This paper presents an investigation on the target-guided coordinated control(TACC)of unmanned surface vehicles(USVs).In the scenario of tracking non-cooperative targets,the status information of the target can only b...This paper presents an investigation on the target-guided coordinated control(TACC)of unmanned surface vehicles(USVs).In the scenario of tracking non-cooperative targets,the status information of the target can only be obtained by some USVs.In order to achieve semi-encirclement tracking of noncooperative targets under maritime security conditions,a fixed-time tracking control method based on dynamic surface control(DSC)is proposed in this paper.Firstly,a novel TACC architecture with decoupled kinematic control law and decoupled kinetic control law was designed to reduce the complexity of control system design.Secondly,the proposed DSC-based target-guided kinematic control law including tracking points pre-allocation strategy and sigmoid artificial potential functions(SigAPFs)can avoid collisions during tracking process and optimize kinematic control output.Finally,a fixed-time TACC system was proposed to achieve fast convergence of kinematic and kinetics errors.The effectiveness of the proposed TACC approach in improving target tracking safety and reducing control output chattering was verified by simulation comparison results.展开更多
针对控制目标耦合导致统一电能质量调节器电能质量补偿响应速度慢、精度差、鲁棒性差等问题,提出了一种控制目标解耦的连续集模型预测(continuous control set model predictive control,CCS-MPC)直接控制策略。该控制策略依据当前时刻...针对控制目标耦合导致统一电能质量调节器电能质量补偿响应速度慢、精度差、鲁棒性差等问题,提出了一种控制目标解耦的连续集模型预测(continuous control set model predictive control,CCS-MPC)直接控制策略。该控制策略依据当前时刻被控目标电压、电流参数,构建目标唯一的预测控制模型,在简化控制器结构的同时实现串、并联侧电感电流和电容电压解耦控制,显著提高统一电能质量调节器动态性能。基于偏导数获取模型预测控制价值函数的最优解,实现参数变化、外部扰动工况下负载电压、电网电流高精度补偿。仿真验证了所提控制策略的有效性。展开更多
Coordinated taxiing planning for multiple aircraft on flight deck is of vital importance which can dramatically improve the dispatching efficiency.In this paper,first,the coordinated taxiing path planning problem is t...Coordinated taxiing planning for multiple aircraft on flight deck is of vital importance which can dramatically improve the dispatching efficiency.In this paper,first,the coordinated taxiing path planning problem is transformed into a centralized optimal control problem where collision-free conditions and mechanical limits are considered.Since the formulated optimal control problem is of large state space and highly nonlinear,an efficient hierarchical initialization technique based on the Dubins-curve method is proposed.Then,a model predictive controller is designed to track the obtained reference trajectory in the presence of initial state error and external disturbances.Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed“offline planningþonline tracking”framework can achieve efficient and robust coordinated taxiing planning and tracking even in the presence of initial state error and continuous external disturbances.展开更多
One-way roads have potential for improving vehicle speed and reducing traffic delay.Suffering from dense road network,most of adjacent intersections’distance on one-way roads becomes relatively close,which makes isol...One-way roads have potential for improving vehicle speed and reducing traffic delay.Suffering from dense road network,most of adjacent intersections’distance on one-way roads becomes relatively close,which makes isolated control of intersections inefficient in this scene.Thus,it is significant to develop coordinated control of multiple intersection signals on the one-way roads.This paper proposes a signal coordination control method that is suitable for one-way arterial roads.This method uses the cooperation technology of the vehicle infrastructure to collect intersection traffic information and share information among the intersections.Adaptive signal control system is adopted for each intersection in the coordination system,and the green light time is adjusted in real time based on the number of vehicles in queue.The offset and clearance time can be calculated according to the real-time traffic volume.The proposed method was verified with simulation results by VISSIM traffic simulation software.The results compared with other methods show that the coordinated control method proposed in this paper can effectively reduce the average delay of vehicles on the arterial roads and improve the traffic efficiency.展开更多
An intelligent coordinated control strategy has been proposed and successfully applied to a 300MW boiler-turbine unit i. e. Unit 1 of Yuanbaoshan power plant in China. Load following operation of coal-fired boiler-tur...An intelligent coordinated control strategy has been proposed and successfully applied to a 300MW boiler-turbine unit i. e. Unit 1 of Yuanbaoshan power plant in China. Load following operation of coal-fired boiler-turbine unit in the power plant leads to changes in operating points which result in nonlinear variations of the plant variables and parameters. For the variation of operating condition and slowly varying dynamics, an intelligent control scheme has been developed by combining fuzzy self-tuning with adaptive control and auto-tuning techniques. As there exist strong couplings between control loops of main steam pressure and power output in the unit, a new design for static decoupler aimed at decoupling for setpoints and unmeasured pulverized coal disturbance of the system at the same time is presented. Satisfactory industrial application results show that such a control system has enhanced adaptability and robustness to the complex process, and better control performance and high economic benefit have been obtained.展开更多
In unit steam-boiler generation, a coordinated control strategy is required to ensure a higher rate of load change without violating thermal constraints. The process is characterized by nonlinearity and uncertainty. W...In unit steam-boiler generation, a coordinated control strategy is required to ensure a higher rate of load change without violating thermal constraints. The process is characterized by nonlinearity and uncertainty. While neural networks can model highly complex nonlinear dynamical systems, they produce black box models. This has led to significant interest in neuro-fuzzy networks (NFNs) to represent a nonlinear dynamical process by a set of locally valid and simpler submodels. Two alternative methods of exploiting the NFNs within a generalised predictive control (GPC) framework for nonlinear model predictive control are described. Coordinated control of steam-boiler generation using the two nonlinear GPC methods show excellent tracking and disturbance rejection results and improved performance compared with conventional linear GPC.展开更多
