Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 906902, 9 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/906902

Research Article

Finite-Time Control for a Class of Discrete-Time Markov Jump Systems with Actuator Saturation via Dynamic Antiwindup Design

Junjie Zhao,¹ Jing Wang,² and Bo Li¹

¹School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

²School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma'anshan 243002, China

Received 12 December 2013; Accepted 30 January 2014; Published 17 March 2014

Academic Editor: Hao Shen

Copyright © 2014 Junjie Zhao 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.

We deal with the finite-time control problem for discrete-time Markov jump systems subject to saturating actuators. A finite-state Markovian process is given to govern the transition of the jumping parameters. A controller designed for unconstrained systems combined with a dynamic antiwindup compensator is given to guarantee that the resulting system is mean-square locally asymptotically finite-time stabilizable. The proposed conditions allow us to find dynamic anti-windup compensator which stabilize the closed-loop systems in the finite-time sense. All these conditions can be expressed in the form of linear matrix inequalities and therefore are numerically tractable, as shown in the example included in the paper.

1. Introduction

It is well known that more and more attention has been paid to the study of actuator saturation due to its practical and theoretical importance. Therefore, various approaches were investigated to handle systems with actuator saturation and dynamic antiwindup approach which is one of the most effective ways to deal with it. To this end, a great number of results have been reported in the literature; see, for example, [1, 2]. Furthermore, the stabilization problem of singular Markovian jump systems with discontinuities and saturation inputs was presented in [3]. Via dynamic antiwindup fuzzy design, the robust stabilization problem of state delayed T-S fuzzy systems with input saturation was proposed in [4].

On the other hand, Markov jump is frequently encountered in many practical systems. Therefore, the study of Markov jump systems has been a hot research topic due to its importance, and many results have been proposed based on various control techniques, such as robust control [5–9], control [10, 11], Passivity-based control [12–14], fuzzy dissipative control [15], and neural networks control [14, 16]. Furthermore, observer based finite-time control problem of discrete-time Markov jump systems was studied [17].

As it is well known, when dealing with the stability of s system, a distinction should have been made between classical Lyapunov stability and finite-time stability (FTS). Conversely, a system is said to be finite-time stable if, once we fix a time-interval, its state does not exceed some bounds during this time-interval. Some results on FTS have been carried out; see, [18, 19]. Furthermore, finite-time filtering problem of time-delay stochastic jump systems with unbiased estimation was proposed in [20]. By applying dynamic observer-based state feedback and the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach, the finite-time control problem for time-delay nonlinear jump systems was addressed in the work of He and Liu [21]. However, to the best of our knowledge, the problem of finite-time stabilization of discrete-time stochastic systems subject to actuator saturation has not been fully investigated and it is the main purpose of our study.

In this paper, the attention is focused on the finite-time control problem of discrete-time Markov jump systems with actuator saturation based on dynamic antiwindup approach. A controller designed for unconstrained systems combined with a dynamic antiwindup compensator is given to ensure the stochastic finite-time boundedness and stochastic finite-time stabilization of the resulting closed-loop system for all admissible disturbances. The desired compensator can be designed via solving a convex optimization problem. Finally, a numerical example is employed to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Notation. Throughout the paper, for symmetric matrices and , the notation (resp., ) means that the matrix is positive semidefinite (resp., positive definite). is the identity matrix with appropriate dimension. The notation represents the transpose of the matrix (resp., ) means the largest (resp., smallest) eigenvalue of the matrix ; is a probability space; is the sample space; is the -algebra of subsets of the sample space and is the probability measure on ; denotes the expectation operator with respect to some probability measure . Matrices, if not explicitly stated, are assumed to have compatible dimensions. The symbol is used to denote a matrix which can be inferred by symmetry. .

2. Preliminaries and Problem Description

Consider the following discrete-time Markov jump system in the probability space :

where is the state vector, is the control input, and is the saturated control input. is the external disturbances, is the measurement output, and is the performance output. is a discrete-time Markov process and takes values from a finite set with transition probabilities given by

where , for , and . Moreover, the transition rates matrix of the system is defined by

The plant inputs are supposed to be bounded as follows:

For the system , to simplify the notation, we denote for each , and the other symbols are similarly denoted. Assume that a linear controller is designed for any ; then,

where is the controller state and is the controller output; and will be used for antiwindup augmentation. In absence of actuator saturation, the unconstrained closed-loop is formed by setting the following:

Assumption 1. The unconstrained closed-loop system (1)–(5) is well posed and internally stable.

In the presence of actuator saturation, the relation between and is that . To minimize performance degradation caused by saturation, the following antiwindup compensator is designed for the closed-loop systems:

where . The resulting nonlinear closed-loop system (1), (5), (7) is depicted in Figure 1 and can be represented in the following compact form:

where

For this system, we introduce the following definitions and assumption.

Figure 1: The closed-loop systems with input saturation.

