A review of convex approaches for control, observation and safety of linear parameter varying and Takagi-Sugeno systems

This paper provides a review about the concept of convex systems based on Takagi-Sugeno, linear parameter varying (LPV) and quasi-LPV modeling. These paradigms are capable of hiding the nonlinearities by means of an equivalent description which uses a set of linear models interpolated by appropriately defined weighing functions. Convex systems have become very popular since they allow applying extended linear techniques based on linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) to complex nonlinear systems. This survey aims at providing the reader with a significant overview of the existing LMI-based techniques for convex systems in the fields of control, observation and safety. Firstly, a detailed review of stability, feedback, tracking and model predictive control (MPC) convex controllers is considered. Secondly, the problem of state estimation is addressed through the design of proportional, proportional-integral, unknown input and descriptor observers. Finally, safety of convex systems is discussed by describing popular techniques for fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control (FTC).Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Fault tolerant control for nonlinear aircraft based on feedback linearization

The thesis concerns the fault tolerant flight control (FTFC) problem for nonlinear aircraft by making use of analytical redundancy. Considering initially fault-free flight, the feedback linearization theory plays an important role to provide a baseline control approach for de-coupling and stabilizing a non-linear statically unstable aircraft system. Then several reconfigurable control strategies are studied to provide further robust control performance:- A neural network (NN)-based adaption mechanism is used to develop reconfigurable FTFC performance through the combination of a concurrent updated learninglaw. - The combined feedback linearization and NN adaptor FTFC system is further improved through the use of a sliding mode control (SMC) strategy to enhance the convergence of the NN learning adaptor. - An approach to simultaneous estimation of both state and fault signals is incorporated within an active FTFC system.The faults acting independently on the three primary actuators of the nonlinear aircraft are compensated in the control system.The theoretical ideas developed in the thesis have been applied to the nonlinear Machan Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system. The simulation results obtained from a tracking control system demonstrate the improved fault tolerant performance for all the presented control schemes, validated under various faults and disturbance scenarios.A Boeing 747 nonlinear benchmark model, developed within the framework of the GARTEUR FM-AG 16 project “fault tolerant flight control systems”,is used for the purpose of further simulation study and testing of the FTFC scheme developed by making the combined use of concurrent learning NN and SMC theory. The simulation results under the given fault scenario show a promising reconfiguration performance

Advances in PID Control

Since the foundation and up to the current state-of-the-art in control engineering, the problems of PID control steadily attract great attention of numerous researchers and remain inexhaustible source of new ideas for process of control system design and industrial applications. PID control effectiveness is usually caused by the nature of dynamical processes, conditioned that the majority of the industrial dynamical processes are well described by simple dynamic model of the first or second order. The efficacy of PID controllers vastly falls in case of complicated dynamics, nonlinearities, and varying parameters of the plant. This gives a pulse to further researches in the field of PID control. Consequently, the problems of advanced PID control system design methodologies, rules of adaptive PID control, self-tuning procedures, and particularly robustness and transient performance for nonlinear systems, still remain as the areas of the lively interests for many scientists and researchers at the present time. The recent research results presented in this book provide new ideas for improved performance of PID control applications

Robust control for an electric power steering system.

The EPS (electric power steering) system is one of the safety-critical systems in modern automotive control system. In this thesis, a dynamic model for an EPS system was derived. And then, new controller architecture with an extra logical controller in the steering feedback loop, called motion controller, was proposed to increase the sensitivity of the control system to the system. Finally, a robust control system was designed based on the proposed EPS model and the new controller architecture. The disturbance signal is the high frequency part of the torque from road to the rack and pinion. The disturbance can be modeled as bounded noise or white noise. Hinfinity technology is often used to attenuate the bounded noise. The control design was divided into two stages. The first stage is to design a PI motor controller to increase the reaction speed. The next stage is to design an Hinfinity motion controller based on the frequency character of the disturbance signal. Simulations were carried out to demonstrate the controller\u27s performance and robustness characteristics for both bounded noise and white noise. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2004 .L552. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-05, page: 1780. Adviser: X. Chen. Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2004

Hyperlane Design for Discrete Variable Structure Control with Loop Transfer Recovery

Practical digital control systems often include a variety of undesirabl effects including sampling time issues, parameter variations and exogenous disturbance. There exist many powerful modern control theories and subsequent tools for controller development which address these and other issues by guarantying stability by design in some sense based on tunable parameters. Seemingly, one inherent quality of these techniques is the tuning procedure becomes tedious and time consuming to obtain a desired level of performance. This paper presents a method of combining the ideas of loop transfer recovery (LTR) with observer based discrete variable structure control (OBDVSC) in an effort to retain design freedoms of LTR and robustness properties of OBDVSC ultimately yielding an easily tuned practical compensator

Systems Structure and Control

The title of the book System, Structure and Control encompasses broad field of theory and applications of many different control approaches applied on different classes of dynamic systems. Output and state feedback control include among others robust control, optimal control or intelligent control methods such as fuzzy or neural network approach, dynamic systems are e.g. linear or nonlinear with or without time delay, fixed or uncertain, onedimensional or multidimensional. The applications cover all branches of human activities including any kind of industry, economics, biology, social sciences etc

Control Theory in Engineering

The subject matter of this book ranges from new control design methods to control theory applications in electrical and mechanical engineering and computers. The book covers certain aspects of control theory, including new methodologies, techniques, and applications. It promotes control theory in practical applications of these engineering domains and shows the way to disseminate researchers’ contributions in the field. This project presents applications that improve the properties and performance of control systems in analysis and design using a higher technical level of scientific attainment. The authors have included worked examples and case studies resulting from their research in the field. Readers will benefit from new solutions and answers to questions related to the emerging realm of control theory in engineering applications and its implementation

Development of adaptive control methodologies and algorithms for nonlinear dynamic systems based on u-control framework

Inspired by the U-model based control system design (or called U-control system design), this study is mainly divided into three parts. The first one is a U-model based control system for unstable non-minimum phase system. Pulling theorems are proposed to apply zeros pulling filters and poles pulling filters to pass the unstable non-minimum phase characteristics of the plant model/system. The zeros pulling filters and poles pulling filters derive from a customised desired minimum phase plant model. The remaining controller design can be any classic control systems or U-model based control system. The difference between classic control systems and U-model based control system for unstable non-minimum phase will be shown in the case studies.Secondly, the U-model framework is proposed to integrate the direct model reference adaptive control with MIT normalised rules for nonlinear dynamic systems. The U-model based direct model reference adaptive control is defined as an enhanced direct model reference adaptive control expanding the application range from linear system to nonlinear system. The estimated parameter of the nonlinear dynamic system will be placement as the estimated gain of a customised linear virtual plant model with MIT normalised rules. The customised linear virtual plant model is the same form as the reference model. Moreover, the U-model framework is design for the nonlinear dynamic system within the root inversion.Thirdly, similar to the structure of the U-model based direct model reference adaptive control with MIT normalised rules, the U-model based direct model reference adaptive control with Lyapunov algorithms proposes a linear virtual plant model as well, estimated and adapted the particular parameters as the estimated gain which of the nonlinear plant model by Lyapunov algorithms. The root inversion such as Newton-Ralphson algorithm provides the simply and concise method to obtain the inversion of the nonlinear system without the estimated gain. The proposed U-model based direct control system design approach is applied to develop the controller for a nonlinear system to implement the linear adaptive control. The computational experiments are presented to validate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed U-model based direct model reference adaptive control approach and stabilise with satisfied performance as applying for the linear plant model