{"title":"Finite-Time Stabilization for Constrained Discrete-time Systems by Using Model Predictive Control","authors":"Bing Zhu;Xiaozhuoer Yuan;Li Dai;Zhiwen Qiang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2024.124212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2024.124212","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a model predictive control (MPC) framework is proposed for finite-time stabilization of linear and nonlinear discrete-time systems subject to state and control constraints. The proposed MPC framework guarantees the finite-time convergence property by assigning the control horizon equal to the dimension of the overall system, and only penalizing the terminal cost in the optimization, where the stage costs are not penalized explicitly. A terminal inequality constraint is added to guarantee the feasibility and stability of the closed-loop system. Initial feasibility can be improved via augmentation. The finite-time convergence of the proposed MPC is proved theoretically, and is supported by simulation examples.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1656-1666"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Self-Triggered Set Stabilization of Boolean Control Networks and Its Applications","authors":"Rong Zhao;Jun-e Feng;Dawei Zhang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2023.124050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2023.124050","url":null,"abstract":"Set stabilization is one of the essential problems in engineering systems, and self-triggered control (STC) can save the storage space for interactive information, and can be successfully applied in networked control systems with limited communication resources. In this study, the set stabilization problem and STC design of Boolean control networks are investigated via the semi-tensor product technique. On the one hand, the largest control invariant subset is calculated in terms of the strongly connected components of the state transition graph, by which a graph-theoretical condition for set stabilization is derived. On the other hand, a characteristic function is exploited to determine the triggering mechanism and feasible controls. Based on this, the minimum-time and minimum-triggering open-loop, state-feedback and output-feedback STCs for set stabilization are designed, respectively. As classic applications of self-triggered set stabilization, self-triggered synchronization, self-triggered output tracking and self-triggered output regulation are discussed as well. Additionally, several practical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of theoretical results.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1631-1642"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Deep Reinforcement Learning or Lyapunov Analysis? A Preliminary Comparative Study on Event-Triggered Optimal Control","authors":"Jingwei Lu;Lefei Li;Qinglai Wei;Fei–Yue Wang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2024.124434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2024.124434","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, This letter develops a novel method to implement event-triggered optimal control (ETOC) for discrete-time nonlinear systems using parallel control and deep reinforcement learning (DRL), referred to as Deep-ETOC. The developed Deep-ETOC method introduces the communication cost into the performance index through parallel control, so that the developed method enables control systems to learn ETOC policies directly without triggering conditions. Then, dueling double deep Q-network (D3QN) is utilized to achieve our method. In simulations, we present a preliminary comparative study of DRL and Lyapunov analysis for ETOC.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1702-1704"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10555241","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Shengnan Gao;Zhouhua Peng;Haoliang Wang;Lu Liu;Dan Wang
{"title":"Long Duration Coverage Control of Multiple Robotic Surface Vehicles Under Battery Energy Constraints","authors":"Shengnan Gao;Zhouhua Peng;Haoliang Wang;Lu Liu;Dan Wang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2023.123438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2023.123438","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, This letter addresses long duration coverage problem of multiple robotic surface vehicles (RSVs) subject to battery energy constraints, in addition to uncertainties and disturbances. An anti-disturbance energy-aware control method is proposed for performing coverage task of RSVs. Firstly, a centroidal Voronoi tessellation (CVT) is used to optimize the partition of the given coverage area. The optimal position for each vehicle corresponds to the centroid of the Voronoi cell. Secondly, by consisting two battery energy control barrier functions, an energy-aware kinematic guidance law is designed to drive each RSV to the optimal position. Finally, an anti-disturbance fixed-time kinetic control law is designed for each RSV to track the desired speed based on the fixed-time extended state observer and nonlinear tracking differentiator. By the control method, RSVs are capable of achieving the long duration coverage within the given coverage area. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed anti-disturbance energy-aware control method for multi-RSV.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1695-1698"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10555238","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"A LiDAR Point Clouds Dataset of Ships in a Maritime Environment","authors":"Qiuyu Zhang;Lipeng Wang;Hao Meng;Wen Zhang;Genghua Huang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2024.124275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2024.124275","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time, this article introduces a LiDAR Point Clouds Dataset of Ships composed of both collected and simulated data to address the scarcity of LiDAR data in maritime applications. The collected data are acquired using specialized maritime LiDAR sensors in both inland waterways and wide-open ocean environments. The simulated data is generated by placing a ship in the LiDAR coordinate system and scanning it with a redeveloped Blensor that emulates the operation of a LiDAR sensor equipped with various laser beams. Furthermore, we also render point clouds for foggy and rainy weather conditions. To describe a realistic shipping environment, a dynamic tail wave is modeled by iterating the wave elevation of each point in a time series. Finally, networks serving small objects are migrated to ship applications by feeding our dataset. The positive effect of simulated data is described in object detection experiments, and the negative impact of tail waves as noise is verified in single-object tracking experiments. The Dataset is available at https://github.com/zqy411470859/ship_dataset.