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Exponential stabilization of uncertain nonlinear time-delay systems
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2012, Article number: 180 (2012)
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the problem of exponential stabilization for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with state delay by means of periodically intermittent control. Based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach, several sufficient conditions of exponential stabilization for this class of uncertain nonlinear systems with state delay are proposed, which have been expressed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) whose feasibility can be easily checked by using the numerically efficient Matlab LMI Toolbox. Further, the control design method is extended to a class of nonlinear systems with state delay. And the new stability criterion is also presented, which guarantees the closed-loop systems are exponentially stable. Finally, two numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
MSC:93D15, 93C55, 34K20, 34D23.
1 Introduction
Time delay naturally appears in many control systems and is frequently a source of instability [1–11]. In recent years, the problem of stability and stabilization of time-delay systems is a topic of great practical importance, which has attracted a lot of interest [1–4, 10–20]. In [2], in the light of the Razumikhin stability theorem combined with the Newton-Leibniz formula, a new delay-dependent exponential stability condition was derived for linear non-autonomous time-delay systems. In [10], the sufficient conditions for absolute stability of nonlinear control systems of neutral type were obtained, and the estimates of exponential damping of solutions were constructed. In [12], the robust controller design for uncertain input-delayed systems was considered, and the stability criterion of the closed-loop system was derived. In [16], stability results of quadratic discrete systems in the critical case were presented, and the stability domains were estimated. In [18], an improved delay-dependent stability condition for a system with multiple additive delay components was derived by using the Lyapunov second method. In [21], the sufficient conditions for global asymptotic stabilization of nonlinear systems were given, and the corresponding feedback control laws were designed. In [22], the problem of quadratic stabilization of multi-input multi-output switched nonlinear systems under an arbitrary switching law was investigated. The state feedbacks were designed, and a common quadratic Lyapunov function of all the closed-loop subsystems was constructed to realize quadratic stabilization of the class of switched nonlinear systems under an arbitrary switching law.
Recently, in-continuous control techniques such as impulsive control [23] and piecewise feedback control [24] have attracted much attention. In [23], impulsive control for master-slave synchronization schemes that consist of identical chaotic Lur’e systems was considered. Impulsive control laws which made use of linear static measurement feedback instead of full state feedback were investigated. The recent paper [24] studied the output regulation problem for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems under periodic disturbances generated from the so-called exosystems. By exploiting the structural information encoded in the fuzzy rules, a piecewise state-feedback and a piecewise error-feedback control laws were constructed to achieve asymptotic rejecting of the unwanted disturbances and/or tracking of the desired trajectories.
In this paper, we investigate the problem of exponential stabilization for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems by using another in-continuous feedback, i.e., periodically intermittent control. Intermittent control is a special form of switching control [25]. It has been used for a variety of purposes in engineering fields such as manufacturing, transportation, air-quality control, communication and so on. Recently, intermittent control has been introduced to chaotic dynamical systems [26–28]. [26] described the method of synchronizing slave to the master trajectory using intermittent coupling. However, [26] gave little theoretical analysis for intermittent control systems, but only many numerical simulations. In [27], the authors investigated the exponential stabilization problem for a class of chaotic systems with delay by means of periodically intermittent control. In [28], the quasi-synchronization problem for chaotic neural networks with parameter mismatch was formulated via periodically intermittent control.
Motivated by the aforementioned discussion, in this paper, we study a class of intermittent control with time duration for a class of uncertain nonlinear time-delay systems. Namely, the control is activated in certain nonzero time intervals, and it is off in other time intervals. Based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach, exponential stability criteria for the class of uncertain nonlinear time-delay systems are given, which are presented in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Moreover, this approach of control design has been generalized to a class of nonlinear systems with state delay. The new exponentially stabilization criterion for this class of nonlinear time-delay systems is proposed. Finally, two numerical examples are given to demonstrate the validity of the result.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the intermittent control problem is formulated and some notations and lemmas are introduced. In Section 3, the exponential stabilization problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear time-delay systems is investigated by means of periodically intermittent control, and some exponential stability criterions are established. Furthermore, the exponential stabilization method is expanded to a class of nonlinear systems with state delay. Two numerical examples are presented in Section 4. Finally, some conclusions and remarks are drawn in Section 5.
2 Problem formulation and preliminaries
Consider a class of nonlinear systems with delayed state described by
where is a state vector, and is the external input of the system (2.1). is a continuous nonlinear function with , and there exist positive definite matrices , such that for . The initial function , , has its norm . , and are time-varying uncertainties, which satisfy the following conditions:
where , , , are real constant matrices of appropriate dimensions, and is an unknown time-varying matrix with .
The following lemmas are useful in the proof of our main results.
