Generalized Newton’s method based on graphical derivatives

This paper concerns developing a numerical method of the Newton type to solve systems of nonlinear equations described by nonsmooth continuous functions. We propose and justify a new generalized Newton algorithm based on graphical derivatives, which have never been used to derive a Newton-type method for solving nonsmooth equations. Based on advanced techniques of variational analysis and generalized differentiation, we establish the well-posedness of the algorithm, its local superlinear convergence, and its global convergence of the Kantorovich type. Our convergence results hold with no semismoothness and Lipschitzian assumptions, which is illustrated by examples. The algorithm and main results obtained in the paper are compared with well-recognized semismooth and B-differentiable versions of Newton’s method for nonsmooth Lipschitzian equations.     

Lipschitzian optimization without the Lipschitz constant

We present a new algorithm for finding the global minimum of a multivariate function subject to simple bounds. The algorithm is a modification of the standard Lipschitzian approach that eliminates the need to specify a Lipschitz constant. This is done by carrying out simultaneous searches using all possible constants from zero to infinity. On nine standard test functions, the new algorithm converges in fewer function evaluations than most competing methods.The motivation for the new algorithm stems from a different way of looking at the Lipschitz constant. In particular, the Lipschitz constant is viewed as a weighting parameter that indicates how much emphasis to place on global versus local search. In standard Lipschitzian methods, this constant is usually large because it must equal or exceed the maximum rate of change of the objective function. As a result, these methods place a high emphasis on global search and exhibit slow convergence. In contrast, the new algorithm carries out simultaneous searches using all possible constants, and therefore operates at both the global and local level. Once the global part of the algorithm finds the basin of convergence of the optimum, the local part of the algorithm quickly and automatically exploits it. This accounts for the fast convergence of the new algorithm on the test functions.     

非光滑方程组牛顿法的全局收敛性分析

通过定义一种新的*-微分,本文给出了局部Lipschitz非光滑方程组的牛顿法,并对其全局收敛性进行了研究.该牛顿法结合了非光滑方程组的局部收敛性和全局收敛性.最后,我们把这种牛顿法应用到非光滑函数的光滑复合方程组问题上,得到了较好的收敛性.     

Stability of non‐constant steady‐state solutions for non‐isentropic Euler–Maxwell system with a temperature damping term

This work is concerned with the periodic problem for compressible non‐isentropic Euler–Maxwell systems with a temperature damping term arising in plasmas. For this problem, we prove the global in time existence of a smooth solution around a given non‐constant steady state with the help of an induction argument on the order of the mixed time‐space derivatives of solutions in energy estimates. Moreover, we also show the convergence of the solution to this steady state as the time goes to the infinity. This phenomenon on the charge transport shows the essential relation of the systems with the non‐isentropic Euler–Maxwell and the isentropic Euler–Maxwell systems. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Numerical methods of stabilizer construction via guidance control

This work concerns guidance stabilization of non‐autonomous control systems. Global stabilization problem is usually quite complex and difficult to solve. To overcome this difficulty, guidance control is used. A guidance stabilizer uses a trajectory of a globally asymptotically stable auxiliary system as a guide. A local stabilizer keeps the trajectory of the system in a neighborhood of a solution of the auxiliary system. In this way, the trajectory of the system tends to the equilibrium position. The main idea of this method is to solve the global stabilization problem by applying local stabilization methods. The presented procedure also yields additional possibilities for the design of a stabilizer that eliminates the peak effect, that is, the large deviation of the solutions from the equilibrium position at the beginning of the stabilization process. This effect represents a serious obstacle to the design of cascade control systems and to guidance stabilization. The optimal control problem used in this paper eliminates this effect that we have when we apply known construction methods of local stabilizers to obtain a high speed of damping of the control systems trajectories. According to this approach and using ε‐strategies introduced by Pontryagin in the frame of differential games theory, the stabilizing control is constructed as a function of time defined in a small time interval and not as a feedback. An application to a mechanical stabilization problem is provided here. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An application of Lipschitzian global optimization to product design

The issue of finding feasible mixture designs is formulated and solved as a Lipschitzian global optimization problem. The solution algorithm is based on a simplicial partition strategy. Implementation aspects and extension possibilities are treated in some detail, providing also numerical examples.     

