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.

     

多时滞离散广义系统的渐近稳定性判据

对多时滞离散广义系统 ,给出了两个渐近稳定性判据。其中之一可直接检验 (如l<1) ,另一个可通过边界检验。在检验系统渐近稳定性时 ,我们首先采用直接检验方法 ,如果直接检验不成功 ,再采取边界检验方法。给出的判据容易测试 ,便于工程上应用 ,所举的例子说明了该方法的实用性。这些稳定性判据还可扩展到扰动系统。     

Event-Triggered Consensus for Discrete-Time Multi-agent Systems with Parameter Uncertainties Based on a Predictive Control Scheme

In this paper, the event-triggered consensus for linear discrete-time multi-agent systems with parameter uncertainties is investigated. The parameter uncertainty is assumed to be normbounded. An event-triggered consensus protocol based on the predictive control method is proposed to make the multi-agent system achieve consensus. And for the design of the consensus protocol, the problem of estimating the control input is transformed into the problem of estimating state differences between agents. Furthermore, the event-triggered consensus protocol proposed in this paper only demands each agent to mornitor its state to determine its event-triggered instants. A sufficient existence condition for the consensus protocol is proposed based on the linear matrix inequality. And a sufficient condition for the nonexistence of the Zeno-like behaviour is also derived. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate that the event-triggered consensus protocol proposed in this paper can make the multi-agent system with parameter uncertainties achieve consensus effectively.     

拓扑切换网络的脉冲控制

现实世界中许多复杂动力网络的状态不仅仪是单纯的连续变量或离散变量，而是两者同时存在与作用。基于这种现象，本文提出了一种新的拓扑切换复杂动力网络模型，并讨论了在脉冲控制下这种网络的镇定问题。最后给出了一个具体的数值示例和仿真结果，来阐明这种控制方法是有效的。     

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 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.     

Mean Square Average Generalized Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems Under Time-Delays and Stochastic Disturbances

Compared with the traditional consensus problem, this paper deals with the mean square average generalized consensus(MSAGC) of multi-agent systems under fixed directed topology, where all agents are affected by stochastic disturbances. Distributed protocol depending on delayed time information from neighbors is designed. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, together with results from matrix theory and It o s derivation theory, the linear matrix inequalities approach is used to establish sufficient conditions to ensure MSAGC of multi-agent systems. Finally, numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the theoretical results.     

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...     

Optimal Control of Unknown Discrete-Time Linear Systems with Additive Noise

The optimal control problem with a long run average cost is investigated for unknown linear discrete-time systems with additive noise. The authors propose a value iteration-based stochastic adaptive dynamic programming(VI-based SADP) algorithm, based on which the optimal controller is obtained. Different from the existing relevant work, the algorithm does not need to estimate the expectation(conditional expectation) and variance(conditional variance) of states or other relevant variables, and th...     

Stability Analysis of Event-Triggered Networked Control Systems with Time-Varying Delay and Packet Loss

Networked control systems(NCSs) are facing a great challenge from the limitation of network communication resources. Event-triggered control(ETC) is often used to reduce the amount of communication while still keeping a satisfactory performance of the system, by transmitting the measurements only when an event-triggered condition is satisfied. However, some network-induced problems would happen inevitably, such as communication delay and packet loss, which can degrade the control performance significantly and can even lead to instability. In this paper, a periodic eventtriggered NCS considering both time-varying delay and packet loss is studied. The system is discretized into a piecewise linear system with uncertainty. Then the model is handled by a polytopic overapproximation method to be more suitable for stability analysis. Finally, stability conditions are obtained and presented in terms of linear matrix inequalities(LMIs). The result is illustrated by a numerical example.     

时滞多变量时变系统的最优控制混合仿真研究

应用最优控制理论的极小值原理和参数优化理论 ,叙述了具有常数时滞的多变量时变系统的最优控制算法 ,基于该算法 ,提出了这类系统的数模混合仿真方法和实践方法。混合结果表明 :提出的算法是收敛的 ,且收敛速度优于全数字仿真结果。     

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.     

Event-Triggered L1-Gain Control of Nonlinear Positive Switched Systems

This paper is concerned with the event-triggered L_1-gain control of a class of nonlinear positive switched systems. First, an event-triggering condition in the form of 1-norm is presented for the systems. By virtue of the event-triggering strategy, the original system is transformed into an interval uncertain system. An event-triggered L_1-gain controller is designed by decomposing the controller gain matrix into the sum of nonnegative and non-positive components. Under the design controller, the resulting closed-loop systems are positive and L_1-gain stable. The obtained approach is developed for the systems subject to input saturation. All presented conditions are solvable in terms of linear programming. Finally, two examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the design.     

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.     

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.     

A Fully Actuated System Approach for Stabilization of Discrete-Time Multiple-Input Nonlinear Systems with Distinct Input Delays

Journal of Systems Science and Complexity - In this paper, the problem of stabilization is considered for discrete-time multiple-input nonlinear systems with distinct input delays law based on the...     

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...     

一类带非线性扰动不确定系统的脉冲控制

在实际系统中,总存在各种干扰。针对一类带非线性扰动的线性不确定系统,采用脉冲控制的方法来实现鲁棒镇定,提出了脉冲控制下新的鲁棒可镇定判据,并通过实例仿真验证了所得结果的有效性。     

Optimal Output Tracking Control and Stabilization of Networked Control Systems with Packet Losses

This paper studies the optimal output tracking control and stabilization for networked control systems with packet losses via output feedback control. Both finite-horizon and infinite-horizon cases are considered. For the finite-horizon case, the authors introduce an augmented system according to the state variable and the reference trajectory for the first time. Based on a set of difference Riccati equations, an optimal output feedback tracking controller is proposed by applying the stochastic maximum principle. And an optimal estimator is presented. For the infinite-horizon case, a necessary and sufficient condition for the stabilization of the system is provided. And an optimal output feedback stabilizing tracking controller is obtained by establishing a set of algebraic Riccati equations. Finally,numerical examples are given to verify the proposed results.     

一类非线性离散系统的自适应控制

针对一类非线性离散系统 ,利用 Lyapunov方法和加权最小二乘估计设计了一种自适应控制器 ,在对非线性 (不加增长条件约束 )的情况下 ,得到了闭环系统的全局跟踪性能 .