Differential pressure difference based altitude control of a stratospheric satellite

An autonomous altitude adjustment system for a stratospheric satellite(StratoSat)platform is proposed.This platform consists of a helium balloon,a ballonet,and a two-way blower.The helium balloon generates lift to balance the platform gravity.The two-way blower inflates and deflates the ballonet to regulate the buoyancy.Altitude adjustment is achieved by tracking the differential pressure difference(DPD),and a threshold switching strategy is used to achieve blower flow control.The vertical acceleration regulation ability is decided not only by the blower flow rate,but also by the designed margin of pressure difference(MPD).Pressure difference is a slow-varying variable compared with altitude,and it is adopted as the control variable.The response speed of the actuator to disturbance can be delayed,and the overshoot caused by the large inertia of the platform is inhibited.This method can maintain a high tracking accuracy and reduce the complexity of model calculation,thus improving the robustness of controller design.

A Security Enhancement Model Based on Switching Edge Strategy in Interdependent Heterogeneous Cyber-Physical Systems

With the advent of cross-domain interconnection,large-scale sensor network systems such as smart grids,smart homes,and intelligent transportation have emerged.These complex network systems often have a CPS(Cyber-Physical System)architecture and are usually composed of multiple interdependent systems.Minimal faults between interdependent networks may cause serious cascading failures between the entire system.Therefore,in this paper,we will explore the robustness detection schemes for interdependent networks.Firstly,by calculating the largest giant connected component in the entire system,the security of interdependent network systems under different attack models is analyzed.Secondly,a comparative analysis of the cascade failure mechanism between interdependent networks under the edge enhancement strategy is carried out.Finally,the simulation results verify the impact of system reliability under different handover edge strategies and show how to choose a better handover strategy to enhance its robustness.The further research work in this paper can also help design how to reduce the interdependence between systems,thereby further optimizing the interdependent network system’s structure to provide practical support for reducing the cascading failures.In the later work,we hope to explore our proposed strategies in the network model of real-world or close to real networks.

Hybrid gradient vector fields for path-following guidance

Guidance path-planning and following are two core technologies used for controlling un-manned aerial vehicles(UAVs)in both military and civilian applications.However,only a few approaches treat both the technologies simultaneously.In this study,an innovative hybrid gradient vector fields for path-following guidance(HGVFs-PFG)algorithm is proposed to control fixed-wing UAVs to follow a generated guidance path and oriented target curves in three-dimensional space,which can be any combination of straight lines,arcs,and helixes as motion primitives.The algorithm aids the creation of vector fields(VFs)for these motion primitives as well as the design of an effective switching strategy to ensure that only one VF is activated at any time to ensure that the complex paths are followed completely.The strategies designed in earlier studies have flaws that prevent the UAV from following arcs that make its turning angle too large.The proposed switching strategy solves this problem by introducing the concept of the virtual way-points.Finally,the performance of the HGVFs-PFG algorithm is verified using a reducedorder autopilot and four representative simulation scenarios.The simulation considers the constraints of the aircraft,and its results indicate that the algorithm performs well in following both lateral and longitudinal control,particularly for curved paths.In general,the proposed technical method is practical and competitive.

Adaptive stabilization of uncertain nonholonomic systems by output feedback

The adaptive output feedback control strategy is presented for a class of nonholonomic systems in chained form with nonlinearity uncertainties. A new observer and a filter are introduced for the states and parameter estimation. The proposed control strategies guarantee the convergence of the closed-loop system. The simulation example demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed method.

Robust stabilization of uncertain nonholonomic systems with strong nonlinear drifts

This paper investigates the robust stabilization of the nonholonomic control systems with strongly non- linear uncertainties. In order to make the state scaling effective and to prevent the finite time escape phenomenon from happening, the switching control strategy based on the state measurement of the first subsystem is employed to achieve the asymptotic stabilization. The recursive integrator backstepping technique is applied to the design of the robust controller. The simulation example demonstrates the efficiency and robust features of the proposed method.

Performance Study on Priority Strategies for WDM Packet Switches under Long-Range Dependent Traffic

The impact of long-range dependent (LRD) traffic on the buffer management schemes for WDM packet switches is studied by simulation. The different priority strategies are compared. The principles of efficient strategy design are also presented.

Design and control of deformable quadrotor with varying length arms

Deformable quadrotors can manipulate their specific structure for specialized tasks or excellent flight performance under diverse conditions.With added deformation mechanism,the quadrotor exhibits higher flexibility;however,this is accompanied by difficulties in modeling analysis and controller design,which are crucial issues.Here,a novel deformable quadrotor that can alter its arm's length is designed by combining the crank-slider mechanism and cross-configuration.The dynamics,including the attitude and position systems,are analyzed and the former is further described as switched linear parameter varying(SLPV)systems from a control-oriented perspective.In addition,a combined SLPV/proportion-integration-differentiation(PID)attitude controller is developed to handle different deformable quadrotor modes,which guarantees the stability of the closed-loop attitude system during the deformation process and achieves attitude tracking.Furthermore,together with the cascade PID position controller,the entire flight controller is constructed whose feasibility is verified via fixed-point hovering and trajectory tracking experiments.

Global Stability Analysis of Switched Nonlinear Observers

This paper considers the problem of simultaneous estimation of the system states and the strategy of commutation for a larger class of nonlinear switched systems.First,a hybrid high gain observer is considered to get the exact estimation of the continuous states where the strategy of switching is previously known.Then,an extension to a larger class of nonlinear hybrid systems with arbitrary switching is made.Stability analysis is widely discussed for the two cases to provide a finite-time convergence of the estimation errors.The effectiveness of the proposed hybrid high gain observer has been proved by applying it to a quadruple tank process.

Feedback stabilization of N-dimensional stochastic quantum systems based on bang-bang control

For an N-dimensional quantum system under the influence of continuous measurement, this paper presents a switching control scheme where the control law is of bang-bang type and achieves asymptotic preparation of an arbitrarily given eigenstate of a non-degenerate and degenerate measurement operator, respectively. In the switching control strategy, we divide the state space into two parts： a set containing a target state, and its complementary set. By analyzing the stability of the stochastic system model under consideration, we design a constant control law and give some conditions that the control Hamiltonian satisfies so that the system trajectories in the complementary set converge to the set which contains the target state. Further, for the case of a non-degenerate measurement operator, we show that the system trajectories in the set containing the target state will automatically converge to the target state via quantum continuous measurement theory; while for the case of a degenerate measurement operator, the corresponding system trajectories will also converge to the target state via the construction of the control Hamiltonians. The convergence of the whole closed-loop systems under the cases of a non-degenerate and a degenerate measurement operator is strictly proved. The effectiveness of the proposed switching control scheme is verified by the simulation experiments on a finite-dimensional angular momentum system and a two-qubit system.