ISA transactionsPub Date : 2025-03-08DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.034
Haiyan Tong, Mingxiao Sun, Tiantian Luan
{"title":"Global fixed-time position-constrained guidance and adaptive fuzzy prescribed performance control using novel shift function for multiple unmanned surface vehicles formation.","authors":"Haiyan Tong, Mingxiao Sun, Tiantian Luan","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Guidance and control of multiple unmanned surface vehicles (Multi-USVs) present many challenges due to their under-actuation and the unknown environmental disturbance. This research addresses the formation guidance and control problems of multi-USVs by designing a global fixed-time constrained guidance and control formation approach. First, a global fixed-time control Lyapunov function (GFCLF) is proposed using an innovative shift function to deal with the fixed-time output partial constraint. Subsequently, a fixed-time asymmetric position-constrained guidance algorithm for multi-USVs formation is designed by combining the line-of-sight guidance principle, the leader-follower structure, and the suggested GFCLF. Second, a global fixed-time prescribed performance function (GFPPF) is designed to solve the global tracking error performance constraint problem. Then, global fixed-time adaptive fuzzy prescribed performance control laws are developed to achieve the tracking control for the multi-USVs formation task, in which a fixed-time adaptive fuzzy logic system is designed to approximate the unknown disturbance of USVs. Furthermore, the closed-loop control system stability analysis is proven to support that all tracking error signals are bounded in a fixed time. Finally, simulations and comparative cases using the physical USV model are studied to demonstrate the practicality and superiority of theoretical results.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143618131","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}
ISA transactionsPub Date : 2025-03-08DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2025.03.001
Tianchen Zhang, Yibo Ding, Xiaokui Yue, Naying Li
{"title":"Adaptive terminal super-twisting prescribed performance controller for near-space vehicle based on data-driven model.","authors":"Tianchen Zhang, Yibo Ding, Xiaokui Yue, Naying Li","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A data-driven adaptive terminal super-twisting prescribed performance controller (DASTPC) is designed for near-space vehicle (NSV) to satisfy transient and steady-state performance, and prevent scramjet choking. Firstly, a novel predetermined-time performance function is proposed to guarantee that tracking error can converge to a prescribed bound of small residual sets at the predetermined time. Compared with traditional performance functions, the predetermined-time performance function can achieve faster respond speed, realize more accurate convergence, and avoid overlarge initial value of actuators. Secondly, by combining the predetermined-time performance function with sliding mode control, a novel non-singular fast terminal sliding surface and an improved adaptive super-twisting reaching law are proposed to improve computational efficiency and accelerate convergent rate of system. The adaptive reaching law can avoid excessive gains and attenuate chattering by automatically tuning control gain. Thirdly, a deep recurrent neural network-based long-short term memory (LSTM) is employed to learn time-series historical flight dynamics data offline, so as to construct a data-driven LSTM training model. This data-driven model replaces nominal dynamics model of NSV in DASTPC, effectively suppressing model uncertainties. In addition, a homogeneous high-order sliding mode observer is utilized to compensate for external disturbances, avoiding excessive parameter estimation. Since boundary conditions of the predetermined-time performance function are fully satisfied, the DASTPC can effectively restrict amplitude of angle of attack, thus ensuring the intake condition of scramjet. Ultimately, to illustrate the superiority of DASTPC, several sets of simulations are performed on NSV subject to prescribed performance bound, external disturbances and parameter perturbations.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626835","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}
ISA transactionsPub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.032
Jiwei Wen, Huiwen Xue, Xiaoli Luan, Peng Shi
{"title":"A general TD-Q learning control approach for discrete-time Markov jump systems.","authors":"Jiwei Wen, Huiwen Xue, Xiaoli Luan, Peng Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper develops a novel temporal difference Q (TD-Q) learning approach, designed to address the robust control challenge in discrete-time Markov jump systems (MJSs) which are characterized by entirely unknown dynamics and transition probabilities (TPs). The model-free TD-Q learning method is uniquely comprehensive, including two special cases: Q learning for MJSs with unknown dynamics, and TD learning for MJSs with undetermined TPs. We propose an innovative ternary policy iteration framework, which iteratively refines the control policies through a dynamic loop of alternating updates. This loop consists of three synergistic processes: firstly, aligning TD value functions with current policies; secondly, enhancing Q-function's matrix kernels (QFMKs) using these TD value functions; and thirdly, generating greedy policies based on the enhanced QFMKs. We demonstrate that, with a sufficient number of episodes, the TD value functions, QFMKs, and control policies converge optimally within this iterative loop. To illustrate efficiency of the developed approach, we introduce a numerical example that highlights its substantial benefits through a thorough comparison with current learning control methods for MJSs. Moreover, a structured population dynamics model for pests is utilized to validate the practical applicability.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607623","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}
