Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 6427807, 11 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/6427807

Research Article

Dynamic Output Feedback Compensation Control for Discrete Closed-Loop Nonlinear System with Multiple Time-Delays

Wei Zheng,¹ Hong-bin Wang,1,2 and Zhi-ming Zhang³

¹Institute of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
²Liren Institute, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066000, China
³China National Heavy Machinery Research Institute, Xi’an 710000, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Wei Zheng; dongmingn@yeah.net

Received 27 March 2017; Revised 13 June 2017; Accepted 2 July 2017; Published 9 August 2017

Academic Editor: Asier Ibeas

Copyright © 2017 Wei Zheng 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 addresses the dynamic output feedback control problem for a class of discrete system with uncertainties and multiple time-delays. First, the system is decomposed into two subsystems based on the output matrix and input control matrix. Secondly, a dynamic compensator is employed for the first subsystem, and then, given the multiple uncertainties, the output feedback controller is designed based on the second subsystem and the dynamic compensator. Thirdly, by choosing the Lyapunov-Krasovskii function, it can be seen that the developed controller makes the closed-loop system convergent to an adjustable region, which can be rendered arbitrary small by adjusting design parameters. Compared with the previous researches, the proposed controller is not only smooth and memoryless, but also only dependent on the system output. Furthermore, with the given dynamic compensator, the controller design conditions are relaxed, while the approach is extended to the conventional nonlinear system. Finally, numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.

1. Introduction

Many practical systems are the large nonlinear systems and consist of time-delays in the real world, such as various engineering systems, digital communication systems, urban traffic networks, and economic systems. Stability analysis for time-delay dynamic systems has been one of the focused study topics in the past decades, and many accomplishments have been made; see [1–5]. Many researches often used the Razuminkin lemma and Lyapunov functional methods for the design and analysis of time-delay systems. For a practical system, it may be a difficult mission to obtain all the state variables; thus the output feedback control approach is proposed. Compared with the state feedback control, the output feedback control problem is more challenging because of the limited information of state variables.

It is well known that dynamic output feedback and static output feedback received lots of attention in various engineering systems. Compared with the previous state feedback control, the output feedback control issues are more challenging because the state variables information is limited. Li and Jia [6] considered the nonfragile dynamic output feedback control for linear systems with time-varying delay. Lv et al. [7] proposed the adaptive output feedback consensus protocol design for linear systems with directed graphs. Wei et al. [8] proposed the robust and reliable - static output feedback (SOF) control for nonlinear systems with actuator faults in a descriptor system framework. In [9, 10], the dynamic output feedback control issue and the static output feedback control issue for the linear systems were discussed; the new model and system order were presented.

For the unknown nonlinear system, robust adaptive output feedback control strategy was proposed for dealing with the nonlinear uncertain issues [11]. Zhu et al. [12] considered the adaptive output feedback control issue for an uncertain linear time-delay system. Zhou [13] investigated the observer-based output feedback control problem for discrete-time linear systems with time-delays. Qiu et al. [14] considered the static output feedback - control issue for continuous time systems, and a new Lyapunov functions was proposed. In the above researches, the time-delay systems are all considered as the linear form. For the nonlinear uncertain systems with time-delays, a lot of investigations have been done. In [15], a network-based feedback control for time-delay systems was developed, which is based on the quantization and dropout compensation. Yao et al. [16] investigated the extended-state-observer-based output feedback control for hydraulic systems by employing the back-stepping control technique. Xia et al. [17] designed the smooth speed controller for low-speed high-torque permanent-magnet synchronous motor. Chen [18] considered the active magnetic bearing system and designed the delay dependent nonlinear smooth output feedback control. Aiming at the output feedback control issues, in [19], the dynamic robust fault tolerant tracking controller was investigated to estimate the unknown inputs models and unmeasurable system state variables. In [20], Toscano and Lyonnet designed the delay-independent static robust output feedback controller. Then Xian et al. [21] constructed the discontinuous output feedback controller and velocity observer for nonlinear mechanical systems. By investigating the nonlinear robust control systems, Chae and Nguang [22] and Wei et al. [23] proposed the robust - dynamic output feedback control method for solving the tracking control problem. In [24], a novel smooth output feedback controller was constructed for continuous systems with time-delays by Hua and Guan.

