Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 8085327, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8085327

Research Article

Positive Observer Design for Positive Delayed Markovian Jump Systems

Guoliang Wang

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

Received 20 April 2016; Revised 20 June 2016; Accepted 29 June 2016

Academic Editor: Rigoberto Medina

Copyright © 2016 Guoliang Wang. 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.

The positive observer design problem is considered for a class of positive delayed Markovian jump systems (PDMJSs). Firstly, a necessary and sufficient condition is established to check the positivity of delayed Markovian jump systems (DMJSs). Then, necessary and sufficient conditions for PDMJSs being asymptotically mean stable are established to be independent of time delay. Based on the proposed results, sufficient conditions for the existence of the desired positive observer gains including mode-independent case are provided. Additionally, more general cases that transition rate matrix (TRM) is partially unknown or uncertain are considered, respectively. Finally, a numerical example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

1. Introduction

Markovian jump system (MJS) is a kind of hybrid systems and usually has two mechanisms simultaneously. The first one is the time-evolving mechanism and related to the state vector. The second one referring to the system mode is the event-driven mechanism and driven by the Markov process. During the past years, a lot of attention has been paid to various kinds of MJSs; see, for example, [1–12]. As we know, time delay is usually encountered in practically dynamical systems, such as in chemical systems, manufacturing systems, biological systems, networked control systems (NCSs), and telecommunication and economic systems. It is said that the presence of time delay is often a big source of instability and poor performance. During the past decades, many results on DMJSs have been reported; see, for example, [13–19] and the references therein.

Positive systems have formed a new branch and play an important role in system theory and application. It is a kind of systems whose state and output are nonnegative values for any given nonnegative initial states and inputs. Such systems are usually found in many areas including population models, economics, ecology, and communication [20–23], whose variables with negative values have no physical meaning. Over the past several decades, a great number of results on various topics such as positive realization [24], reachability [25, 26], and positive stabilization [27–30] have emerged. When there are time delays, some results were reported in [31–34]. By investigating such references, it is seen that the underlying system is a deterministic system without jumping parameters, where many other systems cannot be described. In this sense, it is said that the results about deterministic systems have limited application scope. Thus, it is meaningful to study systems with random jumps. If positive systems have their parameters and structures changed abruptly, it is necessary and natural to describe them as positive Markovian jump systems (PMJSs). Up to the present, it is seen that there are very few results to report this kind of systems. Very recently, the stochastic stability of continuous-time PMJSs was considered in [35]. In this reference, it is seen that there is no time delay, and only analysis problems were considered. By investigating this reference and the process of this paper, it is said that the existence of time delay will make the analysis and synthesis of PMJSs very difficult. As for discrete-time PMJSs, the -gain performance and positive filter design were studied in [36], where the transition probabilities may be partially unknown or have interval uncertainties. However, the case of general TRMs in continuous-time MJSs is quite different from the case of general transition probability matrices (TPMs) in discrete-time MJSs. So, the corresponding problems for continuous-time PMJSs with general TRMs should be revisited. Up to now, it is found that the effects of time delay and general TRMs in continuous-time system analysis and synthesis have not been mentioned so much. More importantly, in such two references, it is priorly assumed that the underlying system is positive. In other words, how to check its positivity is not referred to in these references, especially when time delay is included. On the other hand, due to technical or economical constraints in most practical applications, it is not easy or expensive to get all the state variables. In this case, it is of great interest to design observer to estimate state variables. The observer design problems for deterministic systems were considered in [37–40], while similar problems for MJSs were investigated in [41–44]. By investigating these references, it is said that the observer design techniques developed for generally dynamical systems may not be suitable for positive systems. The reason is that there is often a positive constraint on the observer design for positive systems [45–48]. Similarly, from the above references, it is known that such references are all without jump and time delay. However, based on the explanations, it is said that such general factors to be considered for PMJSs play important roles in positive analysis and synthesis, which should not be simply combined. To the best of our knowledge, the positive observer design problem of PMJSs has not yet been fully investigated and still remains challenging. In order to spell out the applications of the considered problems, without loss of generality, only a practical example is referred to here. From [49], it is seen that a single-link robot arm could be modeled to be an MJS with two modes, whose payload and moment of inertia have different modes. By applying some controller and assuming time delay in the above model, one could have a practical system naturally, which is an PMJS to be considered here. Based on these facts and illustrations, it is claimed that the studies of such general factors in positive systems have theoretical and practical senses. All the observations motivate the current research.

