Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Fixed-time control'

Dans ce travail, on montre des nouveaux résultats pour l’analyse et la synthèse des systèmes stables en temps fini et fixe. Ce genre des systèmes convergent exactement à un point d’équilibre dans une quantité du temps qui est fini et, dans le cas de systèmes stables en temps fixe, dans un temps maximal constant qui ne dépend pas des conditions initiales du système.Les chapitres 2 et 3 portent sur des résultats d’analyse ; ce premier present des conditions nécessaires et suffisants pour la stabilité en temps fixe des systèmes autonomes continues tandis que ce dernier combine l’approche de la fonction implicite de Lyapunov avec des résultats de stabilisation ISS pour étudier la robustesse de ce genre de systèmes.Les chapitres 4 et 5 présentent des résultats pratiques liés á la procédure de synthèse des contrôleurs et des observateurs. Le chapitre 4 emploie la méthode de la fonction de Lyapunov implicite afin d’obtenir des observateurs convergents en temps fini et fixe pour les systèmes linéaires MIMO. Le chapitre 5 utilise des propriétés d’homogénéité et des fonctions de Lyapunov implicites pour synthétiser un contrôleur de sortie en temps fixe pour une chaîne d’intégrateurs. Les résultats obtenus ont été validés par des simulations numériques et le chapitre 4 contient des tests de performance sur un pendule rotatif
This work presents new results on analysis and synthesis of finite-time and fixed-time stable systems, a type of dynamical systems where exact convergence to an equilibrium point is guaranteed in a finite amount of time. In the case of fixed-time stable system, this is moreover achieved with an upper bound on the settling-time that does not depend on the system’s initial condition.Chapters 2 and 3 focus on theoretical contributions; the former presents necessary and sufficient conditions for fixed-time stability of continuous autonomous systems whereas the latter introduces a framework that gathers ISS Lyapunov functions, finite-time and fixed-time stability analysis and the implicit Lyapunov function approach in order to study and determine the robustness of this type of systems.Chapters 4 and 5 deal with more practical aspects, more precisely, the synthesis of finite-time and fixed-time controllers and observers. In Chapter 4, finite-time and fixed-time convergent observers are designed for linear MIMO systems using the implicit approach. In Chapter 5, homogeneity properties and the implicit approach are used to design a fixed-time output controller for the chain of integrators. The results obtained were verified by numerical simulations and Chapter 4 includes performance tests on a rotary pendulum

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-162).
by Chee-Seng Chow.
Ph.D.

Sometimes, changes in consequences are accompanied by a clear stimulus change explicitly arranged by the experimenter. Other times when new consequences are in effect, there is little or no accompanying stimulus change explicitly arranged by the experimenter. These differences can be seen in the laboratory as multiple (signaled) schedules and mixed (unsignaled) schedules. The current study used college students and a single-subject design to examine the effects of introducing signaled and unsignaled schedules, and the transitions between them. In one phase, a card was flipped from purple to white every time the schedule was switched from VR-3 to FT-10. In another phase, the schedule still changed periodically, but the card always remained on the purple side. Results showed that the participants' responding was controlled by the schedule of reinforcement, by the color of the card, or both. These results suggest that changes in patterns of reinforcement lead to changes in stimulus control. In addition, the stimulus control for a behavior can come from several different sources. During teaching, it may facilitate the development of stimulus control to change the environment when a new behavior is required.

