Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 495194, 8 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/495194

Research Article

Control of Singular Markovian Jump Systems with Bounded Transition Probabilities

Hongsheng Lin,¹ Ying Li,¹ and Guoliang Wang²

¹Department of Preparatory Course, Shenyang Institute of Engineering, Shenyang 110036, China

²School of Information and Control Engineering, Liaoning Shihua University, Liaoning, Fushun 113001, China

Received 10 October 2013; Accepted 20 November 2013

Academic Editor: Hao Shen

Copyright © 2013 Hongsheng Lin 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 discusses control problems of continuous-time and discrete-time singular Markovian jump systems (SMJSs) with bounded transition probabilities. Improved sufficient conditions for continuous-time SMJSs to be regular, impulse free, and stochastically stable with -disturbance attenuation are established via less conservative inequality to estimate the transition jump rates, so are the discrete-time SMJSs. With the obtained conditions, the design of a state feedback controller which ensures the resulting closed-loop system to be stochastically admissible and with performance is given in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, illustrative examples are presented to show the effectiveness and the benefits of the proposed approaches.

1. Introduction

Singular systems, also referred to as generalized systems, descriptor systems, implicit systems, differential-algebraic systems, or semistate systems [1], have been extensively studied in the past years due to the fact that singular systems better describe physical systems than regular ones. Many practical problems, such as those in Leontief’s dynamic system [2] and electrical and mechanical systems [3, 4], are modeled as singular systems. Considerable attention has been paid to investigate such continuous-time singular systems [5–8] and discrete-time singular systems [9–11], respectively. On the other hand, Markovian jump systems (MJSs) can be regarded as a special class of hybrid systems with finite operation modes whose structures are subject to random abrupt changes. The studies of MJSs are important in practical applications such as manufacturing systems, aircraft control, target tracking, robotics, solar receiver control, and power systems. Therefore, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the study of this class of systems in recent years such as [12–19].

When singular systems experience abrupt changes in their structure and parameters, it is natural to model them as SMJSs. Reference [20] considered the stochastic stability and robust stochastic stability conditions for continuous-time SMJSs. The delay-dependent control problem of continuous-time SMJSs was studied in [21] via Jensen’s integral inequality approach after introducing free weighting matrices, while [22] gave sufficient conditions for uncertain discrete-time SMJSs with mode-dependent time delays through transforming them into a standard linear system. Particularly, [23] proposed more general condition of   control for discrete-time SMJSs, which does not require any decomposition of the original system, and the construction of controller gain does not need system decomposition. However, all the above-mentioned criteria on MJSs require the values of transition probabilities to be exactly know. Recently, Boukas discussed control of discrete-time normal state-space MJSs with bounded transition probabilities in [24] and stabilization of continuous-time SMJSs with full or partial knowledge of transition rates in [25].

Following the work of [24, 25], in this paper, the control problem is considered for both continuous-time and discrete-time SMJSs with bounded transition probabilities. Sufficient criteria guaranteeing SMJSs being stochastically admissible with an performance are presented in terms of LMIs, which are obtained by using an improved inequality to obtain less conservative estimation on transition probabilities. Based on these, a state feedback controller such that the resulting closed-loop system is stochastically admissible and possesses a prescribed performance is given. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the validity of developed methods.

Notation.   denotes the dimensional Euclidean space. is the set of all real matrices. denotes the Euclidean norm. is the expectation operator with respect to some probability measure. In symmetric block matrices, we use “” as an ellipsis for the terms induced by symmetry, for a block-diagonal matrix, and .

2. Preliminaries

2.1. Continuous-Time Markovian Jump Linear Systems

Consider the following continuous-time SMJS described by

where is the state vector, is the control input, is the disturbance input, and is the control output. Matrix may be singular assumed . Parameter is the continuous-time Markov processes with right continuous trajectories taking values in a finite set with transition probabilities:

where , , and the transition probability rate satisfies , for , and

For notational simplicity, in the sequel, for each possible , , the matrix will be denoted by , and so on.

Assumption 1. The transition probabilities for system (1) are assumed to be unknown but vary between two known bounds satisfying the following:

where .

From Assumption 1, when we only know that and , we have , which is the same as in [25]. Thus, we may say that Assumption 1 is more natural.

Definition 2 (see [26]). The nominal system (1) is said to be regular if is not identically zero for every .

The nominal system (1) is said to be impulse free if for every .

The nominal system in (1) is said to be stochastically stable if, when and , there exists a constant such that

The nominal system in (1) is said to be stochastically admissible if it is regular, impulse free, and stochastically stable.

Definition 3. Given , the nominal system in (1) is said to be stochastically admissible with -disturbance attenuation if it is stochastically admissible and satisfying the following such that

holds for zero-initial condition and any nonzero .

In this paper, the controller such that the resulting closed-loop system is stochastically admissible with (6) is

where is to be determined.

