IDENTIFICATION OF TIME-VARYING MODAL PARAMETERS USING LINEAR TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATION

A new method of parameter identification based on linear time-frequencyrepresentation and Hubert transform is proposed to identity modal parameters of linear time-varyingsystems from measured vibration responses. Using Gabor expansion and synthesis theory, measuredresponses are represented in the time-frequency domain and modal components are reconstructed bytime-frequency filtering. The Hilbert transform is applied to obtain time histories of the amplitudeand phase angle of each modal component, from which time-varying frequencies and damping ratios areidentified. The proposed method has been demonstrated with a numerical example in which a lineartime-varying system of two degrees of freedom is used to validate the identification scheme based ontime-frequency representation. Simulation results have indicated that time-frequency representationpresents an effective tool for modal parameter identification of time-varying systems.

Identification of Time-Varying Modal Parameters for Thermo-Elastic Structure Subject to Unsteady Heating

A time-varying modal parameter identification method combined with Bayesian information criterion(BIC)and grey correlation analysis(GCA)is presented for a kind of thermo-elastic structures with sparse natural frequencies and subject to an unsteady temperature field.To demonstrate the method,the thermo-elastic structure to be identified is taken as a simply-supported beam with an axially movable boundary and subject to both random excitation and an unsteady temperature field,and the dynamic outputs of the beam are first simulated as the measured data for the identification.Then,an improved time-varying autoregressive(TVAR)model is generated from the simulated input and output of the system.The time-varying coefficients of the TVAR model are expanded as a finite set of time basis functions that facilitate the time-varying coefficients to be time-invariant.According to the BIC for preliminarily determining the scope of the order number,the grey system theory is introduced to determine the order of TVAR and the dimension of the basis functions simultaneously via the absolute grey correlation degree(AGCD).Finally,the time-varying instantaneous frequencies of the system are estimated by using the recursive least squares method.The identified results are capable of tracking the slow time-varying natural frequencies with high accuracy no matter for noise-free or noisy estimation.

TECHNICAL STABILITY OF NONLINEAR TIME-VARYING SYSTEMS WITH SMALL PARAMETERS

Technical stability:allowing quantitative estimation of trajectory behavior of a dynamical system over a given time interval was considered. Based on a differential comparison principle and a basic monotonicity condition, technical stability relative to certain prescribed state constraint sets of a class of nonlinear time-varying systems with small parameters was analyzed by means of vector Liapunov function method. Explicit criteria of technical stability are established in terms of coefficients of the system under consideration. Conditions under which the technical stability of the system can be derived from its reduced linear time-varying (LTV) system were further examined, as well as a condition for linearization approach to technical stability of general nonlinear systems. Also, a simple algebraic condition of exponential asymptotic stability of LTV systems is presented. Two illustrative examples are given to demonstrate the availability of the presently proposed method.

RIEMANN-HILBERT CHARACTERIZATION FOR MAIN BESSEL POLYNOMIALS WITH VARYING LARGE NEGATIVE PARAMETERS

In this article, we establish the Bessel polynomials with varying large negative parameters and discuss their orthogonality based on the generalized Bessel polynomials. By using the Riemann-Hilbert boundary value problem on the positive real axis, we get the Riemann-Hilbert characterization of the main Bessel polynomials with varying large negative parameters.

Model Parameter Transfer for Gear Fault Diagnosis under Varying Working Conditions

Gear fault diagnosis technologies have received rapid development and been effectively implemented in many engineering applications.However,the various working conditions would degrade the diagnostic performance and make gear fault diagnosis(GFD)more and more challenging.In this paper,a novel model parameter transfer(NMPT)is proposed to boost the performance of GFD under varying working conditions.Based on the previous transfer strategy that controls empirical risk of source domain,this method further integrates the superiorities of multi-task learning with the idea of transfer learning(TL)to acquire transferable knowledge by minimizing the discrepancies of separating hyperplanes between one specific working condition(target domain)and another(source domain),and then transferring both commonality and specialty parameters over tasks to make use of source domain samples to assist target GFD task when sufficient labeled samples from target domain are unavailable.For NMPT implementation,insufficient target domain features and abundant source domain features with supervised information are fed into NMPT model to train a robust classifier for target GFD task.Related experiments prove that NMPT is expected to be a valuable technology to boost practical GFD performance under various working conditions.The proposed methods provides a transfer learning-based framework to handle the problem of insufficient training samples in target task caused by variable operation conditions.

