A New Approach to $H_{\infty}$ Filter Design for Systems With Time-Varying State Delay

The robust passivity synthesis problem is addressed for a class of uncertain delayed systems with time-varying delays in both state and control input. The parameter uncertainties are norm-bounded and allowed to appear in all the matrices of the model. The problem aims at designing an observer-based dynamic controller that renders the closed-loop systems strongly robustly stable with strictly passive for all admissible uncertainties, dependently of the maximum of delay derivative. By converting the problem at present into a class of strongly stable with strictly passive control problem for some parameterized systems equivalently, the explicit solution is established and expressed in terms of a linear matrix inequality.

This paper establishes a framework for stability analysis and memoryless state-feedback control synthesis of linear discrete-time systems with time varying state delay. The underlying idea is converting the considered system into an equivalent constrained switched system, leading to sufficient and necessary condition for stability analysis. Based on this switched system modeling, available information about the time-varying delay such as known bounds of variation rate can be incorporated into the analysis in a natural way. Moreover, sufficient conditions for memoryless state-feedback control design are obtained in a similar style. The analysis and synthesis conditions are given in terms of solvability of a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Numerical examples are included for illustration.

This paper considers the design problems of a delay-dependent robust and non-fragile guaranteed cost controller for singular systems with parameter uncertainties and time-varying delays in state and control input. The designed controller, under the possibility of feedback gain variations, can guarantee that a closed-loop system is regular, impulse-free, stable, an upper bound of guaranteed cost function, and non-fragility in spite of parameter uncertainties, time-varying delays, and controller fragility. The existence condition of the controller, the controller’s design method, the upper bound of guaranteed cost function, and the measure of non-fragility in the controller are proposed using the linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness and less conservatism of the proposed design method.

In this article, the adaptive consensus tracking control is developed for uncertain multiagent systems with time-varying state delay in the case that leader's state is accessible at sampling instants. By proposing a distributed sampled observer with hybrid form, adaptive tracking controller with the complementary term is designed for first-order multiagent systems, and then is extended to high-order multiagent systems with the aid of dynamic surface control. Through the complementary term, the effects of parameter estimation error as well as dynamical terms with time-varying delays are eliminated and thus less conservative condition on time delays is required. It is proved that, under criteria in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), tracking error and estimation error exponentially converge to zero for first-order systems, and to a sufficiently small neighborhood of zero for high-order systems.

This paper considers the dynamic anti-windup design problem for linear systems with time-varying state delay, input saturations and external disturbances. A dynamic anti-windup compensator is first designed that is dependent on the upper bound of the time-varying delay. Then, using an augmented Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, a distributed-delay-dependent sector condition, some advanced inequalities and some congruence transformations, sufficient conditions are established under which the state trajectories of the closed-loop systems are bounded and meanwhile, the performance can be guaranteed. The anti-windup compensator gain can be explicitly solved by means of linear matrix inequalities. For the case of constant delay, the corresponding result is also presented. Finally, two numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed results.

A robust controller is developed for uncertain, second-order nonlinear\nsystems subject to simultaneous unknown, time-varying state delays and known,\ntime-varying input delays in addition to additive, sufficiently smooth\ndisturbances. An integral term composed of previous control values facilitates\na delay-free open-loop error system and the development of the feedback control\nstructure. A stability analysis based on Lyapunov-Krasovskii (LK) functionals\nguarantees uniformly ultimately bounded tracking under the assumption that the\ndelays are bounded and slowly varying.\n

This paper examines the delay-dependent H-infinity control problem for discrete-time linear systems with time-varying state delays and norm-bounded uncertainties. A new inequality for the finite sum of quadratic terms is first established. Then, some new delay-dependent criteria are derived by employing the new inequality to guarantee the robust stability of a closed-loop system with a prescribed H-infinity norm bound for all admissible uncertainties and bounded time-vary delays. A numerical example demonstrates that the proposed method is an improvement over existing ones.

