Consensus Tracking for Multiagent Systems Under Bounded Unknown External Disturbances Using Sliding-PID Control

This paper is devoted to the study of consensus tracking for multiagent systems under unknown but bounded external disturbances. A consensus tracking protocol which is a combination between the conventional PID controller and sliding mode controller named sliding-PID protocol is proposed. The protocol is applied to the consensus tracking of multiagent system under bounded external disturbances where results showed high effectiveness and robustness

Generalized Homogeneous Rigid-BodyAttitude Control

The attitude tracking problem for a full-actuated rigid body in 3D is studied using a impulsive system model based on Lie algebra so(3). A nonlinear homogeneous controller is designed to globally track a smooth attitude trajectory in a finite or a (nearly) fixed time. A global settling time estimate is obtained, which is easily adjustable by tuning the homogeneity degree. The local input-to-state stability is proven. Simulations illustrating the performance of the proposed algorithm are presented

Homogeneous control design using invariant ellipsoid method

The invariant ellipsoid method is aimed at minimization of the smallest invariant and attractive set of a linear control system operating under bounded external disturbances. This paper extends this technique to a class of the so-called generalized homogeneous system by defining the \dn-homogeneous invariant/attractive ellipsoid. The generalized homogeneous optimal (in the sense of invariant ellipsoid) controller allows further improvement of the control system providing a faster convergence and better precision. Theoretical results are supported by numerical simulations and experiments

Homogeneous finite-gain Lp-stability analysis on homogeneous systems

In dieser Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass die klassische Lp-Stabilität und Lp-Verstärkung für beliebige stetige, gewichtete homogene Systeme nicht wohldefiniert ist. Indem die klassische Lp-Norm von Signalen zu einer homogenen Lp-Norm so angepasst wird, dass diese bezüglich der Gewichtsvektoren homogen ist, ist es möglich zu zeigen, dass jedes intern stabile homogene System für hinreichend große p eine global definierte endliche homogene Lp-Verstärkung besitzt. Mit Hilfe einer homogenen Lyapunov-Funktion kann die homogene Lp-Stabilität durch eine homogene partielle Differentialungleichung charakterisiert werden, die sich im eingangsaffinen Fall in eine homogene Hamilton-Jacobi-Ungleichung transformieren lässt. Des Weiteren werden in dieser Arbeit detaillierte Methoden zur Abschätzung von oberen Schranken für homogene Lp-Verstärkungen aus diesen Ungleichungen abgeleitet. Dies schließt die homogene L∞-Verstärkung und die homogene Eingangs-Zustands-Verstärkung ebenfalls ein. Bei rückgekoppelten homogenen Systemen, bei denen die Gewichtsvektoren zwischen den Systemen zueinander passend sind, erlaubt die additive Ungleichung für die homogene Lp-Norm die Einführung des homogenen Small-Gain Theorems für beliebige p, wodurch eine Stabilitätsanalyse des geschlossenen Regelkreises ermöglicht wird. Weiterhin können homogene H∞-Regler entworfen werden, wenn das System eingangsaffin ist. Da die konventionellen Werkzeuge der linearen Systemtheorie nicht zur Verfügung stehen, können solche homogenen H∞-Regler nur garantieren, dass der geschlossene Regelkreis eine homogene Lp-Verstärkung hat, die kleiner als ein bestimmbarer Wert ist. Ihre Optimalität kann hingegen nicht garantiert werden. In jedem Kapitel werden mehrere kurze Beispiele vorgestellt, um zu veranschaulichen, wie eine solche homogene Lp-Verstärkung berechnet werden kann. Insbesondere ist eine detaillierte Analyse des “Continuous Super-Twisting Like Algorithm" mit tieferen Einblicken für interessierte Leser enthalten.In this thesis, it is shown that the classical Lp-stability and Lp-gain is not well-defined for arbitrary continuous weighted homogeneous systems. By modifying the classical Lp-norm of signals to be homogeneous w.r.t. some weight vectors, which is called homogeneous Lp-norm, it is possible to show that every internally stable homogeneous system has a globally defined finite homogeneous Lp-gain, for p sufficiently large. With the help of a homogeneous Lyapunov function, homogeneous Lp-stability can be characterized by a homogeneous partial differential inequality, which in the input affine case can be transformed to a homogeneous Hamilton-Jacobi inequality. Furthermore, in this thesis some detailed methods to calculate upper estimates for the homogeneous Lp-gain are provided from theses inequalities. This also includes the homogeneous L∞-gain and homogeneous Input-to-State gain. For feedback interconnected systems, if the weight vectors between plants are matched, the additive inequality for homogeneous Lp-norm allows the introduction of the homogeneous small gain theorem for each p, enabling stability analysis on the closed loop system. Finally, some homogeneous H∞-controllers can be designed, if the system is affine in the control input. Without the convenient tools for the linear systems, such homogeneous H∞-controllers can only guarantee that the closed loop system has homogeneous Lp-gain less than some derivable numbers, its optimality can not be guaranteed. Several short examples are presented within each chapter to illustrate how such homogeneous Lp-gain can be calculated. In particular a detailed analysis on the Continuous Super-Twisting Like Algorithm is included with deeper insight for interested readers

Antifragile Control Systems: The case of an oscillator-based network model of urban road traffic dynamics

Existing traffic control systems only possess a local perspective over the multiple scales of traffic evolution, namely the intersection level, the corridor level, and the region level respectively. But luckily, despite its complex mechanics, traffic is described by various periodic phenomena. Workday flow distributions in the morning and evening commuting times can be exploited to make traffic adaptive and robust to disruptions. Additionally, controlling traffic is also based on a periodic process, choosing the phase of green time to allocate to opposite directions right of the pass and complementary red time phase for adjacent directions. In our work, we consider a novel system for road traffic control based on a network of interacting oscillators. Such a model has the advantage to capture temporal and spatial interactions of traffic light phasing as well as the network-level evolution of the traffic macroscopic features (i.e. flow, density). In this study, we propose a new realization of the antifragile control framework to control a network of interacting oscillator-based traffic light models to achieve region-level flow optimization. We demonstrate that antifragile control can capture the volatility of the urban road environment and the uncertainty about the distribution of the disruptions that can occur. We complement our control-theoretic design and analysis with experiments on a real-world setup comparatively discussing the benefits of an antifragile design for traffic control

Fixed-time Stabilization with a Prescribed Constant Settling Time by Static Feedback for Delay-Free and Input Delay Systems

A static non-linear homogeneous feedback for a fixed-time stabilization of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system is designed in such a way that the settling time is assigned exactly to a prescribed constant for all nonzero initial conditions. The constant convergence time is achieved due to a dependence of the feedback gain of the initial state of the system. The robustness of the closed-loop system with respect to measurement noises and exogenous perturbations is studied using the concept of Input-to-State Stability (ISS). Both delay-free and input delay systems are studied. Theoretical results are illustrated by numerical simulations

On Finite-Time Stabilization of Evolution Equations: A Homogeneous Approach

International audienceGeneralized monotone dilation in a Banach space is introduced. Classical theorems on existence and uniqueness of solutions of nonlinear evolution equations are revised. A universal homogeneous feedback control for a finite-time stabilization of linear evolution equation in a Hilbert space is designed using homogeneity concept. The design scheme is demonstrated for distributed finite-time control of heat and wave equations