Resonance analysis of single DOF parameter-varying system of magnetic-liquid double suspension bearing

Magnetic-liquid double suspension bearing(MLDSB)is mainly supported by electromagnetic suspension and supplemented by hydrostatic supporting.Its bearing capacity and stiffness can be greatly improved,and then it is suitable for the occasions of medium speed,heavy load.When the bearing system is excited by periodic force,the flow q and current i regulated by the double-closed-loop control mechanism change periodically.Then the risk of parametric resonance in MLDSB is greatly aggravated by the change of the parameter system,which seriously affects its operation stabil-ity and reliability.Therefore,this paper intends to study the resonance characteristics of the parame-ter system of MLDSB.Firstly,Marshall-Duffing equation of the parametric system is established by taking the flow q and the current i as variables respectively.Then,by using the asymptotic method,the occurrence condition and variation rule of the principal,1/2 Harmonic and 1/3 Harmonic para-metric resonance are solved.The results show that only the 1/2 Harmonic resonance of the flow q parameter varying system occurs accompanied by the resonance condition of high frequency.The principal,1/2 Harmonic and 1/3 Harmonic parametric resonance of the current i occur accompanied by the resonance condition of high frequency.And the 1/2 Harmonic resonance of the current i oc-curs accompanied by the non-single value bifurcation and dynamic bifurcation.The paper can pro-vide theoretical reference for the parameter design and stable operation of MLDSB.

A Survey of Output Feedback Robust MPC for Linear Parameter Varying Systems

For constrained linear parameter varying(LPV)systems,this survey comprehensively reviews the literatures on output feedback robust model predictive control(OFRMPC)over the past two decades from the aspects on motivations,main contributions,and the related techniques.According to the types of state observer systems and scheduling parameters of LPV systems,different kinds of OFRMPC approaches are summarized and compared.The extensions of OFRMPC for LPV systems to other related uncertain systems are also investigated.The methods of dealing with system uncertainties and constraints in different kinds of OFRMPC optimizations are given.Key issues on OFRMPC optimizations for LPV systems are discussed.Furthermore,the future research directions on OFRMPC for LPV systems are suggested.

A New Discrete-time Adaptive ILC for Nonlinear Systems with Time-varying Parametric Uncertainties

用在分离时间轴和反复的学习轴之间的类比，一条新分离时间的适应反复的学习控制(AILC ) 途径被开发与变化时间的参量的无常探讨非线性的系统的一个班。类似于适应控制，新 AILC 能合并一个设计算法，因此，学习获得能沿着学习的轴反复地被调节。当起始的状态是随机的，参考轨道是变化重复的时，新 AILC 能沿着反复的学习轴 asymptotically 在有限时间间隔上完成 pointwise 集中。

Locally Varying Hubble Parameter in Terms of Reduced Friedmann Equation

Assessment of the Hubble parameter as an indicator of the expansion rate of the universe holds a central position in the field of astronomy. From its initial estimate of about 500 km⋅sec-1⋅parsc-1, this value had been steadily amended as the observational tools became more accurate and precise. Despite this, a gap remains between the value of observations relating to local and nonlocal estimations of the Hubble parameter that gave rise to what became known as the Hubble tension. This tension is addressed here while dealing with space fabric as a cosmological fluid that undergoes transition.