Un groupe de robots collaboratifs peut gérer des tâches qui sont difficiles, voire impossibles, à accomplir par un seul. On appelle un ensemble de robots coopérant un système multi-agents (SMA). L'interaction entre agents est un facteur clé dans la commande coopérative qui pose d'importants défis théoriques et pratiques. L'une des tâches du contrôle coopératif est le consensus dont l'objectif est de concevoir des protocoles de commande afin de parvenir à un accord entre leurs états respectifs. Cette thèse améliore la navigation pour les SMA, tout en tenant compte de certaines contraintes pratiques (modèle du robot et contraintes temporelles) dans la conception de contrôleurs coopératifs pour chaque agent, de manière décentralisée. Dans cette thèse, deux directions sont étudiées. D'une part, le taux de convergence est une spécification de performance importante pour la conception du contrôleur pour un système dynamique. La convergence rapide est toujours recherchée pour améliorer les performances et la robustesse. La plupart des algorithmes de consensus existants se concentrent sur la convergence asymptotique, où le temps d'établissement est infini. Cependant, de nombreuses applications nécessitent une convergence rapide généralement caractérisée par une stratégie de commande à temps fini. De plus, la commande à temps fini autorise certaines propriétés intéressantes, mais le temps de stabilisation dépend des conditions initiales des agents. L'objectif ici est de concevoir un protocole de consensus leader-follower à temps fixe pour les SMA décrits en temps continu. Ce problème est étudié en utilisant la théorie de la stabilisation à temps fixe, qui garantit que le temps de stabilisation est borné quelles que soient les conditions initiales. Les contrôleurs et les observateurs à modes glissants sont conçus pour que chaque agent résolve le problème du consensus à temps fixe lorsque le leader est dynamique. D'autre part, par rapport aux systèmes à temps continu, le problème du consensus dans un cadre à temps discret convient mieux aux applications pratiques en raison de la limitation des ressources de calcul pour chaque agent. Le modèle de commande prédictive (MPC) permet de gérer les contraintes de commande et d'état des systèmes. Dans cette thèse, cette méthode est appliquée pour traiter le problème du consensus en temps discret en laissant chaque agent résoudre, à chaque étape, un problème de commande optimale contraint impliquant uniquement l'état des agents voisins. Les performances de suivi sont également améliorées dans cette thèse en ajoutant de nouveaux termes à partir du MPC classique. Les contrôleurs proposés sont simulés et implémentés sur un groupe composé de plusieurs robots réels en utilisant ROS (Robotic Operating System). Dans cette thèse, quelques solutions correspondant au problème de la connexion entre plusieurs robots mobiles de manière décentralisée, du réglage des périodes d'échantillonnage et des paramètres de contrôle sont également abordées
Nowadays, robots have become increasingly important to investigate hazardous and dangerous environments. A group of collaborating robots can often deal with tasks that are difficult, or even impossible, to be accomplished by a single robot. Multiple robots working in a cooperative manner is called as a Multi-Agent System (MAS). The interaction between agents to achieve a global task is a key in cooperative control. Cooperative control of MASs poses significant theoretical and practical challenges. One of the fundamental topics in cooperative control is the consensus where the objective is to design control protocols between agents to achieve a state agreement. This thesis improves the navigation scheme for MASs, while taking into account some practical constraints (robot model and temporal constraints) in the design of cooperative controllers for each agent, in a fully decentralized way. In this thesis, two directions are investigated. On one hand, the convergence rate is an important performance specification to design the controller for a dynamical system. As an important performance measure for the coordination control of MASs, fast convergence is always pursued to achieve better performance and robustness. Most of the existing consensus algorithms focus on asymptotic convergence, where the settling time is infinite. However, many applications require a high speed convergence generally characterized by a finite-time control strategy. Moreover, finite-time control allows some advantageous properties but the settling time depend on the initial states of agents. The objective here is to design a fixed-time leader-follower consensus protocol for MASs described in continuous-time. This problem is studied using the powerful theory of fixed-time stabilization, which guarantee that the settling time is upper bounded regardless to the initial conditions. Sliding mode controllers and sliding mode observers are designed for each agent to solve the fixed-time consensus tracking problem when the leader is dynamic. On the other hand, compared with continuous-time systems, consensus problem in a discrete-time framework is more suitable for practical applications due to the limitation of computational resources for each agent. Model Predictive Control (MPC) has the ability to handle control and state constraints for discrete-time systems. In this thesis, this method is applied to deal with the consensus problem in discrete-time by letting each agent to solve, at each step, a constrained optimal control problem involving only the state of neighboring agents. The tracking performances are also improved in this thesis by adding new terms in the classical MPC technique. The proposed controllers will be simulated and implemented on a team of multiple Mini-Lab Enova Robots using ROS (Robotic Operating System) which is an operating system for mobile robots. ROS provides not only standard operating system services but also high-level functionalities. In this thesis, some solutions corresponding to problem of connection between multiple mobile robots in a decentralized way for a wireless robotic network, of tuning of the sampling periods and control parameters are also discussed

