Predictive Event-Triggered Control for Disturbanced Wireless Networked Control Systems

The control and scheduling for wireless networked control system with packet dropout and disturbance are investigated. A prediction based event triggered control is proposed to reduce data transmissions while preserving the robustness against external disturbance. First, a trigger threshold is especially designed to maintain the difference of the estimated and actual states below a proper boundary when system suffers from packet dropout. Then a predictive controller is designed to compensate for packet dropouts by utilizing the packet-based control approach. The sufficient conditions to ensure the closed-loop system being uniformly ultimately bounded are derived, with consequently the controller gain method. Numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Event-Triggered Consensus for Multiple Nonholonomic Systems

The paper investigates the consensus problem of multiple nonholonomic systems. Two event-triggered control strategies, one centralized and the other distributed, are developed, which can reduce the frequency of control updating. Under the proposed protocols, the multiple nonholonomic systems can achieve consensus, and the bound of inter-event time intervals is provided to illustrate that no Zeno behavior exists. Finally, numerical simulations are also provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategies.     

Distributed Event-Triggered Tracking Control of Heterogeneous Discrete-Time Multi-Agent Systems with Unknown Parameters

In this paper, a novel design framework is developed to solve the cooperative tracking problem of heterogeneous discrete-time multi-agent systems with unknown agent parameters and directed communication topologies. First, a distributed event-triggered observer is developed to handle the heterogeneity of the multi-agent systems. An event-triggering mechanism is proposed to reduce the amount of data transmission between neighboring agents. Then, based on the proposed observer, a discrete-time distributed model reference adaptive controller is presented to deal with the unknown parameters of the multi-agent systems. It is shown that by using the proposed observer and the model reference adaptive controller, the proposed design framework could achieve output tracking of the unknown multi-agent systems for any communication graph containing a directed spanning tree. Finally, an example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.

     

Stabilization of Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems Under Event-Triggered Impulsive Control with and Without Time-Delays

This paper investigates the issue of stabilization for discrete-time dynamical systems (DDS) by event-triggered impulsive control (ETIC). Based on some relatively simple threshold constants, three levels of event conditions are set and thus the ETIC scheme is designed. Three cases for ETIC with and without time-delays and data dropouts are studied respectively, and the criteria on exponential stability are derived for the controlled DDS. The stabilization in the form of exponential stability is achieved for DDS under the designed ETIC with or without time-delays. And in the case of the ETIC data dropouts, the conditions of exponential stabilization are derived for DDS and the maximal allowable dropout rates for ETIC are estimated. Finally, one example with numerical simulations is worked out for illustration.     

Event-Triggered Sampled-Data Consensus of Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems with Control Input Losses

This paper investigates the leader-following consensus problem for multi-agent systems with event-triggered mechanism and control packet losses. Based on the local synchronization error, event-triggered mechanisms are proposed in order to reduce the number of controller update. The control packet may lose due to unreliability of communication channel. With the assumption that once the packet loss happens the controller will be set to zero, sufficient consensus criteria for multi-agent system with event-triggered mechanism and control packet losses is obtained. It is also shown that the interplay among the allowable packet loss rate, event-triggered mechanism and sampling period. An illustrative example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.     

Bipartite Consensus of Linear Multi-Agent Systems by Distributed Event-Triggered Control

For multi-agent systems with competitive and collaborative relationships, signed graph can more intuitively express the characteristics of their interactive networks. In this paper, the bipartite consensus is investigated for multi-agent systems with structurally balanced signed graph. In order to reduce actuation burden in dynamical network environment, the event-triggering strategy is applied to bipartite consensus protocol for the multi-agent systems. The triggered condition for each agent is designed by using its own information and transmitted information of its neighbors at sampling instant and make the number of triggers of the whole systems be reduced. Based on the distributed eventtriggered control, some sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the leaderless and leader-following bipartite consensus. Finally, some numerical examples are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.     

