This paper studies the problem of time-varying formation control with finite-time prescribed performance for nonstrict feedback second-order multi-agent systems with unmeasured states and unknown nonlinearities.To eli...This paper studies the problem of time-varying formation control with finite-time prescribed performance for nonstrict feedback second-order multi-agent systems with unmeasured states and unknown nonlinearities.To eliminate nonlinearities,neural networks are applied to approximate the inherent dynamics of the system.In addition,due to the limitations of the actual working conditions,each follower agent can only obtain the locally measurable partial state information of the leader agent.To address this problem,a neural network state observer based on the leader state information is designed.Then,a finite-time prescribed performance adaptive output feedback control strategy is proposed by restricting the sliding mode surface to a prescribed region,which ensures that the closed-loop system has practical finite-time stability and that formation errors of the multi-agent systems converge to the prescribed performance bound in finite time.Finally,a numerical simulation is provided to demonstrate the practicality and effectiveness of the developed algorithm.展开更多
This paper investigates the exponential and prescribed finite-time stabilization with time-varying controller.First,the constraints of boundedness and differentiability on time delays are simultaneously relaxed,the Li...This paper investigates the exponential and prescribed finite-time stabilization with time-varying controller.First,the constraints of boundedness and differentiability on time delays are simultaneously relaxed,the Lipschitz condition for activation function is also relaxed.Second,different from the traditional Lyapunov function,two different time-varying Lyapunov functions are respectively constructed to achieve the exponential and prescribed finite-time stabilization.Significantly,the exponential convergence rate and the settling time are constants that can be given in advance and are not affected by system parameters and initial states.In addition,the time-varying controllers have good tolerance for disturbance caused by discontinuous functions and the disturbance is perfectly resolved and does not affect the control performance.Especially,the form of controllers is relatively simple and there is not necessary to design the fractional-order controllers for prescribed finite-time stabilization.Furthermore,the exponential and prescribed finite-time stabilization for FNNs without delay are respectively established via continuous time-varying state feedback control.Finally,examples show the effectiveness of the proposed control methods.展开更多
This paper investigates the problem of global/semi-global finite-time consensus for integrator-type multi-agent sys-tems.New hyperbolic tangent function-based protocols are pro-posed to achieve global and semi-global ...This paper investigates the problem of global/semi-global finite-time consensus for integrator-type multi-agent sys-tems.New hyperbolic tangent function-based protocols are pro-posed to achieve global and semi-global finite-time consensus for both single-integrator and double-integrator multi-agent systems with leaderless undirected and leader-following directed commu-nication topologies.These new protocols not only provide an explicit upper-bound estimate for the settling time,but also have a user-prescribed bounded control level.In addition,compared to some existing results based on the saturation function,the pro-posed approach considerably simplifies the protocol design and the stability analysis.Illustrative examples and an application demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed protocols.展开更多
This paper addresses the tracking control problem of a class of multiple-input–multiple-output nonlinear systems subject to actuator faults.Achieving a balance between input saturation and performance constraints,rat...This paper addresses the tracking control problem of a class of multiple-input–multiple-output nonlinear systems subject to actuator faults.Achieving a balance between input saturation and performance constraints,rather than conducting isolated analyses,especially in the presence of frequently encountered unknown actuator faults,becomes an interesting yet challenging problem.First,to enhance the tracking performance,Tunnel Prescribed Performance(TPP)is proposed to provide narrow tunnel-shape constraints instead of the common over-relaxed trumpet-shape performance constraints.A pair of non-negative signals produced by an auxiliary system is then integrated into TPP,resulting in Saturation-tolerant Prescribed Performance(SPP)with flexible performance boundaries that account for input saturation situations.Namely,SPP can appropriately relax TPP when needed and decrease the conservatism of control design.With the help of SPP,our developed Saturation-tolerant Prescribed Control(SPC)guarantees finite-time convergence while satisfying both input saturation and performance constraints,even under serious actuator faults.Simulations are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed SPC.展开更多
