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Nonlinear internal models for output regulation
In this paper we show how nonlinear internal models can be effectively used
in the design of output regulators for nonlinear systems. This result provides
a significant enhancement of the non-equilibrium theory for output regulation,
which we have presented in the recent paper entitled "Limit Sets, Zero
Dynamics, and Internal Models in the Problem of Nonlinear Output Regulation"
Robust Asymptotic Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems with Non-Hyperbolic Zero Dynamics
In this paper we present a general tool to handle the presence of zero
dynamics which are asymptotically but not locally exponentially stable in
problems of robust nonlinear stabilization by output feedback. We show how it
is possible to design locally Lipschitz stabilizers under conditions which only
rely upon a partial detectability assumption on the controlled plant, by
obtaining a robust stabilizing paradigm which is not based on design of
observers and separation principles. The main design idea comes from recent
achievements in the field of output regulation and specifically in the design
of nonlinear internal models.Comment: 30 pages. Preliminary versions accepted at the 47th IEEE Conference
on Decision and Control, 200
Remote Tracking via Encoded Information for Nonlinear Systems
The problem addressed in this paper is to control a plant so as to have its
output tracking (a family of) reference commands generated at a remote location
and transmitted through a communication channel of finite capacity. The
uncertainty due to the presence of the communication channel is counteracted by
a suitable choice of the parameters of the regulator
Structural Analysis and Control of a Model of Two-site Electricity and Heat Supply
This paper introduces a control problem of regulation of energy flows in a
two-site electricity and heat supply system, where two Combined Heat and Power
(CHP) plants are interconnected via electricity and heat flows. The control
problem is motivated by recent development of fast operation of CHP plants to
provide ancillary services of power system on the order of tens of seconds to
minutes. Due to the physical constraint that the responses of the heat
subsystem are not necessary as fast as those of the electric subsystem, the
target controlled state is not represented by any isolated equilibrium point,
implying that stability of the system is lost in the long-term sense on the
order of hours. In this paper, we first prove in the context of nonlinear
control theory that the state-space model of the two-site system is non-minimum
phase due to nonexistence of isolated equilibrium points of the associated zero
dynamics.Instead, we locate a one-dimensional invariant manifold that
represents the target controlled flows completely. Then, by utilizing a virtual
output under which the state-space model becomes minimum phase, we synthesize a
controller that achieves not only the regulation of energy flows in the
short-term regime but also stabilization of an equilibrium point in the
long-term regime. Effectiveness of the synthesized controller is established
with numerical simulations with a practical set of model parameters
Necessary Conditions for Output Regulation with Exosystem Modelled by Differential Inclusions
The problem of output regulation has always been tackled in frameworks in which the references to be tracked and the disturbances to be rejected are generated by an autonomous differential equation, referred to as the exosystem. This assumption, that is routinely used in the design of asymptotic regulators, plays also a fundamental role in the formulation of the regulation problem and in the definition of the basic concepts such as the steady state and the zero dynamics of nonlinear systems. In this paper we show that the concepts of steady state, zero dynamics and the output regulation problem can be equivalently defined in a framework in which the exosystem is generated by a differential inclusion
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