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High gain observer for structured multi-output nonlinear systems
In this note, we present two system structures that characterize classes of multi-input multi-output uniformly observable systems. The first structure is decomposable into a linear and a nonlinear part while the second takes a more general form. It is shown that the second system structure, being more general, contains several system structures that are available in the literature. Two high gain observer design methodologies are presented for both structures and their distinct features are highlighted
Global Stabilization of Triangular Systems with Time-Delayed Dynamic Input Perturbations
A control design approach is developed for a general class of uncertain
strict-feedback-like nonlinear systems with dynamic uncertain input
nonlinearities with time delays. The system structure considered in this paper
includes a nominal uncertain strict-feedback-like subsystem, the input signal
to which is generated by an uncertain nonlinear input unmodeled dynamics that
is driven by the entire system state (including unmeasured state variables) and
is also allowed to depend on time delayed versions of the system state variable
and control input signals. The system also includes additive uncertain
nonlinear functions, coupled nonlinear appended dynamics, and uncertain dynamic
input nonlinearities with time-varying uncertain time delays. The proposed
control design approach provides a globally stabilizing delay-independent
robust adaptive output-feedback dynamic controller based on a dual dynamic
high-gain scaling based structure.Comment: 2017 IEEE International Carpathian Control Conference (ICCC
Nonlinear Rescaling of Control Laws with Application to Stabilization in the Presence of Magnitude Saturation
Motivated by some recent results on the stabilization of homogeneous systems, we present a gain-scheduling approach for the stabilization of non-linear systems. Given
a one-parameter family of stabilizing feedbacks and associated Lyapunov functions, we show how the parameter can be rescaled as a function of the state to give a new
stabilizing controller. In the case of homogeneous systems, we obtain generalizations of some existing results. We show that this approach can also be applied to nonhomogeneous
systems. In particular, the main application considered in this paper is to the problem of stabilization with magnitude limitations. For this problem, we develop a design method for single-input controllable systems with eigenvalues in the left closed plane
Time Complexity of Decentralized Fixed-Mode Verification
Given an interconnected system, this note is concerned with the time complexity of verifying whether an unrepeated mode of the system is a decentralized fixed mode (DFM). It is shown that checking the decentralized fixedness of any distinct mode is tantamount to testing the strong connectivity of a digraph formed based on the system. It is subsequently proved that the time complexity of this decision problem using the proposed approach is the same as the complexity of matrix multiplication. This work concludes that the identification of distinct DFMs (by means of a deterministic algorithm, rather than a randomized one) is computationally very easy, although the existing algorithms for solving this problem would wrongly imply that it is cumbersome. This note provides not only a complexity analysis, but also an efficient algorithm for tackling the underlying problem
Discrete-Time Controllability for Feedback Quantum Dynamics
Controllability properties for discrete-time, Markovian quantum dynamics are
investigated. We find that, while in general the controlled system is not
finite-time controllable, feedback control allows for arbitrary asymptotic
state-to-state transitions. Under further assumption on the form of the
measurement, we show that finite-time controllability can be achieved in a time
that scales linearly with the dimension of the system, and we provide an
iterative procedure to design the unitary control actions
A power-based perspective of mechanical systems
This paper is concerned with the construction of a power-based modeling framework for a large class of mechanical systems. Mathematically this is formalized by proving that every standard mechanical system (with or without dissipation) can be written as a gradient vector field with respect to an indefinite metric. The form and existence of the corresponding potential function is shown to be the mechanical analogue of Brayton and Moser's mixed-potential function as originally derived for nonlinear electrical networks in the early sixties. In this way, several recently proposed analysis and control methods that use the mixed-potential function as a starting point can also be applied to mechanical systems.
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