Robust non‐fragile H ∞ ∕ L2 − L ∞ control of uncertain linear system with time‐delay and application to vehicle active suspension

This paper presents an approach to design robust non‐fragile H _∞ ∕ L₂ ? L _∞ static output feedback controller, considering actuator time‐delay and the controller gain variations, and it is applied to design vehicle active suspension. According to suspension design requirements, the H _∞ and L₂ ? L _∞ norms are used, respectively, to reflect ride comfort and time‐domain hard constraints. By employing a delay‐dependent Lyapunov function, existence conditions of delay‐dependent robust non‐fragile static output feedback H _∞ controller and L₂ ? L _∞ controller are derived, respectively, in terms of the feasibility of bilinear matrix inequalities. Then, a new procedure based on LMI optimization and a hybrid algorithm of the particle swarm optimization and differential evolution is used to solve an optimization problem with bilinear matrix inequality constraints. Simulation results show that the designed active suspension system still can guarantee their own performance in spite of the existence of the model uncertainties, the actuator time‐delay and the controller gain variations. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Finite‐time H ∞ control for discrete‐time switched nonlinear systems with time delay

In this paper, the problem of finite‐time H _∞ control is addressed for a class of discrete‐time switched nonlinear systems with time delay. The concept of H _∞ finite‐time boundedness is first introduced for discrete‐time switched delay systems. Next, a set of switching signals are designed by using the average dwell time approach, under which some delay‐dependent sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the H _∞ finite‐time boundedness of the closed‐loop system. Then, a finite‐time H _∞ state feedback controller is also designed by solving such conditions. Furthermore, the problem of uniform finite‐time H _∞ stabilization is also resolved. All the conditions are cast into linear matrix inequalities, which can be easily checked by using recently developed algorithms for solving linear matrix inequalities. A numerical example and a water‐quality control system are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the main results. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Robust H ∞ control of stochastic linear switched systems with dwell time

The theory of H _∞ control of switched systems is extended to stochastic systems with state‐multiplicative noise. Sufficient conditions are obtained for the mean square stability of these systems where dwell time constraint is imposed on the switching. Both nominal and uncertain polytopic systems are considered. A Lyapunov function, in a quadratic form, is assigned to each subsystem that is nonincreasing at the switching instants. During the dwell time, this function varies piecewise linearly in time following the last switch, and it becomes time invariant afterwards. Asymptotic stochastic stability of the set of subsystems is thus ensured by requiring the expected value of the infinitesimal generator of this function to be negative between switchings, resulting in conditions for stability in the form of LMIs. These conditions are extended to the case where the subsystems encounter polytopic‐type parameter uncertainties. The method proposed is applied to the problem of finding an upper bound on the stochastic L₂‐gain of the system. A solution to the robust state‐feedback control problem is then derived, which is based on a modification of the L₂‐gain bound result. Two examples are given that demonstrate the applicability of the proposed theory. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Network‐based H∞ control for stochastic systems

This paper investigates the problem of network‐based control for stochastic plants. A new model of stochastic time‐delay systems is presented where both network‐induced delays and packet dropouts are taken into consideration for a sampled‐data network‐based control system. This model consists of two successive delay components in the state, and we solve the network‐based H_∞ control problem based on this model by a new stochastic delay system approach. The controller design for the sampled‐data systems is carried out in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, we illustrate the methodology by applying these results to an air vehicle control problem. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Delay‐dependent exponential H ∞ filtering for discrete‐time switched delay systems

In this paper, the problem of delay‐dependent exponential H _∞ filtering for discrete‐time switched delay systems is investigated under average dwell time switching signals. Time delay under consideration is interval time‐varying in the states. By introducing a proper factor to construct a novel Lyapunov‐Krasovskii function and using average dwell time approach, sufficient conditions for the solvability of this problem, dependent on the upper and lower bounds of time‐varying delay, are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed results. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A new approach to network‐based H∞ control for stochastic systems

This paper deals with the problem of network‐based H_∞ control for a class of uncertain stochastic systems with both network‐induced delays and packet dropouts. The networked control system under consideration is represented by a stochastic model, which consists of two successive delay components in the state. The uncertainties are assumed to be time varying and norm bounded. Sufficient conditions for the existence of H_∞ controller are proposed to ensure exponentially stable in mean square of the closed‐loop system that also satisfies a prescribed performance. The conditions are expressed in the frame of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), which can be verified easily by means of standard software. Two practical examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed techniques. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Nonfragile observer‐based H ∞ sliding mode control for Itô stochastic systems with Markovian switching

