无限维关联系统的弦稳定性

对一类无限维关联系统引入弦稳定概念。系统弦稳定意谓着,当关联系统的初始状态为有界时,对任意时刻系统的状态也是有界的。本文将向量V函数法推广到无限维系统中,得到了关联系统渐近弦稳定的充分条件,克服了以前的方法在处理非线性系统的稳定性问题上的困难,扩大了系统稳定的参数范围。     

An inclusion principle for hereditary systems

Given two hereditary dynamic systems having different dimensions, the conditions are provided under which a part of the motion of the larger system is reproduced by the smaller system, that is, the larger system “includes” the smaller one. The conditions for inclusion are useful in applying the concept of vector Liapunov functions to stability analysis of systems composed of overlapping subsystems. By expanding the systems into a larger space the overlapping subsystems appear as disjoint and standard methods can be used to conclude stability of the expanded system. Under the inclusion conditions, stability of the expansion implies stability of the original system. An example is provided to show stability where the standard disjoint decompositions fail.     

The stability and stabilization of the motion of non-conservative mechanical systems

Two stability problems are solved. In the first, the stability of mechanical systems, on which dissipative, gyroscopic, potential and positional non-conservative forces (systems of general form) act, is investigated. The stability is considered in the case when the potential energy has a maximum at equilibrium. The condition for asymptotic stability is obtained by constructing Lyapunov's function. In the second problem, the possibility of stabilizing a gyroscopic system with two degrees of freedom up to asymptotic stability using non-linear dissipative and positional non-conservative forces is investigated. Stability of the gyroscopic system is achieved by gyroscopic stabilization. The stability conditions are obtained in terms of the system parameters. Cases when the gyroscopic stabilization is disrupted by these non-linear forces are indicated.     

Stability conditions for a pipeline polling scheme in satellite communications

This paper considers the unknown stability conditions of a pipeline polling scheme proposed for satellite communications. This scheme is modelled as a cyclic-service system with limited service and reservation. The walk times and the maximum number of services to be performed during each polling are dependent on the queue lengths of the stations. The main result is the derivation of the necessary and sufficient stability conditions of the system. Our approach is to map the multi-dimensional stability problem into many 1-dimensional stability problems through the concept of the least stable queue. The least stable queue is one that will become unstablefirst when the system load increases in some parameter region. The stability of the least stable queue thus implies stability of the system. The stability region for the whole system is then the union of the queue stability regions of all the least stable queues that are obtained through dominant systems and Loynes' theorem. We also propose a computable sufficient condition that is tighter than the existing result and present some numerical results.     

Dynamic stability of nonlinear barge-towing system

A method for predicting the dynamic stability of a nonlinear barge-towing system is presented in which the equations of motion of the dynamic system are first transformed into a six-dimensional state-space equation. The governing equation is then linearized by using the Taylor series expanding with respect to the equilibrium configurations of the towed barge. It is found that the stability conditions of a towing system are determined by the signs of the real part of some associated eigenvalues: Positive and negative 1's will result in unstable and stable dynamic responses, respectively, and 0 corresponds to the marginally stable condition. The reliability of the foregoing criteria is confirmed by the time histories (simulations) of the nonlinear barge-towing system. The effects of the stabilizing skegs and significantly improve the course stability of the towed barge and that the length and material of the towrope are also key factors affecting the dynamic stability of the barge-towing system.     

The stability of non-conservative systems and an estimate of the domain of attraction

The stability of mechanical systems, on which dissipative, gyroscopic, potential and positional non-conservative forces act, is investigated. The condition for asymptotic stability is obtained using the Lyapunov function and an estimate of the domain of attraction is also found in terms of the system being considered. A precessional system is also examined. It is shown that the condition for the asymptotic stability of a system is the condition of acceptability in the sense of the stability of a precessional system. The results obtained are applied to the problem of the stabilization, using external moments, of the steady motion of a balanced gyroscope in gimbals.     