一类非线性系统的输出反馈控制及全局渐近稳定性研究

考虑不可测状态是非线性的非严格三角形非线性系统的全局渐近稳定性问题.提出了一种新的反馈控制设计方法,构造一个线性动态输出补偿器,并全局稳定所控制的非线性系统.     

Parallel global optimization of functions of several variables

On the basis of the method of nonuniform coverings, a parallel method for the global optimization of Lipschitzian functions is developed. This method is implemented in C-MPI for the global minimization of functions whose gradient satisfies the Lipschitz condition. The performance of the algorithm is demonstrated using the calculation of the structure of a protein molecule as an example.     

Global chaos synchronization of new chaotic system using linear active control

Chaos synchronization is a procedure where one chaotic oscillator is forced to adjust the properties of another chaotic oscillator for all future states. This research paper studies and investigates the global chaos synchronization problem of two identical chaotic systems and two non‐identical chaotic systems using the linear active control technique. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory and using the linear active control technique, the stabilizing controllers are designed for asymptotically global stability of the closed‐loop system for both identical and non‐identical synchronization. Numerical simulations and graphs are imparted to justify the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed scheme. All simulations have been done by using mathematica 9. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 379–386, 2015     

Global properties of the triangular systems in the singular case

We introduce a new class of the triangular (multi-input and multi-output) control systems, of O.D.E., which are not feedback linearizable, and investigate its global behavior. The triangular form introduced is a generalization of the classes of triangular systems, considered before. For our class, we solve the problem of global robust controllability. Combining our main result with that of [F.H. Clarke, Yu.S. Ledyaev, E.D. Sontag, A.I. Subbotin, Asymptotic controllability implies feedback stabilization, IEEE Trans. Automat. Control 42 (1997) 1394-1407], we obtain a corollary on the global discontinuous sampled stabilization (an example showing that global smooth stabilization can be irrelevant to the singular case is considered). To prove our main result, we apply a certain “back-stepping” algorithm and combine the technique proposed in [V.I. Korobov, S.S. Pavlichkov, W.H. Schmidt, Global robust controllability of the triangular integro-differential Volterra systems, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 309 (2005) 743-760] with solving a specific problem of global “practical stabilization” by means of a discontinuous, time-varying feedback law.     

Stabilization of a one‐dimensional wave equation with variable coefficient under non‐collocated control and delayed observation

In this paper, we consider stabilization of a 1‐dimensional wave equation with variable coefficient where non‐collocated boundary observation suffers from an arbitrary time delay. Since input and output are non‐collocated with each other, it is more complex to design the observer system. After showing well‐posedness of the open‐loop system, the observer and predictor systems are constructed to give the estimated state feedback controller. Different from the partial differential equation with constant coefficients, the variable coefficient causes mathematical difficulties of the stabilization problem. By the approach of Riesz basis property, it is shown that the closed‐loop system is stable exponentially. Numerical simulations demonstrate the effect of the stable controller. This paper is devoted to the wave equation with variable coefficients generalized of that with constant coefficients for delayed observation and non‐collocated control.     

A counterexample for the global separation principle for discrete-time nonlinear systems

In the control systems literature, it is well known that a separation principle holds locally for nonlinear control systems, when exponential feedback stabilizers and exponential observers are used. In this paper, we present a counterexample to show that the global separation principle need not hold for nonlinear control systems. Our example demonstrates that global stability might be lost when an exponential observer is introduced into the nonlinear feedback loop associated with an exponentially stabilizing feedback control law.     

Computer Algebra Algorithms for Control Related Tests of Implicit Dynamic Systems

This contribution is focused on control related tests for implicit dynamic systems, like accessibility, observability or input to output, input to state linearizability. Since the performance of these tests needs tedious symbolic calculations, computer algebra systems are the ideal tool to cope with this problem. Accessibility and observability are exemplarily used to present a new approach based on Lie groups. It is shown that non accessible or non observable systems admit Lie‐groups acting on their solutions such that distinguished parts remain unchanged. This fact allows us to apply this technique, as well as its realization by computer algebra algorithm, to several fundamental problems in control.     

