Field-weakening nonlinear control of a separately excited DC motor.
Finite difference approximation of control via the potential in a 1-D Schrödinger equation.
Finite element-based observer design for nonlinear systems with delayed measurements
This paper presents a computational procedure for the design of an observer of a nonlinear system. Outputs can be delayed, however, this delay must be known and constant. The characteristic feature of the design procedure is computation of a solution of a partial differential equation. This equation is solved using the finite element method. Conditions under which existence of a solution is guaranteed are derived. These are formulated by means of theory of partial differential equations in -space....
Finite horizon nonlinear predictive control by the Taylor approximation application to robot tracking trajectory
In industrial control systems, practical interest is driven by the fact that today's processes need to be operated under tighter performance specifications. Often these demands can only be met when process nonlinearities are explicitly considered in the controller. Nonlinear predictive control, the extension of well-established linear predictive control to nonlinear systems, appears to be a well-suited approach for this kind of problems. In this paper, an optimal nonlinear predictive control structure,...
Finite settling time stabilisation of a family of discrete-time systems
Finite time stability and relative controllability of second order linear differential systems with pure delay
We first consider the finite time stability of second order linear differential systems with pure delay via giving a number of properties of delayed matrix functions. We secondly give sufficient and necessary conditions to examine that a linear delay system is relatively controllable. Further, we apply the fixed-point theorem to derive a relatively controllable result for a semilinear system. Finally, some examples are presented to illustrate the validity of the main theorems.
Finite-dimensional control of nonlinear parabolic PDE systems with time-dependent spatial domains using empirical eigenfunctions
This article presents a methodology for the synthesis of finite-dimensional nonlinear output feedback controllers for nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) systems with time-dependent spatial domains. Initially, the nonlinear parabolic PDE system is expressed with respect to an appropriate time-invariant spatial coordinate, and a representative (with respect to different initial conditions and input perturbations) ensemble of solutions of the resulting time-varying PDE system is...
Finite-time adaptive outer synchronization between two complex dynamical networks with nonidentical topological structures
In this paper, we investigate the finite-time adaptive outer synchronization between two complex dynamical networks with nonidentical topological structures. We propose new adaptive controllers, with which we can synchronize two complex dynamical networks within finite time. Sufficient conditions for the finite-time adaptive outer synchronization are derived based on the finite-time stability theory. Finally, numerical examples are examined to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the...
Finite-time boundedness and stabilization of switched linear systems
In this paper, finite-time boundedness and stabilization problems for a class of switched linear systems with time-varying exogenous disturbances are studied. Firstly, the concepts of finite-time stability and finite-time boundedness are extended to switched linear systems. Then, based on matrix inequalities, some sufficient conditions under which the switched linear systems are finite-time bounded and uniformly finite-time bounded are given. Moreover, to solve the finite-time stabilization problem,...
Finite-time cooperative tracking control for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems
The problem of finite-time cooperative tracking control for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems is studied in this paper. The agent dynamic is described by a second-order nonlinear system with uncertain time-varying control coefficients and unknown nonlinear perturbations. Based on the finite-time control technique and graph theory, a class of distributed finite-time control laws are proposed which are only based on the neighbors' information. Under the proposed controller, it...
Finite-time observability of probabilistic Boolean multiplex control networks
This paper investigates the finite-time observability of probabilistic Boolean multiplex control networks (PBMCNs). Firstly, the finite-time observability of the PBMCNs is converted into the set reachability issue according to the parallel interconnection technique (a minor modification of the weighted pair graph method in the literature). Secondly, the necessary and sufficient condition for the finite-time observability of PBMCNs is presented based on the set reachability. Finally, the main conclusions...
Finite-time synchronization of chaotic systems with noise perturbation
In this paper, we investigate the finite-time stochastic synchronization problem of two chaotic systems with noise perturbation. We propose new adaptive controllers, with which we can synchronize two chaotic systems in finite time. Sufficient conditions for the finite-time stochastic synchronization are derived based on the finite-time stability theory of stochastic differential equations. Finally, some numerical examples are examined to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the theoretical...
First applications of the Orbex coprocessor: Control of unmanned vehicles.
The ORBEX coprocessor has been designed to execute the typical fuzzy operations of a system based on fuzzy rules. The first real application has been fuzzy controllers for electric cars. The values of the input variables, the position and the orientation of the car with respect the desired trajectory of reference, are obtained from the data provided by a DGPS boarded in the vehicle. The values of the output variables provided by the controller are the angle that the steering wheel has to be turned...
Fitting traffic traces with discrete canonical phase type distributions and markov arrival processes
Flat outputs of two-input driftless control systems
We study the problem of flatness of two-input driftless control systems. Although a characterization of flat systems of that class is known, the problems of describing all flat outputs and of calculating them is open and we solve it in the paper. We show that all x-flat outputs are parameterized by an arbitrary function of three canonically defined variables. We also construct a system of 1st order PDE’s whose solutions give all x-flat outputs of two-input driftless systems. We illustrate our results...
Flat outputs of two-input driftless control systems
We study the problem of flatness of two-input driftless control systems. Although a characterization of flat systems of that class is known, the problems of describing all flat outputs and of calculating them is open and we solve it in the paper. We show that all x-flat outputs are parameterized by an arbitrary function of three canonically defined variables. We also construct a system of 1st order PDE’s whose solutions give all x-flat outputs of...
Flat outputs of two-input driftless control systems
We study the problem of flatness of two-input driftless control systems. Although a characterization of flat systems of that class is known, the problems of describing all flat outputs and of calculating them is open and we solve it in the paper. We show that all x-flat outputs are parameterized by an arbitrary function of three canonically defined variables. We also construct a system of 1st order PDE’s whose solutions give all x-flat outputs of...
Flexible architecture for command integration with context representation.
Flocking analysis for a generalized Motsch-Tadmor model with piecewise interaction functions and processing delays
In this paper, a generalized Motsch-Tadmor model with piecewise interaction functions and fixed processing delays is investigated. According to functional differential equation theory and correlation properties of the stochastic matrix, we obtained sufficient conditions for the system achieving flocking, including an upper bound of the time delay parameter. When the parameter is less than the upper bound, the system achieves asymptotic flocking under appropriate assumptions.
Flocking control of multi-agent systems with application to nonholonomic multi-robots
In this paper, we revisit the artificial potential based approach in the flocking control for multi-agent systems, where our main concerns are migration and trajectory tracking problems. The static destination or, more generally, the moving reference point is modeled by a virtual leader, whose information is utilized by some agents, called active agents (AA), for the controller design. We study a decentralized flocking controller for the case where the set of AAs is fixed. Some results on the velocity...