Lemma 2.1 ([29])
Let D, E and F be real matrices of appropriate dimensions with , then for any scalar , we have the following inequality:
Lemma 2.2 ([30])
Let M, N be real matrices of appropriate dimensions. Then for any matrix of appropriate dimension and any scalar , the following inequality holds:
Lemma 2.3 ([31])
Given constant matrices , and with appropriate dimensions, where , and , then if and only if
In order to stabilize the system (2.1) by means of periodically intermittent feedback control, we assume that the control imposed on the system is of the form
where is the control gain matrix, denotes the control period, and is called the control width.
With the control law (2.3), the system (2.1) can be rewritten as
This is a classical uncertain switched system with delayed state where the switching rule only depends on the time. Although there are many successful applications of intermittent control, the theoretical analysis of an intermittent control system has received little attention. In this brief, we will make a contribution to this issue.
Throughout this brief, we use , () to denote the transpose and the minimum (maximum) eigenvalue of a square matrix P, respectively. The vector (or matrix) norm is taken to be Euclidean, denoted by . We use (<0, ≤0, ≥0) to denote a positive (negative, semi-negative, semi-positive) definite matrix P. The symmetric term in a symmetric matrix is denoted as ∗.
3 Exponential stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems with time-delay
This section addresses the exponential stability problem of the switched system (2.4). The main result is stated as follows.
Theorem 3.1 If there exist positive definite matrices , and scalar constants (, ), , , such that the following matrix inequalities hold:
where
and
then the system (2.4) is exponentially stable. Moreover, the solution satisfies the condition
Proof Consider the following candidate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional:
When , the derivative of (3.3) with respect to time t along the trajectories of the first subsystem of the system (2.4) is calculated and estimated as follows:
Using Lemma 2.1 and Lemma 2.2, we get
where
From (3.1), we have
which implies that when ,
Similarly, when , we have
where .
From (3.2), we have
which implies that when ,
From (3.5) and (3.7), it follows that:
When , , and
When ,
When ,
When ,
When ,
When ,
When ,
From (3.8) and (3.9), it follows that for any , we can obtain
From (3.3) and (3.10), it follows that for any ,
Hence, we get
Noticing
we get
which completes the proof. □
Corollary 3.1 If there exist positive definite matrices , , and scalar constants (), , such that the following LMIs hold:
were
then the system (2.4) is exponentially stable. Moreover, the solution satisfies the condition
Proof Set
According to Lemma 2.3 and (3.11) and (3.12), we have
Taking , , , , we have
Hence, (3.14) implies that (3.2) holds and . From (3.13), we have
Since
(3.15) implies that (3.1) holds. According to Theorem 3.1, the system (2.4) is exponentially stable, and
which completes the proof. □
The following theorem can be directly deduced from Theorem 3.1 by applying Lemma 2.3.
Theorem 3.2 If there exist positive definite matrices , and scalar constants (, ), , , such that the following LMIs hold:
where
and
then the system (2.4) is exponentially stable. Moreover, the solution satisfies the condition
Consider the following time-delay systems:
where is a state vector, and is the external input of the system (3.16). is a continuous nonlinear function satisfying , and there exist positive definite matrices , such that for .
With the control law (2.3), the system (3.16) can be rewritten as
From Corollary 3.1, the following corollary can be immediately obtained.
Corollary 3.2 If there exist positive definite matrices , , and scalar constants , , such that the following LMIs hold:
then the system (3.17) is exponentially stable. Moreover, the solution satisfies the condition
4 Numerical examples
The following numerical examples are presented to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed theoretical results in Section 3.
Example 1 Consider the following uncertain system:
where
and the uncertainties satisfy (2.2) with
It is easy to see that the nonlinearity of the system satisfies
Then there exist positive definite matrices
such that
Let , and for convenience. Solving the inequalities (3.11) and (3.12), we get
Thus, according to Corollary 3.1, the system (4.1) is exponentially stabilizable with
Example 2 Consider the following time-delay system:
where
We can verify that
where
For , , it is easy verify that
satisfy (3.18) and (3.19).
Hence, according to Corollary 3.2, the system (4.2) is exponentially stabilizable with
5 Conclusions
In this brief, we deal with the exponential stabilization problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with state delay by means of periodically intermittent control. Based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach, several stability criteria have been presented in terms of a set of matrix inequalities. Moreover, the control method is extended to a class of nonlinear systems with time delay. A new sufficient condition, which guarantees the closed-loop system is exponentially stable, is presented. Finally, two numerical examples are provided to show the high performance of the proposed approach.
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Dong, Y., Liu, J. Exponential stabilization of uncertain nonlinear time-delay systems. Adv Differ Equ 2012, 180 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1847-2012-180
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