Walking is the most basic and essential part of the activities of daily living. To enable the elderly and non-ambulatory gait-impaired patients, the repetitive practice of this task, a novel gait training robot(GTR) w...Walking is the most basic and essential part of the activities of daily living. To enable the elderly and non-ambulatory gait-impaired patients, the repetitive practice of this task, a novel gait training robot(GTR) was designed followed the end-effector principle, and an active partial body weight support(PBWS) system was introduced to facilitate successful gait training. For successful establishment of a walking gait on the GTR with PBWS, the motion laws of the GTR were planned to enable the phase distribution relationships of the cycle step, and the center of gravity(COG) trajectory of the human body during gait training on the GTR was measured. A coordinated control strategy was proposed based on the impedance control principle. A robotic prototype was developed as a platform for evaluating the design concepts and control strategies. Preliminary gait training with a healthy subject was implemented by the robotic-assisted gait training system and the experimental results are encouraging.展开更多
To solve the problem of attitude synchronization control for spacecraft formation flying(SFF)suffering from external disturbances under a directed communication topology,a sliding mode disturbance observer(SMDO)based ...To solve the problem of attitude synchronization control for spacecraft formation flying(SFF)suffering from external disturbances under a directed communication topology,a sliding mode disturbance observer(SMDO)based on the finite-time control strategy is developed to observe the time-varying external disturbance via estimating the upper bound of its first derivative.Meanwhile,the rotation matrix is employed to describe the attitude of SFF for the purpose of the avoidance of singularity and unwinding phenomenon.As for the attitude synchronization and the tracking control architecture,a sliding mode surface(SMS)is given such that the control objective can be achieved.The effectiveness and the validity of the proposed method are elaborated via theoretical analysis and numerical simulations.展开更多
This paper investigates a distributed coordination control scheme using an adaptive terminal sliding mode for formation flying spacecraft with coupled attitude and translational dynamics. In order to overcome the sing...This paper investigates a distributed coordination control scheme using an adaptive terminal sliding mode for formation flying spacecraft with coupled attitude and translational dynamics. In order to overcome the singularity of the traditional fast terminal sliding manifold, a novel fast terminal sliding manifold is given. And then, based on the adaptive control method, a continuous robust coordinated controller is designed to compensate external disturbances and to alleviate the chattering phenomenon. The theoretical analysis shows that the coordinated controller can guarantee the finite-time stability of the overall closed-loop system through local information exchange, and numerical simulations also demonstrate its effectiveness.展开更多
This paper presents a Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller(NMPC)for the path following of autonomous vehicles and an algorithm to adaptively adjust the preview distance.The prediction model includes vehicle dynamics,...This paper presents a Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller(NMPC)for the path following of autonomous vehicles and an algorithm to adaptively adjust the preview distance.The prediction model includes vehicle dynamics,path following dynamics,and system input dynamics.The single-track vehicle model considers the vehicle’s coupled lateral and longitudinal dynamics,as well as nonlinear tire forces.The tracking error dynamics are derived based on the curvilinear coordinates.The cost function is designed to minimize path tracking errors and control effort while considering constraints such as actuator bounds and tire grip limits.An algorithm that utilizes the optimal preview distance vector to query the corresponding reference curvature and reference speed.The length of the preview path is adaptively adjusted based on the vehicle speed,heading error,and path curvature.We validate the controller performance in a simulation environment with the autonomous racing scenario.The simulation results show that the vehicle accurately follows the highly dynamic path with small tracking errors.The maximum preview distance can be prior estimated and guidance the selection of the prediction horizon for NMPC.展开更多
With the advantage of exceptional long-range traffic perception capabilities and data fusion computational prowess,the cloud control system(CCS)has exhibited formidable poten-tial in the realm of connected assisted dr...With the advantage of exceptional long-range traffic perception capabilities and data fusion computational prowess,the cloud control system(CCS)has exhibited formidable poten-tial in the realm of connected assisted driving,such as the adap-tive cruise control(ACC).Based on the CCS architecture,this paper proposes a cloud-based predictive ACC(PACC)strategy,which fully considers the road slope information and the preced-ing vehicle status.In the cloud,based on the dynamic program-ming(DP),the long-term economic speed planning is carried out by using the slope information.At the vehicle side,the real-time fusion planning of the economic speed and the preceding vehi-cle state is realized based on the model predictive control(MPC),taking into account the safety and economy of driving.In order to ensure the safety and stability of the vehicle-cloud cooperative control system,an event-triggered cruise mode switching method is proposed based on the state of each sub-system of the vehicle-cloud-network-map.Simulation results indicate that the PACC system can still ensure stable cruising under delays and some complex conditions.Moreover,under normal conditions,compared to the ACC system,the PACC sys-tem can further improve economy while ensuring safety and improve the overall energy efficiency of the vehicle,thus achiev-ing fuel savings of 3%to 8%.展开更多
文摘This paper presents an investigation on the target-guided coordinated control(TACC)of unmanned surface vehicles(USVs).In the scenario of tracking non-cooperative targets,the status information of the target can only be obtained by some USVs.In order to achieve semi-encirclement tracking of noncooperative targets under maritime security conditions,a fixed-time tracking control method based on dynamic surface control(DSC)is proposed in this paper.Firstly,a novel TACC architecture with decoupled kinematic control law and decoupled kinetic control law was designed to reduce the complexity of control system design.Secondly,the proposed DSC-based target-guided kinematic control law including tracking points pre-allocation strategy and sigmoid artificial potential functions(SigAPFs)can avoid collisions during tracking process and optimize kinematic control output.Finally,a fixed-time TACC system was proposed to achieve fast convergence of kinematic and kinetics errors.The effectiveness of the proposed TACC approach in improving target tracking safety and reducing control output chattering was verified by simulation comparison results.
