Reliable Output-Feedback Control for Markovian Jump Descriptor Systems with Sensor Failure and Actuator Saturation

This paper considers linear systems subject to sensor and actuator saturations, for which a dynamic output feedback controller has been a priori designed. The effects of unmodeled dynamics appearing as additive uncertainties are studied with respect to the regional (local) stability of the closed-loop system. Constructive conditions based on matrix inequalities, or at least linear matrix inequalities (LMI) are proposed in order to minimize the influence of these unmodeled dynamics on both the estimate of the closed-loop system basin of attraction and on the performance.

In this paper, the $\boldsymbol{L}_{\infty}$ control synthesis problem for linear systems subject to actuator saturation and persistent bounded disturbance is studied. An $\boldsymbol{L}_{\infty}$ dynamic output feedback controller, an anti-windup compensator and an event generator are simultaneously designed. First, by using the quadratic Lyapunov function technique, a sufficient condition on the existence of the $\boldsymbol{L}_{\infty}$ dynamic output feedback controller, an anti-windup compensator and an event generator is established via linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Such an integrated controller is able to guarantee the regional stabilization and the $\boldsymbol{L}_{\infty}$ performance of linear systems with actuator saturation and external persistent bounded disturbance. Second, novel algorithms are developed to optimize the upper bound on the $\boldsymbol{L}_{\infty}$ performance, the event-triggered threshold and the domain of attraction. Moreover, an output-based event-triggered mechanism applying to the anti-windup dynamic output feedback control design is provided, which reduces the number of control actuation updates and information transmission with respect to the traditional time-triggered control scheme.

This paper is concerned with analyzing a novel model transformation of discrete-time Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems with time-varying delays and applying it to dynamic output feedback (DOF) controller design. A new auxiliary model is proposed by employing a new approximation for time-varying delay state, and then delay partitioning method is used to analyze the scaled small gain of this auxiliary model. A sufficient condition on discrete-time T-S fuzzy systems with time-varying delays, which guarantees the corresponding closed-loop system to be asymptotically stable and has an induced l 2 disturbance attenuation performance, is derived by employing the scaled small gain theorem. Then the solvability condition for the induced l 2 DOF control is also established, by which the DOF controller can be found by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs).

SummaryIn this paper, a distributed output feedback model predictive control (OFMPC) algorithm is presented for the polytopic uncertain system subject to randomly occurring actuator saturation and packet loss. Compared with the intensively applied state feedback control in MPC, the OFMPC is more feasible to the real world because the system states are often unmeasurable. With taking both actuator saturation and packet loss into account, the presented OFMPC algorithm is more practical. Moreover, by splitting the controller inputs into two independent parts, the presented dynamic output feedback control (DOFC) strategy provides more freedom to the controller design. With the global system decomposed into some subsystems, the computation complexity is reduced, thus the online designing time can be saved. By defining the estimation error function and forming an augmented system to handle the DOFC and by transforming the nonlinear feedback law into a convex hull of linear feedback laws, the distributed controllers are obtained by solving a linear matrix inequality (LMI) optimization problem. Finally, some simulation examples are employed to show the effectiveness of the techniques proposed in this paper. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The goal of this paper is to describe an active decentralized fault-tolerant control (ADFTC) strategy based on dynamic output feedback for reconfigurable manipulators with concurrent actuator and sensor failures. Consider each joint module of the reconfigurable manipulator as a subsystem, and treat the fault as the unknown input of the subsystem. Firstly, by virtue of linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique, the decentralized proportional-integral observer (DPIO) is designed to estimate and compensate the sensor fault online; hereafter, the compensated system model could be derived. Then, the actuator fault is estimated similarly by another DPIO using LMI as well, and the sufficient condition of the existence ofH∞fault-tolerant controller in the dynamic output feedback is presented for the compensated system model. Furthermore, the dynamic output feedback controller is presented based on the estimation of actuator fault to realize active fault-tolerant control. Finally, two 3-DOF reconfigurable manipulators with different configurations are employed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in simulation. The main advantages of the proposed scheme lie in that it can handle the concurrent faults act on the actuator and sensor on the same joint module, as well as there is no requirement of fault detection and isolation process; moreover, it is more feasible to the modularity of the reconfigurable manipulator.