In this paper, we will study the positive observer design problem for continuous-time PDMJSs. The main contributions of this paper are summarized as follows: (1) necessary and sufficient condition for the positivity of DMJSs is presented; (2) necessary and sufficient conditions for checking its asymptotically mean stability are developed, which can also be reduced to check the asymptotic stability of a deterministic system without time delay; (3) based on these results, sufficient conditions for designing observers including mode-independent observer are established, which are convenient to be solved by using the standard software; (4) the given results are further extended to two general cases that TRM is partially unknown and has admissible uncertainties, respectively.

Notation. denotes the dimensional Euclidean space, and is the set of all real matrices. is the set of positive integer. is the set of all real matrices with nonnegative entries, and the set of Metzler matrices is denoted by . A real matrix or vector is called positive (resp., strictly positive) and denoted by (resp., ), if all its components are nonnegative (resp., strictly positive). means the mathematical expectation of . is an operation and consists of taking the columns of a given matrix from left to right and stacks them one above the other. denotes the maximum of and . In symmetric block matrices, we use “” as an ellipsis for the terms induced by symmetry, for a block-diagonal matrix, and .

2. Positive Delayed Markovian Jump Systems

Consider a class of delayed Markovian jump systems described as

where is the system state, is the input, and is the output. , , , , and are known matrices. Operation mode is a homogeneous stationary ergodic Markov process taking values in a finite set with TRM :

where , , and , if , . The initial condition of system (1) is defined as

where is a given vector function and is continuous and is the time delay.

Definition 1. System (1) is said to be positive, if and only if , , for any and , , .

Theorem 2. System (1) is positive if and only if , , , , and , .

Proof.  
Necessity. Define the stopping time instants satisfying , , ; we have , , , . Without loss of generality, it is assumed that . Let system (1) with , , and , ; we have

It is known that , only if . Assume , , where is the th column of identical matrix and ; when , one has , where is the th column of . Thus, we obtain . Let system (1) be with , , and , ; we have . Then, , since is arbitrary. The necessities of and can be proved similarly. Because of Markov process being an ergodic Markov process, any mode can take place and is also selected as an initial mode. Then, we have that discussed above can be any mode in the finite set . For case , the corresponding time range can be selected as . Then, by the similar method, we can get the above results too.
Sufficiency. When , without loss of generality, there are some stopping time instants such that and . The occupying modes are , and the original delay rang is divided as . Then, as for , the solution to system (1) is

Because of , , and , it is concluded that , , if and . Moreover, we have . Similarly, when , we obtain that

where . By the given conditions in this theorem and , it is obvious that , . Similarly, we have , . By the step method, one has on the intervals . Finally, we have on . This completes the proof.

Remark 3. In [45–48], the positivity of the considered systems was assumed to be satisfied beforehand. In other words, in these references, no results are available to check its positivity. Based on Theorem 2, one could check an MJS with time delay positive or not by only testing some system matrices.

3. Stability Analysis

Definition 4. The positive system in (1) is asymptotically mean stable if and only if the solution to system (1) for satisfies

for any , , .

Theorem 5. The following statements are equivalent:

(i)The positive system in (1) is asymptotically mean stable.(ii)There exists a strictly positive vector (SPV) such that

where matrix is defined as

It is equivalent to

where , and SPV , , is to be determined.(iii)Matrix is Hurwitz.(iv)The positive system without time delay

is asymptotically stable. That is, a positive defined matrix satisfies

(v)The positive transform system

is asymptotically stable. It is equivalent to matrix being Hurwitz, which is also equivalent to the fact that there exists a positive defined matrix such that

(vi)There exists an SPV such that

which is rewritten to be an SPV satisfying

or

Proof. Let , where . Here, is defined as , where the indicator function is given by

It is concluded that

From the results [13, 15, 50], it is known that is also a Markov process, where , . Then, based on (19) and considering the definition of , we have

Let ; one has

where

Then, the stability of positive system (1) is equivalent to positive system (21).
(i)⇔(ii) Necessity. From system (21), it is obtained that

where . Because of positive system (21) asymptotically stable, it is seen that when , and . Thus, we conclude

