear large-scale systems with similar subsystems is studied. Both matched and unmatched uncertainties are considered by utilizing their bounding functions, and the interconnections take a more general form than considered previously. Based on a constrained Lyapunov equation, a nonlinear dynamic output feedback decentralized controller is presented. Unlike existing results, matched uncertainties are considered in the control design; by using a decomposition of the interconnections, the known and uncertain interconnections are treated separately; thus, the robustness is improved and conservativeness is reduced significantly. The computation effort for solving the Lyapunov equation is greatly reduced by taking into account the similar subsystem structure. Finally, simulation is used to illustrate the effectiveness of our results.     

The guaranteed cost control for uncertain nonlinear large-scale stochastic systems via state and static output feedback

The guaranteed cost control (GCC) problem involved in decentralized robust control of a class of uncertain nonlinear large-scale stochastic systems with high-order interconnections is considered. After determining the appropriate conditions for the stochastic GCC controller, a class of decentralized local state feedback controllers is derived using the linear matrix inequality (LMI). The extension of the result of the study to the static output feedback control problem is discussed by considering the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. The efficiency of the proposed design method is demonstrated on the basis of simulation results.