A new method of adaptive impulse control is developed to precisely and quickly control the position of machine components subject to friction. Friction dominates the forces affecting fine positioning dynamics. Friction can depend on payload, velocity, step size, path, initial position, temperature, and other variables. Control problems such as steady-state error and limit cycles often arise when applying conventional control techniques to the position control problem. Studies in the last few decades have shown that impulsive control can produce repeatable displacements as small as ten nanometers without limit cycles or steady-state error in machines subject to dry sliding friction. These displacements are achieved through the application of short duration, high intensity pulses. The relationship between pulse duration and displacement is seldom a simple function. The most dependable practical methods for control are self-tuning; they learn from online experience by adapting an internal control parameter until precise position control is achieved. To date, the best known adaptive pulse control methods adapt a single control parameter. While effective, the single parameter methods suffer from sub-optimal settling times and poor parameter convergence. To improve performance while maintaining the capacity for ultimate precision, a new control method referred to as Adaptive Impulse Control (AIC) has been developed. To better fit the nonlinear relationship between pulses and displacements, AIC adaptively tunes a set of parameters. Each parameter affects a different range of displacements. Online updates depend on the residual control error following each pulse, an estimate of pulse sensitivity, and a learning gain. After an update is calculated, it is distributed among the parameters that were used to calculate the most recent pulse. As the stored relationship converges to the actual relationship of the machine, pulses become more accurate and fewer pulses are needed to reach each desired destination. When fewer pulses are needed, settling time improves and efficiency increases. AIC is experimentally compared to conventional PID control and other adaptive pulse control methods on a rotary system with a position measurement resolution of 16000 encoder counts per revolution of the load wheel. The friction in the test system is nonlinear and irregular with a position dependent break-away torque that varies by a factor of more than 1.8 to 1. AIC is shown to improve settling times by as much as a factor of two when compared to other adaptive pulse control methods while maintaining precise control tolerances.

L’objectif principal de cette thèse est d’étudier le problème du contrôle de suivi distribué pour les systèmes de formation de multi-robots à contrainte non holonomique. Ce contrôle vise à entrainer une équipe de robots mobile de type monocycle pour former une configuration de formation désirée avec son centroïde se déplaçant avec une autre trajectoire de référence dynamique et pouvant être spécifié par le leader virtuel ou humain. Le problème du contrôle de suivi a été résolu au cours de cette thèse en développant divers contrôleurs distribués pratiques avec la considération d’un taux de convergence plus rapide, une précision de contrôle plus élevée, une robustesse plus forte, une estimation du temps de convergence explicite et indépendante et moins de coût de communication et de consommation d’énergie. Dans la première partie de la thèse nous étudions d’abord au niveau du chapitre 2 la stabilité à temps fini pour les systèmes de formation de multi-robots. Une nouvelle classe de contrôleur à temps fini est proposée dans le chapitre 3, également appelé contrôleur à temps fixe. Nous étudions les systèmes dynamiques de suivi de formation de multi-robots non holonomiques dans le chapitre 4. Dans la deuxième partie, nous étudions d'abord le mécanisme de communication et de contrôle déclenché par l'événement sur les systèmes de suivi de la formation de multi-robots non-holonomes au chapitre 5. De plus, afin de développer un schéma d'implémentation numérique, nous proposons une autre classe de contrôleurs périodiques déclenchés par un événement basé sur un observateur à temps fixe dans le chapitre 6
The main aim of this thesis is to study the distributed tracking control problem for the multi-robot formation systems with nonholonomic constraint, of which the control objective it to drive a team of unicycle-type mobile robots to form one desired formation configuration with its centroid moving along with another dynamic reference trajectory, which can be specified by the virtual leader or human. We consider several problems in this point, ranging from finite-time stability andfixed-time stability, event-triggered communication and control mechanism, kinematics and dynamics, continuous-time systems and hybrid systems. The tracking control problem has been solved in this thesis via developing diverse practical distributed controller with the consideration of faster convergence rate, higher control accuracy, stronger robustness, explicit and independent convergence time estimate, less communication cost and energy consumption.In the first part of the thesis, we first study the finite-time stability for the multi-robot formation systems in Chapter 2. To improve the pior results, a novel class of finite-time controller is further proposed in Chapter 3, which is also called fixed-time controller. The dynamics of nonholonomic multi-robot formation systems is considered in Chapter 4. In the second part, we first investigate the event-triggered communication and control mechanism on the nonholonomic multi-robot formation tracking systems in Chapter 5. Moreover, in order to develop a digital implement scheme, we propose another class of periodic event-triggered controller based on fixed-time observer in Chapter 6