ISA transactionsPub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2025.03.002
Renkai Liu, Xiaorui Liu, Hang Su, Jinpeng Yu
{"title":"A synchronous control strategy of robot social behavior driven by scenario information and neural modulation mechanism.","authors":"Renkai Liu, Xiaorui Liu, Hang Su, Jinpeng Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Robots have been widely employed in scenarios that involve various environmental factors and social individuals. As one kind of social companion, robot is supposed to obey human social protocol and display anthropomorphic behaviors. In this paper, we focus on the problem of robot behavior control in multi-individuals scenarios, and build a coordinated robot behavior model containing body movement/orientation, head rotation and eyeball movement. Within the proposed model, a synchronous control strategy based on social space theory and neural modulation mechanism is proposed. This strategy collects RGB-D camera stream and acoustic field data perceived from multi-individuals scenario, and controls the robot to complete movement and social gaze behaviors. As for the eye-head coordinated gaze behavior, it is modulated by a novel optimal control algorithm based on the minimum neural transmission noise. Above works are validated on the Xiaopang robot platform, the experimental observations indicate that the robot can achieve anthropomorphic response in dynamic multi-individuals scenario. Within above promising results, the effectiveness of this strategies could be proven.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744654","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":"Geometric attitude tracking control of quadrotor UAVs with adaptive extended state observers.","authors":"Liping Wang, Jiapeng Chen, Yuyuan Huang, Yongbin Zhu, Hailong Pei","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper studies a geometric attitude tracking control problem of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with adaptive extended state observers (AESOs). Through coordinate transformation, the error dynamic of AESO can be transformed into a canonical form which is easier to analyze by linear time-varying theory. In the presence of unknown disturbances and system uncertainties, the estimated error and stability of AESO can be analyzed. Simultaneously, a geometric tracking controller is developed on SO(3) with AESOs which guarantees that the error exponentially converges to a bounded set related to the estimated error. Some examples and a flight test are given to verify the availability of the control scheme.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143639874","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}
ISA transactionsPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.030
Atif Rehman, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Iftikhar Ahmad
{"title":"Optimized nonlinear robust controller along with model-parameter estimation for blood glucose regulation in type-1 diabetes.","authors":"Atif Rehman, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Iftikhar Ahmad","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Glucose acts as a fundamental energy source for cells and plays a pivotal role in various physiological processes, including metabolism, signaling, and cellular control. Maintaining precise regulation of blood glucose levels is crucial for overall health and equilibrium. To achieve this balance, insulin is administered either orally or through an artificial pancreas (AP) during sleep, utilizing control algorithms based on mathematical models to regulate blood glucose concentration (BGC). The extended Bergman minimal model (EBMM) is an advanced mathematical framework that incorporates a state variable to accommodate disturbances in insulin levels triggered by factors such as meal intake or exercise-induced sugar burning. In our study, we propose robust nonlinear controllers: adaptive backstepping sliding mode control (AB-SMC), and adaptive backstepping integral super twisting sliding mode control (ABIST-SMC) and compare these with the backstepping sliding mode control (B-SMC) for stabilizing BGC in type 1 diabetic patients. These controllers aim to regulate blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetic patients by providing robust and adaptive control strategies that mitigate disturbances and ensure stability, ultimately enhancing health outcomes and quality of life. Moreover, adaptive parameter estimation is incorporated to eliminate the need for exact model parameter values for control design. The controller gains are meticulously fine-tuned using improved grey wolf optimization, with the integral time absolute error serving as the objective function. Notably, the ABIST-SMC controller emerges as the most efficient, achieving the desired reduction level in less than 1.92 min. The stability of the proposed controllers is rigorously analyzed using the Lyapunov control theory, demonstrating their capability to achieve asymptotic stability. Simulations are conducted to evaluate and compare the performance of the suggested controllers. Additionally, hardware validation is executed using a hardware-in-loop experimental setup.