Teleoperation is a human control system enabling humans to interact with the remote environment through a dual robot system which includes a master robot and a slave robot operating in two different places. Wave variables and scattering approaches were proposed in [1],[2] with constant time delay, [3],[4] with varying time delays. This paper develops them based on different wave variables and new passivity control to guarantee the stability of the whole system against varying time delays without assumption that absolute derivative of time delays is smaller than one. The validity of the control law is based on passivity theory. In addition, force controller design is considered for increasing transparency of system. The simulation results demonstrate the good performance of the proposed controller for position synchronization.

Designing delay-dependent functional observers for LTI systems with multiple known time-varying state delays and unknown time-varying input delays is studied. The input delays are arbitrary, but the state delays should be upper-bounded. In addition, two scenarios of slow-varying and fast-varying state delays are investigated. The results of the paper can also be considered as one of the first contributions considering unknown-input functional observer design for linear systems with multiple time-varying state delays. Based on the Lyapunov Krasovskii approach, delay-dependent sufficient conditions of the exponential stability of the observer in each scenario are established in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Because of using effective techniques, such as the descriptor transformation and an advanced weighted integral inequality, the proposed stability criteria can result in larger stability regions compared with the other papers that study functional observers for time-varying delay systems. Furthermore, to help with the design procedure, a genetic algorithm-based scheme is proposed to adjust a weighting matrix in the established linear matrix inequalities. Two numerical examples illustrate the design procedure and demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed observer in each scenario. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This paper revisits the problem of delay-dependent robust H <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">infin</sub> filtering design for a class of continuous-time polytopic linear systems with a time-varying state delay. Based on a delay and parameter-dependent Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional combined with Projection Lemma, a new sufficient condition for robust H <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">infin</sub> performance analysis is firstly derived and then the filter synthesis is developed by using a novel matrix linearization technique. It is shown that the desired filters can be constructed by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, a numerical example is given to show the effectiveness and less conservatism of the proposed method in comparison with the existing approaches.

Discrete bilinear stochastic systems with time-varying delay: Stability analysis and control synthesis

This paper is focused on the problem of delay-dependent robust stability and H <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">∞</inf> control problems for discrete-time switched systems. By constructing a novel switched Lyapunov functional, an improved time-varying stability criterion is obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Based on this, robust stabilization and H <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">∞</inf> control problems are solved for discrete-time switched systems with time-varying state delays. Two examples are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the results.

This paper proposes a discrete-time sliding mode control (DT-SMC) algorithm for uncertain linear systems with time-varying delay on the state. The parameter uncertainties and the external disturbances are assumed to be unknown but norm-bounded. The sliding mode existence depends on that of the stable linear sliding surface, which is ensured by a sufficient condition that depends on the delay bounds and is derived using LMI. A numerical example as well as an application to the Two-Area Four-Machine power system has been presented to illustrate and confirm the usefulness and the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

This paper is devoted to the problems of non-fragile H∞ and L2–L∞ control for a class of linear systems with time-varying state delay. The purpose is to design a dynamic output feedback controller with additive gain variations such that the closed-loop system is asymptotically stable while satisfying a prescribed H∞ (or L2–L∞) performance level. By using linear matrix inequality approach, a delay-dependent stability criterion is obtained by introducing a new type of Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional. Based on the obtained criterion, sufficient conditions for the existence of desired controllers are derived, and the corresponding stabilisation dynamic output feedback controller design algorithm is proposed. Numerical examples are included to illustrate the benefit and effectiveness of the proposed method.

This paper is concerned with the problem of robust ${H}_{\infty}$ control of an uncertain discrete-time Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy system with an interval-like time-varying delay. A novel finite-sum inequality-based method is proposed to provide a tighter estimation on the forward difference of certain Lyapunov functional, leading to a less conservative result. First, an auxiliary vector function is used to establish two finite-sum inequalities, which can produce tighter bounds for the finite-sum terms appearing in the forward difference of the Lyapunov functional. Second, a matrix-based quadratic convex approach is employed to equivalently convert the original matrix inequality including a quadratic polynomial on the time-varying delay into two boundary matrix inequalities, which delivers a less conservative bounded real lemma (BRL) for the resultant closed-loop system. Third, based on the BRL, a novel sufficient condition on the existence of suitable robust ${H}_{\infty}$ fuzzy controllers is derived. Finally, two numerical examples and a computer-simulated truck-trailer system are provided to show the effectiveness of the obtained results.