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.     

Robust global synchronization of complex networks with neutral-type delayed nodes

In this paper, the problems of robust global exponential synchronization for a class of complex networks with time-varying delayed couplings are considered. Each node in the network is composed of a class of delayed neural networks described by a nonlinear delay differential equation of neutral-type. Since model errors commonly exist in practical applications, the parameter uncertainties are involved in the considered model. Sufficient conditions that ensure the complex networks to be robustly globally exponentially synchronized are obtained by using the Lyapunov functional method and some properties of Kronecker product. An illustrative example is presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Decentralized Adaptive Robust State Feedback for Uncertain Large-Scale Interconnected Systems with Time Delays

The problem of the decentralized robust control is considered for a class of large-scale time-varying systems withdelayed state perturbations and external disturbances in the interconnections. Here, the upper bounds of the delayed stateperturbations and external disturbances in the interconnections are assumed to be unknown. Adaptation laws areproposed to estimate such unknown bounds; by making use of the updated values of the unknown bounds, decentralized linear and nonlinear memoryless robust state feedback controllers are constructed. Based on Lyapunov stability theoryand Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals, as well as employing the proposed decentralized nonlinear robust state feedback controllers, it is shown that the solutions of the resulting adaptive closed-loop large-scale time-delay system can be guaranteed to be uniformly bounded and that the states converge uniformly and asymptotically to zero. It is also shown that the proposed decentralized linear robust state feedback controllers can guarantee the uniform ultimate boundedness of the resulting adaptive closed-loop large-scale time-delay system. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the validity of the results.     

Design of a nonsingular adaptive fuzzy backstepping controller for electrostatically actuated microplates

This paper adopts some alternative strategies to design a nonlinear controller for double electrostatically actuated microplates. The novel design is carried out to solve the singularity problem reported in many articles due to the use of the Taylor expansion to simplify the electrostatic force. The nonlinear governing partial differential equation is converted to the modal equation using the Galerkin method. Then, based on the Lyapunov stability criterion, a fuzzy backstepping controller facilitated by prescribed performance functions is applied to the non-affine system to extend the travel range beyond the pull-in region and capture the structural and nonstructural uncertainties that exist in the practical systems. The present work also aims to bring satisfactory transient and steady-state performance indices to the system. Moreover, unknown time-varying delays as the indispensable part of practical systems are considered in the proposed control scheme to suppress the delays occurring in the measurement of the states by constructing Lyapunov–Krasovskii function. The accuracy of the modal equation in both the static and dynamic analysis is verified through a meshless method as a direct solution of the partial differential equation. The proposed controller guarantees that all the closed-loop signals are semi-globally, uniformly ultimately bounded, and the error evolves within the decaying prescribed bounds. Finally, the proposed controller demonstrates its feasibility to extend the travel range within and beyond the pull-in range despite the unknown uncertainties and time-varying delays which exist in the system.     

Integral sliding mode control for T–S fuzzy descriptor systems

The present study focuses on designing the integral sliding-mode control (ISMC) for generalized Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy singular stochastic systems by involving the Markovian jump type of system parameters. Distinct to the existing works, the present paper concerns about the derivation of sufficient conditions that ensure the global stability of considered T–S fuzzy stochastic singular Markovian jump systems with matched/mismatched uncertainties under fuzzy-based ISMC. In this regard, an improved fuzzy integral sliding manifold function with mode-dependent derivative-term coefficient is proposed where the matched uncertainties become unnecessary and the mismatched uncertainties have been disintegrated during the sliding mode phase. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, a suitable Lyapunov functional candidate by involving the information about the membership functions is constructed with singular and P-type matrices, the stochastic admissibility of corresponding sliding mode dynamics are derived. To proven the effectiveness of the proposed method, a physical experimental problem on cart and pendulum is adapted and simulated via the derived theoretical results and the corresponding results are provided.     

Adaptive control of uncertain nonlinear systems using mixed backstepping and Lyapunov redesign techniques

In this paper, a robust adaptive control law for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems is proposed. The proposed controller guarantees asymptotic output tracking of systems in the strict-feedback form with unknown static parameters, and matched and unmatched dynamic uncertainties. This controller takes advantages of a robust stability property of the Lyapunov redesign method and a systematic design procedure of the backstepping technique. In fact, the backstepping technique is employed to enrich the Lyapunov redesign method to compensate for not only matched - but also unmatched-uncertainties. On the other hand, using the Lyapunov redesign method in each step of the conventional backstepping technique makes backstepping robust. The suggested controller is designed through repeatedly utilizing the Lyapunov redesign method in each step of the backstepping technique. Simulation results reveal the efficiency of the Lyapunov redesign-based backstepping controller.     

Robust stability criteria for a class of uncertain discrete-time systems with time-varying delay

In this paper, we consider the problem of delay-dependent robust stability of a class of uncertain discrete-time systems with time-varying delay using Lyapunov functional approach. Two categories of time-varying uncertainties are considered for the robust stability analysis: viz., (i) nonlinear perturbations and (ii) norm-bounded uncertainties. In the proposed stability analysis, by exploiting a candidate Lyapunov functional, and using minimal number of slack matrix variables, less conservative stability criteria are developed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) for computing the maximum allowable bound of the delay-range, within which, the uncertain system under consideration remains asymptotically stable in the sense of Lyapunov. The effectiveness of the proposed stability criteria is demonstrated using standard numerical examples.     

Nonlinear adaptive output feedback robust control of hydraulic actuators with largely unknown modeling uncertainties

In this paper, a nonlinear adaptive output feedback robust controller is proposed for motion control of hydraulic servo systems in the presence of largely unknown matched and mismatched modeling uncertainties. Different from the existing control technologies, the presented hydraulic closed-loop controller which can deal with strong matched and mismatched parametric uncertainties is synthesized via the backstepping technique. Specially, a nonlinear disturbance observer which can estimate the largely mismatched disturbance is integrated into the design of the linear extended state observer to obtain estimation of unmeasurable system states, uncertain parameters and strong disturbances simultaneously. In addition, the projection-type adaptive law is synthesized into the design of the resulting controller. More importantly, the global stability of the whole closed-loop system is strictly guaranteed by the Lyapunov analysis. Furthermore, the effectiveness and practicability of the presented control strategy have been demonstrated by comparative experiments under different working conditions.     

输入受限非线性系统的鲁棒广义逐点最小范数控制

面向具有输入约束的非线性不确定系统,根据输入输出有限增益$L_2$稳定的概念,提出了一种新的鲁棒控制Lyapunov函数.根据此概念,在前期研究的广义逐点最小范数控制的基础上,提出了一种对参数不确定性及外部干扰均具有抑制作用的鲁棒广义逐点最小范数控制器设计方法,并研究了其解析形式的求解方法.通过引入``引导函数",新的算法能够在保证鲁棒稳定性的同时更加灵活的考虑各种控制性能指标.最后,通过将新方法与状态相关Riccati方程非线性控制方法相结合验证该方法可用于提高原有控制器的闭环性能,并通过仿真实验验证了方法的可行性及有效性.     

Robust static output feedback variable structure control for nonlinear systems

In this paper, a robust stabilization problem for nonlinearsystems is investigated using static output feedback. Matchedand mismatched uncertainties are considered and their boundingfunctions take general forms. Based on a Lyapunov analysis approachand sliding mode techniques, some conclusions are presented.Then, a robust nonlinear variable structure control scheme issynthesized to stabilize the system globally, and it is notnecessary for the nominal system to be linearizable globally.The conservatism is reduced by using uncertainty bounds in thecontrol design. Finally, a mass–spring system is employedto illustrate the effectiveness of the results.