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143639887","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 pruning-aware dynamic slimmable network using meta-gradients for high-speed train bogie bearing fault diagnosis.","authors":"Jingsong Xie, Sha Cao, Tongyang Pan, Tiantian Wang, Jinsong Yang, Jinglong Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although intelligent fault diagnosis achieves remarkable achievements, computation efficiency is a commonly ignored problem in existing studies. Pruning network networks enable us to find compact models that not only retain the diagnosis accuracy, but also consume fewer computation resources for training and inference. However, current studies are inefficient in building a saliency criterion for parameter importance evaluation. In this paper, we identify a pruning-aware dynamic slimmable network which uses the meta-gradients to select unnecessary parameters to prune. The slimmable network is designed with two sub-networks, called the classifier and the evaluator to generate meta-gradients for parameter pruning. And an iterative pruning algorithm is proposed to improve computation efficiency while retaining diagnosis performance. Our method is verified on a high-precision bogie fault simulation experimental data set and achieves state-of-art performance in terms of accuracy and efficiency compared with existing studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744652","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}
ISA transactionsPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.020
Muhammad Noman, Usman Ali Afzal, Iftikhar Ahmad, Shahzad Ahmed
{"title":"Modeling and design of power conditioning unit of CubeSat electrical power subsystem with robust nonlinear MPPT controller.","authors":"Muhammad Noman, Usman Ali Afzal, Iftikhar Ahmad, Shahzad Ahmed","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two non-inverting buck-boost converters, one for each solar panel of the X and Y axes of CubeSat have been used to condition the power with a common output capacitor on DC bus. The power generated from each axis of the solar panel is added to the DC-bus along with the power generated by the less illuminated solar panels. For the proposed model, Synergetic control, Sliding Mode Control, and Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control algorithms have been implemented for the MPPT, and their results are compared with each other. The results indicate that the ST-SMC performs well and gives the best dynamic performance and robustness under varying load conditions of temperature, irradiance, and disturbance. Moreover, the stability of the system is validated by using the Lyapunov stability criterion.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143569161","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}
ISA transactionsPub Date : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.026
Xinyang Ma, Jinkun Liu
{"title":"Event-triggered boundary consensus force control for PDE modeling multi-flexible manipulators with both actuator delay and communication delay.","authors":"Xinyang Ma, Jinkun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A distributed adaptive consistency controller is designed for PDE modeling multi-flexible manipulators with both actuator delay and communication delay. The input integral is fed back into the controller to avoid the influence of the actuator delay. The adaptive law is designed to observe the ideal signal for the agent without the ideal signal information. The event-triggered method is used in the adaptive law to reduce information transmission pressure and simplify analysis. Based on the integral Krasovskii Lyapunov function and the adaptive law, the designed controller works even with the unknown communication delay between manipulators. A matrix composed of the system and controller parameters is designed, representing the convergence rate of the system, and the optimization function FMINCON is used to optimize the matrix, in order to obtain appropriate controller coefficients. Control goal realization and the stability of the closed-loop system are proven via the Lyapunov direct method. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed controller.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143588695","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}
ISA transactionsPub Date : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.028
Yifan Xu, Silu Chen, Zhuang Xu, Chi Zhang, Weizhen Wang, Dunant Halim
{"title":"Data-based tuning of bumpless feedforward for tracking of multi-phase trajectories with application to wire-bonding machine.","authors":"Yifan Xu, Silu Chen, Zhuang Xu, Chi Zhang, Weizhen Wang, Dunant Halim","doi":"10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2025.02.028","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To improve the settling time for high-speed point-to-point motion, a piecewise-model feedforward controller is introduced which utilizes multiple inverse sub-models with bumpless transfer between them. As the transfer function of this bumpless feedforward controller is non-commutative and non-invertible, a set of special perturbation and reference inputs are designed to extract the signals required for computing the gradient of the cost function. In this way, the optimal parameters within different motion phases are found within an integrated process. It is experimentally demonstrated in a wire-bonding machine that the root-mean-square of tracking error is improved by at least 15.3% in settling phase by the proposed data-based tuning method with bumpless feedforward controller, compared with existing tuning methods with uniform feedforward controller.</p>","PeriodicalId":94059,"journal":{"name":"ISA transactions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607641","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}