LMS-LIKE ESTIMATION FOR TIME VARYING PARAMETERS

An LMS-like algorithm is applied for estimating the time-varying parameter theta-n in the linear model y(n) = phi-n-tau-theta-n + upsilon-n, which is general in the sense that none of the probabilistic properties such as stationarity, Markov property, independence and ergodicity is imposed on any of the processes {y(n)}, {phi-n}, {theta-n} and {upsilon-n}. It is shown that the alpha-th moment of the estimation error is of order of the alpha-th moment of the observation noise and the parameter variation w(n) change in equivalence theta-n - theta-n-1.

A Parameter Varying PD Control for Fuzzy Servo Mechanism

This paper presents the formulation of novel implementation method based on parameter varying PD controller for fuzzy servo controllers. This formulation uses the approximation of fuzzy nonlinear function including error and error derivation in operation point. Obtained fuzzy control law has been employed to control angular position of servo using digital control technique applied to a typical microcontroller like AVR. The performance and robustness of modified fuzzy controller in comparison with PID controller evaluated in no load, applied external disturbance with different magnitude conditions has been studied. The simulation results showed that the proposed fuzzy controller has a considerable advantage in rise time, settling time and overshoot respect to PID controller when the servo system encounters with nonlinear features like saturation and friction.

NOISE-INDUCED CHAOTIC MOTIONS IN HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS WITH SLOW-VARYING PARAMETERS

This paper studies chaotic motions in quasi-integrable Hamiltonian systems with slow-varying parameters under both harmonic and noise excitations. Based on the dynamic theory and some assumptions of excited noises, an extended form of the stochastic Melnikov method is presented. Using this extended method, the homoclinic bifurcations and chaotic behavior of a nonlinear Hamiltonian system with weak feed-back control under both harmonic and Gaussian white noise excitations are analyzed in detail. It is shown that the addition of stochastic excitations can make the parameter threshold value for the occurrence of chaotic motions vary in a wider region. Therefore, chaotic motions may arise easily in the system. By the Monte-Carlo method, the numerical results for the time-history and the maximum Lyapunov exponents of an example system are finally given to illustrate that the presented method is effective.

Probabilistic Robust Linear Parameter-varying Control of a Small Helicopter Using Iterative Scenario Approach

In this paper, we present an iterative scenario approach (ISA) to design robust controllers for complex linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems with uncertainties. The robust controller synthesis problem is transformed to a scenario design problem, with the scenarios generated by identically extracting random samples on both uncertainty parameters and scheduling parameters. An iterative scheme based on the maximum volume ellipsoid cutting-plane method is used to solve the problem. Heuristic logic based on relevance ratio ranking is used to prune the redundant constraints, and thus, to improve the numerical stability of the algorithm. And further, a batching technique is presented to remarkably enhance the computational efficiency. The proposed method is applied to design an output-feedback controller for a small helicopter. Multiple uncertain physical parameters are considered, and simulation studies show that the closed-loop performance is quite good in both aspects of model tracking and dynamic decoupling. For robust LPV control problems, the proposed method is more computationally efficient than the popular stochastic ellipsoid methods. © 2014 Chinese Association of Automation.

Iterative regularization method for image denoising with adaptive scale parameter

In order to decrease the sensitivity of the constant scale parameter, adaptively optimize the scale parameter in the iteration regularization model （IRM） and attain a desirable level of applicability for image denoising, a novel IRM with the adaptive scale parameter is proposed. First, the classic regularization item is modified and the equation of the adaptive scale parameter is deduced. Then, the initial value of the varying scale parameter is obtained by the trend of the number of iterations and the scale parameter sequence vectors. Finally, the novel iterative regularization method is used for image denoising. Numerical experiments show that compared with the IRM with the constant scale parameter, the proposed method with the varying scale parameter can not only reduce the number of iterations when the scale parameter becomes smaller, but also efficiently remove noise when the scale parameter becomes bigger and well preserve the details of images.

