Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 649487, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/649487

Research Article

Weighted Filtering for a Class of Switched Linear Systems with Additive Time-Varying Delays

Li-li Li,¹ Guangling Zhang,¹ Xin Ge,² and Cui-li Jin¹

¹School of Mathematics, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China
²School of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China

Received 26 July 2014; Accepted 19 October 2014

Academic Editor: Xi-Ming Sun

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Abstract.

This paper is concerned with the problem of weighted filtering for a class of switched linear systems with two additive time-varying delays, which represent a general class of switched time-delay systems with strong practical background. Combining average dwell time (ADT) technique with piecewise Lyapunov functionals, sufficient conditions are established to guarantee the exponential stability and weighted performance for the filtering error systems. The parameters of the designed switched filters are obtained by solving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). A modification of Jensen integral inequality is exploited to derive results with less theoretical conservatism and computational complexity. Finally, two examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

1. Introduction

Switched systems, as an important class of hybrid systems, have been extensively investigated during the last decades [1–4]. This is mainly motivated by the hybrid nature of many physical plants and the better performance under a controller switching strategy. Several methods, which are viewed as variations or generalizations of the Lyapunov stability theory, have been employed to cope with the performance analysis and control synthesis problems for switched systems, such as the common Lyapunov function method, the piecewise Lyapunov function method, the average dwell time (ADT) function method, the multiple Lyapunov function method, and the switched Lyapunov function method. Basic problems and recent progress are referred to [1, 2] and the references therein.

Switched systems with time delays in system states, control inputs, or switching signals can be modeled as switched delay systems. Due to the coexistence and interaction of the mode switchings and inherent time delays, the features of switched delay systems are very complicated which may even lead to instability and poor performance. Switched delay systems are also with strong practical background such as temperature control system, networked control systems (NCSs), and power systems [5–8]. That is why switched delay systems have gained growing popularity; following in the wake of this, much important progress has been made on the analysis and synthesis of switched delay systems [9–11], where the ADT approach has been proved to be a flexible and powerful tool for switched delay systems. When external noise signals appear in system models, state variables might not be available accurately which need to be estimated. One of the most effective methods for the state estimation problem is to design a filter, which has been concerned for switched delay systems with different performance indexes such as Kalman filtering, filtering, filtering, and filtering. Compared with others, filtering [12, 13] permits the exogenous noises to be arbitrary with bounded energy or average power and without known precise statistics, and it is also more robust to the uncertainties in the external noise signals and system models. In the filtering setting, a state estimator is designed to guarantee that the filter error system is stable in the absence of the external noise signals and its performance from the external noise signals to the estimation error is below a prescribed level of noise attenuation. For some representative works on filtering for switched delay systems, to name a few, [14] investigated an exponential filtering for continuous-time switched systems with interval time-varying delay to assure the exponential stability with a weighted performance for the filtering error system via the free-weighting matrix (FWM) technique. A weighted filter design procedure was developed by using the FWM technique for continuous-time switched time-varying delay systems to achieve the exponential stability with a weighted performance for the filtering error system in [15]. Reference [16] designed a full-order switched filter for a class of uncertain switched neutral systems subject to stochastic disturbance and time-varying delays, which guaranteed the robust mean-square exponential stability with a prescribed weighted performance. On the basis of a filter with Luenberger observer type and a new integral inequality, [17] dealt with the filtering problem for a class of switched linear neutral systems with time-varying delays. The ADT approach associated with the piecewise Lyapunov functional technology was employed in all of the above four results, and fast convergence and desirable accuracy were guaranteed by the exponential filters in terms of reasonable error covariance of the filtering process.

On the other hand, among the great number of literatures concerning time delay, it is worth pointing out that [18, 19] proposed the additive time-varying delay as a new type of delay for nonswitched continuous-time systems. After that, additive time delay has attracted much attention in the past few years [20–24]. The significance of the additive delays lies in three aspects. First, the additive delay components may describe delays with sharply different properties in system modeling which might not be suitable to combine them together. As mentioned in [18], delays from sensor to controller and from controller to actuator in NCSs are of the case, where delays may not have identical properties. Second, regarding the sum of all additive delay components as one traditional single delay will be very conservative, it is not reasonable and necessary to treat the sum of maximum of single delays as the maximum of the sum of all delays at the same time. Finally, systems with additive delays are of strong application backgrounds such as remote control and NCSs. For instance, [19] utilized the continuous systems with two additive time-varying delays in state to investigate the sampled-data NCSs with network induced delays and data packet dropouts. Recently, by constructing new Lyapunov functionals to avoid some overly boundings, [23, 24] presented stability criteria with fewer matrix variables and less conservatism for systems with additive time-varying delays in control input and system state, respectively. Nevertheless, switched additive time delays systems have been rarely investigated due to the complexity of mode switching.