It is well known that static output feedback is frequently encountered in practical control systems, but some strict design conditions should be considered in the system. However, all the above design technique has to predetermine the feedback gains before checking the stability conditions of the closed-loop system. In various engineering systems, all of the state variables are not available. Thus, it is necessary to design dynamic output feedback controller. The dynamic output feedback technique is more flexible and the required conditions on the considered systems are less conservative. Furthermore, the previous many methods are efficient for the control design of the time-delays system, but the system controller is not continuous and the accuracy time-delays are often needed for achieving the control objectives. The topic of this study can be viewed as the discrete counterpart of the topic in [19], in which the output control issue for continuous time system with time-delays was studied. Based on the above contents, we consider the dynamic output feedback control issues for a nonlinear discrete multiple time-delays system and aim to construct the smooth and memoryless output feedback controller.

In this paper, we study the issues of smooth dynamic output feedback control of discrete-time multiple time-delays system. The parametric uncertainties are assumed to be a linear fractional form which can include the norm bounded uncertainty as its special case. For the closed-loop system, a dynamic compensation controller is designed to reduce the control design requirement. And then the output feedback controller with adaptive law is constructed based on the compensation control. With the help of the proposed Lyapunov functional, the stability of the whole system is well proved. Furthermore, we have extended the results to the general nonlinear case and discussed the dynamic output feedback control issue accordingly. Finally, numerical simulations are performed to show the potential of the proposed strategy.

2. System Description

The dynamic model in this section is characterized by discrete-time and multiple time-delays, whose relationship exhibits the uncertain characteristics to the nonlinear practical systems. Many practical systems are the large nonlinear systems and consist of multiple time-delays in the real world, such as various engineering systems and digital communication systems. Thus, let us consider a nonlinear discrete-time system with multiple time-delays as follows:

where is the state variable, and are the control input and output of the system (1), respectively, , , and are the state matrix, input matrix, and output matrix, respectively, and all matrices are constant matrices with appropriate dimensions. We assume with the following condition: · is the multiple time-delays that satisfies , for , and , where and are positive scalars. The nonlinear function is uncertain and contains multiple time-delays state with . For the nonlinear uncertain vector function of the system (1), there exist the following assumptions.

Assumption 1. The nonlinear function vector satisfies

where is unknown constant vector and with is a known increasing function and . And there exist nonlinear functions such that for all and .

Remark 2. System (1) contains the functions with multiple time-delays and nonlinear uncertain. The sliding mode state feedback control scheme was presented in [25] and the stability was proven. For system (1), the full-order observer was designed and then the observer-based sliding mode feedback controller was designed by Chen and Fu [26]. It is generally known that some strict conditions on the control system will be imposed by the static output feedback control. Furthermore, the adaptive sliding-mode control method needs the accurate time-delays value of system state for control implementation. The static output feedback sliding-mode control scheme was discussed in [27]. In this study, the objective is to design a smooth dynamic output feedback controller for system (1) with Assumption 1 such that the designed controller makes the solutions of the system exponentially convergent to a ball.

Remark 3. With the parameters unknown, the adaptive strategy was presented to estimate the parameters of system or uncertain bound parameters. In [7], the adaptive output feedback control problem was discussed with some unknown interconnections. With these researches containing the nonlinear function in the system, it can be seen that the schemes are not enforceable to system (1). For the problem formulated, there are three challenging problems as follows: how to design a dynamic compensator with the output feedback signal; how to reduce the influence of uncertain parameters; and how to design the output feedback controller for the time-delays system. Our control objective is to solve the above three issues, and then the controller will be easy to implement in practical systems.

