Nikita Mishra, Anusna Chakraborty, Rajnikant Sharma, K. Brink
{"title":"Cooperative Relative Pose Estimation to Aid Landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on a Moving Platform","authors":"Nikita Mishra, Anusna Chakraborty, Rajnikant Sharma, K. Brink","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715633","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we develop a method to estimate the relative position and relative heading of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) attempting to land on a moving platform using range-only measurements under GPS-denied conditions. Landing problems typically require precise estimation of relative position and heading, the proposed solution estimates relative pose between the platform (in this case a ship deck) and the landing multirotor. Vision-based landing techniques although accurate will fail under hostile weather conditions with the lack of Global Positioning System (GPS). This formulation investigates the effect on estimation quality when a single vehicle attempts to land using measurements from the ship only versus a team of multirotors assisting a vehicle to land on the ship. A multi-vehicle simulator has been developed in MATLAB/Simulink that facilitates testing our approaches. The simulation results clearly demonstrate the advantage of using a team for assisted landing rather than alone vehicle performing relative pose estimation using a limited range measurements.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127238290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Input/output-to-state stability of discrete-time switched nonlinear systems under restricted switching","authors":"A. Kundu","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715560","url":null,"abstract":"We study input/output-to-state stability (IOSS) of discrete-time switched nonlinear systems. The switching signals obey two types of restrictions: first, transitions between subsystems are restricted, and second, minimum and maximum dwell time on subsystems are restricted. Given a family of systems such that not all systems in the family are IOSS, our objective is to construct a time-dependent switching signal that ensures IOSS of the resulting switched system under the above restrictions. We report that the algorithm proposed in [5] for constructing a stabilizing periodic switching signal for continuous-time switched nonlinear systems, extends to the discrete-time setting under standard assumptions. Multiple Lyapunov-like functions and graph-theoretic tools are the primary apparatuses for our analysis.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125171786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GNSS-based spacecraft navigation in elliptical and High Earth Orbits using Single Propagation Unscented Kalman Filters","authors":"Sanat K. Biswas, A. Dempster","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715595","url":null,"abstract":"With the advent of multiple Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), the feasibility of navigation using GNSS observations beyond Low Earth Orbits has been explored in recent years. An estimation algorithm is one of the critical components of a well-designed navigation system, and it must be judiciously chosen for a particular application. The non-linearity of spacecraft dynamics in a highly elliptical orbit is high and if the apogee of the orbit is higher than Medium Earth Orbit, the state vector of the spacecraft motion may be only partially observable due to the limited availability and low Signal power of GNSS signals. In this scenario, variants of the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) can provide better estimation performance. In this paper, GNSS-based navigation of spacecraft in elliptical and High Earth Orbits using Single Propagation type UKFs are demonstrated. These estimation algorithms provide UKF like estimation performance and require around 90% less computation time than the conventional UKF.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122692325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tom Zahavy, Matan Haroush, Nadav Merlis, D. Mankowitz, Shie Mannor
{"title":"Neural-Linear Architectures for Sequential Decision Making","authors":"Tom Zahavy, Matan Haroush, Nadav Merlis, D. Mankowitz, Shie Mannor","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715603","url":null,"abstract":"Making optimal decisions, while learning in dynamic environments like Markov Decision Processes and Multi-armed Bandits, often requires the computation of accurate uncertainty estimates. However, learning directly from raw, high dimensional inputs like vision and natural language, is typically done using deep neural networks, for which such accurate estimates are not available. Neural-linear algorithms address this challenge by utilizing linear algorithms (for which accurate uncertainty estimates exist) on top of a non-linear (deep) representation that is learned directly from the raw input. Such architectures have been recently explored, showing superior performance compared to both deep and linear state-of-the-art algorithms. A practical challenge in this approach is that the representation is assumed to be fixed over time when used by the linear algorithm, while the deep learning based representation changes as the optimization proceeds. In this talk, I will review recent neural-linear algorithms and discuss an algorithmic approach to deal with representations that change over time. In particular, I will present a linear fitted Q iteration algorithm that refines the weights of the last layer of a deep q network and improves its performance in the arcade learning environment, a neural-linear Thompson Sampling algorithm for contextual bandits and deep reinforcement learning, and an action elimination algorithm for text-based games that eliminates actions based on a linear upper confidence bound.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128006474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a Generic Flight Controller for a High Performance Fixed Wing Aircraft","authors":"P. Lathasree, A. Pashilkar, N. Sundararajan","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715590","url":null,"abstract":"The need for high agility and maneuverability has resulted in fighter aircraft with relaxed longitudinal static stability. A fly-by-wire flight control system can provide the required level of static and dynamic stability as well as desirable handling qualities throughout the flight envelope while ensuring that all the performance specifications are met satisfactorily. The designed controller should be capable of addressing the inherent nonlinearities that are dominant in the nonlinear regimes of flight. Nonlinear dynamic inversion is more apt for full envelope controller design. This paper discusses the design of generic flight controller for fixed wing aircraft using the good features of nonlinear dynamic inversion with time scale separation, static control allocation and backstepping. A fighter aircraft with a trapezoidal wing configuration and multiple redundant controls is chosen to illustrate this approach.