Coordinated nonlinear robust control of TCSC and excitation for multi-machine systems

An advanced nonlinear robust control scheme is proposed for multi-machine power systems equipped with thyristor-controlled series compensation (TCSC). First, a decentralized nonlinear robust control approach based on the feedback linearization and H∞ theory is introduced to eliminate the nonlinearities and interconnections of the studied system, and to attenuate the exogenous disturbances that enter die system. Then, a system model is built up, which has considered all the generators’ and TCSC’s dynamics, and the effects of uncertainties such as disturbances. Next, a decentralized nonlinear robust coordinated control law is developed based on this model. Simulation results on a six-machine power system show that the transient stability of the power system is obviously improved and die power transfer capacity of long distance transmission lines is enhanced regardless of fault locations and system operation points. In addition, the control law has engineering practicality since all the variables in the expression of he control strategy can be measured locally.

A practical nonlinear robust control approach of electro-hydraulic load simulator

This paper studies a nonlinear robust control algorithm of the electro-hydraulic load simulator （EHLS）. The tracking performance of the EHLS is mainly limited by the actuator＇s motion disturbance, flow nonlinearity, and friction, etc. The developed controller is developed based on the nonlinear motion loading model. The problems of the actuator＇s disturbance and flow nonlinearity are considered. To address the friction problem, the friction model of the loading motor is identified experimentally. The friction disturbance is compensated using the obtained friction model. Therefore, this paper considers the main three factors comprehensively. The developed algorithm is easy to apply since the controller can be obtained just with one step back-stepping design. The stability of the developed algorithm is proven via Lyapunov analysis. Both co-simulation and experiments are performed to verify the effectiveness of this method.

NR-PSS (Nonlinear Robust Power System Stabilizer) for large synchronous generators and its large disturbance experiments on real time digital simulator

On the foundation of nonlinear robust control and exact generator model, this paper presents a design principle of NR-PSS (Nonlinear Robust Power System Stabilizer) for multi-machine power system, based on which an industrial NR-PSS equipment is developed. For popularizing it, the proposed parameter setting method of NR-PSS is completely the same as the widely used parameter adjustment rule of PSS. By virtue of real time digital simulator (RTDS), large disturbance experiments are carried out to compare the performances between generator excitation system equipped with NR-PSS and PSS in order to verify the correctness of design theory. The results show that compared with classical PSS, the proposed NR-PSS can dramatically improve the generator damping and attenuate the oscillation much faster, enhance the generator damping and raise both the small signal and large disturbance transient stability transmission power limit remarkably. The NR-PSS equipment with independent intellectual property right has been successfully put into operation on a 300 MW generator in Baishan Hydro Plant of Northeast China Grid more than 10 months.

Robust Control Synthesis of Polynomial Nonlinear Systems Using Sum of Squares Technique

在这篇论文，广场(求救) 加技术被用来与多项式向量领域为不明确的仿射的非线性的系统的一个类分析柔韧的州的反馈合成问题。没有或与保证费用或 Hperformance 目的，足够的条件被给获得答案到上述控制问题。而且，如此的可解决的条件能以能被 SOS 技术直接处理的州的依赖线性矩阵不平等(LMI ) 作为求救编程问题被提出。而且，一个想法被提供由介绍一些额外的多项式描述多项式或甚至合理的矩阵的逆。一个数字例子被举说明途径的有效性。

Robust Nonlinear PID Controllers for Anti-windup Design of Robot Manipulators with an Uncertain Jacobian Matrix

至于有不明确的 Jacobian 矩阵的机器人操纵者的笛卡儿的规定，柔韧的非线性的 PID (RN-PID ) 控制器的一个反上发条的计划被建议解决在象 PID 一样控制系统从不可分的行动和综合者终结产生的实际问题。当位置和联合速度大小仅仅被要求时， Asymptotic 稳定性被保证；靠近环的系统也由于对不可分的行动起作用的限制被保证的结果的坚韧性。特别与另外的反上发条的途径相比，建议算法为反上发条的设计更简单、更有效。

Operator-Based Robust Nonlinear Free Vibration Control of a Flexible Plate With Unknown Input Nonlinearity

