Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101128
Torbjørn Smith, Olav Egeland
A method for learning Hamiltonian dynamics from a limited and noisy dataset is proposed. The method learns a Hamiltonian vector field on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) of inherently Hamiltonian vector fields, and in particular, odd Hamiltonian vector fields. This is done with a symplectic kernel, and it is shown how the kernel can be modified to an odd symplectic kernel to impose the odd symmetry. A random feature approximation is developed for the proposed odd kernel to reduce the problem size. The performance of the method is validated in simulations for three Hamiltonian systems. It is demonstrated that the use of an odd symplectic kernel improves prediction accuracy and data efficiency, and that the learned vector fields are Hamiltonian and exhibit the imposed odd symmetry characteristics.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101130
Ningsheng Xu , Fang Deng , Weiwen Huang , Li Liang , Xiang Shi
This paper investigates a pursuit-evasion game with multiple evaders and a superior pursuer situated on a two-dimensional plane, divided by two lifelines into the play area and goal areas. The goal of the evaders is to reach one of the two goal areas, while the pursuer aims to capture them before they reach the lifeline. This paper constructs barriers without time delay and with time delay, respectively. For each evader, the entire barrier divides the game area into regions of dominance for the evader and pursuer, respectively. Cooperative and non-cooperative strategies between two evaders are studied when the evaders’ positions are within the pursuer’s dominance region. We consider the impact of different strategies adopted by the evaders and variations in the distance between the two lifelines on the number of captures by the pursuer. Furthermore, Apollonius circles and Cartesian ovals are used to determine optimal target points for the evaders under different circumstances. Subsequently, we extend the cooperative strategies of the evaders to multiplayer cooperative games, transform them into optimization problems, and use optimization algorithm to derive the cooperative strategies of multiple evaders. Finally, numerical simulations for various cases are presented in this paper.
{"title":"One superior pursuer and multiple-evader differential games with two lifelines","authors":"Ningsheng Xu , Fang Deng , Weiwen Huang , Li Liang , Xiang Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates a pursuit-evasion game with multiple evaders and a superior pursuer situated on a two-dimensional plane, divided by two lifelines into the play area and goal areas. The goal of the evaders is to reach one of the two goal areas, while the pursuer aims to capture them before they reach the lifeline. This paper constructs barriers without time delay and with time delay, respectively. For each evader, the entire barrier divides the game area into regions of dominance for the evader and pursuer, respectively. Cooperative and non-cooperative strategies between two evaders are studied when the evaders’ positions are within the pursuer’s dominance region. We consider the impact of different strategies adopted by the evaders and variations in the distance between the two lifelines on the number of captures by the pursuer. Furthermore, Apollonius circles and Cartesian ovals are used to determine optimal target points for the evaders under different circumstances. Subsequently, we extend the cooperative strategies of the evaders to multiplayer cooperative games, transform them into optimization problems, and use optimization algorithm to derive the cooperative strategies of multiple evaders. Finally, numerical simulations for various cases are presented in this paper.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142554567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101033
Max van Haren , Kentaro Tsurumoto , Masahiro Mae , Lennart Blanken , Wataru Ohnishi , Tom Oomen
Iterative learning control (ILC) techniques are capable of improving the tracking performance of control systems that repeatedly perform similar tasks by utilizing data from past iterations. The aim of this paper is to achieve both the task flexibility enabled by ILC with basis functions and the performance of frequency-domain ILC, with an intuitive design procedure. The cost function of norm-optimal ILC is determined that recovers frequency-domain ILC, and consequently, the feedforward signal is parameterized in terms of basis functions and frequency-domain ILC. The resulting method has the performance and design procedure of frequency-domain ILC and the task flexibility of basis functions ILC, and are complimentary to each other. Validation on a benchmark example confirms the capabilities of the framework.
