Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 126836, 8 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/126836

Research Article

Exponential Stabilization of Impulsive Switched Systems with Time Delays Using Guaranteed Cost Control

Xiang Xie,¹ Honglei Xu,1,2 and Rong Zhang³

¹School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

²Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia

³Huazhong University of Science and Technology Library, Wuhan 430074, China

Received 21 March 2014; Accepted 28 April 2014; Published 7 May 2014

Academic Editor: Xinguang Zhang

Copyright © 2014 Xiang Xie et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

This paper investigates the stabilization problem for impulsive switched systems with time delays. First, exponential stability criteria of the delayed impulsive switched systems are established by use of the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional method. Based on these results, sufficient conditions for the existence of a guaranteed cost control are also given. Subject to these sufficient conditions, the closed-loop impulsive switched system under the guaranteed cost control law will be exponentially stable with a guaranteed cost value.

1. Introduction

During the evolution process of a variety of disciplines such as engineering, economics, and biology, there often exists an impressive characteristic that the system state changes rapidly due to state jumping and the coexistence of continuous dynamics and discrete events. These jumping effects and switching phenomena can be modeled as an impulsive switched system. The system stability problem is one of main problems for such impulsive switched systems.

Recently, there are many results on stability analysis of impulsive switched systems. For instance, the robust stabilization problem for a class of impulsive switched systems under the LQ guaranteed cost control is studied in [1]. In addition, sufficient conditions for the existence of a guaranteed cost control law are given as well. In [2], sufficient conditions, independent of time delays and impulsive switching intervals, are derived by using a Lyapunov-Krasovskii’s technique, ensuring asymptotical stability of impulsive switched systems with time invariant delays. Moreover, stability criteria problems for uncertain impulsive switched systems with input delay are studied by using the receding horizon method in [3]. Appropriate switching controllers are designed and linear matrix inequality conditions are derived to guarantee the closed-loop uncertain impulsive switched systems under a designed delayed controller. Other relevant references can be found in [4–9].

On the other hand, time delay has become a common phenomenon frequently occurred in science and engineering. Stability of time delay systems has received increasing attention among the applied mathematics and control community; for example, see [10–12] and the references therein. Most of these results are derived by use of either the Razumikhin method or the Lyapunov-Krasovskii method.

Since both impulses and time delays are ubiquitous in the real world, it is necessary to analyze their stability performance of dynamical systems involving impulses, time delays, and switchings. There already existed some effective results for the stability analysis of either impulsive switched systems or time delay systems mentioned above. However, there are few results on impulsive switched systems with time delays. This motivates our research in this paper. Our aim is to apply a set of improved Lyapunov functions to analyze the exponential stability performance of the impulsive switched systems with time delays, to derive sufficient conditions to ensure the exponential stability, and to design guaranteed cost controllers based on the linear matrix inequality approach. The designed guaranteed cost controller can ensure not only exponential stability of the closed-loop system but also the guaranteed cost performance.

The remaining sections of the paper proceed as follows. Section 2 provides necessary propositions and definitions. In Section 3, sufficient conditions for ensuring the closed-loop system exponentially stable are presented, and the designed guaranteed cost controller for impulsive switched systems with time delays are presented. Finally, conclusion remarks are presented in Section 4.

2. Problem Statement

Consider the following impulsive switched system with time delay:

where is the state, is the control input, . , , , and are constant real matrices with appropriate dimensions. The delay function satisfies the condition

, , , where , , . is an impulsive switching point, . and are unknown real norm-bounded matrix valued functions, representing time-varying parameter uncertainties. The admissible uncertainties are assumed to be of the form

, , are known real constant matrices, is an unknown real time-varying matrix satisfying , and is the identity matrix with appropriate dimension.

Consider the following cost function:

where and are positive definite symmetric matrices.

Definition 1. Suppose that there exist a control law and a positive constant such that, for all admissible uncertainties, the closed-loop system ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) is exponentially stable and the cost function (4) satisfies , and then is the exponential guaranteed cost control law for the impulsive switched system with time delay. Here, is the guaranteed cost value.

In addition, the following lemmas are necessary to proceed.

Lemma 2 (see [13, Proposition 2.2]). Let , , , and be real matrices of appropriate dimensions with . Then, for any matrix and scalar ,

Lemma 3 (Schur complement lemma (see [14])). Given constant matrices , , and with appropriate dimensions satisfying and . then if and only if

Lemma 4 (integral inequality [15]). For any constant matrix and a scalar b such that the following integrations are well defined,

3. Main Results

First, we will present sufficient conditions for exponential stability of the impulsive switched system ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) without control input.

Theorem 5. Consider the time-delayed impulsive switched system ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) with the cost function (4). Suppose there exist , , , such that the following conditions are satisfied:

(i)

(ii)

where,

Then, the impulsive switched system ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) is exponentially stable.

Proof. When , consider the Lyapunov-Krasovskii function candidate

where

Let

then, we can easily check that

Taking the derivative of , , along the trajectory of the closed-loop system, we obtain

From Lemma 4, we have

Then, we add (15) to (19) together to yield

Let ,

We have

Since from ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)), it is clear that or, equivalently, , .

Taking (14) into account, we have

and hence

which shows that the impulsive switched system ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) is exponentially stable when .

Next, let us consider the case at the impulsive and switching time point ,

Noting that , , we have

From (ii), we know that , which is equivalent to .

So, . Therefore, we can conclude that the impulsive switched system ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) is exponentially stable.

Theorem 5 develops sufficient conditions for exponential stability of the impulsive switched system ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) under the case that . In the next theorem, we will design the guaranteed cost controller in the form of and sufficient conditions for the existence of a guaranteed cost control are also presented as well.

Theorem 6. Consider the impulsive switched system with time delay ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) with the cost function (4) and suppose there exist , , . If there exist symmetric positive definite matrices , , , , , and such that the following conditions are satisfied:

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

where

then the guaranteed cost control law can ensure that the impulsive switched system ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) is exponentially stable. Moreover, the guaranteed cost value is

Proof. When , choose the Lyapunov-Krasovskii function candidate to be similar to Theorem 5

where

Taking the derivative of , , along the trajectory of the closed-loop system, we obtain

Put (1d) and into it and then we can get

Next, it follows from Lemma 2 that

Substituting (36) into (35) yields

The derivatives of , , and are the same as those in Theorem 5. Then, we can put (37), (16), (18), and (19) together to obtain

Let

Then, we have

By Lemma 3, it proves that holds if

where

Letting , we get . Then, we have

In addition, since (see Theorem 6 (ii)), , then we plug it into (40) and obtain

Now, we can easily conclude that the impulsive switched system ((1a), (1b), (1c), and (1d)) is exponentially stable. Looking back to (40), we can get

We know that

Thus, we can get

This completes the proof.

4. Conclusion

The exponential stabilization problem for impulsive switched systems with time delays is considered in this paper. Sufficient conditions for exponential stability of the impulsive switched systems without control input are derived via the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional method. Moreover, sufficient conditions for the exponential stability of the impulsive switched systems under the designed guaranteed cost control law are established and the corresponding guaranteed cost value can be obtained as well.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (nos. 11171079, 61290325, and 61321003), HUST Startup Research Fund, and HUST Independent Innovation Research Fund (GF and Natural Science).

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