This paper studies the tracking control problem for stratospheric airships with userspecified performance.Dealing with the infinite gain phenomenon in the prescribed-time stability,a new stability criterion with bound...This paper studies the tracking control problem for stratospheric airships with userspecified performance.Dealing with the infinite gain phenomenon in the prescribed-time stability,a new stability criterion with bounded gain is proposed by using a new time-varying scaling function.Moreover,a same-side performance function and a novel barrier Lyapunov function are incorporated into the control algorithm,which can compress the feasible domain of tracking error to minimize the overshoot and solve the difficult in tracking error not converging to zero simultaneously.The proposed scheme guarantees the airship capable of operating autonomously with satisfactory transient performance and tracking accuracy,where the performance parameters can be designed artificially and link to the physical process directly.Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is verified by theoretical analysis and numerical simulation.展开更多
This paper investigates interception missiles’trajectory tracking guidance problem under wind field and external disturbances in the boost phase.Indeed,the velocity control in such trajectory tracking guidance system...This paper investigates interception missiles’trajectory tracking guidance problem under wind field and external disturbances in the boost phase.Indeed,the velocity control in such trajectory tracking guidance systems of missiles is challenging.As our contribution,the velocity control channel is designed to deal with the intractable velocity problem and improve tracking accuracy.The global prescribed performance function,which guarantees the tracking error within the set range and the global convergence of the tracking guidance system,is first proposed based on the traditional PPF.Then,a tracking guidance strategy is derived using the integral sliding mode control techniques to make the sliding manifold and tracking errors converge to zero and avoid singularities.Meanwhile,an improved switching control law is introduced into the designed tracking guidance algorithm to deal with the chattering problem.A back propagation neural network(BPNN)extended state observer(BPNNESO)is employed in the inner loop to identify disturbances.The obtained results indicate that the proposed tracking guidance approach achieves the trajectory tracking guidance objective without and with disturbances and outperforms the existing tracking guidance schemes with the lowest tracking errors,convergence times,and overshoots.展开更多
This paper investigates fault-tolerant finite-time dynamical consensus problems of double-integrator multi-agent systems(MASs)with partial agents subject to synchronous self-sensing function failure(SSFF).A strategy o...This paper investigates fault-tolerant finite-time dynamical consensus problems of double-integrator multi-agent systems(MASs)with partial agents subject to synchronous self-sensing function failure(SSFF).A strategy of recovering the connectivity of network topology among normal agents based on multi-hop communication and a fault-tolerant finitetime dynamical consensus protocol with time-varying gains are proposed to resist synchronous SSFF.It is proved that double-integrator MASs with partial agents subject to synchronous SSFF using the proposed strategy of network topology connectivity recovery and fault-tolerant finite-time dynamical consensus protocol with the proper time-varying gains can achieve finite-time dynamical consensus.Numerical simulations are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.展开更多
The finite-time Mittag-Leffler synchronization is investigated for fractional-order delayed memristive neural networks(FDMNN)with parameters uncertainty and discontinuous activation functions.The relevant results are ...The finite-time Mittag-Leffler synchronization is investigated for fractional-order delayed memristive neural networks(FDMNN)with parameters uncertainty and discontinuous activation functions.The relevant results are obtained under the framework of Filippov for such systems.Firstly,the novel feedback controller,which includes the discontinuous functions and time delays,is proposed to investigate such systems.Secondly,the conditions on finite-time Mittag-Leffler synchronization of FDMNN are established according to the properties of fractional-order calculus and inequality analysis technique.At the same time,the upper bound of the settling time for Mittag-Leffler synchronization is accurately estimated.In addition,by selecting the appropriate parameters of the designed controller and utilizing the comparison theorem for fractional-order systems,the global asymptotic synchronization is achieved as a corollary.Finally,a numerical example is given to indicate the correctness of the obtained conclusions.展开更多
This paper is concerned with the problem of finitetime control for a class of discrete-time networked systems.The measurement output and control input signals are quantized before being transmitted in communication ne...This paper is concerned with the problem of finitetime control for a class of discrete-time networked systems.The measurement output and control input signals are quantized before being transmitted in communication network.The quantization density of the network is assumed to be variable depending on the throughputs of network for the sake of congestion avoidance.The variation of the quantization density modes satisfies persistent dwell-time(PDT)switching which is more general than dwell-time switching in networked channels.By using a quantization-error-dependent Lyapunov function approach,sufficient conditions are given to ensure that the quantized systems are finite-time stable and finite-time bounded with a prescribed H∞performance,upon which a set of controllers depending on the mode of quantization density are designed.In order to show the effectiveness of the designed H_∞controller,we apply the developed theoretical results to a numerical example.展开更多