{"title":"A frequency-domain approach for enhanced performance and task flexibility in finite-time ILC","authors":"Max van Haren , Kentaro Tsurumoto , Masahiro Mae , Lennart Blanken , Wataru Ohnishi , Tom Oomen","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101033","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101033","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Iterative learning control (ILC) techniques are capable of improving the tracking performance of control systems that repeatedly perform similar tasks by utilizing data from past iterations. The aim of this paper is to achieve both the task flexibility enabled by ILC with basis functions and the performance of frequency-domain ILC, with an intuitive design procedure. The cost function of norm-optimal ILC is determined that recovers frequency-domain ILC, and consequently, the feedforward signal is parameterized in terms of basis functions and frequency-domain ILC. The resulting method has the performance and design procedure of frequency-domain ILC and the task flexibility of basis functions ILC, and are complimentary to each other. Validation on a benchmark example confirms the capabilities of the framework.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101033"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101049
Felix Agner , Jonas Hansson , Pauline Kergus , Anders Rantzer , Sophie Tarbouriech , Luca Zaccarian
We consider control of multiple stable first-order agents which have a control coupling described by an M-matrix. These agents are subject to incremental sector-bounded input nonlinearities. We show that such plants can be globally asymptotically stabilized to a unique equilibrium using fully decentralized proportional–integral controllers equipped with anti-windup and subject to local tuning rules. In addition, we show that when the nonlinearities correspond to the saturation function, the closed loop asymptotically minimizes a weighted 1-norm of the agents state mismatch. The control strategy is finally compared to other state-of-the-art controllers on a numerical district heating example.
我们考虑对多个稳定的一阶代理进行控制，这些代理具有由 M 矩阵描述的控制耦合。这些代理受增量部门有界输入非线性的影响。我们的研究表明，使用配备防倒退功能的全分散比例积分控制器，并根据局部调整规则，可以将这些植物全局渐近地稳定在一个唯一的平衡点上。此外，我们还证明，当非线性与饱和函数相对应时，闭环可近似最小化代理状态失配的加权 1 正态。最后，我们在一个区域供热数值示例中将该控制策略与其他最先进的控制器进行了比较。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101050
Sebastiaan van den Eijnden , Thomas Chaffey , Tom Oomen , W.P.M.H. (Maurice) Heemels
Scaled graphs allow for graphical analysis of nonlinear systems, but are generally difficult to compute. The aim of this paper is to develop a method for approximating the scaled graph of reset controllers. A key ingredient in our approach is the generalized Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma to determine input specific input–output properties of a reset controller in the time domain. By combining the obtained time domain properties to cover the full input space, an over-approximation of the scaled graph is constructed. Using this approximation, we establish a feedback interconnection result and provide connections to classical input–output analysis frameworks. Several examples show the relevance of the results for the analysis and design of reset control systems.
{"title":"Scaled graphs for reset control system analysis","authors":"Sebastiaan van den Eijnden , Thomas Chaffey , Tom Oomen , W.P.M.H. (Maurice) Heemels","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101050","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101050","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scaled graphs allow for graphical analysis of nonlinear systems, but are generally difficult to compute. The aim of this paper is to develop a method for approximating the scaled graph of reset controllers. A key ingredient in our approach is the generalized Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma to determine <em>input specific</em> input–output properties of a reset controller in the time domain. By combining the obtained time domain properties to cover the full input space, an over-approximation of the scaled graph is constructed. Using this approximation, we establish a feedback interconnection result and provide connections to classical input–output analysis frameworks. Several examples show the relevance of the results for the analysis and design of reset control systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101050"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141398765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101133
Yanxin Li , Ning He , Zhongxian Xu , Lile He , Huiping Li
This paper is concerned with the control problem of continuous-time nonlinear systems with additive disturbances and input delays. The main focus is to predict the actual state of the system at the triggering moment within the delay time caused by the controller and, on the other hand, to obtain the optimal input by solving the optimization problem based on this state advance delay time to compensate for the input delay. Based on the event-based strategy, a new prediction self-triggered model predictive control (PST-MPC) scheme is designed by considering the prediction error, delay time, and bounded disturbances, which ensures the desired control effect while decreasing the computational load. In addition, sufficient conditions for the stability of the closed-loop system and the recursive feasibility of the PST-MPC algorithm are developed, respectively. Finally, the validity of the presented method is proved by a simulation comparison.