基于有限区域量化的系统稳定性分析与设计

针对基于输出反馈和具有有限区域信号量化的离散时间系统,进行了系统稳定性分析与量化参数设计的研究.首先,分别对状态观测误差系统和对象系统在有限区域对数量化作用下的系统渐近稳定性进行了分析,得到了相应的稳定性条件,接着针对对数型量化器,给出了两个系统稳定性之间的内在关联,同时得到了各有限区域量化器的量化区间上界值.在此基础上,得到了保证各子系统稳定的系统通信速率比值.最后,给出了在时变量化作用下基于状态观测的控制策略和仿真例子.     

非线性系统运动稳定性的一种判据

对于自治的非线性系统来说,只要其线性部分系数矩阵的特征值不属于临界情形,其无扰运动在其足够小的邻域内的稳定性完全可以由其线性部分的特征值确定.关于线性系统的稳定性,已有不少简单易行的判别方法,而关于非线性系统的稳定性,很多数学家和力学家作了大量的研究工作;但大都是针对特殊类型的非线性系统解决了一些问题,直到现在为止,还没有普遍适用于任何的非线性系统的简单易行的判别方法.本文所给的是判别非线性系统稳定性的充要条件,常用的克拉索夫斯基方法只是这一方法的一个特例[1],[2].     

Stability switches and bifurcation in a two-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear quarter-car with small time-delayed feedback control

In this paper, we investigate a two-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear quarter-car model with time-delayed feedback control. It is well known that a time delay has destabilizing effects in mathematical models. However, delays are not necessarily destabilizing. In this work we explore a system where a time delay can be both stabilizing and destabilizing. Using the generalized Sturm criterion, the critical control gain for the delay-independent stability region and critical time delays for stability switches are derived. It is shown that there is a small parameter region for delay-independently stability of the system. Once the controlled system with time delay is not delay-independently stable, the system may undergo stability switches with the variation of the time delay. These stability switches correspond to Hopf bifurcations that occur when the time delays cross critical values. Properties of Hopf bifurcation such as direction and stability of bifurcating periodic solutions are determined by using the normal form theory and centre manifold theorem. Numerical simulations are provided to support the theoretical analysis. The critical conditions can provide a theoretical guidance for the design of vehicles with significant reduction of vibration in order to increase passengers ride comfort.     

Stabilization and destabilization in non-conservative gyroscopic systems

Stability of a linear autonomous non-conservative system in presence of potential, gyroscopic, dissipative, and nonconservative positional forces is studied. The cases when the non-conservative system is close to a gyroscopic system or to a circulatory one, are examined. It is known that the marginal stability of gyroscopic and circulatory systems can be destroyed or improved up to asymptotic stability due to action of small non-conservative positional and velocity-dependent forces. The present contribution shows that in both cases the boundary of the asymptotic stability domain of the perturbed system possesses singularities such as “Dihedral angle” and “Whitney umbrella” that govern stabilization and destabilization. Approximations of the stability boundary near the singularities and estimates of the critical gyroscopic and circulatory parameters are found in an analytic form. In case of two degrees of freedom these estimates are obtained in terms of the invariants of matrices of the system. As an example, the asymptotic stability domain of the modified Maxwell-Bloch equations is investigated with an application to the stability problems of gyroscopic systems with stationary and rotating damping, such as the Crandall gyropendulum, tippe top and Jellet's egg. An instability mechanism in a system with two degrees of freedom, originating after discretization of models of a rotating disc in frictional contact and possessing the spectral mesh in the plane ‘frequency’ versus ‘angular velocity’, is described in detail and its role in the disc brake squeal problem is discussed. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Stability analysis of sampled-data fuzzy controller for nonlinear systems based on switching T–S fuzzy model

