Asian Journal of Control

The purpose of this study is to control the position of an underactuated underwater vehicle manipulator system U-UVMS. It is possible to control the end-effector using a regular 6-DOF manipulator despite the undesired displacements of the underactuated ...

This paper deals with the problem of state estimation of T-S fuzzy systems subject to unknown inputs. The proposed observer is designed in finite frequency domain to reduce the conservatism generated by those designed in the entire frequency domain when ...

This paper proposes a synthesis method of gain-scheduled control systems that switch linear time-invariant controllers according to hysteresis of the scheduling parameter. Stability and L2-gain analysis and synthesis methods for switched systems are ...

An H∞-type control is considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations SDEs in this paper. A stochastic bounded real lemma SBRL is proved for mean-field stochastic continuous-time systems with state- and disturbance-dependent noise. Based on ...

This paper is devoted to developing a novel approach to deal with constrained continuous-time nonlinear systems in the form of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models. Here, the disturbed systems are subject to both input and state constraints. The one-step design ...

The algebraic geometric AG approach has been used to identify switched auto regressive exogenous SARX models in hybrid systems, and it has several advantages over other SARX identification methods. This paper is focused on improving the estimation ...

Output regulation theory aims to design a controller for achieving reference tracking and disturbance rejection while maintaining system stability. Different from the stabilization problem about an equilibrium point, the output regulation problem is ...

In this paper, we study the decentralized control problem for nondeterministic discrete-event systems DESs under bisimulation equivalence. In order to exactly achieve the desired specification in the sense of bisimulation equivalence, we present a ...

Ministry in 2005, and the National Prize of Natural Science of China in 2008. Currently, he is Associate Editor IMA Journal of Math Control and Inform., and a Technical Committee member of IFAC TC2.3.

In this paper, spatial-alternated Julia sets are discussed, which are obtained by alternating the spatial-alternated system, and plane-alternated Julia sets are discussed, which are obtained by alternating the plane-alternated system. The control of ...

Based on the pioneering study of Bando et al., a modified car-following model is proposed to suppress traffic jams. The optimal velocity OV function is extended by introducing variable safety distance. Considering the relative velocity, relative optimal ...

A flatness based robust active disturbance rejection control technique scheme with tracking differentiator is proposed for the problem of stabilization and tracking control of the X-Z inverted pendulum known as a special underactuated, non-feedback ...

Precise trajectory tracking for the maximum phase system can be achieved by the stable inversion method. However, its side effect is requiring the sufficient extended zero trajectory. To overcome this drawback, firstly, this paper introduces the concept ...

The quantized feedback control for a class of singularly perturbed systems is addressed, in which the controlled system and the controller are connected via a limited capacity communication channel. First, a proper coder-decoder pair is presented such ...

This paper deals with the synchronized motion trajectory tracking control problem of multiple pneumatic cylinders. An adaptive robust synchronization controller is developed by incorporating the cross-coupling technology into the integrated direct/...

This paper proposes a framework to design an event-triggered based robust control law for linear uncertain system. The robust control law is realized through both static and dynamic event-triggering approach to reduce the computation and communication ...

In this paper, we consider the optimal joint control of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems and natural ventilation during the start-up period of these systems in a meeting room. The joint control policy could reduce the total energy ...

This work addresses the aerodynamic modeling and near-hover-flight control design for an unconventional aerial robot of the tandem ducted fan configuration, which is intended to be prototypical of a flight service vehicle. The main model elements of ...

This paper deals with actuator fault diagnosis of neutral delayed systems with multiple time delays using an unknown input observer. The main purpose is to design an observer that guarantees the asymptotic stability of the estimate error dynamics and ...

This paper considers the issue of cluster consensus for multiple agents in fixed and undirected networks. Agents in a network are supposed to split into several clusters, and a fraction of the agents in each cluster are pinned by virtual leaders. ...

Quasi-periodic and chaotic behavior, along with the control of chaos for a Gyrostat satellite GS, is investigated in this work. The quaternion-based dynamical model of the GS is first derived, and then the influences of the reaction wheels in the GS ...

A reset mechanism in controller can affect the stability property of a closed loop control system. In a simple word, there are stable reset control systems with unstable base-systems and also unstable reset systems with stable base-systems. The Lyapunov ...

H∞-norm is widely used in the analysis and synthesis of robust control, a field which continues to flourish and develop. However, H∞-norm can only be used to measure the distance between two stable systems, not unstable systems. Sometimes, it is not ...

The interacting multiple model based on a particle filter fails to meet the requirements of real-time performance when manoeuvring target tracking by radar due to deficiencies in its high calculation complexity. An improved particle filter based on ...

Applying model predictive control MPC in some cases such as complicated process dynamics and/or rapid sampling leads us to poorly numerically conditioned solutions and heavy computational load. Furthermore, there is always mismatch in a model that ...

A class of body movement patterns called natural oscillation has been revealed to mimic the gaits observed in many animals. In this paper, we introduce an additional higher level control loop that is capable of manipulating a robot's motion orientation. ...

This paper considers the problem of the convergence of the consensus for multiple agents in a directed network. A general distributed consensus protocol is designed, the advantage of this protocol is that almost all the existing linear local interaction ...

This paper is concerned with the robust stability of time-varying delay systems with structured uncertainties. Stability conditions are provided through a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional LKF method. The proposed method introduces a linear function of the ...

The paper addresses the distributed event-triggered consensus problem in directed topologies for multi-agent systems MAS with general linear dynamic agents. A co-design approach is proposed to determine parameters of the consensus controller and its ...

This paper investigates the consensus problem of second-order Markovian jump multi-agent systems with delays. Both network-induced random delay and node-induced state delay are considered, where the network-induced random delay, subjected to a Markov ...