一类非自治时滞反馈系统的分岔控制

对含有两个时滞参数、受简谐激励作用下的van der Pol-Duffing方程进行了研究，着重研究了时滞参数对该类参数激励系统的主共振的分岔响应控制.首先采用摄动法从理论上推导出时滞动力系统的分岔响应方程，用奇异性理论得到了退化余维一分岔和余维二分岔的条件，以及Hopf分岔的存在性及发生该分岔的条件，最后用数值模拟的方法研究了时滞参数对系统分岔响应的影响.研究结果表明，适当选取时滞参数，不仅可以改变分岔响应曲线的拓扑形态， 还可以改变分岔点的位置. 关键词： 摄动法 分岔控制 时滞动力系统     

一类多时滞混沌系统的主从容错同步

研究了一类多时滞混沌系统的主从容错同步问题.所设计的同步方法无论混沌系统中是否有故障发生,都可以使混沌主从同步误差系统全局渐近稳定并且满足给定的性能指标.容错同步方法的控制器包含两个部分:状态反馈控制器和故障补偿器.控制器的存在条件是时滞依赖的并可以通过线性矩阵不等式的方法进行求解.最后通过仿真验证了设计方法的有效性.     

Self-tuning control systems of decentralised velocity feedback

This paper is concerned with decentralised velocity feedback for the control of vibration on a flexible structure. Previous studies have shown that a direct velocity feedback loop with a collocated force actuator produces a damping action. Multiple velocity feedback control loops thus reduce the vibration and sound radiation of structures at low frequency resonances, where the response is controlled by damping. However, if the control gains are too high, so that the response of the structure at the control point is close to zero, the feedback control loops will pin the panel at the control positions and thus no damping action is generated. Therefore, in order to maximise the active damping effect, the feedback gains have optimum values and the loops need to be properly tuned.In this paper, a numerical investigation is performed to investigate the possibility of self-tuning the feedback control gains to maximise the power absorbed by the control loops and hence maximise the active damping. The tuning principle is first examined for a single feedback loop for different excitation signals. The tuning of multiple control loops is then considered and the implementation of a practical tuning algorithm is discussed.     

VIBRATION CONTROL FOR THE PRIMARY RESONANCE OF A CANTILEVER BEAM BY A TIME DELAY STATE FEEDBACK

The primary resonance of a cantilever beam under state feedback control with a time delay is investigated. By means of the asymptotic perturbation method, two slow-flow equations on the amplitude and phase of the oscillator are obtained and external excitation-response and frequency-response curves are shown. Vibration control and high-amplitude response suppression can be performed with appropriate time delay and feedback gains. Moreover, energy considerations are used in order to investigate existence and characteristics of quasiperiodic modulated motion for the cantilever beam. It can be demonstrated that appropriate choices for the feedback gains and the time delay can exclude the possibility of modulated motion and reduce the amplitude peak of the primary resonance. Analytical results are verified with numerical simulations.     

Resonance frequencies and threshold gains of distributed feedback lasers with strong modulations

In this paper the calculation of resonance frequencies and threshold gains of distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with strong modulations is discussed. The theory is based on the Floquet solutions of a complex Hill differential equation. The dispersion relation of the above solutions is shown to be of importance for the behaviour of the resonances of the DFB laser.     

Active vibroacoustic control with multiple local feedback loops

When multiple actuators and sensors are used to control the vibration of a panel, or its sound radiation, they are usually positioned so that they couple into specific modes and are all connected together with a centralized control system. This paper investigates the physical effects of having a regular array of actuator and sensor pairs that are connected only by local feedback loops. An array of 4 x 4 force actuators and velocity sensors is first simulated, for which such a decentralized controller can be shown to be unconditionally stable. Significant reductions in both the kinetic energy of the panel and in its radiated sound power can be obtained for an optimal value of feedback gain, although higher values of feedback gain can induce extra resonances in the system and degrade the performance. A more practical transducer pair, consisting of a piezoelectric actuator and velocity sensor, is also investigated and the simulations suggest that a decentralized controller with this arrangement is also stable over a wide range of feedback gains. The resulting reductions in kinetic energy and sound power are not as great as with the force actuators, due to the extra resonances being more prominent and at lower frequencies, but are still worthwhile. This suggests that an array of independent modular systems, each of which included an actuator, a sensor, and a local feedback control loop, could be a simple and robust method of controlling broadband sound transmission when integrated into a panel.     

State estimation for discrete-time Markovian jumping neural networks with mixed mode-dependent delays

In this Letter, we investigate the state estimation problem for a new class of discrete-time neural networks with Markovian jumping parameters as well as mode-dependent mixed time-delays. The parameters of the discrete-time neural networks are subject to the switching from one mode to another at different times according to a Markov chain, and the mixed time-delays consist of both discrete and distributed delays that are dependent on the Markovian jumping mode. New techniques are developed to deal with the mixed time-delays in the discrete-time setting, and a novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is put forward to reflect the mode-dependent time-delays. Sufficient conditions are established in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) that guarantee the existence of the state estimators. We show that both the existence conditions and the explicit expression of the desired estimator can be characterized in terms of the solution to an LMI. A numerical example is exploited to show the usefulness of the derived LMI-based conditions.     

