scholarly journals Complex Scaling Approach for Stability Analysis and Stabilization of Multiple Time-Delayed Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Zhou ◽  
Ketian Gao ◽  
Xinbiao Lu

Based on complex scaling, the paper copes with stability analysis and stabilization of linear time-invariant continuous-time systems with multiple time delays in state, control input, and measured output, under state and/or output feedback. More specifically, the paper establishes stability criteria for exponential/asymptotical stability with Hurwitz complex scaling being applied to the related characteristic polynomials. The stability conditions are necessary and sufficient, delay-dependent, and independent of feedback structures and open-loop poles distribution. The criteria can be implemented graphically with locus plotting or numerically without it; moreover, no prior frequency sweeping is involved, and the contour and locus encirclement orientations can be self-defined. Exploiting the complex scaling approach and embracing its technical merits, it is considered to design static state feedback control for robustly stabilizing time-delayed systems. A small-gain interpretation for the suggested stabilization is also elaborated. Examples are included to illustrate the main results.

Author(s):  
Rifat Sipahi ◽  
Nejat Olgac

A novel treatment for the stability of a class of linear time invariant (LTI) systems with rationally independent multiple time delays using the Direct Method (DM) is studied. Since they appear in many practical applications in the systems and control community, this class of dynamics has attracted considerable interest. The stability analysis is very complex because of the infinite dimensional nature (even for single delay) of the dynamics and furthermore the multiplicity of these delays. The stability problem is much more challenging compared to the TDS with commensurate time delays (where time delays have rational relations). It is shown in an earlier publication of the authors that the DM brings a unique, exact and structured methodology for the stability analysis of commensurate time delayed cases. The transition from the commensurate time delays to multiple delay case motivates our study. It is shown that the DM reveals all possible stability regions in the space of multiple time delays. The systems that are considered do not have to possess stable behavior for zero delays. We present a numerical example on a system, which is considered “prohibitively difficult” in the literature, just to exhibit the strengths of the new procedure.


2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rifat Sipahi ◽  
Nejat Olgac

A novel treatment for the stability of linear time invariant (LTI) systems with rationally independent multiple time delays is presented in this paper. The independence of delays makes the problem much more challenging compared to systems with commensurate time delays (where the delays have rational relations). We uncover some wonderful features for such systems. For instance, all the imaginary characteristic roots of these systems can be found exhaustively along a set of surfaces in the domain of the delays. They are called the “kernel” surfaces (curves for two-delay cases), and it is proven that the number of the kernel surfaces is manageably small and bounded. All possible time delay combinations, which yield an imaginary characteristic root, lie either on this kernel or its infinitely many “offspring” surfaces. Another hidden feature is that the root tendencies along these surfaces exhibit an invariance property. From these outstanding characteristics an efficient, exact, and exhaustive methodology results for the stability assessment. As an added uniqueness of this method, the systems under consideration do not have to be stable for zero delays. Several example case studies are presented, which are prohibitively difficult, if not impossible to solve using any other peer methodology known to the authors.


Author(s):  
Rifat Sipahi ◽  
Nejat Olgac

A novel treatment for the stability of linear time invariant (LTI) systems with rationally independent multiple time delays is presented. The independence of delays makes the problem much more challenging compared to the systems with commensurate time delays (where the delays have rational relations). It is shown that the imaginary characteristic roots can all be found along a set of curves in the domain of the delays. They are called the “kernel curves”, and it is proven that their number is small and bounded. All possible time delay combinations, which yield an imaginary characteristic root, lie on a curve so called the offspring of the kernel curves within the domain of the delays. We also claim that the root tendencies show a very interesting invariance property as a test point crosses these curves. An efficient, exact and exhaustive methodology results from these outstanding characteristics. It is unique to the new methodology that, the systems under consideration do not have to possess stable behavior for zero delays. Several example case studies are presented, which are prohibitively difficult, if not impossible to solve using any other peer methodology.


Author(s):  
Qingbin Gao ◽  
Zhenyu Zhang ◽  
Chifu Yang

This paper provides new results for a newly introduced control scheme, Sign Inverting Control (SIC), for linear time-invariant multiple time delay systems (LTI-MTDS). SIC suggests the inversion of the control polarity for delayed systems and it functions with one single requirement that the union of the control schemes provides a larger operating region in the domain of the delays than each of its components does. To meet this need, we propose a new method to characterize the potential stability-switching hypersurfaces for SIC applied systems. The acquisition of these hypersurfaces is a prerequisite for the description of the overall stability map. The new results in this paper reveal the relationship between the hypersurfaces of the SIC applied system and the original nominal system. As a result, the procurement of the hypersurfaces and stability map of the SIC applied system has been facilitated. Several illustrative example case studies are presented.


Author(s):  
Rifat Sipahi ◽  
Nejat Olgac

A practical stability analysis, the Direct Method, for linear time invariant, time delayed systems (LTI-TDS) is revisited in this work considering the degenerate system dynamics. The principal strengths and enabling novelties of the method are reviewed along with its structured steps involved for assessing the stability. Uncommon in the literature, the Direct Method can handle large dimensional systems (e.g. larger than 2) very comfortably, it returns an explicit formula for the exact stability posture of the system for a given time delay, as such it reveals the possible detached stability pockets throughout the time delay axis. Both retarded and neutral classes of LTI-TDS are considered in this work. The main contribution here is to demonstrate the ability of the Direct Method in tackling degenerate cases. Along with the analytical arguments, example case studies are provided for a group of degeneracies. It is shown that the new method is capable of resolving them without any difficulty.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rifat Sipahi ◽  
Nejat Olgac

A recent stability analysis, the Direct Method, for linear time invariant, time delayed systems (LTI-TDS) is revisited in this work considering the degenerate system dynamics. The principal strengths and enabling novelties of the method are reviewed along with its structured steps involved for assessing the stability. Uncommon in the literature, the Direct Method can handle large dimensional systems (e.g., larger than two) very comfortably. It returns an explicit formula for the exact stability posture of the system for a given time delay, as such it reveals the possible detached stability pockets throughout the time delay axis. Both retarded and neutral classes of LTI-TDS are considered in this work. The main contribution here is to demonstrate the ability of the Direct Method in tackling degenerate cases. Along with the analytical arguments, example case studies are provided for a group of degeneracies. It is shown that the new method is capable of resolving them without any difficulty.


Author(s):  
Arindam Chakraborty ◽  
Jayati Dey

The guaranteed simultaneous stabilization of two linear time-invariant plants is achieved by continuous-time periodic controller with high controller frequency. Simultaneous stabilization is accomplished by means of pole-placement along with robust zero error tracking to either of two plants. The present work also proposes an efficient design methodology for the same. The periodic controller designed and synthesized for realizable bounded control input with the proposed methodology is always possible to implement with guaranteed simultaneous stabilization for two plants. Simulation and experimental results establish the veracity of the claim.


2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinji Hara ◽  
Toni Bakhtiar ◽  
Masaaki Kanno

This paper is concerned with the inherentℋ2tracking performance limitation of single-input and multiple-output (SIMO) linear time-invariant (LTI) feedback control systems. The performance is measured by the tracking error between a step reference input and the plant output with additional penalty on control input. We employ the plant augmentation strategy, which enables us to derive analytical closed-form expressions of the best achievable performance not only for discrete-time system, but also for continuous-time system by exploiting the delta domain version of the expressions.


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