Let ; we obtain (8).
Sufficiency. It is obvious that the stability of system (1) is equivalent to the stability of system (21) which is also a positive system with . Choose a Lyapunov function for system (21) defined by

which is positive for any nonzero . Then, one gets

since and nonzero . Let and, substituting it into (8), it is concluded that conditions (8) and (10) are equivalent.
(ii)⇔(iii) As we know, by [51], the Metzler matrix is Hurwitz if and only if there exists an SPV such that .
(iii)⇔(iv) It is known that matrix being Hurwitz can be equivalently described by the asymptotic stability of system (11). Moreover, its asymptotic stability is equal to LMI (12) holding.
(iv)⇔(v) By the dual theory, one concludes that the asymptotic stabilities of system (11) and its dual system are equivalent.
(v)⇔(vi) It is obvious that, for any SPV , it is equivalent to . Based on this fact, one gets this conclusion right. That is because matrix being Hurwitz is equivalent to matrix being Hurwitz. The next proof on the equivalence can be obtained by the proof of equivalence of (ii)⇔(iv) similarly.
This completes the proof.

Remark 6. Here, several kinds of equivalent conditions are proposed with different forms; the choice of form to be chosen should depend on the concrete situations. First, some conditions such as (8), (10), and (15) are very conveniently used to check its asymptotically mean stability. Second, some other forms, such as (16) or (17), are very suitably applied to general cases that TRM is partially unknown or uncertain. Such conditions will make the synthesis problems of PDMJSs with or without general TRMs in this paper easily. Third, by fully considering the positivity of MJSs, some conditions are obtained by constructing a linear copositive stochastic Lyapunov function. Compared with the results without positivity constraint, the computational complexity for checking the stability of PMJSs can be reduced. Finally, it is seen that PDMJS (1) is asymptotically mean stable if and only if deterministically positive system (11) is asymptotically stable. In other words, it is said that the checking of stability of PDMJS (1) is reduced to check whether the corresponding positive system without time delay is stable or not.

From Theorem 5, it is seen that corresponding TRM is exactly known and will have the application limited. When it is more general, such as being partially unknown or uncertain, how to obtain the similar results will become necessary. Firstly, we consider the case of partially unknown. Without loss of generality, a partly unknown may be expressed as

where “?” represents the unknown element. Then for any , defining such that

with known, which are further described as

where is the column index of the known element in the row of , and the column index of the unknown element in the row of is represented as . For this general case, based on Theorem 5, we have the following result.

Theorem 7. The positive system in (1) with partially unknown TRM is asymptotically mean stable if there are SPVs and , such that

Proof. Based on Theorem 5, it is obtained that positive system (1) is asymptotically mean stable if condition (16) holds, which is equivalent to

where . It is further guaranteed by

If is known such that , we have (34) equal to (30). On the contrary, if is unknown, it is obtained that (34) can be guaranteed by (31). As for (35), because of , and , one gets that (32) implies (35). This completes the proof.

When is uncertain, it is assumed to have an admissible uncertainty

in which is an estimation of and with and is the estimated error with property (2) and , , takes any value in . Moreover, it is obtained that with . Then, we have the following result.

Theorem 8. The positive system in (1) is robustly asymptotically mean stable on all admissible uncertainty if there are SPVs and , , satisfying

Proof. Based on Theorem 5, it is obtained that system (1) is asymptotically mean stable if there exists an SPV such that

Consider condition (36); it is equivalent that there exists an SPV satisfying

which is also equivalent to

where . Because of and , we have the above inequality guaranteed by

and (38). Based on the definition (36), it is concluded that (42) is ensured by (37). This completes the proof.

4. Positive Observer Design

For positive Markovian jump system (1), consider the following observer described by

where is the estimate of , is the output, and is the gain of the designed observer. Let ; if , because of , we have . Thus, we obtain

By the above proposed theorems, we have the following results.