Impulsive non‐autonomous dynamical systems and impulsive cocycle attractors

In this work, we define the notions of ‘impulsive non‐autonomous dynamical systems’ and ‘impulsive cocycle attractors’. Such notions generalize (we will see that not in the most direct way) the notions of autonomous dynamical systems and impulsive global attractors in the current published literature. We also establish conditions to ensure the existence of an impulsive cocycle attractor for a given impulsive non‐autonomous dynamical system, which are analogous to the continuous case. Moreover, we prove the existence of such attractor for a non‐autonomous 2D Navier–Stokes equation with impulses, using energy estimates. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Block s‐step Krylov iterative methods

Block (including s‐step) iterative methods for (non)symmetric linear systems have been studied and implemented in the past. In this article we present a (combined) block s‐step Krylov iterative method for nonsymmetric linear systems. We then consider the problem of applying any block iterative method to solve a linear system with one right‐hand side using many linearly independent initial residual vectors. We present a new algorithm which combines the many solutions obtained (by any block iterative method) into a single solution to the linear system. This approach of using block methods in order to increase the parallelism of Krylov methods is very useful in parallel systems. We implemented the new method on a parallel computer and we ran tests to validate the accuracy and the performance of the proposed methods. It is expected that the block s‐step methods performance will scale well on other parallel systems because of their efficient use of memory hierarchies and their reduction of the number of global communication operations over the standard methods. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Pointwise stabilization of strings with non‐linear feedback

We consider an initial and boundary value problem for a homogenous string subject to an internal pointwise control. The solution resulting from a non‐linear feedback is studied. We give various explicit decay estimates depending on the control position and the feedback non‐linearity. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Tracking control of chaotic spinning disks via nonlinear dynamic output feedback with input constraints

In many control engineering applications, it is impossible or expensive to measure all the states of the dynamical system and only the system output is available for controller design. In this study, a new dynamic output feedback control algorithm is proposed to stabilize the unstable periodic orbit of chaotic spinning disks with incomplete state information. The proposed control structure is based on the T‐S fuzzy systems. This investigation also introduces a new design procedure to satisfy a constraint on the T‐S fuzzy dynamic output feedback control signal. This procedure is independent of the exact value of initial states. Finally, computer simulations are accomplished to illustrate the performance of the proposed control algorithm. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 148–159, 2016     

Adaptive stabilization of Kirchhoff's non‐linear strings by boundary displacement feedback

This paper is concerned with adaptive global stabilization of an undamped non‐linear string in the case where any velocity feedback is not available. The linearized system may have an infinite number of poles and zeros on the imaginary axis. In the case where any velocity feedback is not available, a parallel compensator is effective. The adaptive stabilizer is constructed for the augmented system which consists of the controlled system and a parallel compensator. It is proved that the string can be stabilized by adaptive boundary control. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Boundary position feedback control of Kirchhoff's non‐linear strings

This paper is concerned with global stabilization of an undamped non‐linear string in the case where any velocity feedback is not available. The linearized system has an infinite number of poles and zeros on the imaginary axis. In the case where any velocity feedback is not available, a parallel compensator is effective. The stabilizer is constructed for the augmented system which consists of the controlled system and a parallel compensator. It is proved that the string can be stabilized by linear boundary control. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一类不确定性非线性系统的状态反馈鲁棒自适应控制器的设计与分析

该文考虑一类具有一般不确定性和部分参数未知的非线性系统（1），设计出一种用于跟踪参考信号的状态反馈鲁棒自适应控制器，此控制器对系统参数和状态的不确定性具有鲁棒性，能保证闭环系 统的全局稳定性，并解决了ε 跟踪问题. 仿真结果表明，所设计的鲁棒自适应控制系统具有良好的跟踪性能， 而且控制量在容许控制的范围之内.