Lemma 4. Given a scalar , the unforced system (1) is stochastically admissible with performance if there exist matrices such that

2.2. Discrete-Time Markovian Jump Linear Systems

Consider the following discrete-time SMJS described by

where is the state vector, is the control input, is the disturbance input, and is the control output. Matrix may be singular assumed . Parameter is a discrete-time, discrete-state Markovian chain taking values in a finite set with transition probabilities:

where , for , and

Assumption 5. The transition probabilities for (10) are assumed to be unknown but vary between two known bounds satisfying the following:

From [24], we know that and may not equal 1. It is not necessary to exactly know the transition probabilities but only the bounds of , which are and .

Definition 6 (see [26]). The nominal system in (9) is said to be regular if is not identically zero for every .

The nominal system in (9) is said to be causal if for every .

The nominal system in (9) is said to be stochastically stable if, when and , there exists a constant such that

The nominal system in (9) is said to be stochastically admissible if it is regular, causal, and stochastically stable.

Definition 7. Given , the nominal system in (9) is said to be stochastically admissible with -disturbance attenuation such that

holds for zero-initial condition and any nonzero .

The corresponding controller for system (9) is

where is to be determined.

Lemma 8. Given a scalar , the unforced system (9) is stochastically admissible with performance if there exist matrices such that

where .

Lemma 9 (see[27]). Given any real matrices , , and with appropriate dimensions and such that and is symmetric, then, one has

3. Main Results

3.1. Continuous-Time Markovian Jump Linear Systems

Theorem 10. Given a scalar , the unforced system (1) with constraint (4) is stochastically admissible with performance if there exist matrices and such that

where

hold for all .

Proof. From (3) and (4), we have

Then, by (8) and (21), we conclude that

Since and ,   and , we have

Via (22) and (23), we have (25) implying (22); that is,

where

Let ; then pre- and postmultiply (25) by and its transpose. Taking into account (24) and via Schur complement, we obtain that (19) and (21) imply (8). This completes the proof.

Remark 11. Since to the term gives some problems, [25] presented a method to deal with problem; that is, . In this paper, we overcome it by (23); let ; we have . Therefore, we have ≤ + ≤ .

Theorem 12. Given a scalar , there exists a state feedback controller in the form of (7) such that the resulting closed-loop system is stochastically admissible with (6), if there exist matrices , , and such that

where

hold for all with constraint (4). The controller gain can be constructed as

Proof. Substituting with , then by similar method in Theorem 10 with (28), we can obtain Theorem 12. Thus, it is omitted here.

Remark 13. It is seen that such conditions have equation constraint (28), which are not strict LMIs. In addition, the desired controller (7) is mode dependent, which requires its system mode to be available online. This makes the scope of application limited. In order to deal with this practical condition, mode-independent control is usually used. Based on the methods in [28, 29], such problems can be solved easily.

3.2. Discrete-Time Markovian Jump Linear Systems

Theorem 14. Given a scalar , the unforced system (9) with constraint (12) is stochastically admissible with performance if there exist matrices , , and such that

where

hold for all .

Proof. From (16) and (17), similar to [23], we have

where

Since with , and (12), we have

From (12), we obtain that

Taking into account (34), (36), and (37), we have

where

Then, by the Schur complement, we see that (32) is equivalent to (38). This completes the proof.

Remark 15. It should be remarked that when in (9), [24] gave important criteria under the constraint (12) via and , where must be positive-definite matrix which is not applicable in SMJSs. In SMJS (9), is only required to be nonsingular matrix. In the above proof, we remove this constraint via (36). In particular, if , then . Let ; we have ; thus, we have .

Theorem 16. Given a scalar , there exists a state feedback controller in the form of (15) such that the resulting closed-loop system (9) is stochastically admissible with (14), if there exist matrices , , , and such that

where

hold for all with constraint (12). The controller gain can be constructed as

4. Numerical Examples

In this section, numerical examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed theory.

Example 1. Consider the following continuous-time SMJS as (1) described as

Assume the bound transition probability matrices are

By the method in [25], we find that it is infeasible for this system no matter takes any values. However, for , via Theorem 12, we obtain the controller gain

Example 2. Consider the following discrete-time SMJS as (9) described as

Assume the bound transition probability matrices are

Let ; then via Theorem 16, we obtain the controller gain

Example 3. In order to do some comparison, consider the following discrete-time normal state-space MJS which can be obtained by (9) with and is described as

Assume the bound transition probability matrices are

By the method in [24], we have the minimum , while via Theorem 16, we obtain . By this example, it is seen that our method is less conservative.

5. Conclusions

In this paper, the problems of control for both continuous-time and discrete-time SMJSs with bounded transition probabilities have been investigated. Less conservative sufficient criteria for SMJSs to be stochastically admissible with performance are given by the LMI approach. Based on the obtained conditions, a kind of state feedback controller, such that not only stochastic admissibility but also a prescribed performance level is guaranteed, can be computed. Finally, numerical examples are provided to illustrate the advantage and effectiveness of the presented results in this paper.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Scientific Research Fund of Liaoning Provincial Education Department under Grant no. L2012464, Young Scientific Research Fund of Shenyang Institute of Engineering under Grant no. LGQN-1308, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants nos. 61104066 and 61374043, and the Program for Liaoning Excellent Talents in University under Grant no. LJQ2013040.

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