Les dernières décennies ont connu l'apogée des transmissions hertziennes, et celles à venir connaîtront incontestablement le développement et le déploiement intense de systèmes de communications sans-fil. Dès à présent, il est possible de communiquer par onde sur petite et très petite distance (LAN et PAN). Les populations se sont familiariséesavec les interfaces bluetooth (IEEE802.15) présentes dans la majorité des objetscommuniquant (ordinateur portable, téléphone, PDA, etc...). Les foyers s'équipentmaintenant facilement et à bas prix d'interfaceWi-Fi (IEEE802.11), afin de profiter d'uneutilisation nomade de leur accès internet. Ainsi, la forte croissance dumarché des offresinternet combinée avec celle du marché des téléphones mobiles ont habitués un large spectre d'utilisateurs à communiquer sans fil. Ce contexte sociologique et financier encourage donc l'arrivée de solutions nouvelles répondant à des besoins latents. Parmi ceux-là, le marché met en évidence le manque de système de communication sur moyenne distance (MAN). Les réseaux ad-hoc peuvent répondre à ce genre de besoin. Mais àce jour, les performances sont trop faibles pour les besoins des utilisateurs et elles dépendenttrop fortement de la densité desmachines nomades. Aussi, le consortiumIEEEcherche au travers de sa norme IEEE802.16 à fournir un système complet de communicationsans-fil sur moyenne distance (MAN). Appelé aussiWiMAX, ce système se basesur une architecture composée d'une station de base (BS) et de nombreux mobiles utilisateurs(SS). Le standard IEEE802.16 définit les caractéristiques de la couche physiqueet de la couche MAC. Il décrit l'ensemble des interactions et événements pouvant avoirlieu entre la station de base et les stations mobiles. Enfin, le standard fournit différents paramètres et variables servant aux mécanismes de communication. Comme tout nouveau standard émergeant, la norme IEEE802.16 ne profite pas d'un état de l'art aussi développé que celui du IEEE802.11 par exemple. Aussi, de nombreuses études et idées sont à développer.En premier lieu, nous effectuons un large rappel de la norme WiMAX et en particulier le IEEE802.16e. Associé à cela, nous dressons un état de l'art des travaux traitant des aspects et perspectives liés au sujet de notre étude.Par la suite, nous proposons un modèle novateur de performance des communicationsIEEE802.16e. Au travers de ce modèle, nous développons une étude générale et exhaustive des principaux paramètres de communication. L'étude explicite l'impact deces paramètres ainsi que l'influence de leur évolutions possibles. De cela, nous critiquonsla pertinence de chacun d'eux en proposant des alternatives de configurations.5En sus, nous proposons un mécanisme novateur favorisant le respect de qualité de service(QoS) sur couche AC.Nous développons un principe original d'établissement de connexion favorisant l'accès aux communications sensibles aux délais de transmission.Dans une dernière partie, nous déterminons la capacité d'un système IEEE802.16 à gérer les arrivées et départs des utilisateurs. Tout en y associant une étude de performance d'un nouvel algorithme de contrôle d'admission. Cet algorithme d'admission vise à remplir des objectifs multiples : empêcher les famines de ressources sur les trafics les moins prioritaires, favoriser l'admission des utilisateurs en maintenant une gestion optimale de la ressource radio. Notre étude aboutit à une modélisation et une critique des variations de paramètre associés à ce nouvel algorithme. Nous y intégrons par la suite le principe de mobilité où les utilisateurs ont la capacité de se mouvoir au sein d'une cellule. Cette intégration se fait en y associant des mécanismes originaux afin d'assurer la pérennité du service aux utilisateurs mobiles.

With the simple means of a digitized map and the wheel speed signals, it is possible to position a vehicle with an accuracy comparable to GPS. The positioning problem is a non-linear filtering problem and a particle filter has been applied to solve it. Two new approaches studied are the Auxiliary Particle Filter (APF), that aims at lowerering the variance of the error, and Rao-Blackwellization that exploits the linearities in the model. The results show that these methods require problems of higher complexity to fully utilize their advantages.

Another aspect in this thesis has been to handle off-road driving scenarios, using dead reckoning. An off road detection mechanism has been developed and the results show that off-road driving can be detected accurately. The algorithm has been successfully implemented on a hand-held computer by quantizing the particle filter while keeping good filter performance.