Theorem 9. Consider positive system (1); there exists positive observer (43) such that error system (44) is asymptotically mean stable if there exist matrices and , , satisfying

where

Then, the gain of the designed observer can be computed by

Proof. Based on condition (12), it is obtained that

where , . In order to make the solvable conditions with LMI forms, we let matrix selected to be a diagonal form, that is, . Then, (49) is rewritten to be

From (48), it is known that (46) is equal to (50). Because of and by condition (45), it is known that is Hurwitz and . Based on [51], one has which is equivalent to . Since , it is obtained that . Then, , . By Theorem 2, it is known that error system (44) is positive. This completes the proof.

Remark 10. In contrast to some similar results, it is said that the proposed positive observer method has some advantages. On the one hand, the proposed approach is different from the traditional observer design approaches [38, 40–44]. Firstly, in these references, it is seen that there is no positive constraint on the designed observers. In other words, the above-mentioned methods are not suitable to positive observer design problem. Secondly, even though such traditional methods are used to design positive observers, it is concluded that the requirement of positivity of observer should be satisfied. However, when the positive constraint must be studied, how to describe it in the obtained results should be considered carefully. Particularly, based on the above-mentioned results, it is very difficult to obtain the existence conditions with solvable forms. On the other hand, when the design problem of positive observer is referred to, only a few results are available, in which no jumping and time delay are included. In [46], it is seen that the obtained results were no-convex conditions and cannot be solved easily. Recently, though some LMI conditions for the existence of positive observer were obtained in [47], the related matrices should be diagonal matrices which are more conservative than ones obtained by nondiagonal ones. Based on these observations, it is said that the method proposed here has some advantages in terms of having solvable forms and less conservatism. Moreover, our results are related to systems with Markovian switching and time delay, which are more general.

Remark 11. In this theorem, LMI conditions are provided to compute mode-dependent parameter . By the methods [9, 19] dealing with mode-independent problems, it is seen that the proposed theorem can be applied to design mode-independent parameter similarly, where matrix will be selected to depend on system mode.

It is said that the design method in Theorem 9 is not easy to be extended to PDMJSs with general TRMs. This is because the TRM in condition (46) has a strong coupling in terms of and being distributed and in the same position. In order to design observer for PDMJSs with general TRMs, another kind of conditions for constructing observer gain based on (16) will be established.

Theorem 12. Consider positive system (1); there exists positive observer (43) such that the resulting error system is asymptotically mean stable, if there are SPVs and , , such that

Then, the corresponding gain of observer (43) is constructed as

where is any given nonzero vector.

Proof. From condition (16), it is known that

is a necessary and sufficient condition for the resulting error system asymptotically mean stable. Here, should be an SPV such that . By the representation of , it is seen that this assumption is obvious. Applying (52) to the original system, we have

which is equivalent to (51). This completes the proof.

Based on Theorem 7 and similar to Theorem 12, we have the following theorem.

Theorem 13. Consider positive system (1) with partially unknown TRM (28); there exists positive observer (43) such that the resulting error system is asymptotically mean stable, if there are SPVs , , and , , satisfying (32), and

Then, the parameter can also be obtained by (52).

Proof. By the proof of Theorem 12, it is seen that the only difference between them is that the TRM here is partially unknown. After substituting (52) into (16) and similar to (33), one has (53) implied by

Then, the next is similar to the process of Theorem 7 and is omitted here. This completes the proof.

When TRM is uncertain, we could also have the following result.

Theorem 14. Consider positive system (1) with admissible uncertainty (36); there exists positive observer (43) such that the resulting error system is robustly asymptotically mean stable, if there are SPVs , , and , , satisfying (38), , and

In this case, (52) is used to get the gain of the desired observer.

Proof. This proof can be obtained by the proofs of Theorems 8 and 12 easily. Then, it is omitted here. This completes the proof.

From condition (52) used in Theorems 12 and 14, it is seen that the designed gain of observer (43) is mode-dependent. It means the implementation of observer (43) needs its mode signal available online. It is very ideal in many practical applications. In order to deal with this practical situation and remove the ideal assumption, a mode-independent design method is usually chosen. A direct method for getting mode-independent observer is that the parameters used to compute the gain are selected common for all system modes. That is, , , and are selected as , , and; , respectively. In particular, when , , the corresponding conditions presented in such theorems will become independent of TRM. For example, (51) becomes . Since there is no constraint on TRM, the corresponding results will be more conservative. It is because any TRM can be satisfactory. This is contrary to the facts. In order to solve such problems appropriately, we propose another method to compute the observer gain without missing TRM.