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This study addresses the control of linear systems subject to both sensor and actuator saturations and additive ℒ2-bounded disturbances. Supposing that only the output of the linear plant is measurable, the synthesis of stabilising output feedback dynamic controllers, allowing to ensure the internal closed-loop stability and the finite ℒ2-gain stabilisation, is considered. In this case, it is shown that the closed-loop system presents a nested saturation term. Therefore, based on the use of some modified sector conditions and appropriate variable changes, synthesis conditions in a ‘quasi’- linear matrix inequality (LMI) form are stated in both regional (local) as well as global stability contexts. Different LMI-based optimisation problems for computing a controller in order to maximise the disturbance tolerance, the disturbance rejection or the region of stability of the closed-loop system are proposed.

This note investigates the problem of output feedback H∞ control for linear discrete-time systems. Three types of H∞ controllers are considered, namely, static output feedback controllers, dynamic output feedback controllers, and observer-based output feedback controllers. New design conditions for the three type of output feedback controllers are introduced in terms of unified linear matrix inequality (LMI) representations, which guarantee the prescribed H∞ performances of the closed-loop systems. In contrast to the existing LMI conditions for designing the output feedback H∞ controllers, the improvement of the proposed results over the existing ones is shown by theoretical proof and numerical example.

This paper considers the design problem of dynamic output feedback control for fractional-order (FO) Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems with uncertain parameters. Via the application of FO system stability theory, robust control method and the linear matrix inequality techniques, sufficient conditions are given for the stability analysis and the existence of the dynamic fuzzy output feedback controllers. The dynamic output feedback controller designed here guarantees the robust stability of the closed-loop system. Finally, a fractional order chaotic system simulation example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the design approach here.

Magnetorheological fluid (MRF) dampers have been utilized in semi-active air suspension (SAAS) due to their attractive advantages. This paper investigates a novel robust fuzzy output feedback controller for semi-active air suspension with MRF damper (SAAS-MRFD), considering time delay and actuator saturation. An aero-thermodynamics theory is first utilized to describe the nonlinear air spring. The damping force of the MRF damper is represented by a hyperbolic tangent model. The interval type-2 (IT-2) Takagi–Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy method is second employed to capture those nonlinearities of the air spring and MRF damper. Considering the difficulty to measure all states, a novel dynamic output feedback (DOF) controller is developed by an appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii function and the reciprocally convex technique with consideration of time delay, actuator saturation, and output constraints. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is validated by both simulation and a quarter-car test rig (QCTR). The results indicate that the proposed controller has better performance in vibration reduction than the recent similar controllers in the literature.

This paper presents a systematic approach to design observer-based output feedback controllers for hybrid dynamical systems arising from bipedal walking. We consider a class of parameterized observer-based output feedback controllers for local exponential stabilization of hybrid periodic orbits. The properties of the Poincare map are investigated to show that the Jacobian linearization of the Poincare map takes a triangular form. This demonstrates the nonlinear separation principle for periodic orbits. In particular, the exponential stabilization of hybrid periodic orbits under dynamic output feedback control can be achieved by solving separate eigenvalue placement problems for the nonlinear state feedback and the observer. The paper then solves the state feedback and observer design problems by employing an iterative algorithm based on a sequence of optimization problems involving bilinear and linear matrix inequalities. The theoretical results are confirmed by designing a nonlinear observer-based output feedback controller for underactuated walking of a 3D humanoid model with 18 state variables, 54 state feedback parameters, and 271 observer parameters.

