Adaptive Backstepping Control Design for Semi-Active Suspension of Half-Vehicle With Magnetorheological Damper

This paper investigates the problem of controlling half-vehicle semi-active suspension system involving a magnetorheological(MR)damper.This features a hysteretic behavior that is presently captured through the nonlinear Bouc-Wen model.The control objective is to regulate well the heave and the pitch motions of the chassis despite the road irregularities.The difficulty of the control problem lies in the nonlinearity of the system model,the uncertainty of some of its parameters,and the inaccessibility to measurements of the hysteresis internal state variables.Using Lyapunov control design tools,we design two observers to get online estimates of the hysteresis internal states and a stabilizing adaptive state-feedback regulator.The whole adaptive controller is formally shown to meet the desired control objectives.This theoretical result is confirmed by several simulations demonstrating the supremacy of the latter compared to the skyhook control and passive suspension.

Fixed-time Distributed Voltage and Reactive Power Compensation of Islanded Microgrids Using Sliding-mode and Multi-agent Consensus Design

This paper investigates a fixed-time distributed voltage and reactive power compensation of islanded microgrids using sliding-mode and multi-agent consensus design.A distributed sliding-mode control protocol is proposed to ensure voltage regulation and reference tracking before the desired preset fixed-time despite the unknown disturbances.Accurate reactive power sharings among distributed generators are maintained.The secondary controller is synthesized without the knowledge of any parameter of the microgrid.It is implemented using a sparse one-way communication network modeled as a directed graph.A comparative simulation study is conducted to highlight the performance of the proposed control strategy in comparison with finite-time and asymptotic control systems with load power variations.

Adaptive neural network observer for proton-exchange membrane fuel cell system

This paper develops an adaptive neural network(NN)observer for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells(PEMFCs).Indeed,information on the oxygen excess ratio(OER)value is crucial to ensure optimal management of the durability and reliability of the PEMFC.The OER indicator is computed from the mass of oxygen and nitrogen inside the PEMFC cathode.Unfortunately,the measurement process of both these masses is difficult and costly.To solve this problem,the design of a PEMFC state observer is attractive.However,the behaviour of the fuel cell system is highly non-linear and its modelling is complex.Due to this constraint,a multilayer perceptron neural network(MLPNN)-based observer is proposed in this paper to estimate the oxygen and nitrogen masses.One notable advantage of the suggested MLPNN observer is that it does not require a database to train the NN.Indeed,the weights of the NN are updated in real time using the output error.In addition,the observer parameters,namely the learning rate and the damping factor,are online adapted using the optimization tools of extremum seeking.Moreover,the proposed observer stability analysis is performed using the Lyapunov theory.The observer performances are validated by simulation under MATLAB®/Simulink®.The supremacy of the proposed adaptive MLPNN observer is highlighted by comparison with a fixed-parameter MLPNN observer and a classical high-gain observer(HGO).The mean rela-tive error value of the excess oxygen rate is considered the performance index,which is equal to 1.01%for an adaptive MLPNN and 3.95%and 9.95%for a fixed MLPNN and HGO,respectively.Finally,a robustness test of the proposed observer with respect to measurement noise is performed.

Filtered High Gain Observer for an Electric Vehicle’s Electro-hydraulic Brake: Design and Optimization Using Multivariable Newton-based Extremum Seeking

Designing high-gain observers(HGOs)for the state estimation of an electric vehicle’s electrohydraulic brake(EHB)system is challenging.This type of observer is applicable to model nonlinearities and constant feature gains.However,they are very sensitive to measurement noise,which is unavoidable in EHB.The first novelty of this study is that it compensates for the measurement noise using a filtered high-gain observer(FHGO)to ensure EHB state estimation.The proposed FHGO provides an estimate of the master cylinder pressure,motor current,and rotor speed from measurements of the rotor position.The second novelty is the design of an extremum-seeking(ES)optimization loop to adjust the FHGO gains online.The performance of the developed FHGO with ES-based online gain optimization was highlighted in the presence of model uncertainties and output measurement noise using a Matlab/Simulink simulation.The superiority of the FHGO(even with a fixed gain)over a standard high gain observer(SHGO)was also demonstrated.