9 research outputs found
A Unified Approach to High-Gain Adaptive Controllers
It has been known for some time that proportional output feedback will
stabilize MIMO, minimum-phase, linear time-invariant systems if the feedback
gain is sufficiently large. High-gain adaptive controllers achieve stability by
automatically driving up the feedback gain monotonically. More recently, it was
demonstrated that sample-and-hold implementations of the high-gain adaptive
controller also require adaptation of the sampling rate. In this paper, we use
recent advances in the mathematical field of dynamic equations on time scales
to unify and generalize the discrete and continuous versions of the high-gain
adaptive controller. We prove the stability of high-gain adaptive controllers
on a wide class of time scales
Asymptotic regulation of a one-section continuum manipulator
Abstract Continuum manipulators are robotic manipulators built wing one continuous, elastic, and highly deformable %ackbone" instead of multiple rigid links connected by joints. This paper eztends a previous control result for planar continuum robots by proposing a new asymptotic wnvergence argument for a PD-plw-feedforward controller. The benefit of the asymptotic a w m e n t s is that the backbone bending stifness can be adpatively updated by the controller if it is not known a priori
Controllability, Observability, Realizability, and Stability of Dynamic Linear Systems
We develop a linear systems theory that coincides with the existing theories
for continuous and discrete dynamical systems, but that also extends to linear
systems defined on nonuniform time domains. The approach here is based on
generalized Laplace transform methods (e.g. shifts and convolution) from our
recent work \cite{DaGrJaMaRa}. We study controllability in terms of the
controllability Gramian and various rank conditions (including Kalman's) in
both the time invariant and time varying settings and compare the results. We
also explore observability in terms of both Gramian and rank conditions as well
as realizability results. We conclude by applying this systems theory to
connect exponential and BIBO stability problems in this general setting.
Numerous examples are included to show the utility of these results.Comment: typos corrected; current form is as accepted in EJD
Time Scale Discrete Fourier Transforms
Abstract-The discrete and continuous Fourier transforms are applicable to discrete and continuous time signals respectively. Time scales allows generalization to to any closed set of points on the real line. Discrete and continuous time are special cases. Using the Hilger exponential from time scale calculus, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is extended to signals on a set of points with arbitrary spacing. A time scale consisting of points in time is shown to impose a time scale (more appropriately dubbed a frequency scale), , in the Fourier domain The time scale DFT's (TS-DFT's) are shown to share familiar properties of the DFT, including the derivative theorem and the power theorem. Shifting on a time scale is accomplished through a boxminus and boxplus operators. The shifting allows formulation of time scale convolution and correlation which, as is the case with the DFT, correspond to multiplication in the frequency domain