This paper investigates the system stability of a sampled-data fuzzy-model-based control system, formed by a nonlinear plant and a sampled-data fuzzy controller connected in a closed loop. The sampled-data fuzzy controller has an advantage that it can be implemented using a microcontroller or a digital computer to lower the implementation cost and time. However, discontinuity introduced by the sampling activity complicates the system dynamics and makes the stability analysis difficult compared with the pure continuous-time fuzzy control systems. Moreover, the favourable property of the continuous-time fuzzy control systems which is able to relax the stability analysis result vanishes in the sampled-data fuzzy control systems. A Lyapunov-based approach is employed to derive the LMI-based stability conditions to guarantee the system stability. To facilitate the stability analysis, a switching fuzzy model consisting of some local fuzzy models is employed to represent the nonlinear plant to be controlled. The comparatively less strong nonlinearity of each local fuzzy model eases the satisfaction of the stability conditions. Furthermore, membership functions of both fuzzy model and sampled-data fuzzy controller are considered to alleviate the conservativeness of the stability analysis result. A simulation example is given to illustrate the merits of the proposed approach.     

On the stability of a nonautonomous hamiltonian system under a parametric resonance of essential type

The problem of the stability of the equilibrium position of an nonautonomous Hamiltonian system with periodic coefficients, in which two multipliers of the linearized system are equal, is analyzed in a nonlinear setting. The stability in the finite approximation, and formal Liapunov stability or instability are proved, depending on the Hamiltonian's coefficients.     

Stability of nonlinear viscoelastic systems under stochastic excitation

The dynamic behaviour of viscoelastic system with due account of finite deflections but under condition of small strains is described by the system of nonlinear integro-differential equations. On an example of a thin plate subjected to loads, which are assumed as random wide-band stationary noises and applied in the plate plane, the stability of nonlinear systems is considered. The stability in a case of finite deflections of the plate is considered as stability with respect to statistical moments of perturbations and almost sure stability. For the solution of the problem, a numerical method is offered, which is based on the statistical simulation of input stochastic stationary processes, which are assumed in the form of Gaussian ”colored” noises, and on the numerical solution of integro-differential or differential equations. The conclusion about the stability of the considered system is made on the basis of Lyapunov exponents. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Periodic motions of a reversible second-order mechanical system: Application to the Sitnikov problem

A theory of the symmetric periodic motions (SPMs) of a reversible second-order system is presented which covers both oscillations and rotations. The structural stability property of the generating autonomous reversible system, which lies in the fact that the presence or absence of SPMs in a perturbed system is independent of the actual form of the “reversible” perturbations, is established. Both the case of the generation of SPMs from the family of SPMs of the generating system and birth cycle from the equilibrium state are investigated. Criteria of Lyapunov stability in a non-degenerate situation are obtained for the SPMs which are generated (in case of small values of the parameter). A method is proposed for constructing and investigating the Lyapunov stability of all the SPMs. The conditions for the existence of a cycle (symmetric and asymmetric) in the neighbourhood of a support “almost” resonance SPM are established for all cases of resonances. The theoretical results are applied to a study of the motion of a particle along a straight line which passes through the centre of mass of the system perpendicular to the plane of the identical attracting and simultaneously radiating main bodies (an extension of the Sitnikov problem) in the photogravitational version of the three-body problem. The circular problem is analysed and two different series of families of SPMs are found in the weakly elliptic problem. The instability of the equilibrium state is proved in the case of parametric resonance and the stability (and instability) domains are distinguished for arbitrary values of the eccentricity. All the SPMs with a period of 2π are constructed and the property of Lyapunov stability is investigated for these motions.     

The Ziegler effect in a non-conservative mechanical system

The destabilization of the stable equilibrium of a non-conservative system under the action of an infinitesimal linear viscous friction force is considered. In the case of low friction, the necessary and sufficient conditions for stability of a system with several degrees of freedom and, as a consequence, the conditions for the existence of the destabilization effect (Ziegler's effect) are obtained. Criteria for the stability of the equilibrium of a system with two degrees of freedom, in which the friction forces take arbitrary values, are constructed. The results of the investigation are applied to the problem of the stability of a two-link mechanism on a plane, and the stability regions and Ziegler's areas are constructed in the parameoter space of the problem.     

