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Performance-based control system design automation via evolutionary computing
This paper develops an evolutionary algorithm (EA) based methodology for computer-aided control system design (CACSD)
automation in both the time and frequency domains under performance satisfactions. The approach is automated by efficient
evolution from plant step response data, bypassing the system identification or linearization stage as required by conventional
designs. Intelligently guided by the evolutionary optimization, control engineers are able to obtain a near-optimal ‘‘off-thecomputer’’
controller by feeding the developed CACSD system with plant I/O data and customer specifications without the need of
a differentiable performance index. A speedup of near-linear pipelineability is also observed for the EA parallelism implemented on
a network of transputers of Parsytec SuperCluster. Validation results against linear and nonlinear physical plants are convincing,
with good closed-loop performance and robustness in the presence of practical constraints and perturbations
An Overview of Integral Quadratic Constraints for Delayed Nonlinear and Parameter-Varying Systems
A general framework is presented for analyzing the stability and performance
of nonlinear and linear parameter varying (LPV) time delayed systems. First,
the input/output behavior of the time delay operator is bounded in the
frequency domain by integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). A constant delay is
a linear, time-invariant system and this leads to a simple, intuitive
interpretation for these frequency domain constraints. This simple
interpretation is used to derive new IQCs for both constant and varying delays.
Second, the performance of nonlinear and LPV delayed systems is bounded using
dissipation inequalities that incorporate IQCs. This step makes use of recent
results that show, under mild technical conditions, that an IQC has an
equivalent representation as a finite-horizon time-domain constraint. Numerical
examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method for both
class of systems
Automating control system design via a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm
This chapter presents a performance-prioritized computer aided control system design (CACSD) methodology using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. The evolutionary CACSD approach unifies different control laws in both the time and frequency domains based upon performance satisfactions, without the need of aggregating different design criteria into a compromise function. It is shown that control engineers' expertise as well as settings on goal or priority for different preference on each performance requirement can be easily included and modified on-line according to the evolving trade-offs, which makes the controller design interactive, transparent and simple for real-time implementation. Advantages of the evolutionary CACSD methodology are illustrated upon a non-minimal phase plant control system, which offer a set of low-order Pareto optimal controllers satisfying all the conflicting performance requirements in the face of system constraints
Process operating mode monitoring : switching online the right controller
This paper presents a structure which deals with
process operating mode monitoring and allows the control law reconfiguration
by switching online the right controller. After a short
review of the advances in switching based control systems during
the last decade, we introduce our approach based on the definition
of operating modes of a plant. The control reconfiguration
strategy is achieved by online selection of an adequate controller,
in a case of active accommodation. The main contribution lies
in settling up the design steps of the multicontroller structure
and its accurate integration in the operating mode detection and
accommodation loop. Simulation results show the effectiveness
of the operating mode detection and accommodation (OMDA)
structure for which the design steps propose a method to study the
asymptotic stability, switching performances improvement, and
the tuning of the multimodel based detector
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