With the above contents, we assume that , , where and satisfy the following conditions: and , is the identity matrix. Let with and ; then system (1) can be rewritten as follows:

where , , , are the decomposition matrix of . With , one has , where and . Consider the structures of matrices and ; there exist the nonsingular matrices and such that and .

With the above analysis, system (1) is further rewritten as follows:

where , , , .

Since matrices and are nonsingular, there exist which is also nonsingular. In the next section, we will consider the controller design problem for system (4).

3. Controller Design

3.1. Design the Dynamic Compensator

For subsystem- of system (4), an augmented dynamic system is designed by the following form:

where , , , , , and are designed with appropriate dimensions. With (4) and (5), one has

where in which

In addition, for (6), choose the following discrete Lyapunov-Krasovskii function:

where , , are positive matrices and and are positive scalars. Now, taking the forward difference of (8), the following inequality holds:

Note that

where is weight matrix. Consider (6), (9), and (10); we have

where and are the positive scalars, with , and . And can be designed as follows: , and with ; , with ; with ; with ; and , , .

With the above analysis, the new results arise.

Theorem 4. positive scalar , if there exist positive matrices , , , , and , the following inequalities hold: and for any . Based on Theorem 4 and (11), the forward difference of along (6) satisfies

Proof. With , and , we can see that and are both nonnegative or negative. Then there exist two cases.
The First Case. If there exist

then the transpose matrices and satisfy

with and in Theorem 4; the following inequalities hold:

one has

then

With the above analysis, we can obtain (12) immediately from (11).
The Second Case. If there exist

then the transpose matrices and satisfy

With and in Theorem 4, the following inequalities hold:

one has

then

With the above analysis, we obtain (12) immediately from (11).

Remark 5. The matrix in (10) is used to derive the conservative condition. The detailed usage of weight matrix is shown in [28, 29]. The matrix inequality conditions in Theorem 4 are not in the strict LMI form. There are many methods reported on how to change the matrix inequalities to strict LMIs. The compensator ( order) is designed for subsystem-. In fact, we can use the reduced-order compensator instead of the full one. Obviously Theorem 4 uses the upper bound delay information of state variables. This result is looser than the delay-independent conditions. It is well known that the dynamic compensator provides more freedom for the system design. It can be seen from (5) that matrices , , , are designed. By setting , it is a static compensator. According to the above contents, it can be seen that the static compensator is more conservative than dynamic compensator.

Choose a new Lyapunov-Krasovskii function:

with (12), it is relatively easy to prove that

By verification, one obtains with .

With the above analysis and compensator (5), the adaptive controller for (4) is designed as follows.

3.2. Adaptive Controller Design

Now, with compensator (5), the adaptive controller is presented for (4) as follows.

Let ; one has .

Since is class function, with Assumption 1, we obtain the unknown vector that satisfies

With (4), we have

For subsystem-, choose the discrete Lyapunov-Krasovskii function as follows:

where with . and are all scalars, is defined as adaptive parameter with , and can be defined as follows:

with , , and being positive scalars.

Now, taking the forward difference of (27), one has

With (26), one has

By applying (25) such that

applying gives

And define and satisfying , .

For , one has

Design the controller for system (1), where

in which determines function vector, which is employed to reduce the influences from parameter in subsystem (6).

Substituting (30)–(34) into (29) yields

where is given by

With the above discussions, Theorem 6 is given.

Theorem 6. For system (1), with defined in (34) and , let . For prescribed scalars , there exists increasing positive function satisfying (39). The adaptive law is designed as follows:

where and are positive scalars and satisfy .

With the above contents, the solutions of the closed-loop system are exponentially convergent to a ball.

Proof. Choose a discrete Lyapunov-Krasovskii function (38) for system (4) with compensator (5):

where is an increasing positive functional, such that

in (38) is employed to deal with the nonlinear function . Then, taking the forward difference of yields

With (39), one has

One knows, if , we use instead of in (41), and if , (41) also holds. Then, substituting (41) into (40) with , one has

where and , such that with ; we further have

Since , combining (8), (27), (38), and (43), we have , and .
With the inequality,

where , one has:

where , .
Considering the above analysis, we get that asymptotically converge to bounded region such that. Then the proof is completed.

