Fuzzy Membership Function Dependent Switched Control for Nonlinear Systems with Memory Sampled-Data Information

In this paper, a fuzzy memory-based coupling sampled-data control (SDC) is designed for nonlinear systems through the switched approach. Compared with the usual SDC scheme, by employing the Bernoulli sequence, a more general coupling switched SDC that involving the signal transmission delay is designed. The Lyapunov-Krasovskii Functional (LKF) is presented with the available characteristics of the membership function, and a coupling sampling pattern, for the T-S fuzzy systems. Based on LKF, together with time derivative information of membership function, and the generalized N -order free-matrix-based inequality, the suitable conditions are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) for guaranteeing the asymptotic stability and stabilization of the concerned system. Then the desired fuzzy coupling SDC gain is attained from the solvable LMIs. In the end, two examples are given to validate the derived theoretical results.

Joint Distributions of Counts of Strings in Finite Bernoulli Sequences

An infinite sequence (Y1, Y2,…) of independent Bernoulli random variables with P(Yi = 1) = a / (a + b + i - 1), i = 1, 2,…, where a > 0 and b ≥ 0, will be called a Bern(a, b) sequence. Consider the counts Z1, Z2, Z3,… of occurrences of patterns or strings of the form {11}, {101}, {1001},…, respectively, in this sequence. The joint distribution of the counts Z1, Z2,… in the infinite Bern(a, b) sequence has been studied extensively. The counts from the initial finite sequence (Y1, Y2,…, Yn) have been studied by Holst (2007), (2008b), who obtained the joint factorial moments for Bern(a, 0) and the factorial moments of Z1, the count of the string {1, 1}, for a general Bern(a, b). We consider stopping the Bernoulli sequence at a random time and describe the joint distribution of counts, which extends Holst's results. We show that the joint distribution of counts from a class of randomly stopped Bernoulli sequences possesses the mixture of independent Poissons property: there is a random vector conditioned on which the counts are independent Poissons. To obtain these results, we extend the conditional marked Poisson process technique introduced in Huffer, Sethuraman and Sethuraman (2009). Our results avoid previous combinatorial and induction methods which generally only yield factorial moments.

Joint Distributions of Counts of Strings in Finite Bernoulli Sequences

An infinite sequence (Y 1, Y 2,…) of independent Bernoulli random variables with P(Y i = 1) = a / (a + b + i - 1), i = 1, 2,…, where a > 0 and b ≥ 0, will be called a Bern(a, b) sequence. Consider the counts Z 1, Z 2, Z 3,… of occurrences of patterns or strings of the form {11}, {101}, {1001},…, respectively, in this sequence. The joint distribution of the counts Z 1, Z 2,… in the infinite Bern(a, b) sequence has been studied extensively. The counts from the initial finite sequence (Y 1, Y 2,…, Y n ) have been studied by Holst (2007), (2008b), who obtained the joint factorial moments for Bern(a, 0) and the factorial moments of Z 1, the count of the string {1, 1}, for a general Bern(a, b). We consider stopping the Bernoulli sequence at a random time and describe the joint distribution of counts, which extends Holst's results. We show that the joint distribution of counts from a class of randomly stopped Bernoulli sequences possesses the mixture of independent Poissons property: there is a random vector conditioned on which the counts are independent Poissons. To obtain these results, we extend the conditional marked Poisson process technique introduced in Huffer, Sethuraman and Sethuraman (2009). Our results avoid previous combinatorial and induction methods which generally only yield factorial moments.

Generalized Bernoulli Polynomials Revisited and Some Other Appell Sequences

We study the problem posed by Nörlund in terms of dual sequences. We determine the functional equation fulfilled by the canonical form of any generalized Bernoulli sequence. Surprisingly these canonical forms are positive definite. Some results are given for an Euler sequence.