This paper presents a new method for dynamic output feedback stabilizing controller design for decomposable systems with switching topology and delay. Our approach consists of two steps. In the first step, we model the decomposable systems with switching topology as equivalent LPV systems with a piecewise constant parameter. In the second step, we design stabilizing output feedbacks for these LPV systems in the presence of a time-varying output delay using a trajectory-based stability analysis approach. We do not impose any constraint on the delay derivative. Finally, we illustrate our approach by applying it to the consensus problem of non-holonomic agents.
Adaptively controlling and minimizing regret in unknown dynamical systems while controlling the growth of the system state is crucial in real-world applications. In this work, we study the problem of stabilization and regret minimization of linear over-actuated dynamical systems. We propose an optimism-based algorithm that leverages possibility of switching between actuating modes in order to alleviate state explosion during initial time steps. We theoretically study the rate at which our algorithm learns a stabilizing controller and prove that it achieves a regret upper bound of $\mathcal{O}(…
Feedback stabilization of switched systems under arbitrary switching: A convex characterization
Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA)（巴西空军理工学院）；Politecnico di Torino（都灵理工大学）；Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes（巴黎萨克雷大学、法国国家科学研究中心、中央苏佩莱克学院、信号与系统实验室）
Emerging advanced control applications, with increased complexity in software but limited computing resources, suggest that real-time controllers should have adaptable designs. These control strategies also should be designed with consideration of the run-time behavior of the system. One of such research attempts is to design the controller along with the task scheduler, known as control-scheduling co-design, for more predictable timing behavior as well as surviving system overloads. Unlike traditional controller designs, which have equal-distance sampling periods, the co-design approach incre…
This paper treats the global stabilization problem of continuous-time switched affine systems that have rank-deficient convex combinations of their dynamic matrices. For these systems, the already known set of attainable equilibrium points has higher dimensionality than in the full-rank case due to the existence of what we define as singular equilibrium points. Our main goal is to design a state-dependent switching function to ensure global asymptotic stability of a chosen point inside this set with conditions expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities. For this class of systems, global …
The design of robust orbitally stabilizing feedback is considered. From a known orbitally stabilizing controller for a nominal, disturbance-free system, a robustifying feedback extension is designed utilizing the sliding-mode control (SMC) methodology. The main contribution of the paper is to provide a constructive procedure for designing the time-invariant switching function used in the SMC synthesis. More specifically, its zero-level set (the sliding manifold) is designed using a real Floquet-Lyapunov transformation to locally correspond to an invariant subspace of the Monodromy matrix of a …
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore（印度科学理工学院班加罗尔）
This paper deals with stabilization of discrete-time switched linear systems when explicit knowledge of the state-space models of their subsystems is not available. Given the set of admissible switches between the subsystems, the admissible dwell times on the subsystems and a set of finite traces of state trajectories of the subsystems that satisfies certain properties, we devise an algorithm that designs periodic switching logics which preserve stability of the resulting switched system. We combine two ingredients: (a) data-based stability analysis of discrete-time linear systems and (b) mult…
University of Quebec in Outaouais（乌塔韦魁北克大学）；University of Groningen（格罗宁根大学）；KTH Royal Institute of Technology（瑞典皇家理工学院）
In this paper we present a hybrid feedback approach to solve the navigation problem of a point mass in the n-dimensional space containing an arbitrary number of ellipsoidal shape obstacles. The proposed hybrid control algorithm guarantees both global asymptotic stabilization to a reference and avoidance of the obstacles. The intuitive idea of the proposed hybrid feedback is to switch between two modes of control: stabilization and avoidance. The geometric construction of the flow and jump sets of the proposed hybrid controller, exploiting hysteresis regions, guarantees Zeno-free switching betw…
A design framework recently has been developed to stabilize interconnected multiagent systems in a distributed manner, and systematically capture the architectural aspect of cyber-physical systems. Such a control theoretic framework, however, results in a stabilization protocol which is passive with respect to the cyber attacks and conservative regarding the guaranteed level of resiliency. We treat the control layer topology and stabilization gains as the degrees of freedom, and develop a mixed control and cybersecurity design framework to address the above concerns. From a control perspective…
Practical Stabilization of Switched Affine Systems under Dwell Time: From Polytopic to p-Norm Lyapunov Functions
Centro Internacional Franco-Argentino de Cs. de la Información y de Sistemas (CIFASIS), UNR–CONICET（中法阿根廷信息与系统国际中心（CIFASIS），罗萨里奥国立大学-国家科学研究委员会）；Military Institute of Engineering（军事工程学院）
This paper investigates the stabilization of probabilistic Boolean networks (PBNs) via a novel pinning control strategy based on network structure. In a PBN, the evolution equation of each gene switches among a collection of candidate Boolean functions with probability distributions that govern the activation frequency of each Boolean function. Owing to the stochasticity, the uniform state feedback controller, independent of switching signal, might be out of work, and in this case, the non-uniform state feedback controller is required. Subsequently, a criterion is derived to determine whether …
The task of inducing, via continuous static state-feedback control, an asymptotically stable heteroclinic orbit in a nonlinear control system is considered in this paper. The main motivation comes from the problem of ensuring convergence to a so-called point-to-point maneuver in an underactuated mechanical system. Namely, to a smooth curve in its state--control space, which is consistent with the system dynamics and connects two (linearly) stabilizable equilibrium points. The proposed method uses a particular parameterization, together with a state projection onto the maneuver as to combine tw…
Time delay estimation plays a critical role in control, stabilization and state estimation of many practical system with time delay. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate delay for discrete time linear multiple-input multiple-output systems with time-varying input delays. This method is purposefully given for situations where only a limited amount of information is available for the system. Although, this approach is primarily developed in a deterministic framework, it can also be applied to noisy data under special circumstances. In addition, switched linear autoregressive models wit…