Assumption 2 (see [17]). The external disturbance is varying and satisfies the following constraint condition:

Definition 3 (see [17]). The resulting closed-loop system (8) is stochastic finite-time stable (SFTB) with respect to with , and , if

Definition 4 (see [17]). The resulting closed-loop system (8) is said to be stochastic finite-time stable with respect to with , , , and , if the system (8) is SFTB with respect to , and under the zero-initial condition, the output satisfies

for any nonzero which satisfies (10), where is a prescribed positive scalar.

3. Main Results

In this section, we investigate the stabilization analysis of the unconstrained systems and the antiwindup controller design of the resulting closed-loop system. Some sufficient conditions in terms of LMI are given. Before presenting the main results, we give some lemmas as follows.

Lemma 5 (see [4]). For the closed-loop systems (8) with the matrix , the appropriate matrix is given, if is in the set , where is defined as follows:

then for any diagonal positive matrix , one has the following:

Lemma 6 (see [12]). For the given symmetric matrix ,

where , , and , the following conditions are equivalent:

(1); (2); (3).

3.1. Design of Controller

In this section, we design the controller for the unconstrained systems with and . Combining system (1) with controller (5), we have

where

Theorem 7. For each , the unconstrained system (16) is SFTB with respect to with , if there exist scalars , , , and the given , two sets of mode-dependent symmetric positive-defined matrices and , such that the following conditions hold:

where

Proof. Define the following Lyapunov function for each :

It is readily obtained that

where

By using of Schur complement lemma to (18), and note that and , we derive ; then, we have

It follows that

It is shown that

Then we have

Since , it is easily found that

Letting

and noting that

it can be verified that

Similarly, for all , we can obtain

Then, it is not difficult to find that

which implies that

Then, one can obtain that

Setting

it is easy to see that

It is obvious that (40) is equivalent to (19).

This completes the proof.

3.2. Design of Dynamic Antiwindup Compensator

Theorem 8. For each , with antiwindup compensator (7), such that the resulting closed-loop system (10) is with respect to with , if there exist scalars , , and , three sets of mode-dependent symmetric positive-defined matrices , and diag positive-defined matrices , and two sets of mode-dependent matrices and , such that the following conditions hold:

where

with

Proof. Define the following Lyapunov function for each :

It is readily obtained that

where

Then, by pre- and postmultiplying (41) by with , we have

By using of Schur complement lemma, we derive

It follows that

Since , we get

It is shown that

Then, we have

Since , it is easily found that

The following proof is similar to the process of Theorem 7.

Based on Lemma 5, it is easy to obtain that

then pre- and post-multiply (58) by which implies (43). This completes the proof.

Theorem 9. For each , with antiwindup compensator (7), such that the resulting closed-loop system (10) is said to be Stochastic finite-time stable via state feedback with respect to , if there exist three scalars , , and , two sets of mode-dependent symmetric positive-defined matrices and diag matrices , and two sets of mode-dependent matrices and , such that the following conditions hold:

with

Proof. Choose the similar Lyapunov function as Theorem 7 and denote

Thus, in light of Lemma 5, we have

Then pre- and postmultiply (59) by , and considering Schur complement lemma and (65), we derive that

holds for all . According to (66), one can obtain that

Then, we have

Under the zero-value initial condition and noting that , for all , it is shown that

Since and from (69), we have

The following proof is similar to the process of Zhang and Liu [17].

Since , it follows that

and then pre- and post-multiply (71) by and its transpose, respectively; we derive condition (61). This completes the proof.

4. Illustrative Examples

In this section, a numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Consider the following systems with four operation modes.

Mode 1 is

Mode 2 is

Mode 3 is

Mode 4 is

With the given designed controllers,

The transition rate matrix is given by the following:

In this case, we choose the initial values for , , and ; Theorem 7 yields to , and the bounds of the input saturation .

Based on Theorem 9, we derive

Remark 10. Figures 2, 3, and 4 are given on the last page. Figure 1 is of the jump rates, Figure 2 and Figure 3 are state response of open and closed-loop system. Based on the figures provided, the controller and the compensator we designed guarantee that the resulting closed-loop systems are mean-square locally asymptotically finite-time stabilizable.

Figure 2: of jump rates.

Figure 3: of the system (1)–(5).

Figure 4: of the closed-loop system (1)–(7).

5. Conclusions and Future Work

In this paper, the finite-time stabilization problem for a class of discrete-time Markov jump systems with input saturation has been investigated. Based on stochastic finite-time stability analysis, a controller designed for the unconstrained system with a dynamic antiwindup compensator subject to actuator saturation is given to guarantee the stochastic finite-time boundedness and stochastic finite-time stabilization of the considered closed-loop system for all admissible disturbances. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach has been illustrated by simulation results. The finite-time stabilization problem of Markov jump systems with constrained input and time-delay will be considered in the future work.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interests.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61203047, the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province under Grant 1308085QF119, the Key Foundation of Natural Science for Colleges and Universities in Anhui province under Grant KJ2012A049.

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