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133836390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular Weight Control in Semi Batch Copolymerization Reactor through Temperature Tracking: Evaluation of Control Strategies","authors":"K. Silpa, R. Kamesh, K. Yamuna Rani","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715596","url":null,"abstract":"Molecular weight is one of the influential attributes in a polymerization process and its control in semi-batch operation poses considerable difficulty due to complexities of the process. The present study focuses on the development of different control strategies for controlling the molecular weight by tracking reactor temperature and composition control using jacket temperature and feed flow rate as manipulated variables. The copolymerization of styrene acrylonitrile with xylene as solvent and AIBN as initiator is considered for the present study. The control strategies evaluated are Multi-loop-proportional integral (PI) control, multivariable-PI control and nonlinear generic model control (GMC). The present study showed that control of temperature and composition has resulted in achieving the desired molecular weight. Nonlinear GMC control is able achieve targeted molecular weight closely even in the presence of unmeasured load disturbances in the monomer feed concentration and initial initiator concentration, whereas multi-loop and multivariable PI controllers resulted in some offset.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115813075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and Application of Linear ADRC for the Control of DC-DC Converters","authors":"Soumyadeep Bose, Y. V. Hote, V. Siddhartha","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715625","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the analysis of linear Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) is carried out. A brief generalized mathematical analysis of this control technique is presented, where modifications to the existing control law is done. The mathematical formulations are followed by application on a second-order ADRC. Moreover, the resistance to input channel and measurement disturbances are considered, and a measurement filter is proposed for inclusion in the system. The generalized analysis is done for the second-order ADRC. Validation of the mathematical results and conclusions is done by considering the voltage control of a single phase DC-DC Buck and Buck-Boost converters. The systems are tried for disturbances of various frequencies, and also comparative analysis using the existing and modified control laws is done, and verified against the mathematical analyses.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134520581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Switched Adaptive Observer Design Without Persistence Of Excitation","authors":"Atul Katiyar, S. Roy, S. Bhasin","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715558","url":null,"abstract":"An adaptive observer is proposed using a switched parameter estimator which requires a mild initial excitation (IE) condition on the regressor. Unlike traditional adaptive observer designs which need a stringent persistence of excitation (PE) condition on the regressor for convergence of states and the unknown system parameters, IE is less restrictive. Unlike PE, the IE condition is online verifiable, since it does not rely on the future behavior of the signal. A two-layer low-pass filter design is proposed, where the first-layer provides a parametrized observer framework, while the latter layer along with the switching mechanism averts the need of strict PE condition. Reportedly this is the first work where the need of the PE condition is obviated for the design of adaptive observer.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114900408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simultaneous Resource Allocation and Route Optimization in Dynamic Multi-Agent Networks","authors":"Amber Srivastava, S. Salapaka","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715605","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of simultaneous resource allocation and route optimization problem is to overlay a network of communication resources on an existing network of sensors (or sites); to facilitate the flow of information packets, originating at each sensor, to a destination center (or central processing unit) such that the total cost of communication is minimized. This is an NP-hard problem and the associated cost function is riddled with multiple poor local minima even for fixed locations of sensors and destination center. In the case when the sensors and the destination center have associated dynamics, determining resource location and routing dynamics adds significantly to the complexity. Here we propose a framework that uses the Maximum-Entropy-Principle and a smooth approximation to the total communication cost as a Lyapunov function, to solve the simultaneous resource allocation and route optimization problem in a dynamic setting. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms the frame-by-frame approach with regards to the practical feasibility of the resource dynamics apart from saving heavily on the computational expense involved in the latter.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130246014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karthik Murali Madhavan Rathai, O. Sename, M. Alamir
{"title":"Reachability based Model Predictive Control for Semi-active Suspension System","authors":"Karthik Murali Madhavan Rathai, O. Sename, M. Alamir","doi":"10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715601","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for control of a quarter car semi-active suspension system based on reachable sets approach. The proposed approach provides the flexibility of systematically including the information on the bounds of future road disturbances over the prediction horizon onto the MPC problem formulation by means of reachable sets. This inclusion of future bounds into control design leverages the efficiency of the operation of suspension system. Firstly, a unique Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) model is formulated for control design, which implicitly accounts for the dissipativity constraint of semi-active suspension system. Secondly, an efficient online computation of the reachable sets with the available disturbance information at the current instant for the MPC problem is developed. The proposed methodology is an integration of the preceding steps into a single MPC problem. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is validated through simulations and the results exhibit better performance of the proposed controller compared to skyhook controller in terms of satisfaction of objective and constraint requirements.","PeriodicalId":396409,"journal":{"name":"2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131160202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}