The paper is devoted to investigating sliding mode control for a class of nonlinear uncertain stochastic systems with input nonlinearity and Markovian switching. A nonfragile observer subjected to the transition rates of the modes is designed. By some specified matrices, the connections among the designed sliding surfaces corresponding to every mode are established. The state estimation‐based sliding mode control law is derived to guarantee the reachability of the sliding surface in finite time interval. The sufficient conditions on asymptotically stochastic stability of the error system and sliding mode dynamics with a given disturbance attenuation level are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, an example is provided to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Delay‐dependent robust H∞ control for uncertain stochastic time‐delay systems

This paper investigates the robust H_∞ control problem for stochastic systems with a delay in the state. Sufficient delay‐dependent conditions for the existence of state‐feedback controllers are proposed to guarantee mean‐square asymptotic stability as well as the prescribed H_∞ performance for the closed‐loop systems. Moreover, the results are further extended to the stochastic time‐delay systems with parameter uncertainties, which are assumed to be time‐varying norm‐bounded appearing in both the state and the input matrices. The appealing idea is to partition the delay, which differs greatly from the most existing results and reduces conservatism by thinning the delay partitioning. Numerical examples are provided to show the advantages of the proposed techniques. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Exponential H∞ filtering for switched linear systems with interval time‐varying delay

This paper deals with the problem of exponential H_∞ filtering for a class of continuous‐time switched linear system with interval time‐varying delay. The time delay under consideration includes two cases: one is that the time delay is differentiable and bounded with a constant delay‐derivative bound, whereas the other is that the time delay is continuous and bounded. Switched linear filters are designed to ensure that the filtering error systems under switching signal with average dwell time are exponentially stable with a prescribed H_∞ noise attenuation level. Based on the free‐weighting matrix approach and the average dwell technology, delay‐dependent sufficient conditions for the existence of such a filter are derived and formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). By solving that corresponding LMIs, the desired filter parameterized matrices and the minimal average dwell time are obtained. Finally, two numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed results. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Robust H∞ output‐feedback control of retarded state‐multiplicative stochastic systems

Linear, state‐delayed, continuous‐time systems are considered with both stochastic and norm‐bounded deterministic uncertainties in the state–space model. The problem of robust dynamic H_∞ output‐feedback control is solved, for the stationary case, via the input–output approach where the system is replaced by a nonretarded system with additional deterministic norm‐bounded uncertainties. A delay‐dependent result is obtained which involves the solution of a simple linear matrix inequality. In this problem, a cost function is defined which is the expected value of the standard H_∞ performance cost with respect to the stochastic parameters. A practical example taken from the field of guidance control is given that demonstrates the applicability of the theory. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Exponential H∞ filter design for stochastic time‐varying delay systems with Markovian jumping parameters

In this paper, the exponential H_∞ filter design problem is investigated for a general class of stochastic time‐varying delay system with Markovian jumping parameters. The stochastic uncertainties appear in both the dynamic and the measurement equations and the state delay is assumed to be time‐varying. Attention is focused on the design of mean‐square exponentially stable and Markovian jump filter such that the filtering error systems are mean‐square exponentially stable and the estimation error satisfies a given H_∞ performance. By introducing some slack matrix variables, delay‐dependent sufficient conditions for the solvability of the above problem are presented in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). In addition, the decay rate can be a given positive value without any other constraints. When the proposed LMIs are feasible, an explicit expression of the desired H_∞ filter can be given. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design approach. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

H ∞ output tracking control for discrete‐time switched systems via output feedback

This paper studies the problem of H _∞ output tracking control for a class of discrete‐time switched systems. Neither the measurability of the system state nor the solvability of the output tracking control problem for each individual subsystem is required. We design controllers for subsystems and a switching law to solve the H _∞ output tracking problem for the switched system. The designed controllers use only the measured output feedback, and the switching law is based on the measured output tracking error. In addition, the quadratic function corresponding to each subsystem is not required to be positive definite. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the feasibility and validity of the proposed design method. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Optimal‐switched extended H∞ filter for nonlinear systems with stochastic uncertainties

The extended H_∞ filter (EH_∞F) is a conservative solution with infinite‐horizon robustness for the state estimation problem regarding nonlinear systems with stochastic uncertainties, which leads to excessive costs in terms of filtering optimality and reduces the estimation precision, particularly when uncertainties related to external disturbances and noise appear intermittently. In order to restore the filtering optimality lost due to the conservativeness of the EH_∞F design, we developed an optimal‐switched (OS) filtering mechanism based on the standard EH_∞F to obtain an optimal‐switched extended H_∞ filter (OS‐EH_∞F). The OS mechanism has an error‐tolerant switched (ETS) structure, which switches the filtering mode between optimal and H_∞ robust by setting a switching threshold with redundancy to uncertainties, and a robustness‐optimality cost function (ROCF) is introduced to determine the threshold and optimize the ETS structure online. The ROCF is the weighted sum of the quantified filtering robustness and optimality. When a weight is given, the proposed OS‐EH_∞F can obtain the optimal state estimates while maintaining the filtering robustness at an invariant ratio. A simulation example of space target tracking has demonstrated the superior estimation performance of the OS‐EH_∞F compared with some other typical filters, thereby verifying the effectiveness of using the weight to evaluate the estimation result of the filters.     