Exact Consensus Error for Multi-agent Systems with Additive Noises

In this paper, the consensus problem is investigated for discrete-time multi-agent systems with additive process noises. Due to the presence of additive noises in the system dynamics, consensus cannot be achieved. The main contribution of this paper is to give the exact consensus error. In particular, control gain depending on the agent dynamics and network topology is designed based on the technique dealing with the simultaneous stabilization. Finally, a numerical simulation is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results.     

Cluster-Delay Consensus for Second-Order Nonlinear Multi-agent Systems

This paper investigates the second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to the cluster-delay consensus. The multi-agent systems consist of leader and agents, whose dynamics are second-order nonlinear. The objective is that the agents track the leader asymptotically with different time delays, i.e., the agents in different groups reach delay consensus, while the agents in the same group reach identical consensus. To guarantee the cluster-delay consensus for the second-order multi-agent systems, a new control protocol is proposed. Then some corresponding conditions for cluster-delay consensus are derived by using Lyapunov directed method and matrix theory. Finally, the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis results are verified by some numerical simulations.     

具有参数不确定性的长时延网络控制系统研究

针对具有参数不确定性的长时延网络控制系统,提出了系统的建模方法,并且分析和讨论了系统的稳定性和控制器设计方法.当假设网络控制系统的传感机构为时间驱动,执行机构与控制器为事件驱动,被控对象具有参数不确定性以及网络诱导时延具有时变、不确定和大于单位采样周期的特点时,运用矩阵分析理论,将广义网络被控对象建模为一类含有不确定项的线性离散系统.基于Lyapunov稳定性理论和线性矩阵不等式方法,分析了闭环系统渐近稳定的充分条件,并推导出系统的控制器设计方案.仿真结果表明稳定判据的可行性与控制器设计的有效性.     

Bipartite Consensus of Discrete-Time Double-Integrator Multi-Agent Systems with Measurement Noise

The effects of measurement noise are investigated in the context of bipartite consensus of multi-agent systems. In the system setting, discrete-time double-integrator dynamics are assumed for the agent, and measurement noise is present for the agent receiving the state information from its neighbors. Time-varying stochastic bipartite consensus protocols are designed in order to lessen the harmful effects of the noise. Consequently, the state transition matrix of the closed-loop system is analyzed, and sufficient and necessary conditions for the proposed protocol to be a mean square bipartite consensus protocol are given with the help of linear transformation and algebraic graph theory. It is proven that the signed digraph to be structurally balanced and having a spanning tree are the weakest communication assumptions for ensuring bipartite consensus. In particular, the proposed protocol is a mean square bipartite average consensus one if the signed digraph is also weight balanced.     

Control for a Class of Stochastic Mechanical Systems Based on the Discrete-Time Approximate Observer

This paper investigates the observer-based control problem of a class of stochastic mechanical systems. The system is modelled as a continuous-time It o stochastic differential equation with a discrete-time output. Euler-Maruyama approximation is used to design the discrete-time approximate observer, and an observer-based feedback controller is derived such that the closed-loop nonlinear system is exponentially stable in the mean-square sense. Also, the authors analyze the convergence of observer error when the discrete-time approximate observer servers as a state observer for the exact system. Finally, a simulation example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

一类不确定时滞系统的鲁棒H∞控制

讨论了一类含有不确定参数的多时滞线性系统的鲁棒H∞ 控制问题 ,分别给出了全维鲁棒H∞ 动态输出反馈控制器和静态状态反馈控制器的设计。所设计的控制器使得相应的闭环系统对一切时滞和所有允许不确定参数保持内稳定 ,并且闭环系统从扰动到受控输出之间传递函数的 H∞ 范数不大于给定的指标值     

Event-Triggered Optimal Nonlinear Systems Control Based on State Observer and Neural Network

This paper develops a novel event-triggered optimal control approach based on state observer and neural network(NN) for nonlinear continuous-time systems. Firstly, the authors propose an online algorithm with critic and actor NNs to solve the optimal control problem and provide an event-triggered method to reduce communication and computation burdens. Moreover, the authors design weight estimation for critic and actor NNs based on gradient descent method and achieve uniformly ultimate boundednes...     

