{"title":"Reachable set estimation of MASs with consensus performance under event-triggered scheme and semi-Markov switching topologies with partially unknown rates","authors":"Binbin Tian , Wenchao Huang , Hui Peng , Jinhua Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article focuses on the issue of reachable set estimation(RSE) with the consensus performance for multi-agent systems(MASs) under event-triggered scheme(ETS) and semi-Markov switching topologies with partially unknown rates(SMST-PUR). Firstly, through model transformation, the consensus research of MASs can be converted to the closed-loop stability analysis problem, and a periodic sampling ETS is employed to reduce the frequency of information broadcasting by the behavior of communicating with neighbors at the special moments. Secondly, the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functions(LKFs) with state information of time delay are constructed, whose goal is to capture more dynamics of time delay that impact on the controller’s design. And a group of sufficient conditions in the aspect of linear matrix inequalities(LMIs) is derived to guarantee that the states of error system can be confined within a finite union of ellipsoid-like sets corresponding to each mode with consensus manifestation under the action of switching topology randomly governed by SMST-PUR. Simultaneously, the method of co-designing the consensus controller and the triggered matrices of ETS with RSE performance is depicted to save communication resources availably. Finally, a study case is utilized to verify the validity of the proposed method and the comparative results illustrate the advantages and effectiveness of the control algorithm designed in this paper.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101148"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RISE-based asymptotic adaptive prescribed performance control of uncertain nonlinear systems and application to DC motor","authors":"Zhangbao Xu , Maokun Zhang , Jialin Ren , Zhenle Dong , Jianyong Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101168","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101168","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, the asymptotic control of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems is investigated and a robust integral of the sign of the error (RISE)-based asymptotic adaptive prescribed performance controller is developed, where adaptive control for unknown parameters and RISE for disturbances are combined via backstepping design, ensuring the asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system. While, a simple error transformation function is constructed with the prescribed performance function, and improved tracking precision with prescribed control performance is guaranteed. Finally, the proposed method is applied to the DC motor system and comparative experimental results are obtained to verify its effectiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101168"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regularity properties of optimization-based controllers","authors":"Pol Mestres , Ahmed Allibhoy , Jorge Cortés","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies regularity properties of optimization-based controllers, which are obtained by solving optimization problems where the parameter is the system state and the optimization variable is the input to the system. Under a wide range of assumptions on the optimization problem data, we provide an exhaustive collection of results about their regularity, and examine their implications on the existence and uniqueness of solutions and the forward invariance guarantees for the resulting closed-loop systems. We discuss the broad relevance of the results in different areas of systems and controls.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101098"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143102187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Actuator fault-tolerant mixed passivity and H∞ control for autonomous marine surface vehicles: A sampled-data approach","authors":"Soundararajan Vimal Kumar, Jonghoek Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101167","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article, the problem of fault-tolerant mixed passivity and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>∞</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> control for autonomous marine surface vehicles (AMSVs) with actuator faults is investigated using a sampled data approach. A mixed passivity and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>∞</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> control with sampled-data for three AMSVs with actuator faults or bias failures, or both, is investigated for the first time in an AMSV system. First, a steering machine (actuator) bias failure and an actuator fault in the presence of a ship course-keeping autopilot (SCKA), which causes the vessel to deviate from the desired heading, especially in course-keeping, are investigated. Second, the dynamic positioning of the ship (DPS) is investigated in the presence of an actuator fault. By defining a suitable Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and using Jensen’s inequality, linear matrix inequality (LMI)-based mixed passivity and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>∞</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> performance analysis and controller design are presented. The designed sampled-data-based fault-tolerant controllers can guarantee asymptotic stability and tracking of prescribed reference outputs while addressing actuator faults or bias failures, or both, and rejecting disturbances. Finally, three numerical examples are given to prove the validity of the proposed approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, Giulia Fracastoro, Lorenzo Zino
{"title":"Identification of piecewise constant parameters in nonlinear models","authors":"Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, Giulia Fracastoro, Lorenzo Zino","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101151","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101151","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many real-world dynamical systems are characterized by different temporal phases, with sudden changes in the values of the system’s parameters in correspondence to variations from one phase to another. Identifying the system’s parameters and these switching instants from potentially noisy measurements of the system’s states is a relevant problem in several applications. We here propose a novel approach for estimating the time-varying parameters of a broad class of nonlinear dynamical systems from noisy state measurements. We formulate the problem as a mixed-integer quadratic program (MIQP) including a sparsity constraint to enforce the piecewise constant nature of the parameters. Then, we develop a convex relaxation of the problem in the form of a quadratic program (QP). The solution of the relaxed convex QP and/or the sub-optimal solutions of the MIQP returned by the MIQP solvers provide us with computationally-efficient approximations that can be used effectively in those large-dimensional cases in which the solution of the original MIQP is difficult to obtain. After validating our approach in a controlled experiment, we demonstrate its potential on two real-world case studies regarding marketing and epidemiological applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101151"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143102188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ali Mehrjouyan , Mohammad B. Menhaj , Erfan Askarzadeh , Amir Hooshiar