Robust stabilization and H∞ control of uncertain stochastic time‐delay systems with nonlinear perturbation

This paper investigates the problem of delay‐dependent robust stochastic stabilization and H_∞ control for uncertain stochastic nonlinear systems with time‐varying delay. System uncertainties are assumed to be norm bounded. Firstly, by using novel method to deal with the integral terms, robustly stochastic stabilization results are obtained for stochastic uncertain systems with nonlinear perturbation, and an appropriate memoryless state feedback controller can be chosen. Compared with previous results, the new technique can sufficiently utilize more negative items information. Then, robust H_∞ control for uncertain stochastic system with time‐varying delay and nonlinear perturbation is considered, and the controller is designed, which will guarantee that closed‐loop system is robustly stochastically stable with disturbance attenuation level. Finally, two numerical examples are listed to illustrate that our results are effective and less conservative than other reports in previous literature. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On designing network‐based H ∞ controllers for stochastic systems

This paper is concerned with network‐based H _∞ stabilization for stochastic systems, where network‐induced delays, packet dropouts, and packet disorders are taken into account simultaneously. The packet disorders arising from both the sampler‐to‐controller channel and the controller‐to‐actuator channel are considered by introducing a logic controller and a logic zero‐order hold. The network‐induced delays and packet dropouts are modeled as a constant delay plus a non‐differentiable time‐varying delay in the input. By employing Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional approach, we establish results that parallel well‐known bounded real Lemmas. More specifically, these results provide conditions to bound the H _∞ level of the system, which means the worst case energy of the output of the system when subjected to a unitary norm deterministic disturbance signal. On the basis of these results, suitable network‐based H _∞ controllers are designed by using cone complementary linearization method. An air vehicle system is finally taken as an example to show the effectiveness of the proposed method. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Robust passivity‐based H∞ control for uncertain switched nonlinear systems

In this paper, we investigate the H_∞ control problem for uncertain switched nonlinear systems with passive and non‐passive subsystems. For any given average dwell time, any given passivity rate and any given disturbance attenuation level, we design feedback controllers of subsystems, which may depend on the pre‐given constants, to solve the H_∞ control problem for the uncertain switched nonlinear systems for all admissible uncertainties. For linear systems, the exponential small‐time norm‐observability is shown to be preserved under disturbance. Two examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

New results on non‐fragile H∞ controller design for uncertain linear systems

This paper deals with the non‐fragile H_∞ control problem for uncertain linear systems. The uncertainties are of a linear fractional form and appear in both the state and control input matrices. The purpose is to design a state feedback controller, which is subject to linear fractional parametric uncertainties, such that the resulting closed‐loop system is quadratically stable with an H_∞ norm bound. A sufficient condition for the solvability of the problem is obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Robust H∞ control for uncertain discrete‐time stochastic bilinear systems with Markovian switching

This paper is concerned with the problems of robust stochastic stabilization and robust H_∞ control for uncertain discrete‐time stochastic bilinear systems with Markovian switching. The parameter uncertainties are time‐varying norm‐bounded. For the robust stochastic stabilization problem, the purpose is the design of a state feedback controller which ensures the robust stochastic stability of the closed‐loop system irrespective of all admissible parameter uncertainties; while for the robust H_∞ control problem, in addition to the robust stochastic stability requirement, a prescribed level of disturbance attenuation is required to be achieved. Sufficient conditions for the solvability of these problems are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). When these LMIs are feasible, explicit expressions of the desired state feedback controllers are also given. An illustrative example is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Design of robust non‐fragile H∞ filters for uncertain neutral stochastic systems with distributed delays

This paper deals with the problem of robust non‐fragile H_∞ filtering for neutral stochastic systems with distributed delays and norm‐bounded parameter uncertainties. Attention is focused on the design of a filter which is subject to gain variations, such that the filtering error system is robustly stochastically stable with a prescribed H_∞ performance level for all admissible uncertainties. A delay‐dependent sufficient condition for the solvability of this problem is obtained in terms of a linear matrix inequality. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

H∞ filtering for singular systems with time‐varying delay

This paper is concerned with the delay‐dependent H_∞ filtering problem for singular systems with time‐varying delay in a range. In terms of linear matrix inequality approach, the delay‐range‐dependent bounded real lemmas are proposed, which guarantee the considered system to be regular, impulse free and exponentially stable while satisfying a prescribed H_∞ performance level. The sufficient conditions are proposed for the existence of linear H_∞ filter. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and the benefits of the proposed methods. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.