Inspired by the aforementioned discussion, this paper focuses on the weighted filtering problem for a class of switched systems with additive time-varying delays. Delays under consideration are additive time-varying in the states. New criteria are presented to guarantee delay-dependent exponential stability and a weighted performance for the filtering error system under ADT switching signals. Then, by solving the corresponding LMIs, the parameters of the designed switched filters are obtained for all additive time-varying delays. Combining with a modification of Jensen integral inequality [24] instead of FWM technology, the derived conditions are with less theoretical conservatism and computational complexity. Two examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. To the best of our knowledge, little work has been addressed concerning stability analysis for switched systems with additive time-varying delays, not to mention the weighted filtering problem.

The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. The weighted filtering problem for switched systems with additive time-varying is formulated in Section 2. Section 3 presents delay-dependent sufficient conditions on the existence of weighted filtering which guarantees exponential stability and performance of the filtering error system, and a corresponding filter is designed. Section 4 gives two examples. Section 5 concludes this paper.

Notations. Some standard notations are used in this paper. denotes the dimensional Euclidean space;   (, , ) represents a real negative (negative-semidefinite, positive, positive-semidefinite) definite matrix denotes the space of square integrable vector functions on ; the superscript stands for matrix transposition; presents the maximum eigenvalue of is the identity matrix with compatible dimensions; asterisk denotes symmetric terms in symmetric term in a symmetric matrix.

2. Problem Formulation

Consider the following switched linear systems with two additive time-varying delays:

where is the state vector, is the measured output, is the signal to be estimated, is the disturbance input which belongs to , and is a differentiable vector-valued initial function. The piecewise constant function denotes a switching signal to be specified; corresponding switching sequence means that the th subsystem is activated when . , , , , , , , are known constant matrices with appropriate dimensions; and represent two time-varying delay components satisfying

where , , , are constants. Set , , .

Our objective in this paper is to construct a full-order switched filter in the form of

where is the filter state, is the filter output estimating , the matrices , , , and , are the filter parameters to be determined later. Filter (3) is assumed to switch synchronously according to the switching signal in system (1).

Set the state augmentation and the estimation error , and thus augmenting system (1) to involve switched linear filter (3) gives the following filter error dynamic system:

where

The following definitions are addressed to derive the desired results.

Definition 1 (see [1]). The equilibrium of the filtering error system (4) is exponentially stable under , if the solution of system (4) with satisfies for all for constants and , where denotes the Euclidean norm, and .

Definition 2 (see [1]). For any , let denote the number of switchings of over . If holds for , , then is called the average dwell time. As commonly used in literature, choose .

Definition 3. For and , the weighted filtering problem of system (1) is solvable if there exists a suitable filter of the form (3) and admissible ADT switching signals such that the filter error system (4) is exponentially stable when ; meanwhile, for any nonzero , system (4) has a weighted performance under zero initial condition , ; that is,

The following modification of Jensen integral inequality is essential to develop the main results with less conservatism.

Lemma 4 (see [24]). For any matrix , scalars , () satisfying , , and , there exists a vector function such that the integrations concerned are well defined; then the following inequality is true:

if there exists a matrix such that

3. Main Results

3.1. Exponential Stability and Weighted Performance Analysis

First, we analyse the exponential stability for filtering error system (4) with ; that is,

Theorem 5. Given constant , if there exist matrices , , and appropriately dimensioned matrices such that

then the system (9) with (2) is exponentially stable under any ADT switching signal satisfying

Moreover, an estimate of state decay is given by

where , , satisfy

Proof. Define the piecewise Lyapunov-Krasoviskii functional candidate of the form

where

Then taking the time derivative of along the trajectory of system (9) yields

Lemma 4 and (11) give the following inequalities:

where

Combining (10) and (16)–(19) leads to

with .
When , integrating the above inequality from to yields

Using (14) and (16), at switching instant , we have

Therefore, it follows from (22), (23), and the relation that

Noticing that and , we have

which completes the proof.

Remark 6. When , we have , which means that all subsystems employ a common Lyapunov functional, and the switching among them can be arbitrary. Meanwhile, let in (10); it gives asymptotical stability for (9) under arbitrary switching.

Remark 7. Due to the application of the modified Jensen integral inequality, the upper bound of is estimated more tightly, and fewer matrix variables are involved. Therefore, the theoretical conservatism and computational complexity are reduced for the derived conditions.

Next, we establish the following weighted performance criteria for the filter error system (4).

Theorem 8. For scalars and , there exist matrices , , and appropriately dimensioned matrices such that

(11) and (14) hold, where , , ,

; others are defined in Theorem 5. Then the filtering error system (4) with (2) is exponentially stable with weighted performance under any ADT switching signal (12).