FM interference suppression for PRC-CW radar based on adaptive STFT and time-varying filtering

The influence of frequency modulation （FM） interfer- ence on correlation detection performance of the pseudo random code continuous wave （PRC-CW） radar is analyzed. It is found that the correlation output deteriorates greatly when the FM inter- ference power exceeds the anti-jamming limit of the radar. Accord- ing to the fact that the PRC-CW radar echo is a wideband pseudo random signal occupying the whole TF plane, while the FM in- terference only concentrates in a small portion, a new method is proposed based on adaptive short-time Fourier transform （STFT） and time-varying filtering for FM interference suppression. This method filters the received signal by using a binary mask to excise only the portion of the TF plane corrupted by the interference. Two types of interference, linear FM （LFM） and sinusoidal FM （SFM）, under different signal-to-jamming ratio （S JR） are studied. It is shown that the proposed method can effectively suppress the FM interference and improve the performance of target detection.

Identifi cation of model structure parameters via combination of AFMM and ARX from seismic response data

To identify the model structure parameters in shaking table tests from seismic response, especially from time- varying response records, this paper presents a new methodology by combining the online recursive Adaptive Forgetting through Multiple Models （AFMM） and offtine Auto-Regression with eXogenous variables （ARX） model. First, the AFMM is employed to detect whether the response of model structure is time-invariant or time-varying when subjected to strong motions. Second, if the response is time-invariant, the modal parameters are identified from the entire response record, such as the acceleration time-history using the ARX model. If the response is time-varying, the acceleration record is divided into three segments according to the accurate time-varying points detected by AFMM, and parameters are identified by only using the tail segment data, which is time-invariant and suited for analysis by the ARX model. Finally, the changes in dynamic properties due to various strong motions are obtained using the presented methodology. The feasibility and advantages of the method are demonstrated by identifying the modal parameters of a 12-story reinforced concrete （RC） frame structure in a shaking table test.

Synchronization-based approach for parameter identification in delayed chaotic network

This paper introduces an adaptive procedure for the problem of synchronization and parameter identification for chaotic networks with time-varying delay by combining adaptive control and linear feedback. In particular, we consider that the equations xi（t） （for i = r＋ 1, r＋2,... ,n） can be expressed by the former xi（t） （for i=1,2,...,r）, which is not the same as the previous equation. This approach is also able to track changes in the operating parameters of chaotic networks rapidly and the speed of synchronization and parameter estimation can be adjusted. In addition, this method is quite robust against the effect of slight noise and the estimated value of a parameter fluctuates around the correct value.

Improved delay-dependent globally asymptotic stability of delayed uncertain recurrent neural networks with Markovian jumping parameters

In this paper, we have improved delay-dependent stability criteria for recurrent neural networks with a delay varying over a range and Markovian jumping parameters. The criteria improve over some previous ones in that they have fewer matrix variables yet less conservatism. In addition, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the applicability of the result using the linear matrix inequality toolbox in MATLAB.

Adaptive Time-Frequency Distribution Based on Time-Varying Autoregressive and Its Application to Machine Fault Diagnosis

The time-varying autoregressive （TVAR） modeling of a non-stationary signal is studied. In the proposed method, time-varying parametric identification of a non-stationary signal can be translated into a linear time-invariant problem by introducing a set of basic functions. Then, the parameters are estimated by using a recursive least square algorithm with a forgetting factor and an adaptive time-frequency distribution is achieved. The simulation results show that the proposed approach is superior to the short-time Fourier transform and Wigner distribution. And finally, the proposed method is applied to the fault diagnosis of a bearing , and the experiment result shows that the proposed method is effective in feature extraction.

Time-varying parameter auto-regressive models for autocovariance nonstationary time series

In this paper, autocovariance nonstationary time series is clearly defined on a family of time series. We propose three types of TVPAR (time-varying parameter auto-regressive) models: the full order TVPAR model, the time-unvarying order TVPAR model and the time-varying order TV-PAR model for autocovariance nonstationary time series. Related minimum AIC (Akaike information criterion) estimations are carried out.