Experimental implementation of a self-tuning control system for decentralised velocity feedback

Simulations have previously shown that, for broadband excitation, adjusting the gain of a local velocity feedback loop to maximise their absorbed power also tends to minimise the kinetic energy of the structure under control. This paper describes an experimental implementation of multiple velocity feedback loops on a flat panel, whose gains can be controlled automatically by an algorithm that maximises their local absorbed power. Taking care to remove excessive phase shift in the control loop allows a stable feedback gain that is high enough to experimentally demonstrate the transition in control action between optimum damping and pinning of the structure. A simple search algorithm is then used to adapt the feedback gains of two control loops to maximise their local absorbed powers, thus demonstrating self-tuning. By measuring the power absorbed by each of these loops and also estimation of the kinetic energy of the plate from velocity measurements for a wide range of the two feedback gains, it is shown that not only does the adaptive algorithm converge to a set of feedback gains that maximise total power absorbed by the two feedback loops, but also that this set of feedback gains is very close to those that minimise the measured kinetic energy of the panel.     

Self-excited oscillation under nonlinear feedback with time-delay

Several important applications use nonlinear feedback methods for synthetically inducing self-excited oscillations in mechanical systems. The van der Pol and saturation function type feedback methods are widely used. The effects of time-delay on the self-excited oscillation of single and two degrees-of-freedom systems under nonlinear feedback have been studied in this paper. It is shown that a single degree-of-freedom oscillator with the van der Pol type nonlinear feedback can produce unbounded response in presence of time-delay. In general, an uncontrolled time-delay in the feedback changes the state of oscillations in an uncertain manner. Therefore, a bounded saturation type feedback with controllable time-delay is proposed for inducing self-excited oscillations. The feedback signal is essentially an infinite weighted sum of a nonlinear function of the state variables of the system measured at equal intervals in the past. More recent is the measurement, higher is the weight. Thus, the feedback signal uses a large amount of information about the past history of the dynamics. Such a control signal can be realized in practice by a recursive means. The control law allows three parameters to be varied namely, the time-delay, feedback and recursive gains. Multiple time scale analysis is used to plot amplitude vs. time-delay curves. Time-delay can be controlled to vary the amplitude of oscillation as well as to switch the oscillation from one mode to the other in a two degrees-of-freedom system. It is shown that a higher recursive gain can exercise a better and a more robust control on the amplitude of oscillation of the system. Analytical results are compared with the results of numerical simulations.     

Nonlinear analysis of a maglev system with time-delayed feedback control

This paper undertakes a nonlinear analysis of a model for a maglev system with time-delayed feedback. Using linear analysis, we determine constraints on the feedback control gains and the time delay which ensure stability of the maglev system. We then show that a Hopf bifurcation occurs at the linear stability boundary. To gain insight into the periodic motion which arises from the Hopf bifurcation, we use the method of multiple scales on the nonlinear model. This analysis shows that for practical operating ranges, the maglev system undergoes both subcritical and supercritical bifurcations, which give rise to unstable and stable limit cycles respectively. Numerical simulations confirm the theoretical results and indicate that unstable limit cycles may coexist with the stable equilibrium state. This means that large enough perturbations may cause instability in the system even if the feedback gains are such that the linear theory predicts that the equilibrium state is stable.     

Feedback control of flow resonances using balanced reduced-order models

This paper investigates the use of balanced reduced-order models for the feedback control of flow resonances. Specifically, the Eigensystem Realization Algorithm is used to find balanced reduced-order models of the linear dynamics of such flow resonances. The method is applied first to a computational problem in direct numerical simulations of cavity resonances, and then to a lab-scale experiment of combustion oscillations. Although the resulting reduced-order models both have fewer than 10 degrees of freedom, the feedback controllers that are based on them perform very well, with closed-loop stability achieved over a wide range of operating conditions.     

Robust chaos synchronization of noise-perturbed chaotic systems with multiple time-delays

The aim of this paper is to propose an output coupling and feedback scheme, which is not only to guarantee the asymptotic synchronization between the master and the slave chaotic systems with multiple time-delays but also to attenuate the effects of noise perturbation on the overall error system to a prescribed level in terms of the performance index H_∞-norm. The output coupling and feedback gain is derived on the basis of the Lyapunov theory and the linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. Some numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the main results.     

Dynamic behavior of discrete-time multiagent systems with general communication structures

In this paper, we discuss the dynamic behavior of networks of dynamic agents with general communication topologies. We first analyze the basic case: systems with communication topologies that have spanning trees, i.e., the systems that solve consensus problems. We establish an algebraic condition to characterize each agent's contributions to the final state. And we also study the influence of time-delays on each agent's contributions. Then, we investigate the general case: systems with weakly connected topologies. By using matrix theory, we prove that the states of internal agents will converge to a convex combination of boundary agents in the absence or presence of communication time-delays, and we also show that the coefficients of the convex combination are independent of time-delays even if the delays are time-varying. These results have broad applications in other areas, e.g., study of swarm behavior, formation control of vehicles, etc.     