This thesis is concerned with the dissipative control and filtering problems of singular systems. Four classes of singular systems are considered: delay-free singular systems, singular systems with constant time-delay, uncertain singular systems with time-varying delay and sensor failures, and singular Markovian jump systems with actuator failures.
\nFor delay-free singular systems, the system augmentation approach is employed to study the dissipative control and filtering problems. First, the approach is used to solve the dissipative control problem by static output-feedback for standard state-space systems which are the special cases of singular systems. For a continuous-time standard state-space system, the closed-loop system is represented in an augmented system form. Based on the augmented system, a necessary and sufficient dissipativity condition is proposed, which decouples the Lyapunov matrix and controller matrix. To further separate the Lyapunov matrix and the system matrices, an equivalent condition is obtained by introducing some slack matrices. Then, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a static output-feedback controller is proposed, and an iterative algorithm is given to solve the condition. For discrete-time singular systems, by giving an equivalent representation of the solution set, a necessary and sufficient dissipativity condition is proposed in terms of strict linear matrix inequality (LMI) which can be easily solved by standard commercial software. Then a state-feedback controller design method is given based on the augmentation system approach. The method is extended to the static output-feedback control problem and the reduced-order dissipative filtering problem.
\nFor continuous-time singular time-delay systems, the problem of state-feedback dissipative control is considered. An improved delay-dependent dissipativity condition in terms of LMIs is established by employing the delay-partitioning technique, which guarantees a singular system to be admissible and dissipative. Based on this, a delay-dependent sufficient condition for the existence of a state-feedback controller is proposed to guarantee the admissibility and dissipativity of the closed-loop system. In addition to delay-dependence, the obtained results are also dependent on the level of dissipativity. Moreover, the results obtained unify existing results on H∞ performance analysis and passivity analysis for singular systems.
\nFor discrete-time singular systems with polytopic uncertainties, time-varying delay and sensor failures, the problem of robust reliable dissipative filtering is considered. The filter is designed by the reciprocally convex approach such that the filtering error singular system is admissible and strictly (Q, S, R)-dissipative. For singular systems with time-varying delay and sensor failures, a sufficient condition of reliable dissipative analysis is obtained in terms of LMIs. Then the result is extended to the uncertain case by introducing some variables to decouple the Lyapunov matrices and the filtering error system matrices. Moreover, a desired filter for uncertain singular systems with time-varying delay and sensor failures is obtained by solving a set of LMIs.
\nFor continuous-time singular Markovian jump systems with actuator failures, the problem of reliable dissipative control is addressed. Attention is focused on the state-feedback controller design method such that the closed-loop system is admissible and strictly (Q, S, R)-dissipative. A sufficient condition is obtained in terms of strict LMIs. Moreover, the results obtained unify existing results on H∞control and passive control on singular Markovian jump systems.

In this paper, we study stability analysis and stabilization problems for a class of nonlinear two-dimensional (2-D) discrete systems with time-varying state delays, described by local state-space (LSS) Fornasini-Marchesini (FM) second model. The upper and lower bounds of time-varying state delays are positive integers and the nonlinearity satisfies Lipschitz condition. First, a stability criteria is proposed through introducing a new Lyapunov function. Then a dynamic output feedback controller is designed to assure the stability of nonlinear 2-D time-varying systems. Moreover, the output feedback system matrices can be obtained by solving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of our results.

The design of delay-dependent wide-area DOFC with prescribed degree of stability α for damping inter-area low-frequency oscillations in power system

A method for a constructive and fully automated design of a fuzzy gain-scheduler, which gives guarantees in terms of stability and prescribed performance, is presented. The properties are valid not only locally around an operating point, but globally inside a wide working range and without any restrictions to slowly varying scheduling variables. The design method is based on linear matrix inequality (LMI) techniques and includes an output feedback controller with a state-estimator. The dynamic output-feedback controller was applied to a real-world experiment of a liquid level control with a low-cost sensor having unmodeled nonlinear characteristics.