EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH FOR LIMIT CYCLE AND CONTROLLER DESIGN IN MULTIVARIABLE NONLINEAR SYSTEMS

ABSTRACT A feature of many practical control systems is a Multi‐Input Multi‐Output (MIMO) interactive structure with one or more gross nonlinearities. A primary controller design task in such circumstances is to predict and ensure the avoidance of limit cycling conditions followed by achieving other...

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Vydáno v:Asian journal of control Ročník 8; číslo 4; s. 345 - 358
Hlavní autoři: Eftekhari, M., Katebi, S. D.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2006
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ISSN:1561-8625, 1934-6093
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Shrnutí:ABSTRACT A feature of many practical control systems is a Multi‐Input Multi‐Output (MIMO) interactive structure with one or more gross nonlinearities. A primary controller design task in such circumstances is to predict and ensure the avoidance of limit cycling conditions followed by achieving other design objectives. This paper outlines how such a system may be investigated using the Sinusoidal Input Describing Function (SIDF) philosophy quantifying magnitude, frequency and phase of any possible limit cycle operation. While Sinusoidal Input Describing function is a suitable linearization technique in the frequency domain for assessment of stability and limit cycle operation, it can not be employed in time domain. In order to be able to incorporate the time domain requirements in an overall controller design technique, the appropriate linearization technique suggested here is the Exponential Input Describing Function (EIDF). First, an evolutionary search based on a multi‐objective formulation is employed for the direct solution of the harmonic balance system matrix equation. The search is based on Multi‐Objective Genetic Algorithms (MOGA) and is capable of predicting specified modes of theoretically possible limit cycle operation. Second, the design requirements in time as well as frequency domain are formulated by a set of constraint inequalities. A numerical synthesis procedure also based on Multi‐Objective Genetic Algorithm is employed to adjust the initial compensator parameters to meet the imposed constraints. Robust stability and robust performance are investigated with respect to linearization uncertainty within the context of multiobjective formulation. In order to make the Genetic Algorithm (GA) search more amenable to design trade‐off between different and often contradictory specifications, a weighted sum of the functions is introduced. This criterion is subsequently optimized subject to the nonlinear system dynamics and a set of design requirements. Examples of use are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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Mehdi Eftekhari
received his B.Sc. in computer engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran in September 2000. He then was admitted to the M.Sc. course in AI in the same department and defended his M.Sc. thesis with distinction in September 2003. He is now a Ph.D. student in the same department.
graduated with an honor degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the Coventry University, England in 1972. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Control Systems Center, University of Manchester Institute of Science and technology (UMIST) in 1973 and 1976 respectively. He has been a faculty member of the department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shiraz University since 1976, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and conducting research in various aspects of nonlinear control and AI. He is the author of several papers in cited journals and has been a full professor since 1993.
S. D. Katebi
ISSN:1561-8625
1934-6093
DOI:10.1111/j.1934-6093.2006.tb00286.x