Theorem 15. Consider positive system (1); there exists positive observer (43) such that the resulting error system is asymptotically mean stable, if there are SPVs and , , such that

Then, the mode-independent gain of observer (43) is constructed as

where is any given nonzero vector and is an SPV whose element is defined as and coming from , . Here, SPV is the solution to (58).

Proof. Similar to the proof of Theorem 12, applying (59) to (53), we have

Because of nonzero and being an SPV, it is concluded that

Based on this and taking into account and , one gets (60) implied by (58). This completes the proof.

As for the cases of TRM having general forms, by using Theorems 13–14, one could obtain the similar results for mode-independent observer easily. So, the corresponding statements are omitted here.

5. Numerical Examples

Example 1. Consider a two-dimensional PDMJS of form (1) with , and its parameters are given by

Time delay is assumed to be . First, TRM is exactly known and given as

By investigating the results about MJSs, it is said that most of them are generally classified into two classes: mode-dependent and mode-independent ones. Compared with the mode-independent method designing a common controller or observer for all system modes, mode-dependent method is less conservative. Thus, when the system mode of an MJS is available online, mode-dependent method will be preferable. By Theorem 9, we have the parameters of mode-dependent observers computed as follows:

Under the initial condition , we have the simulation of system mode shown in Figure 1, while the response of the resulting error system is demonstrated in Figure 2.

Figure 1: The simulation of system mode .

Figure 2: The response of error .

On the other hand, we can also design mode-dependent observer by Theorem 12. Without loss of generality, the corresponding nonzero vector used in (4) is given as follows:

Then, we have the corresponding gains of mode-dependent observer computed as follows:

Under the same initial condition, we can have the curve of the resulting error system shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: The curve of error .

When is partially unknown, it is assumed to be

where “?” is denoted as its element unknown or inaccessible, and is assumed to be . With the same given nonzero vector and by Theorem 13, the gains of the desired observer can be computed by (52) and presented as follows:

Under the same initial condition, the state response of error is simulated in Figure 4.

Figure 4: The response of error with partially unknown .

Finally, if TRM is an estimation, whose uncertainties are , , and , by Theorem 14, one can get the corresponding gains of observer listed as follows:

Under the same condition mentioned above, we have the simulation of error demonstrated in Figure 5.

Figure 5: The response of error with uncertain .

When system mode is unavailable, it is said that the designed mode-dependent observers will be disabled. The reason is that the designed mode-dependent observer needs its operation mode available online. However, in some practical cases where the data is transmitted through unreliable networks, it is impossible to obtain all the information online. In other words, because of the effects of networks such as induced delay and packet dropout existing, the transmitted signal will be obtained randomly or with some probability instead of being totally available. In this sense, it is said that sometimes mode-dependent method is very ideal and will limit the scope of application. Thus, it is necessary to propose a method without mode information, where mode-independent method is usually exploited and very suitable to deal with such practical cases. Let the nonzero vector given as ; by Theorem 15, one has the parameter of the mode-independent observer computed as

Applying the designed observer and under the same initial condition, we have the curve of the error system given in Figure 6.

Figure 6: The curve of error by mode-independent observer.

Based on these simulations, it is said that the designed observers are all useful which also demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

6. Conclusions

In this paper, the positive observer design problem of PDMJSs has been addressed. Necessary and sufficient condition for the positivity of PDMJSs has been developed. Several kinds of equivalent conditions for checking the asymptotically mean stability of DMJSs have been proposed, which can be solved easily. It has also showed that the asymptotically mean stability of PDMJSs can be reduced to check the asymptotic stability of a deterministic system without time delay. Based on the presented results, several sufficient conditions for the existence of both mode-dependent and mode-independent observers are developed with solvable forms. All the results have been further extended to some general cases that TRM is partially unknown or uncertain. Particularly, based on the methods proposed in this paper, some extended problems such as filtering for MJSs with asynchronous switching [52, 53] could be further considered, which will be our future research topics.

Competing Interests

Guoliang Wang declares that there are no competing interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61104066, 61203001, 61374043, and 61473140, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project under Grant 2012M521086, the Program for Liaoning Excellent Talents in University under Grant LJQ2013040, and the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province under Grant 2014020106.

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