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Uniform semiglobal practical asymptotic stability for non-autonomous cascaded systems and applications
It is due to the modularity of the analysis that results for cascaded systems
have proved their utility in numerous control applications as well as in the
development of general control techniques based on ``adding integrators''.
Nevertheless, the standing assumptions in most of the present literature on
cascaded systems is that, when decoupled, the subsystems constituting the
cascade are uniformly globally asymptotically stable (UGAS). Hence existing
results fail in the more general case when the subsystems are uniformly
semiglobally practically asymptotically stable (USPAS). This situation is often
encountered in control practice, e.g., in control of physical systems with
external perturbations, measurement noise, unmodelled dynamics, etc. This paper
generalizes previous results for cascades by establishing that, under a uniform
boundedness condition, the cascade of two USPAS systems remains USPAS. An
analogous result can be derived for USAS systems in cascade. Furthermore, we
show the utility of our results in the PID control of mechanical systems
considering the dynamics of the DC motors.Comment: 16 pages. Modifications 1st Feb. 2006: additional requirement that
links the parameter-dependency of the lower and upper bounds on the Lyapunov
function, stronger condition of uniform boundedness of solutions,
modification and simplification of the proofs accordingl
Nonlinear discrete-time systems with delayed control: a reduction
In this work, the notion of reduction is introduced for discrete-time nonlinear input-delayed systems. The retarded dynamics is reduced to a new system which is free of delays and equivalent (in terms of stabilizability) to the original one. Different stabilizing strategies are proposed over the reduced model. Connections with existing predictor-based methods are discussed. The methodology is also worked out over particular classes of time-delay systems as sampled-data dynamics affected by an entire input delay
Adaptive Discrete Second Order Sliding Mode Control with Application to Nonlinear Automotive Systems
Sliding mode control (SMC) is a robust and computationally efficient
model-based controller design technique for highly nonlinear systems, in the
presence of model and external uncertainties. However, the implementation of
the conventional continuous-time SMC on digital computers is limited, due to
the imprecisions caused by data sampling and quantization, and the chattering
phenomena, which results in high frequency oscillations. One effective solution
to minimize the effects of data sampling and quantization imprecisions is the
use of higher order sliding modes. To this end, in this paper, a new
formulation of an adaptive second order discrete sliding mode control (DSMC) is
presented for a general class of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) uncertain
nonlinear systems. Based on a Lyapunov stability argument and by invoking the
new Invariance Principle, not only the asymptotic stability of the controller
is guaranteed, but also the adaptation law is derived to remove the
uncertainties within the nonlinear plant dynamics. The proposed adaptive
tracking controller is designed and tested in real-time for a highly nonlinear
control problem in spark ignition combustion engine during transient operating
conditions. The simulation and real-time processor-in-the-loop (PIL) test
results show that the second order single-input single-output (SISO) DSMC can
improve the tracking performances up to 90%, compared to a first order SISO
DSMC under sampling and quantization imprecisions, in the presence of modeling
uncertainties. Moreover, it is observed that by converting the engine SISO
controllers to a MIMO structure, the overall controller performance can be
enhanced by 25%, compared to the SISO second order DSMC, because of the
dynamics coupling consideration within the MIMO DSMC formulation.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
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