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Active damping of a DC network with a constant power load: an adaptive passivity-based control approach
This paper proposes a nonlinear, adaptive controller to increase the stability margin of a direct-current (DC) small-scale electrical network containing a constant power load, whose value is unknown. Due to their negative incremental impedance, constant power loads are known to reduce the effective damping of a network, leading to voltage oscillations and even to network collapse. To tackle this problem, we consider the incorporation of a controlled DC-DC power converter between the feeder and the constant power load. The design of the control law for the converter is based on the use of standard Passivity-Based Control and Immersion and Invariance theories. The good performance of the controller is evaluated with numerical simulations.Postprint (author's final draft
Adaptive Tuning of Feedback Gain in Time-Delayed Feedback Control
We demonstrate that time-delayed feedback control can be improved by
adaptively tuning the feedback gain. This adaptive controller is applied to the
stabilization of an unstable fixed point and an unstable periodic orbit
embedded in a chaotic attractor. The adaptation algorithm is constructed using
the speed-gradient method of control theory. Our computer simulations show that
the adaptation algorithm can find an appropriate value of the feedback gain for
single and multiple delays. Furthermore, we show that our method is robust to
noise and different initial conditions.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors are Globally Asymptotically Stabilizable with PI Current Control
This note shows that the industry standard desired equilibrium for permanent
magnet synchronous motors (i.e., maximum torque per Ampere) can be globally
asymptotically stabilized with a PI control around the current errors, provided
some viscous friction (possibly small) is present in the rotor dynamics and the
proportional gain of the PI is suitably chosen. Instrumental to establish this
surprising result is the proof that the map from voltages to currents of the
incremental model of the motor satisfies some passivity properties. The
analysis relies on basic Lyapunov theory making the result available to a wide
audience
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