Singular finite horizon full information control via reduced order Riccati equations
Singular fractional linear systems and electrical circuits
A new class of singular fractional linear systems and electrical circuits is introduced. Using the Caputo definition of the fractional derivative, the Weierstrass regular pencil decomposition and the Laplace transformation, the solution to the state equation of singular fractional linear systems is derived. It is shown that every electrical circuit is a singular fractional system if it contains at least one mesh consisting of branches only with an ideal supercapacitor and voltage sources or at least...
Singular Generalised Autunomous Linear Differential Systems
Singular perturbations for systems of differential inclusions
We study a system of two differential inclusions such that there is a singular perturbation in the second one. We state new convergence results of solutions under assumptions concerning contingent derivative of the perturbed inclusion. These results state that there exists at least one family of solutions which converges to some solution of the reduced system. We extend this result to perturbed systems with state constraints.
Singularities of optimal averaged profit for stationary strategies.
Singularities of stabilizing feedbacks.
Singularities of the stationary domain for polydynamical systems
Sixty years of cybernetics: a comparison of approaches to solving the control problem
The H2 control problem consists of stabilizing a control system while minimizing the H2 norm of its transfer function. Several solutions to this problem are available. For systems in state space form, an optimal regulator can be obtained by solving two algebraic Riccati equations. For systems described by transfer functions, either Wiener-Hopf optimization or projection results can be applied. The optimal regulator is then obtained using operations with proper stable rational matrices: inner-outer...
Sixty years of cybernetics: cybernetics still alive
This informal essay, written on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Wienerian cybernetics, presents a series of themes and ideas that has emerged during last several decades and which have direct or indirect relationships to the principal concepts of cybernetics. Moreover, they share with original cybernetics the same transdisciplinary character.
Sixty years of cybernetics: from youthful to useful
Sixty years of cybernetics: the philosophical foundations of cybernetics
Sliding mode control in the presence of delay
This paper provides an overview of recent results for relay-delay systems. In a first section, simple examples illustrate the problems induced by delays in the synthesis of sliding mode controllers. Then, a brief overview of the existing results shows the present advances and limits in this domain. The last parts of the paper are devoted to new results: first, for systems with state delay, then for systems with input delay.
Sliding mode control of a magnetic levitation system.
Sliding mode control of uncertain neutral stochastic systems with multiple delays.
Sliding mode controller-observer design for multivariable linear systems with unmatched uncertainty
This paper presents sufficient conditions for the sliding mode control of a system with disturbance input. The behaviour of the sliding dynamics in the presence of unmatched uncertainty is also studied. When a certain sufficient condition on the gain feedback matrix of the discontinuous controller and the disturbance bound holds, then the disturbance does not affect the sliding system. The design of asymptotically stable sliding observers for linear multivariable systems is presented. A sliding...
Sliding mode methods for fault detection and fault tolerant control with application to aerospace systems
Sliding mode methods have been historically studied because of their strong robustness properties with regard to a certain class of uncertainty, achieved by employing nonlinear control/injection signals to force the system trajectories to attain in finite time a motion along a surface in the state-space. This paper will consider how these ideas can be exploited for fault detection (specifically fault signal estimation) and subsequently fault tolerant control. It will also describe applications of...
Sliding mode observers and observability singularity in chaotic synchronization.
Sliding subspace design based on linear matrix inequalities
In this work, an alternative for sliding surface design based on linear and bilinear matrix inequalities is proposed. The methodology applies for reduced and integral sliding mode control, both continuous- and discrete-time; it takes advantage of the Finsler's lemma to provide a greater degree of freedom than existing approaches for sliding subspace design. The sliding surfaces thus constructed are systematically found via convex optimization techniques, which are efficiently implemented in commercially...
Sliding-mode pinning control of complex networks
In this paper, a novel approach for controlling complex networks is proposed; it applies sliding-mode pinning control for a complex network to achieve trajectory tracking. This control strategy does not require the network to have the same coupling strength on all edges; and for pinned nodes, the ones with the highest degree are selected. The illustrative example is composed of a network of 50 nodes; each node dynamics is a Chen chaotic attractor. Two cases are presented. For the first case the...
SMAC-FDI: A single model active fault detection and isolation system for unmanned aircraft
This article presents a single model active fault detection and isolation system (SMAC-FDI) which is designed to efficiently detect and isolate a faulty actuator in a system, such as a small (unmanned) aircraft. This FDI system is based on a single and simple aerodynamic model of an aircraft in order to generate some residuals, as soon as an actuator fault occurs. These residuals are used to trigger an active strategy based on artificial exciting signals that searches within the residuals for the...