This paper discusses the adaptive fault-tolerant finite-time control tracking problem for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with multiple faults and disturbances.Our essay focuses on the problem of over-par...This paper discusses the adaptive fault-tolerant finite-time control tracking problem for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with multiple faults and disturbances.Our essay focuses on the problem of over-parameterisation in traditional backstepping methods.A new fault-tolerant control schemeis proposed by combining tuning function with fuzzy controltechnology and finite-time control.This scheme greatly simplifies the process of derivation and computa-tion and avoids high computational cost and high memory consumption.Thus the purpose of improving the reliability and robustness of the system is achieved.Finally,according to the Lya-punov finite-time stability theory,the proposed method can ensure that the closed-loop system remains semi-globally practically finite-time stable and the tracking errors converge to a small neighbourhood near the origin in finite time under the cor idition of unmatched disturbances ma and sensor/actuator faults simultaneously.The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified by a simulation example.展开更多
A finite-time stabilization controller for the heating furnace temperature control system is proposed.Based on the extended Lyapunov finite-time stability theory and power integral method,a finite-time stable conditio...A finite-time stabilization controller for the heating furnace temperature control system is proposed.Based on the extended Lyapunov finite-time stability theory and power integral method,a finite-time stable condition of the heating furnace temperature control system is given.The temperature of the heating furnace is directed by the finite-time stabilization controller to make it stable in finite time.And the quality and quantity of slabs is improved.The simulation example is presented to illustrate the applicability of the developed results.展开更多
This paper investigates the problem of robust output regulation control with prospected transient property for strict feedback systems.By employing the internal model principle,the robust output regulation problem wit...This paper investigates the problem of robust output regulation control with prospected transient property for strict feedback systems.By employing the internal model principle,the robust output regulation problem with a prospected property can be transformed to a robust stabilization problem with a new output constraint.Then,by constructing the speed function and adopting barrier Lyapunov function technique,the dynamic feedback controller can be designed not only to drive error output of the closed-loop system entering into a prescribed performance bound within a given finite time,but also to achieve that the error output converges to zero asymptotically.The effectiveness of the results is illustrated by a simulation example.展开更多
This paper give criterions on finite-time control of fuzzy discrete-time nonlinear system subject to exogenous disturbance.Employing the Lyapunov function theory,several suffcient conditions including relaxed ones are...This paper give criterions on finite-time control of fuzzy discrete-time nonlinear system subject to exogenous disturbance.Employing the Lyapunov function theory,several suffcient conditions including relaxed ones are presented for finite-time stability via fuzzy controller laws.An illustrative example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
This paper investigates the finite-time H<sub>∞</sub> control problem of switched nonlinear systems via state-dependent switching and state feedback control. Unlike the existing approach based on time-dep...This paper investigates the finite-time H<sub>∞</sub> control problem of switched nonlinear systems via state-dependent switching and state feedback control. Unlike the existing approach based on time-dependent switching strategy, in which the switching instants must be given in advance, the state-dependent switching strategy is used to design switching signals. Based on multiple Lyapunov-like functions method, several criteria for switched nonlinear systems to be finite-time H<sub>∞</sub> control are derived. Finally, a numerical example with simulation results is provided to show the validity of the conclusions.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62203356)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(31020210502002)。
文摘This paper studies the problem of time-varying formation control with finite-time prescribed performance for nonstrict feedback second-order multi-agent systems with unmeasured states and unknown nonlinearities.To eliminate nonlinearities,neural networks are applied to approximate the inherent dynamics of the system.In addition,due to the limitations of the actual working conditions,each follower agent can only obtain the locally measurable partial state information of the leader agent.To address this problem,a neural network state observer based on the leader state information is designed.Then,a finite-time prescribed performance adaptive output feedback control strategy is proposed by restricting the sliding mode surface to a prescribed region,which ensures that the closed-loop system has practical finite-time stability and that formation errors of the multi-agent systems converge to the prescribed performance bound in finite time.Finally,a numerical simulation is provided to demonstrate the practicality and effectiveness of the developed algorithm.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62203338,61936004,61821003,62173259 and 62176192Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China under Grant 2022M722485.