In this paper,a robust nonlinear free vibration control design using an operator based robust right coprime factorization approach is considered for a flexible plate with unknown input nonlinearity.With considering the effect of unknown input nonlinearity from the piezoelectric actuator,operator based controllers are designed to guarantee the robust stability of the nonlinear free vibration control system.Simultaneously,for ensuring the desired tracking performance and reducing the effect of unknown input nonlinearity,operator based tracking compensator and estimation structure are given,respectively.Finally,both simulation and experimental results are shown to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

Operator-Based Robust Nonlinear Control for SISO and MIMO Nonlinear Systems With PI Hysteresis

In this paper, operator based robust nonlinear control for single-input single-output(SISO) and multi-input multi-output(MIMO) nonlinear uncertain systems preceded by generalized Prandtl-Ishlinskii(PI) hysteresis is considered respectively. In detail, by using operator based robust right coprime factorization approach, the control system design structures including feedforward and feedback controllers for both SISO and MIMO nonlinear uncertain systems are given, respectively.In which, the controller design includes the information of PI hysteresis and its inverse, and some sufficient conditions for the controllers in both SISO and MIMO systems should be satisfied are also derived respectively. Based on the proposed conditions, influence from hysteresis is rejected, the systems are robustly stable and output tracking performance can be realized.Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed by numerical simulations.

Globally robust nonlinear PID controllers for robot manipulators with an uncertain Jacobian matrix

Based on a continuous piecewise-differentiable increasing functions vector, a class of robust nonlinear PID (RN-PID) controllers is proposed for setpoint control with uncertain Jacobian matrix. Globally asymptotic stability is guaranteed and only position and joint velocity measurements are required. And stability problem arising from integral action and integrator windup, are consequently resolved. Furthermore, RN-PID controllers can be of effective alternative for anti-integrator-wind-up, the control performance would not be very bad in the presence of rough parameter tuning.

Robust Nonlinear Analytic Redundancy for Fault Detection and Isolation in Mobile Robot

A robust nonlinear analytical redundancy （RNLAR） technique is presented to detect and isolate actuator and sensor faults in a mobile robot. Both model-plant-mismatch （MPM） and process disturbance are considered during fault detection. The RNLAR is used to design primary residual vectors （PRV）, which are highly sensitive to the faults and less sensitive to MPM and process disturbance, for sensor and actuator fault detection. The PRVs are then transformed into a set of structured residual vectors （SRV） for fault isolation. Experimental results on a Pioneer 3-DX mobile robot are presented to justify the effectiveness of the RNLAR scheme.

Nonlinear robust H-infinity filtering for a class of uncertain systems via convex optimization

A new approach for robust H-infinity filtering for a class of Lipschitz nonlinear systems with time-varying uncertainties both in the linear and nonlinear parts of the system is proposed in an LMI framework. The admissible Lipschitz constant of the system and the disturbance attenuation level are maximized simultaneously through convex multi-objective optimization. The resulting H-infinity filter guarantees asymptotic stability of the estimation error dynamics with exponential convergence and is robust against nonlinear additive uncertainty and time-varying parametric uncertainties. Explicit bounds on the nonlinear uncertainty are derived based on norm-wise and element-wise robustness analysis.

Robust adaptive fuzzy tracking control for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems based on backstepping technique

In this paper, the robust adaptive fuzzy tracking control problem is discussed for a class of perturbed strict-feedback nonlinear systems. The fuzzy logic systems in Mamdani type are used to approximate unknown nonlinear functions. A design scheme of the robust adaptive fuzzy controller is proposed by use of the backstepping technique. The proposed controller guarantees semi-global uniform ultimate boundedness of all the signals in the derived closed-loop system and achieves the good tracking performance. The possible controller singularity problem which may occur in some existing adaptive control schemes with feedback linearization techniques can be avoided. In addition, the number of the on-line adaptive parameters is not more than the order of the designed system. Finally, two simulation examples are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

Further Result on Robust Stabilization for Uncertain Nonlinear Time-delay Systems

为一般不明确的非线性的时间延期系统的柔韧的稳定控制器的系统的递归的设计方法在这份报纸被调查。一条延期无关的州的反馈控制法律能被递归地构造 Lyapunov-Razumikhin 功能获得。以便柔韧的稳定控制法律的设计没有为系统的任何限制，由一些设计技术，对 Razumikhin 条件的应用程序内在的障碍才能被移开。

