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Real-time estimation of the switching signal for perturbed switched linear systems
International audienceWe extend previous works of Fliess et al. [2008] on the estimation of the switching signal and of the state for switching linear systems to the perturbed case when the perturbation is structured that is when the perturbation is unknown but known to satisfy a certain differential equation (for example if the perturbation is constant then its time-derivative is zero). We characterize also singular inputs and/or perturbations for which the switched systems become undistinguishable. Several convincing numerical experiments are illustrating our techniques which are easily implementable
Intermittent control models of human standing: similarities and differences
Two architectures of intermittent control are compared and contrasted in the context of the single inverted pendulum model often used for describing standing in humans. The architectures are similar insofar as they use periods of open-loop control punctuated by switching events when crossing a switching surface to keep the system state trajectories close to trajectories leading to equilibrium. The architectures differ in two significant ways. Firstly, in one case, the open-loop control trajectory is generated by a system-matched hold, and in the other case, the open-loop control signal is zero. Secondly, prediction is used in one case but not the other. The former difference is examined in this paper. The zero control alternative leads to periodic oscillations associated with limit cycles; whereas the system-matched control alternative gives trajectories (including homoclinic orbits) which contain the equilibrium point and do not have oscillatory behaviour. Despite this difference in behaviour, it is further shown that behaviour can appear similar when either the system is perturbed by additive noise or the system-matched trajectory generation is perturbed. The purpose of the research is to come to a common approach for understanding the theoretical properties of the two alternatives with the twin aims of choosing which provides the best explanation of current experimental data (which may not, by itself, distinguish beween the two alternatives) and suggesting future experiments to distinguish between the two alternatives
Online Discrimination of Nonlinear Dynamics with Switching Differential Equations
How to recognise whether an observed person walks or runs? We consider a
dynamic environment where observations (e.g. the posture of a person) are
caused by different dynamic processes (walking or running) which are active one
at a time and which may transition from one to another at any time. For this
setup, switching dynamic models have been suggested previously, mostly, for
linear and nonlinear dynamics in discrete time. Motivated by basic principles
of computations in the brain (dynamic, internal models) we suggest a model for
switching nonlinear differential equations. The switching process in the model
is implemented by a Hopfield network and we use parametric dynamic movement
primitives to represent arbitrary rhythmic motions. The model generates
observed dynamics by linearly interpolating the primitives weighted by the
switching variables and it is constructed such that standard filtering
algorithms can be applied. In two experiments with synthetic planar motion and
a human motion capture data set we show that inference with the unscented
Kalman filter can successfully discriminate several dynamic processes online
Analysis, estimation and control for perturbed and singular systems and for systems subject to discrete events.
Investigators: Alan S. Willsky, George Verghese.Annual technical report for Grant AFOSR-88-0032.Sponsored by the AFOSR. AFOSR-88-003
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