Remark 7. For (45), we know that the transient capability of system (1) is confirmed by as . In order to get better transient capability, choose proper parameters , , and to get big . As , converges to bounded; we can choose small value to achieve small region ; then the better steady characteristics are obtained. In particular, if we select in (37), it can be easily proved that the system state converges to the bounded region 0.

4. Case Expansion

Consider a nonlinear uncertain system with multiple time-delays given by the following model:

where is state vector; and are the input and output of the nonlinear system with ; , , and are nonlinear functions with , , and ; ; for ; and the time-delays parameter satisfying and .

For the general system (46), one knows that there exists a state transformation relation which is written as

where , , , , and are resultant functions in state transformation. With the above analysis, system (47) is rewritten as

where .

Remark 8. The state transformation is employed for system (46), and is employed to decompose into the signal and signal with being available and being unavailable. In addition, with the input matrix , the output is transformed into and . With the above contents, the dynamic output feedback controller is designed.

Design the dynamic compensator for system (48) as follows:

where is the subsidiary variable and and are the nonlinear functions. For the dynamic compensator (49) with subsystem- (48), we assume that there exists a discrete Lyapunov-Krasovskii function such that

where and and and are nonlinear functions with being a positive scalar. Then, from , one has

For (51), Assumption 9 holds.

Assumption 9. The following nonlinear function inequality holds:

where and are constant vectors and and are nonlinear functions. with , and there exist nonlinear functions , , and satisfying , , and .

Theorem 10. For system (47), there exists a nonlinear dynamic compensator (49) satisfying (50); then design the control law where

in which and are positive scalars, such that holds. is a positive increasing function, satisfying inequality (39). And the adaptive law can be designed as with , , and , and then the solutions of the control system can converge to a bounded region.

Proof. Considering the following Lyapunov functional with , + + + .
Where is a scalar, , with the same way, one has

with , and the solutions of the closed-loop system are exponentially convergent to a bounded region.

5. Simulations

In this section, a numerical example is given to show the validity of the controllers designed in this study.

Consider the nonlinear time-delays system as follows:

where

where , in which , , is an unknown scalar, and and are the time-delays.

Now, we employ the proposed method to construct the dynamic output feedback controller. Based on Theorem 4, parameters , , , and are constructed as follows:

Using Theorems 4 and 6, the following inequalities hold:

Based on Theorems 6 and 10, the control law is designed as follows:

with the adaptive law being designed as follows:

In this study, the state initial value of the system is for . The multiple time-delays are selected as and . Figure 1 shows the responses of the control inputs. Figures 2 and 3 show the responses of , , , and with multiple time-delays and . From the three figures, we can see that the proposed method is effective and can stabilize the closed-loop system quickly.

Figure 1: The response curves of control input.

Figure 2: The response curves of state variables and .

Figure 3: The response curves of state variables and .

6. Conclusions

This paper addresses the dynamic output feedback compensation control problem for a class of discrete system with multiple time-delays and uncertainties. The dynamic compensation controller is constructed and the control design conditions are relaxed, while the difficulty of the system design is decreased, it is easy to implement the system performance. With the developed nonlinear Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, we have obtained sufficient conditions for the existence of output feedback controller such that the closed-loop system is globally exponentially stable and achieves a prescribed level. The adaptive control law is designed such that the closed-loop systems have better stable state property (arbitrary small region of convergence) and better transient state property (converge exponentially). Furthermore, we have extended the results to the general nonlinear case. Finally, the simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the main results. As further work, the proposed methodology will be extended to more complex control problems, such as - control of fuzzy affine systems with actuator faults.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This research was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project no. 61473248); Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China (Project no. F2016203496); National Intellectual Property Office of China (Grant nos. ZL-2012-1-0052200.2, Zl-2012-1-0052199.3, and Zl-2014-2-0411083.9); and China National Heavy Machinery Research Institute.

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