{"title":"Transparency-enhanced observer-based adaptive backstepping torque–position control for teleoperation systems with position error constraint and time-varying delay","authors":"Ali Mehrjouyan , Mohammad B. Menhaj , Erfan Askarzadeh , Amir Hooshiar","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nonlinear teleoperation systems are susceptible to significant problems, including transparency, safety, stability and external torques/forces measurement. In order to deal with these limitations, an observer-based adaptive backstepping torque–position control approach is proposed in this paper. In order to achieve this objective, a novel external torque observer is proposed to alleviate the limitations associated with the use of force sensors. This paper’s main idea is to employ a three-channel architecture using a force sensor-less reflecting signal, which can improve transparency and increase algorithm performance. Furthermore, the another point of this paper is to enhance the safeness of operations in the presence of time-varying delays in the communication channel, a position error constraint control strategy is employed in the core of the proposed approach. Moreover, the primary advantage of this paper is that, the proposed observer-based control algorithm is relieved from the joints acceleration measurement of the leader and follower manipulators which is difficult in robotic systems. Finally, the stability analysis of the controller and observer together is conducted by the Barrier Lyapunov functional and series of simulations, comparisons and practical experiments are performed to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101153"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143102190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robust output feedback finite-time stabilization of nonlinear singular large-scale continuous-time systems with delays","authors":"Pham T. Huong , Nguyen H. Muoi , Vu N. Phat","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we discuss how to design output feedback controllers for robust finite-time stabilization problems of nonlinear singular large-scale delay systems. A new general class of singular large-scale is composed of linear subsystems coupled by nonlinear perturbations satisfying Lipschitzian condition and subjected to interacted delays and bounded perturbations. By using singular value theory and constructing appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii functions, new LMI-based conditions for designing output feedback controllers are presented in terms of solving tractable LMIs. The proposed approach is the first attempt in the field of finite-time stabilization of nonlinear complex interconnected delay systems. An example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New paradigmes in control of renewable energy sources for grid voltage and frequency services","authors":"Bogdan Marinescu","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A new control approach is proposed for the grid insertion of Power Park Modules (PPMs). It allows full participation of these modules to ancillary services. This means that, not only their control have some positive impact on the grid frequency and voltage dynamics, but they can effectively participate to existing primary and secondary control loops together with the classic thermal/inertia synchronous generators and fulfill the same specifications both from the control and contractual points of view.</div><div>To achieve such level of performances, a <em>system approach</em> based on an <em>innovatory control model</em> is proposed. The latter control model drops classic hypothesis for separation of voltage and frequency dynamics used till now in order to gather these dynamics into a small size model.</div><div>From the <em>system point of view</em>, dynamics are grouped by time-scales of phenomena in the proposed control model. This results in more performant controls in comparison to classic approaches which orient controls to physical actuators (control of grid side converter and of generator side converter). Also, this allows coordination between control of converters and generator or, in case of multimachines specifications, among several PPMs.</div><div>From the <em>control synthesis point of view</em>, classic robust approaches are used (like, e.g., <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>∞</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> synthesis).</div><div>Implementation and validation tests are presented for wind PPMs but the approach holds for any other type of PPM.</div><div>These results will be further used to control the units of the new concept of <em>Dynamic Virtual Power Plant</em> introduced in the H2020 POSYTYF project.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperative navigation using constrained convex generators","authors":"Francisco Rego , Daniel Silvestre","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article, we suggest a technique of set-based cooperative navigation for a fleet of vehicles under communication constraints. In the suggested approach, only the distances and bearings to other vehicles or known locations can be measured. Each vehicle in the fleet must determine its location and the positions of the other vehicles based on the measurements as well as information shared among the vehicles. Since the measurement set may be nonconvex, it must be approximated by a convex set. To address this issue, we employ constrained convex generators, which is a generalization of the definition for constrained zonotopes that allows <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ℓ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> unit norm balls and convex cones. To keep the amount of exchanged information low the vehicles transmit an ellipse containing the state estimate to the other vehicles. The obtained estimates are worst-case bounds for the true position, which is important in certain applications such as collision avoidance. The computed sets are then applied to vehicle control algorithms, taking into account the positions of all the agents. Through numerical simulations, we illustrate the application of this method to the problem of cooperative navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles and the problem of fire detection with multiple UAVs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101163"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New order-dependent conditions to control a class of nonlinear real-order systems","authors":"Bichitra Kumar Lenka, Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In many application points of interest, controlling the responses of real-world applications that vary with time seems quite challenging and puzzling. A linear time-varying state feedback controller is widely known and can be useful to estimate bounds to the state control matrix in the design of many control systems. The issue of initialization of real-order control system enhancement remains a challenging issue in the systems analysis subject to random initial-time placed on a real number line. We address a new design of a class of real-order control systems that consists of separated linear and nonlinear terms affected by input functions to be controlled with an implemented time-varying linear state feedback controller. We utilize the fractional comparison method and under Lipschitz nonlinearity with a constant bounding matrix of time-varying coefficients of control systems to address new order-dependent conditions that provide local and global stabilization to controlled systems. Applications of results that include practical real-order single-machine-infinite-bus power systems have been illustrated to control the responses by the utility of theoretical conditions examined along with validation of numerical simulations. It is shown that the proposed controller is practically convenient and demonstrates the efficiency of measuring the performances of control systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101162"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}