文摘This paper investigates the exponential and prescribed finite-time stabilization with time-varying controller.First,the constraints of boundedness and differentiability on time delays are simultaneously relaxed,the Lipschitz condition for activation function is also relaxed.Second,different from the traditional Lyapunov function,two different time-varying Lyapunov functions are respectively constructed to achieve the exponential and prescribed finite-time stabilization.Significantly,the exponential convergence rate and the settling time are constants that can be given in advance and are not affected by system parameters and initial states.In addition,the time-varying controllers have good tolerance for disturbance caused by discontinuous functions and the disturbance is perfectly resolved and does not affect the control performance.Especially,the form of controllers is relatively simple and there is not necessary to design the fractional-order controllers for prescribed finite-time stabilization.Furthermore,the exponential and prescribed finite-time stabilization for FNNs without delay are respectively established via continuous time-varying state feedback control.Finally,examples show the effectiveness of the proposed control methods.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62073019)。
文摘This paper investigates the problem of global/semi-global finite-time consensus for integrator-type multi-agent sys-tems.New hyperbolic tangent function-based protocols are pro-posed to achieve global and semi-global finite-time consensus for both single-integrator and double-integrator multi-agent systems with leaderless undirected and leader-following directed commu-nication topologies.These new protocols not only provide an explicit upper-bound estimate for the settling time,but also have a user-prescribed bounded control level.In addition,compared to some existing results based on the saturation function,the pro-posed approach considerably simplifies the protocol design and the stability analysis.Illustrative examples and an application demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed protocols.
基金supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore under its AI Singapore Programme(Award Number:[AISG2-GC-2023-007]).
文摘This paper addresses the tracking control problem of a class of multiple-input–multiple-output nonlinear systems subject to actuator faults.Achieving a balance between input saturation and performance constraints,rather than conducting isolated analyses,especially in the presence of frequently encountered unknown actuator faults,becomes an interesting yet challenging problem.First,to enhance the tracking performance,Tunnel Prescribed Performance(TPP)is proposed to provide narrow tunnel-shape constraints instead of the common over-relaxed trumpet-shape performance constraints.A pair of non-negative signals produced by an auxiliary system is then integrated into TPP,resulting in Saturation-tolerant Prescribed Performance(SPP)with flexible performance boundaries that account for input saturation situations.Namely,SPP can appropriately relax TPP when needed and decrease the conservatism of control design.With the help of SPP,our developed Saturation-tolerant Prescribed Control(SPC)guarantees finite-time convergence while satisfying both input saturation and performance constraints,even under serious actuator faults.Simulations are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed SPC.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51775021,52302511)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(Nos.501JCGG2024129003,501JCGG2024129005,501JCGG2024129006),the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(No.YWF-24-JC-09)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFC1506401)。
文摘This paper studies the tracking control problem for stratospheric airships with userspecified performance.Dealing with the infinite gain phenomenon in the prescribed-time stability,a new stability criterion with bounded gain is proposed by using a new time-varying scaling function.Moreover,a same-side performance function and a novel barrier Lyapunov function are incorporated into the control algorithm,which can compress the feasible domain of tracking error to minimize the overshoot and solve the difficult in tracking error not converging to zero simultaneously.The proposed scheme guarantees the airship capable of operating autonomously with satisfactory transient performance and tracking accuracy,where the performance parameters can be designed artificially and link to the physical process directly.Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is verified by theoretical analysis and numerical simulation.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12072090).
文摘This paper investigates interception missiles’trajectory tracking guidance problem under wind field and external disturbances in the boost phase.Indeed,the velocity control in such trajectory tracking guidance systems of missiles is challenging.As our contribution,the velocity control channel is designed to deal with the intractable velocity problem and improve tracking accuracy.The global prescribed performance function,which guarantees the tracking error within the set range and the global convergence of the tracking guidance system,is first proposed based on the traditional PPF.Then,a tracking guidance strategy is derived using the integral sliding mode control techniques to make the sliding manifold and tracking errors converge to zero and avoid singularities.Meanwhile,an improved switching control law is introduced into the designed tracking guidance algorithm to deal with the chattering problem.A back propagation neural network(BPNN)extended state observer(BPNNESO)is employed in the inner loop to identify disturbances.The obtained results indicate that the proposed tracking guidance approach achieves the trajectory tracking guidance objective without and with disturbances and outperforms the existing tracking guidance schemes with the lowest tracking errors,convergence times,and overshoots.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61876073)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant No.JUSRP21920)
文摘This paper investigates fault-tolerant finite-time dynamical consensus problems of double-integrator multi-agent systems(MASs)with partial agents subject to synchronous self-sensing function failure(SSFF).A strategy of recovering the connectivity of network topology among normal agents based on multi-hop communication and a fault-tolerant finitetime dynamical consensus protocol with time-varying gains are proposed to resist synchronous SSFF.It is proved that double-integrator MASs with partial agents subject to synchronous SSFF using the proposed strategy of network topology connectivity recovery and fault-tolerant finite-time dynamical consensus protocol with the proper time-varying gains can achieve finite-time dynamical consensus.Numerical simulations are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61703312 and 61703313)。
文摘The finite-time Mittag-Leffler synchronization is investigated for fractional-order delayed memristive neural networks(FDMNN)with parameters uncertainty and discontinuous activation functions.The relevant results are obtained under the framework of Filippov for such systems.Firstly,the novel feedback controller,which includes the discontinuous functions and time delays,is proposed to investigate such systems.Secondly,the conditions on finite-time Mittag-Leffler synchronization of FDMNN are established according to the properties of fractional-order calculus and inequality analysis technique.At the same time,the upper bound of the settling time for Mittag-Leffler synchronization is accurately estimated.In addition,by selecting the appropriate parameters of the designed controller and utilizing the comparison theorem for fractional-order systems,the global asymptotic synchronization is achieved as a corollary.Finally,a numerical example is given to indicate the correctness of the obtained conclusions.