{"title":"Aperiodic MPC for nonlinear systems with additive disturbances and input delays: A prediction self-triggered approach","authors":"Yanxin Li , Ning He , Zhongxian Xu , Lile He , Huiping Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper is concerned with the control problem of continuous-time nonlinear systems with additive disturbances and input delays. The main focus is to predict the actual state of the system at the triggering moment within the delay time caused by the controller and, on the other hand, to obtain the optimal input by solving the optimization problem based on this state advance delay time to compensate for the input delay. Based on the event-based strategy, a new prediction self-triggered model predictive control (PST-MPC) scheme is designed by considering the prediction error, delay time, and bounded disturbances, which ensures the desired control effect while decreasing the computational load. In addition, sufficient conditions for the stability of the closed-loop system and the recursive feasibility of the PST-MPC algorithm are developed, respectively. Finally, the validity of the presented method is proved by a simulation comparison.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142554566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101088
Jared Miller, Roy S. Smith
This paper presents algorithms that upper-bound the peak value of a state function along trajectories of a continuous-time system with rational dynamics. The finite-dimensional but nonconvex peak estimation problem is cast as a convex infinite-dimensional linear program in occupation measures. This infinite-dimensional program is then truncated into finite-dimensions using the moment-Sum-of-Squares (SOS) hierarchy of semidefinite programs. Prior work on treating rational dynamics using the moment-SOS approach involves clearing dynamics to common denominators or adding lifting variables to handle reciprocal terms under new equality constraints. Our solution method uses a sum-of-rational method based on absolute continuity of measures. The Moment-SOS truncations of our program possess lower computational complexity and (empirically demonstrated) higher accuracy of upper bounds on example systems as compared to prior approaches.
{"title":"Peak estimation of rational systems using convex optimization","authors":"Jared Miller, Roy S. Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents algorithms that upper-bound the peak value of a state function along trajectories of a continuous-time system with rational dynamics. The finite-dimensional but nonconvex peak estimation problem is cast as a convex infinite-dimensional linear program in occupation measures. This infinite-dimensional program is then truncated into finite-dimensions using the moment-Sum-of-Squares (SOS) hierarchy of semidefinite programs. Prior work on treating rational dynamics using the moment-SOS approach involves clearing dynamics to common denominators or adding lifting variables to handle reciprocal terms under new equality constraints. Our solution method uses a sum-of-rational method based on absolute continuity of measures. The Moment-SOS truncations of our program possess lower computational complexity and (empirically demonstrated) higher accuracy of upper bounds on example systems as compared to prior approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50489,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Control","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101088"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141781383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101132
Shuaihua Ma , Wenxia Sun , Guoxing Wen
An optimized control method is developed for a class of high-order nonlinear dynamic systems having controller dead-zone phenomenon. Dead-zone refers to the controller with zero behavior within a certain range, so it will inevitably affect system performance. In order to make the optimized control eliminate the effect of dead zone, the adaptive dead-zone inverse and reinforcement learning (RL) techniques are combined. The main idea is to find the desired optimized control using RL as the input of dead-zone inverse function and then to design the adaptive algorithm to estimate the unknown parameters of dead-zone inverse function, so that the competent system control can be yielded from the dead-zone function. However, most existing RL algorithms are difficult to apply in the dead zone inverse methods because of the algorithm complexity. The proposed RL greatly simplifies the algorithm because it derives the training rules from the negative gradient of a simple positive function yielded by the partial derivative of Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) equation. Meanwhile, the proposed dead-zone inverse method also requires fewer adaptive parameters. Finally, the proposed control is attested through theoretical proofs and simulation examples.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101121
P. Gasga , F.R. López-Estrada , G. Valencia-Palomo , S. Gómez-Peñate , M.E. Guerrero-Sánchez
This paper develops a robust integral sliding mode controller for a helicopter-type unmanned aerial vehicle with a suspended payload. The nonlinear model is rewritten by considering a convex Linear Parameter Varying model that captures the nonlinear system dynamics. Then, a controller is developed by considering a nominal integrator comparator scheme and a discontinuous control based on sliding modes. The first part of the controller is dedicated to tracking the desired trajectory, while the second is devoted to attenuating the effect of external disturbance through a sliding surface. A set of linear matrix inequalities obtained from a Lyapunov quadratic function gives sufficient conditions to compute the controller gains. Numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in tracking the desired trajectory and attenuating the load oscillations under the presence of external disturbance.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101041
J.A. Rossiter
In recent years the educationally focused parts of the global control community have given some focus to what constitutes a sensible first course in control (Rossiter et al., 2020) and how to support this with high quality learning and teaching resources. This paper contributes to that overall effort in that it provides an example of high quality, open-access resources to support students in their independent learning. One aspect of the ideal first course in control is the suggestion that we (the community) focus more on concepts and understanding and less on tedious paper and pen calculations; to do this the community needs suitable easy to use software for performing computations and producing illustrations. Hence the author is leading what he hopes will be a collaborative community project on creating a MATLAB toolbox to provide such software. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the toolbox, present its current contents and thus enable staff to evaluate and adopt this toolbox and moreover, to reflect on how it might be improved.
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