A Robust Fault Detection Approach for Nonlinear Systems

In this paper, we study the robust fault detection problem of nonlinear systems. Based on the Lyapunov method, a robust fault detection approach for a general class of nonlinear systems is proposed. A nonlinear observer is first provided, and a sufficient condition is given to make the observer locally stable. Then, a practical algorithm is presented to facilitate the realization of the proposed observer for robust fault detection. Finally, a numerical example is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Robust fault detection for a class of nonlinear network control system with communication delay

To investigate a class of nonlinear network control system, a robust fault diagnosis method is presented based on the robust state observer. To access the objective that the designed robust filter is maximally tolerant to disturbances and sensitive to fault, the robustness and stability properties of the fault diagnosis scheme are established rigorously. Using the residual vector, a fault tolerant controller is established in order to guarantee the stability of the closed-loop system, and the controller law can be obtained by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. Then, some relevant sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution are given by applying Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, a simulation example is performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

μ ANALYSIS AND μ SYNTHESIS FOR NONLINEAR ROBUST CONTROL SYSTEMS

A μ analysis and μ synthesis method for nonlinear robust control systems was presented. The nonlinear robust contrl problem using μ method was described. By means of the nonlinear state feedback and state coordinates transformation, many uncertain nonlinear systems can be transformed as a linear fractional transformation (LFT) on the generalized plant and the uncertainty. Based on the LFT, a linear robust controller can be obtained by the DK iteration and then a corresponding nonlinear robust control law is constructed. An example was given in the paper.

Robust adaptive fuzzy control for a class of perturbed pure-feedback nonlinear systems

A new design scheme of direct adaptive fuzzy controller for a class of perturbed pure-feedback nonlinear systems is proposed. The design is based on backstepping and the approximation capability of the first type fuzzy systems. A continuous robust term is adopted to minify the influence of modeling errors or disturbances. By introducing the modified integral-type Lyapunov function, the approach is able to avoid the requirement of the upper bound of the first time derivation of the high frequency control gain. Through theoretical analysis, the closed-loop control system is proven to be semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded, with tracking error converging to a residual set.

Robust Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Feedback Systems Using Operator-based Right Coprime Factorization

The robust control issue for uncertain nonlinear system is discussed by using the method of right coprime factorization. As it is difficult to obtain the inverse of the right factor due to the high nonlinearity, the proving of the Bezout identity becomes troublesome. Therefore, two sufficient conditions are derived to manage this problem with the nonlinear feedback system as well as that with the uncertain nonlinear feedback system under the definition of Lipschitz norm. A simulation of temperature control is given to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.

Robust control of a class of non-affine nonlinear systems by state and output feedback

Robust control design is presented for a general class of uncertain non-affine nonlinear systems. The design employs feedback linearization, coupled with two high-gain observers: the first to estimate the feedback linearization error based on the full state information and the second to estimate the unmeasured states of the system when only the system output is available for feedback. All the signals in the closed loop are guaranteed to be uniformly ultimately bounded(UUB) and the output of the system is proven to converge to a small neighborhood of the origin. The proposed approach not only handles the difficulty in controlling non-affine nonlinear systems but also simplifies the stability analysis of the closed loop due to its linear control structure. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the approach.

Multi-parameter Sensitivity Analysis and Application Research in the Robust Optimization Design for Complex Nonlinear System

The current research of complex nonlinear system robust optimization mainly focuses on the features of design parameters, such as probability density functions, boundary conditions, etc. After parameters study, high-dimensional curve or robust control design is used to find an accurate robust solution. However, there may exist complex interaction between parameters and practical engineering system. With the increase of the number of parameters, it is getting hard to determine high-dimensional curves and robust control methods, thus it＇s difficult to get the robust design solutions. In this paper, a method of global sensitivity analysis based on divided variables in groups is proposed. By making relevant variables in one group and keeping each other independent among sets of variables, global sensitivity analysis is conducted in grouped variables and the importance of parameters is evaluated by calculating the contribution value of each parameter to the total variance of system response. By ranking the importance of input parameters, relatively important parameters are chosen to conduct robust design analysis of the system. By applying this method to the robust optimization design of a real complex nonlinear system-a vehicle occupant restraint system with multi-parameter, good solution is gained and the response variance of the objective function is reduced to 0.01, which indicates that the robustness of the occupant restraint system is improved in a great degree and the method is effective and valuable for the robust design of complex nonlinear system. This research proposes a new method which can be used to obtain solutions for complex nonlinear system robust design.