Event-Triggered Adaptive Neural Control for Multiagent Systems with Deferred State Constraints

Journal of Systems Science and Complexity - This paper focuses on the leader-following consensus control problem for nonlinear multiagent systems subject to deferred asymmetric time-varying state...     

Stability Analysis and Group Consensus Tracking Predictive Control of Multi-Agent Systems

The issue of stability and group consensus tracking is investigated for the discrete-time heterogeneous networked multi-agent systems with communication constraints(e.g., time delays and data loss) in this paper. Firstly, the couple-group consensus tracking control is analyzed theoretically,the communication constraints are compensated by the prediction method, and the factor of leaders is introduced to make the system not lose generality. Secondly, the necessary and sufficient condition is give...     

Generalized Consensus of Discrete-Time Multi-Agent Systems with Directed Topology and Communication Delay

Journal of Systems Science and Complexity - Compared with traditional consensus, this paper studies the generalized consensus problem for discrete-time multi-agent systems with directed topology...     

Robust Control for Discrete-Time T-S Fuzzy Singular Systems

This paper deals with the robust admissibility and state feedback stabilization problems for discrete-time T-S fuzzy singular systems with norm-bounded uncertainties. By introducing a new approximation technique, the initial membership functions are conveniently expressed in piecewiselinear functions with the consideration of the approximation errors. By utilizing the piecewise-linear membership functions, the fuzzy weighting-based Lyapunov function and the use of auxiliary matrices,the admissibility of the systems is determined by examining the conditions at some sample points. The conditions can be reduced into the normal parallel distributed compensation ones by choosing special values of some slack matrices. Furthermore, the authors design the robust state feedback controller to guarantee the closed-loop system to be admissible. Two examples are provided to illustrate the advantage and effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Dynamic Event-Triggered Control for Nonlinear Systems: A Small-Gain Approach

An event-triggered control(ETC) system transmits data packages and updates control inputs only when the predefined criterion is satisfied. In this way, network communication and computing resources are scheduled more reasonably in contrast to the traditional periodic sampling strategy.Small-gain approach proposed in recent literatures is a new modeling method to deal with nonlinear ETC systems. Different from traditional ETC models, stability criteria are proposed in the form of input to state stability(ISS) gain to design the triggering mechanisms. This paper introduces additional dynamic variables in this model and proposes a small-gain based dynamic event-triggered strategy.Sufficient conditions to guarantee the stability of the system are derived with the help of cyclic-smallgain theorem and Zeno behaviors are avoided to ensure the feasibility of this method in practical applications. Numerical simulations are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.     

一种新的离散时间系统的变结构控制方法

讨论了基于指数趋近律的变结构控制所存在的问题，分析了指数趋近律中参数的选择对系统状态的趋近特性造成的影响，提出了改进的离散变结构控制方案，该方案保证了系统状态在趋近过程中能够始终保持某一趋近特性，易于进行变结构控制设计，加快系统状态趋近速度的同时降低了抖振，仿真结果证明了该方案的有效性。     

Projective Group Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems with Arbitrary Parameter

In this paper, the projective group consensus issue for second order multi-agent systems(MASs) in directed graphs with a dynamic leader is investigated. The proposed projective group consensus with arbitrary parameter includes traditional consensus, reverse group consensus and cluster consensus as its special cases. Novel distributed control protocols are designed to obtain projective group consensus without analyzing signed directed graph as in most current literatures on bipartite consensus problem. On the basis of Lyapunov stability property, algebraic graph and some necessary matrix theory, sufficient conditions for delay and delay-free cases are derived. Finally, simulations of nonlinear chaotic MASs are adopted to testify the theoretical results.