Decentralized event-trigger-based predefined-time adaptive control of large-scale nonlinear systems

This paper proposes a novel adaptive synchronization approach for a class of nonlinear large-scale systems via T-S fuzzy model. It is known that the practical large-scale systems are very complicated with nonlinear coupling strength between every two subsystems, thus the classical linear control methods are invalid for them. To overcome this deficiency, we employ the T-S fuzzy model in this paper. Firstly, the local linearization approach is utilized to preprocess the nonlinear large-scale systems, and then, according to the universal approximation property of TS fuzzy model, a new system model is established. Secondly, the fuzzy adaptive synchronization controllers are designed by using Parallel Distributed Compensation technique and the corresponding stability analysis is presented through Lyapunov technique. In addition, a new criterion, under which the proposed control scheme can be transformed into pinning control and save unnecessary costs, is also given. Finally, a numerical simulation example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.

In this article, finite-time control is investigated for multiple time-delayed large-scale nonlinear systems against state and input constraints. There are multiple time-varying delays, intermittent actuator faults, and intermittent sensor faults in this model. Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model is used to describe the nonlinear system. There are few tries to studying finite-time control for large-scale nonlinear systems. First, a dynamic output feedback controller is designed in this article to make the system finite-time bounded. Then, an augmented closed-loop model is constructed. Sufficient conditions of finite-time control are given by the fuzzy Lyapunov function. Finally, the feasibility of the approach is verified by two simulation examples.

The optimal output tracking control problem for nonlinear large-scale dynamic systems is considered. A series-based approximate approach for designing the optimal controller is proposed with respect to quadratic performance indexes. By using the approach, the high order, coupling, nonlinear two-point boundary value problem is transformed into a sequence of linear decoupling two-point boundary value problems. By intercepting the frontal finite terms of the solution series, we obtained a suboptimal tracking control law. A simulation example illustrates the efficiency of the optimal output tracking control law designed.

In this paper, a novel cooperative constrained distributed model predictive control algorithm is proposed to control the nonlinear interconnected constrained large-scale systems. In this algorithm, a novel reduced-order cooperative optimisation approach is proposed which is its main contribution that reconstructs and improves the global cost function of any local controller. In proposed algorithm, each local controller computes its optimal control by minimising the corresponding global cost function which is a combination of its own and its neighbouring subsystems’ cost functions. The sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the recursive feasibility and closed-loop stability specifications to ensure the convergence of the overall states into the positive region which is the neighbourhood of origin. The performance of the proposed algorithm is illustrated via simulation results of a nonlinear large-scale cart-spring-damper system.

A globally stabilizing decentralized output-feedback controller is proposed for a general class of nonlinear interconnected large-scale systems. The subsystem interconnections and the dynamics of each subsystem feature both parametric and functional uncertainty. The controller design is based on a general high-gain scaling technique that utilizes arbitrary powers (instead of requiring successive powers) of the high-gain parameter with the powers chosen to satisfy certain inequalities depending on system nonlinearities. The scaling induces a weak-Cascading Upper Diagonal Dominance (w-CUDD) structure on the dynamics and allows relaxation of the cascading dominance assumption on upper diagonal terms. Disturbance attenuation properties of the proposed decentralized controller are also investigated.

Partitioned Based Cooperative Distributed Model Predictive Control for Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems

Adaptive neural decentralized output-feedback control for nonlinear large-scale systems with input time-varying delay and saturation

In this paper, a new decomposition–coordination framework is presented for two-level optimal control of large-scale nonlinear systems. In the proposed approach, decomposition is performed by defining an interaction vector, while coordination is based on a new interaction prediction approach. In the first level, sub-problems are solved for nonlinear dynamics using a gradient method, while in the second level, the coordination is done using the gradient of coordination errors. This is in contrast to the conventional gradient-type coordination schemes, where they use the gradient of Lagrangian function. It is shown that the proposed decomposition–coordination framework considerably reduces the number of iterations. Moreover, compared to the substitution-type coordination approaches which are well known for their fast convergence rates and limited convergence regions, the proposed approach is robust with respect to parameters’ variation in addition to its good convergence rate. The robustness and the convergence rate of the proposed approach in compare to the costate prediction method are shown through simulations of a benchmark problem. The results are also compared to the ones obtained using centralized approach.

In this article, a decentralized adaptive fault-tolerant control(FTC) scheme is proposed for a class of large-scale nonlinear systems with unknown time-varying parameters, actuator faults and unknown strong interconnections. Firstaccording to the fundamental traits of Gaussian function for the interconnection terms, the interference of interconnection terms to the system is eliminated effectively. Second, By employing command filter technique and adaptive neural control, the "singular" and "explosion of complex" problems in the backstepping procedure are circumvented. It is shown that all the closed-loop signals are bounded and the tracking errors converge to arbitrarily small residual sets. Finally, the effectiveness of decentralized adaptive fault-tolerant control scheme is demonstrated by simulation results.

Decentralized adaptive neural control of nonlinear interconnected large-scale systems with unknown time delays and input saturation

In this paper, we consider decentralized adaptive output-feedback control problem for a class of large-scale nonlinear systems, in which the nonlinear actions within subsystems and nonlinear interactions between subsystems contain unknown time delays, and need not satisfy the matching condition. A memoryless decentralized adaptive output-feedback controller is proposed, and global stability results of the closed-loop system are proved.

This paper presents a decentralized adaptive control design for a class of large-scale nonlinear systems with unknown subsystems. When the subsystems are modeled by affine equations, a direct adaptive controller is devised based on the Lyapunov theory, so that the stability of the closed-loop system is guaranteed by introducing a suitably driven adaptive rule. A neuro-based structure is proposed when the subsystems are nonaffine, and the stability analysis is also performed based on the Lyapunov theory. Moreover, the unknown interactions among the subsystems are considered as having a nonlinear function against the simple form considered for the affine case. The proposed controllers are employed in an inverted two-pendulum system, and their promising performances are illustrated.

Delay-dependent robust and reliable [formula omitted] fuzzy hyperbolic decentralized control for uncertain nonlinear interconnected systems

This paper considers the global optimal control for nonlinear interconnected large-scale systems with respect to linear quadratic functional. A successive approximation procedure is proposed to design the feedforward feedback nearly optimal control law. By introducing the Successive Approximation Approach of the nonlinear differential equation theory, a nonhomogeneous linear two-point boundary value problem sequence is constructed to approximate the nonlinear large-scale two-point boundary value problem, which is the necessary condition of the nonlinear control problem. By iteratively solving this nonhomogeneous linear approximating sequence, a global nearly optimal control law that composed of a linear closed-loop feedback compensatory term and an open-loop feedforward compensatory term is designed. An algorithm is presented to design certain qualified nearly optimal control law by truncating an infinite iteration result. An illustrative example shows the validity of the algorithm.

Adaptive fuzzy fault-tolerant decentralized control for uncertain nonlinear large-scale systems based on dynamic surface control technique