Sliding-mode control of path following for underactuated ships based on high gain observer

A nonlinear robust control strategy is proposed to force an underactuated surface ship to follow a predefined path with uncertain environmental disturbance and parameters.In the controller design,a high-gain observer is used to estimate velocities,thus only position and yaw angle measurements are required.The control problem of underactuated system is transformed into a control of fully actuated system through adopting an improved line-of-sight(LOS) guidance law.A sliding-mode controller is designed to eliminate the yaw angle error,and provide the control system robustness.The control law is proved semi-globally exponentially stable(SGES) by applying Lyapunov stability theory,and numerical simulation using real data of a monohull ship illustrates the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed methodology.

Transportation-cyber-physical-systems-oriented engine cylinder pressure estimation using high gain observer

In transportation cyber-physical-systems （T-CPS）, vehicle-to-vehicle （V2V） communications play an important role in the coordination between individual vehicles as well as between vehicles and the roadside infrastructures, and engine cylinder pressure is significant for engine diagnosis on-line and torque control within the information exchange process under V2V communications. However, the parametric uncertainties caused from measurement noise in T-CPS lead to the dynamic performance deterioration of the engine cylinder pressure estimation. Considering the high accuracy requirement under V2V communications, a high gain observer based on the engine dynamic model is designed to improve the accuracy of pressure estimation. Then, the analyses about convergence, converge speed and stability of the corresponding error model are conducted using the Laplace and Lyapunov method. Finally, results from combination of Simulink with GT- Power based numerical experiments and comparisons demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach with respect to robustness and accuracy.

The Detection of Inter-Turn Short Circuits in the Stator Windings of Sensorless Operating Induction Motors

This work proposes an alternative strategy to the use of a speed sensor in the implementation of active and reactive power based model reference adaptive system (PQ-MRAS) estimator in order to calculate the rotor and stator resistances of an induction motor (IM) and the use of these parameters for the detection of inter-turn short circuits (ITSC) faults in the stator of this motor. The rotor and stator resistance estimation part of the IM is performed by the PQ-MRAS method in which the rotor angular velocity is reconstructed from the interconnected high gain observer (IHGO). The ITSC fault detection part is done by the derivation of stator resistance estimated by the PQ-MRAS estimator. In addition to the speed sensorless detection of ITSC faults of the IM, an approach to determine the number of shorted turns based on the difference between the phase current of the healthy and faulty machine is proposed. Simulation results obtained from the MATLAB/Simulink platform have shown that the PQ-MRAS estimator using an interconnected high-gain observer gives very similar results to those using the speed sensor. The estimation errors in the cases of speed variation and load torque are almost identical. Variations in stator and rotor resistances influence the performance of the observer and lead to poor estimation of the rotor resistance. The results of ITSC fault detection using IHGO are very similar to the results in the literature using the same diagnostic approach with a speed sensor.

Control Design and Implementation of a Spiral Spring Energy Storage System Connected to a Grid via PMSG

For an innovative spiral spring energy storage system,the permanent magnet synchronous generator(PMSG)is utilized as the energy conversion device due to its simple structure,low weight and high torque.During power generation,the output torque and moment of inertia of the spiral spring are changing continuously and simultaneously and the parameters of the PMSG show uncertainties.Furthermore,the DC link voltage of the converter should be stable and the power injected into the grid needs to be controlled.First,the change features of the external power source and the uncertainties of the generator’s internal parameters are expressed as the comprehensive disturbances,which are introduced into the dynamic model of the PMSG and also modify the dynamic model.Then,the high gain observers are utilized to estimate the comprehensive disturbances,and an improved robust backstepping control scheme integrating L2 gain and high gain observers is proposed.Secondly,the gridside inverter controller for the DC voltage loop and reactive power loop is designed based on the backstepping theory.Finally,hardware implementation is fulfilled to verify the presented algorithm.The results show that high gain observers are able to accurately estimate the external and internal interferences;the proposed control scheme can effectively suppress the external and internal interferences and guarantees output current,operating speed of the PMSG and output reactive power to correctly track respective references,and effectively stabilize the DC link voltage.