This thesis focuses on the simulation of the gyroscopic effect using the software MSC Adams. A simple shaft-disk system was created and parameter of the sys-tem were changed in order to study the influence of the gyroscopic effect. It was shown that an increasing bearing stiffness reduces the precession motion. Fur-thermore, it was shown that the gyroscopic effect vanishes if the disk of system is placed symmetrically on the shaft, which reduces the system to a Jeffcott-Ro-tor. The second objective of this study was to analyze different defects in a simple fixed axis gear set. In particular, a cracked shaft, a cracked pinion and a chipped pinion as well as a healthy gear system were created and tested in Adams. The contact force between the two gears was monitored and the 2D and 3D frequency spectrum, as well as the Wavelet Transform, were plotted in order to compare the individual defects. It was shown that the Wavelet Transform is a powerful tool, capable of identifying a cracked gear with a non-constant speed. The last part of this study included fault detection with statistical methods as well as with the Sideband Energy Ratio (SER). The time domain signal of the individual faults were used to compare the mean, the standard deviation and the root mean square. Furthermore, the noise profile in the frequency spectrum was tracked with statistical methods using the mean and the standard deviation. It was demonstrated that it is possible to identify a cracked gear, as well as a chipped gear, with statistical methods. However, a cracked shaft could not be identified. The results also show that SER was only capable to identify major defects in a gear system such as a chipped tooth.

Today, the main research field for the automotive industry is to find solutions for active safety. In order to perceive the surrounding environment, tracking nearby traffic objects plays an important role. Validation of the tracking performance is often done in staged traffic scenarios, where additional sensors, mounted on the vehicles, are used to obtain their true positions and velocities. The difficulty of evaluating the tracking performance complicates its development. An alternative approach studied in this thesis, is to record sequences and use non-causal algorithms, such as smoothing, instead of filtering to estimate the true target states. With this method, validation data for online, causal, target tracking algorithms can be obtained for all traffic scenarios without the need of extra sensors. We investigate how non-causal algorithms affects the target tracking performance using multiple sensors and dynamic models of different complexity. This is done to evaluate real-time methods against estimates obtained from non-causal filtering. Two different measurement units, a monocular camera and a LIDAR sensor, and two dynamic models are evaluated and compared using both causal and non-causal methods. The system is tested in two single object scenarios where ground truth is available and in three multi object scenarios without ground truth. Results from the two single object scenarios shows that tracking using only a monocular camera performs poorly since it is unable to measure the distance to objects. Here, a complementary LIDAR sensor improves the tracking performance significantly. The dynamic models are shown to have a small impact on the tracking performance, while the non-causal application gives a distinct improvement when tracking objects at large distances. Since the sequence can be reversed, the non-causal estimates are propagated from more certain states when the target is closer to the ego vehicle. For multiple object tracking, we find that correct associations between measurements and tracks are crucial for improving the tracking performance with non-causal algorithms.

碩士
國立中興大學
電機工程學系
91
With the rapid progress of high-performance microprocessor system architectures and VLSI manufacturing technologies, low-cost and computation-oriented digital processors (DSPs) have been extensively used in the fields of communication, information processing, signal processing, control, automation and the like. In this paper, we used the DSP chip TMS320C542 that manufacture from Texas Instruments corporation and develops methodologies and techniques for hardware design and software coding of a real-time DSP-based vibration and temperature analog signal processing board, often suitable for machine tools and precision machinery. We use some basic digital signal processing theorem to construct the whole system, just like: the low-pass digital filter is use IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) algorithm, and about sift right frequency out is use FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithm and some. The DSP chip TMS320C542 is a fixed-point signal processor in the TMS320 DSP family, although it is low-cost and high-performance, but it still has some limits, in the end this paper we have a discussion about that.

碩士
國立臺灣科技大學
電機工程系
107
To implement the human and robot collaborations, the speech enhancement based (SEB) adaptive hierarchical fixed-time saturated control (AHFTSC) of omnidirectional mobile robot (ODMR) is designed. From the outset, the features of nine speech commands are extracted and then trained by multiclass support vector machine. Moreover, the background noise is addressed and filtered by the suitable design of filtering mechanism. Comparisons among with or without background noise and filtering are given. Due to advantageous feature of ODMR (i.e., synchronous translation and rotation), the speech command based controls are more reliable and satisfactory. For the faster pose tracking ability, ODMR are divided as indirect and direct modes to design the AHFTSC. To null track the indirect output (desired pose of the ODMR) in fixed time, the adaptive fixed-time virtual desired pose (AFTVDP) with nonlinear switching gains is designed. To make the direct output (motor current) null track the AFTVDP in fixed time, an adaptive fixed-time saturated control (AFTSC) with nonlinear switching gains is employed to execute high frequency motions of speech command. In summary, the proposed SEB-AHFTSC contains speech enhancement’s recognition and classification, AFTVDP, and AFTSC.