Anharmonic resonances with recursive delay feedback

We consider application of time-delayed feedback with infinite recursion for control of anharmonic (nonlinear) oscillators subject to noise. In contrast to the case of a single delay feedback, recursive delay feedback exhibits resonances between feedback and nonlinear harmonics, leading to a resonantly strong or weak oscillation coherence even for a small anharmonicity. Remarkably, these small-anharmonicity induced resonances can be stronger than the harmonic ones. Analytical results are confirmed numerically for van der Pol and van der Pol-Duffing oscillators.     

Double strange attractors in rigid body motion with linear feedback control

Euler's rigid body equations are modified with the addition of a linear feedback. A system of three quadratic differential equations is obtained which for certain feedback gains has two strange attractors. The attractor for an orbit is determined by the location of the initial point for that orbit.     

Tuneable vibration absorber using acceleration and displacement feedback

This study is concerned with the analysis and design of a tuneable vibration absorber, which is composed by a flexible beam with a clamping block in the middle and two masses symmetrically mounted at the two ends. The free length of the beam is used to accommodate piezoelectric strain actuators. The two masses at the ends are equipped with inertial accelerometers. This arrangement is used to generate two independent acceleration feedback control loops that produce virtual mass effects, which shift the absorbing frequency of the device. Another arrangement is also studied where the two accelerometer outputs are time-integrated twice in order to implement displacement feedback loops that change the beam stiffness to shift the characteristic frequency of the device. The two feedback approaches are first analysed theoretically, using a mobility-impedance model, and then experimentally on a prototype absorber unit. The stability of the feedback loops is studied using the Nyquist criterion in order to estimate the limits on the tuneable range of frequencies which are set by the maximum stable feedback gains. The study indicates that the stability margins for the acceleration feedback loops substantially depend on the application of an appropriate low-pass filter. On the contrary, the implementation of displacement feedback gives better stability margins.     

Effects of small time-delays on dynamic output feedback control of offshore steel jacket structures

This paper investigates the effect of a small time-delay on dynamic output feedback control of an offshore steel jacket structure subject to a nonlinear wave-induced force. First, a conventional dynamic output feedback controller is designed to reduce the internal oscillations of the offshore structure. It is found that the designed controller is of a larger gain in the sense of Euclidean norm, which demands a larger control force. Second, a small time-delay is introduced intentionally to design a new dynamic output feedback controller such that (i) the controller is of a small gain in the sense of Euclidean norm and (ii) the internal oscillations of the offshore structure can be dramatically reduced. It is shown through simulation results that purposefully introducing time-delays can be used to improve control performance.     

Delay time modulation induced oscillating synchronization and intermittent anticipatory/lag and complete synchronizations in time-delay nonlinear dynamical systems

Existence of a new type of oscillating synchronization that oscillates between three different types of synchronizations (anticipatory, complete, and lag synchronizations) is identified in unidirectionally coupled nonlinear time-delay systems having two different time-delays, that is feedback delay with a periodic delay time modulation and a constant coupling delay. Intermittent anticipatory, intermittent lag, and complete synchronizations are shown to exist in the same system with identical delay time modulations in both the delays. The transition from anticipatory to complete synchronization and from complete to lag synchronization as a function of coupling delay with suitable stability condition is discussed. The intermittent anticipatory and lag synchronizations are characterized by the minimum of the similarity functions and the intermittent behavior is characterized by a universal asymptotic -32 power law distribution. It is also shown that the delay time carved out of the trajectories of the time-delay system with periodic delay time modulation cannot be estimated using conventional methods, thereby reducing the possibility of decoding the message by phase space reconstruction.     

Interaction of fundamental parametric resonances with subharmonic resonances of order one-half

The interaction of fundamental parametric resonances with subharmonic resonances of order one-half in a single-degree-of-freedom system with quadratic and cubic nonlinearities is investigated. The method of multiple scales is used to derive two first-order ordinary differential equations that describe the modulation of the amplitude and the phase of the response with the non-linearity and both resonances. These equations are used to determine the steady state solutions and their stability. Conditions are derived for the quenching or enhancement of a parametric resonance by the addition of a subharmonic resonance of order one-half. The degree of quenching or enhancement depends on the relative amplitudes and phases of the excitations. The analytical results are verified by numerically integrating the original governing differential equation.     

Active vibration isolation of a system with a distributed parameter isolator using absolute velocity feedback control

This paper is concerned with the active isolation of a system containing a distributed parameter isolator using absolute velocity feedback control. The main differences between this type of system and one with a massless isolator, is that there are isolator resonances. It is shown that the vibration at these resonance frequencies cannot be suppressed using a simple velocity feedback control strategy. Moreover, it is found that the isolator resonances can cause the control system to become unstable, if the isolated equipment is supported on a flexible base. A stability criterion based on the mode shapes of the system is presented. Two techniques to stabilise the system are investigated and compared. The first involves the addition of mass on the base structure, and the second involves an electronic lead compensator. Experimental results are presented to support the theoretical findings. It is shown that even if the instability due to the isolator resonances and flexibility of the base can be prevented, the instability due to the flexibility of the equipment remains a problem.