Proof. From Theorem 5, the filter error system (4) is exponentially stable with . To show the weighted performance, we choose the Lyapunov-Krosoviskii functional (16). According to Schur complement, (26) is equivalent to which means

For any , combining (23) and (28) yields

Under the zero initial condition, multiplying both sides of the above inequality by leads to

which is equivalent to

From (12), holds; then one gets

Integrating the above inequality from to and exchanging the integration order lead to (6). This completes the proof.

3.2. Weighted Filter Design

Next, parameters of switched filter (3) can be determined by the following theorem.

Theorem 9. For scalars , , there exist matrices , , , and appropriately dimensioned matrices , , , , , , such that

(11) and (14) hold for , , with

other symbols are mentioned earlier. Then there exists a filter of the form (3) such that the weighted filtering problem of system (1) with (2) is solvable under any ADT switching signal (12). The filter matrices are constructed by

or

Proof. Set

Pre- and postmultiplying (26) by and , respectively, one can get that (33) is equivalent to (10). Thus, the filter error system (4) is exponentially stable with weighted performance. Furthermore, (34) is equivalent to ; then and is nonsingular. Thus we have

From the filter transfer function

the filter matrices are readily established by (36) or (37). This completes the proof.

Remark 10. For convenience, we only consider switched systems with two additive time-varying delays, but the proposed results in this paper can be extended to switched systems with multiple additive time-varying delay components.

Remark 11. When or , (1) reduces to switched system with a single time-varying delay. Suppose that without loss of generality; by setting and in (16), criterions of stability with weighted performance for switched systems with a single delay can be obtained similarly.

The following algorithm is helpful to derive filter matrices for the weighted filtering problem under consideration.

Design Algorithm

Step 1. Scalars , are selected close to 1. is also prescribed. Then, LMIs in Theorem 9 are solved for given , and by LMI toolbox in MATLAB.

Step 2. If these LMIs have no solution, then there are two cases. Case 1: and will be increased at a big step size; go back to Step 1. Case 2: the previous and are proper, and go to Step 4.

Step 3. If these LMIs have feasible solutions, will be decreased at a small step size, and go to Step 1.

Step 4. and are fixed. Decrease similarly until is the optimized value. According to (36) or (37), the filter matrices are established. Exit.

4. Example

Two examples are presented in this section to illustrate the proposed results.

Example 1. Consider switched system (1) with (2) consisting of two subsystems where subsystem 1 is described by

and subsystem 2 is described by

Let , , ,  , ,  . It can be easily checked that , , , , . Solving LMIs (11), (14), (33), and (34) gets the designed filter with the following parameterized matrices:

Under the initial condition and which belongs to , the state responses of the filter error system (4) are shown in Figure 1, and the estimation error is displayed in Figure 2. Figure 3 shows the corresponding ADT switching signal satisfying (12). The simulation results imply that the desired goal is well achieved. The admissible minimum feasible for different cases is shown in Table 1 to ensure the exponential stability for filtering error system.

Table 1: Minimum feasible for different cases.

0.6
0.6
0.6
0.7
0.7
0.7

0.3
0.5
0.8
0.3
0.5
0.8

1.2700
0.9397
0.0746
0.8918
0.2219
0.0026

Figure 1: The state responses of the filtering error system.

Figure 2: Filtering error.

Figure 3: Switching signal.

Example 2. Consider a satellite yaw angles control system with noise perturbation, which is given by the following state-space representation [13]:

The satellite yaw angles system consists of two rigid bodies joined by a flexible link. This link is modelled as a spring with torque and viscous damping . Respectively, and denote the yaw angles for the main body and the instrumentation module of the satellite, , . is the control torque, while and are the moments of inertia of two bodies. Here we choose , , , and . According to the method proposed for this model in [19], the gain matrix for the state-feedback controller is given by

Thus, the system is described by

where

We design a packet-loss-dependent filter of the following form [7]:

When , it indicates that a packet is successfully received by the filter, and ; then the filter model is described by

When , it means that a packet is lost, and ; then the filter model is given by

Setting , , we obtain the following filtering error system:

where

Choose , , , , , , . By using Theorem 9, we obtain the following gain matrices of the packet-less-dependent filter:

Under the initial condition and belonging to , the state responses of the filter error system (51) are shown in Figure 4, and the estimation error is displayed in Figure 5. Figure 6 shows the corresponding ADT switching signal satisfying (12).

Figure 4: The state responses of the filtering error dynamic system.

Figure 5: Filtering error.

Figure 6: Switching signal.

5. Conclusion

The weighted filtering problem for a class of switched linear system with two additive time-varying delays is investigated. First, new criterions are proposed to ensure exponential stability and a weighted performance for the filtering error system under ADT switching signals. Then filter matrices of the desired switched filters are obtained. Less conservative and computational complex conditions are developed by applying a modification of Jensen integral inequality. Finally, two examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Conflict of Interests

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

Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61304056 and the Scientific Research Fund of Liaoning Provincial Education Department under Grant L2013409.

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