Dwell-time stability and stabilization conditions for linear positive impulsive and switched systems

Several results regarding the stability and the stabilization of linear impulsive positive systems under arbitrary, constant, minimum, maximum and range dwell-time are obtained. The proposed stability conditions characterize the pointwise decrease of a linear copositive Lyapunov function and are formulated in terms of finite-dimensional or semi-infinite linear programs. To be applicable to uncertain systems and to control design, a lifting approach introducing a clock-variable is then considered in order to make the conditions affine in the matrices of the system. The resulting stability and stabilization conditions are stated as infinite-dimensional linear programs for which three asymptotically exact computational methods are proposed and compared with each other on numerical examples. Similar results are then obtained for linear positive switched systems by exploiting the possibility of reformulating a switched system as an impulsive system. Some existing stability conditions are retrieved and extended to stabilization using the proposed lifting approach. Several examples are finally given for illustration.     

Nonlinear electrohydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz and Marangoni instabilities near the marginal state

The effects of surface tension and adsorption on the electrohydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability are studied. The system is stressed by a normal electric field such that it allows for the presence of surface charges at the interface. The method used is that of multiple scales. The nonlinear Schrödinger equation describing the behavior of the disturbed system is derived. The stability of the perturbed system is discussed both analytically and numerically and the stability diagrams are obtained. At the critical point, a generalized formulation of the evolution equation is developed, which leads to the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation. The various stability criteria are derived from this equation.     

Mathematical model of hematopoiesis dynamics with growth factor-dependent apoptosis and proliferation regulations

We consider a nonlinear mathematical model of hematopoietic stem cell dynamics, in which proliferation and apoptosis are controlled by growth factor concentrations. Cell proliferation is positively regulated, while apoptosis is negatively regulated. The resulting age-structured model is reduced to a system of three differential equations, with three independent delays, and existence of steady states is investigated. The stability of the trivial steady state, describing cells dying out with a saturation of growth factor concentrations is proven to be asymptotically stable when it is the only equilibrium. The stability analysis of the unique positive steady state allows the determination of a stability area, and shows that instability may occur through a Hopf bifurcation, mainly as a destabilization of the proliferative capacity control, when cell cycle durations are very short. Numerical simulations are carried out and result in a stability diagram that stresses the lead role of the introduction rate compared to the apoptosis rate in the system stability.     

Stability analysis of nonlinear ship-roll dynamics under wind and wave

Considering the nonlinear damping and restoring moments, a nonlinear ship rolling dynamical system is established in this paper. When only subjected to periodic wave excitation, the system is symmetric, whereas when subjected to joint action of periodic wave excitation and crosswind, the system degenerates into asymmetric. The simple zero points of Melnikov function in both two kinds of dynamical systems are computed by virtue of Gauss–Legendre integration. As a numerical verification of the threshold value, Lyapunov exponents are computed. In the end of the paper, the motion stability and the effect of crosswind on stability are analyzed by means of safe basin simulation and observation of its gradual erosion phenomenon. The study shows that crosswind results in symmetry breaking and further reduces the stability of the rolling system.     

Nonlinear electrohydrodynamic instability of a finitely conducting cylinder: Effect of interfacial surface charges

The nonlinear electrohydrodynamic stability of cylindrical interface, supporting surface charge, among two conducting fluids is investigated. The two fluids are subjected to a radial electric field. The analysis based on the multiple scale technique. It is shown that the evolution of the amplitude is governed by two partial differential equations. These equations are combined to yield two alternate Schrödinger equations with cubic nonlinearity. One of which calculates the nonlinear cutoff electric field, separating stable and unstable disturbances, while the other is used to analyze the stability of the system. The stability criteria are analytically discussed and numerically confirmed. Numerical calculations resulted in set of graphs to indicate the stability picture of the considered system.