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1681-1694"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Interpolated Bumpless Transfer Control for Asynchronously Switched Linear Systems","authors":"Shengao Lu;Tong Wu;Lixian Zhang;Jianan Yang;Ye Liang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2023.124155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2023.124155","url":null,"abstract":"This paper revisits the problem of bumpless transfer control (BTC) for discrete-time nondeterministic switched linear systems. The general case of asynchronous switching is considered for the first time in the field of BTC for switched systems. A new approach called interpolated bumpless transfer control (IBTC) is proposed, where the bumpless transfer controllers are formulated with the combination of the two adjacent mode-dependent controller gains, and are interpolated for finite steps once the switching is detected. In contrast with the existing approaches, IBTC does not necessarily run through the full interval of subsystems, as well as possesses the time-varying controller gains (with more flexibility and less conservatism) achieved from a control synthesis allowing for the stability and other performance of the whole switched system. Sufficient conditions ensuring stability and \u0000<tex>$H_{infty}$</tex>\u0000 performance of the underlying system by IBTC are developed, and numerical examples verify the theoretical findings.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1579-1590"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Prescribed Performance Tracking Control of Time-Delay Nonlinear Systems With Output Constraints","authors":"Jin-Xi Zhang;Kai-Di Xu;Qing-Guo Wang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2023.123831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2023.123831","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of prescribed performance tracking control for unknown time-delay nonlinear systems subject to output constraints is dealt with in this paper. In contrast with related works, only the most fundamental requirements, i.e., boundedness and the local Lipschitz condition, are assumed for the allowable time delays. Moreover, we focus on the case where the reference is unknown beforehand, which renders the standard prescribed performance control designs under output constraints infeasible. To conquer these challenges, a novel robust prescribed performance control approach is put forward in this paper. Herein, a reverse tuning function is skillfully constructed and automatically generates a performance envelop for the tracking error. In addition, a unified performance analysis framework based on proof by contradiction and the barrier function is established to reveal the inherent robustness of the control system against the time delays. It turns out that the system output tracks the reference with a preassigned settling time and good accuracy, without constraint violations. A comparative simulation on a two-stage chemical reactor is carried out to illustrate the above theoretical findings.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1557-1565"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"SDGNN: Symmetry-Preserving Dual-Stream Graph Neural Networks","authors":"Jiufang Chen;Ye Yuan;Xin Luo","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2024.124410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2024.124410","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, This letter proposes a symmetry-preserving dual-stream graph neural network (SDGNN) for precise representation learning to an undirected weighted graph (UWG). Although existing graph neural networks (GNNs) are influential instruments for representation learning to a UWG, they invariably adopt a unique node feature matrix for illustrating the sole node set of a UWG. Such a modeling strategy can limit the representation learning ability due to the diminished feature space. To this end, the proposed SDGNN innovatively adopts the following two-fold ideas: 1) Building a dual-stream graph learning framework that tolerates multiple node feature matrices for boosting the representation learning ability; 2) Integrating a symmetry regularization term into the learning objective for implying the equality constraint among its multiple node feature matrices, which exemplifies a graph's intrinsic symmetry and prompts learning the multiple node embeddings jointly. Experiments on six real-world UWG datasets indicate that the proposed SDGNN has superior performance in addressing the task of missing link estimation compared with the state-of-the-art baselines.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1717-1719"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10555245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Fuzzy-Inverse-Model-Based Networked Tracking Control Frameworks of Time-Varying Signals","authors":"Shiwen Tong;Dianwei Qian;Keya Yuan;Dexin Liu;Yuan Li;Jiancheng Zhang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2024.124293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2024.124293","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, Tracking control in networked environment is a very challenging problem due to the contradiction of rapid response to the time-varying signal and the inevitable delay introduced by networks. This letter has proposed several fuzzy-inverse-model-based network tracking control frameworks which are helpful in handling the system with nonlinear dynamics and uncertainties. The control frameworks have adopted different strategies such as feedback correction, internal model structure and adaptive technology. Simulations have proved the validity of the strategies. Moreover, the combination of two or more technologies can greatly improve the control performance.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1708-1710"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10555240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Disturbance Observer-Based Predictive Tracking Control of Uncertain HOFA Cyber-Physical Systems","authors":"Da-Wei Zhang;Guo-Ping Liu","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2023.124080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2023.124080","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, In this letter, an output tracking control problem of uncertain cyber-physical systems (CPSs) is considered in the perspective of high-order fully actuated (HOFA) system theory, where a lumped disturbance is used to denote the total uncertainties containing parameters perturbations and external disturbances. A disturbance observer-based HOFA predictive control (DOB-HOFAPC) is adopted to achieve the desired tracking control performance and compensate for the communication delays in the forward and backward channels. The further discussion gives a criterion to analyze the tracking performance and stability of closed-loop CPSs. An example of long distance power transmission line is shown to verify the feasibility of the proposed DOB-HOFAPC.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"11 7","pages":"1711-1713"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10555244","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}