文摘This paper is concerned with the problem of finitetime control for a class of discrete-time networked systems.The measurement output and control input signals are quantized before being transmitted in communication network.The quantization density of the network is assumed to be variable depending on the throughputs of network for the sake of congestion avoidance.The variation of the quantization density modes satisfies persistent dwell-time(PDT)switching which is more general than dwell-time switching in networked channels.By using a quantization-error-dependent Lyapunov function approach,sufficient conditions are given to ensure that the quantized systems are finite-time stable and finite-time bounded with a prescribed H∞performance,upon which a set of controllers depending on the mode of quantization density are designed.In order to show the effectiveness of the designed H_∞controller,we apply the developed theoretical results to a numerical example.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant U21A20483,61873024 and 61773072in part by the Education Department Project of Liaoning Province of China under Grant 2019LNJC09.
文摘This paper discusses the adaptive fault-tolerant finite-time control tracking problem for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with multiple faults and disturbances.Our essay focuses on the problem of over-parameterisation in traditional backstepping methods.A new fault-tolerant control schemeis proposed by combining tuning function with fuzzy controltechnology and finite-time control.This scheme greatly simplifies the process of derivation and computa-tion and avoids high computational cost and high memory consumption.Thus the purpose of improving the reliability and robustness of the system is achieved.Finally,according to the Lya-punov finite-time stability theory,the proposed method can ensure that the closed-loop system remains semi-globally practically finite-time stable and the tracking errors converge to a small neighbourhood near the origin in finite time under the cor idition of unmatched disturbances ma and sensor/actuator faults simultaneously.The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified by a simulation example.
文摘A finite-time stabilization controller for the heating furnace temperature control system is proposed.Based on the extended Lyapunov finite-time stability theory and power integral method,a finite-time stable condition of the heating furnace temperature control system is given.The temperature of the heating furnace is directed by the finite-time stabilization controller to make it stable in finite time.And the quality and quantity of slabs is improved.The simulation example is presented to illustrate the applicability of the developed results.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61873219)。
文摘This paper investigates the problem of robust output regulation control with prospected transient property for strict feedback systems.By employing the internal model principle,the robust output regulation problem with a prospected property can be transformed to a robust stabilization problem with a new output constraint.Then,by constructing the speed function and adopting barrier Lyapunov function technique,the dynamic feedback controller can be designed not only to drive error output of the closed-loop system entering into a prescribed performance bound within a given finite time,but also to achieve that the error output converges to zero asymptotically.The effectiveness of the results is illustrated by a simulation example.
基金Supported by the NNSF of China(60874006)Supported by the Foundation of Henan Educational Committee(2011A120003)+1 种基金Supported by the Doctoral Foundation of Henan University of Technology(2009BS048)Supported by the Foundation of Henan University of Technology(09XJC011)
文摘This paper give criterions on finite-time control of fuzzy discrete-time nonlinear system subject to exogenous disturbance.Employing the Lyapunov function theory,several suffcient conditions including relaxed ones are presented for finite-time stability via fuzzy controller laws.An illustrative example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
文摘This paper investigates the finite-time H<sub>∞</sub> control problem of switched nonlinear systems via state-dependent switching and state feedback control. Unlike the existing approach based on time-dependent switching strategy, in which the switching instants must be given in advance, the state-dependent switching strategy is used to design switching signals. Based on multiple Lyapunov-like functions method, several criteria for switched nonlinear systems to be finite-time H<sub>∞</sub> control are derived. Finally, a numerical example with simulation results is provided to show the validity of the conclusions.