文摘针对控制目标耦合导致统一电能质量调节器电能质量补偿响应速度慢、精度差、鲁棒性差等问题,提出了一种控制目标解耦的连续集模型预测(continuous control set model predictive control,CCS-MPC)直接控制策略。该控制策略依据当前时刻被控目标电压、电流参数,构建目标唯一的预测控制模型,在简化控制器结构的同时实现串、并联侧电感电流和电容电压解耦控制,显著提高统一电能质量调节器动态性能。基于偏导数获取模型预测控制价值函数的最优解,实现参数变化、外部扰动工况下负载电压、电网电流高精度补偿。仿真验证了所提控制策略的有效性。
文摘Coordinated taxiing planning for multiple aircraft on flight deck is of vital importance which can dramatically improve the dispatching efficiency.In this paper,first,the coordinated taxiing path planning problem is transformed into a centralized optimal control problem where collision-free conditions and mechanical limits are considered.Since the formulated optimal control problem is of large state space and highly nonlinear,an efficient hierarchical initialization technique based on the Dubins-curve method is proposed.Then,a model predictive controller is designed to track the obtained reference trajectory in the presence of initial state error and external disturbances.Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed“offline planningþonline tracking”framework can achieve efficient and robust coordinated taxiing planning and tracking even in the presence of initial state error and continuous external disturbances.
基金Project(61503048)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProjects(16C0050,16C0062)supported by Scientific Research Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education,China
文摘One-way roads have potential for improving vehicle speed and reducing traffic delay.Suffering from dense road network,most of adjacent intersections’distance on one-way roads becomes relatively close,which makes isolated control of intersections inefficient in this scene.Thus,it is significant to develop coordinated control of multiple intersection signals on the one-way roads.This paper proposes a signal coordination control method that is suitable for one-way arterial roads.This method uses the cooperation technology of the vehicle infrastructure to collect intersection traffic information and share information among the intersections.Adaptive signal control system is adopted for each intersection in the coordination system,and the green light time is adjusted in real time based on the number of vehicles in queue.The offset and clearance time can be calculated according to the real-time traffic volume.The proposed method was verified with simulation results by VISSIM traffic simulation software.The results compared with other methods show that the coordinated control method proposed in this paper can effectively reduce the average delay of vehicles on the arterial roads and improve the traffic efficiency.
基金This project was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China( 60074004).
文摘An intelligent coordinated control strategy has been proposed and successfully applied to a 300MW boiler-turbine unit i. e. Unit 1 of Yuanbaoshan power plant in China. Load following operation of coal-fired boiler-turbine unit in the power plant leads to changes in operating points which result in nonlinear variations of the plant variables and parameters. For the variation of operating condition and slowly varying dynamics, an intelligent control scheme has been developed by combining fuzzy self-tuning with adaptive control and auto-tuning techniques. As there exist strong couplings between control loops of main steam pressure and power output in the unit, a new design for static decoupler aimed at decoupling for setpoints and unmeasured pulverized coal disturbance of the system at the same time is presented. Satisfactory industrial application results show that such a control system has enhanced adaptability and robustness to the complex process, and better control performance and high economic benefit have been obtained.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of P. R. China (69804003, 50576022)the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing (4062030)
文摘In unit steam-boiler generation, a coordinated control strategy is required to ensure a higher rate of load change without violating thermal constraints. The process is characterized by nonlinearity and uncertainty. While neural networks can model highly complex nonlinear dynamical systems, they produce black box models. This has led to significant interest in neuro-fuzzy networks (NFNs) to represent a nonlinear dynamical process by a set of locally valid and simpler submodels. Two alternative methods of exploiting the NFNs within a generalised predictive control (GPC) framework for nonlinear model predictive control are described. Coordinated control of steam-boiler generation using the two nonlinear GPC methods show excellent tracking and disturbance rejection results and improved performance compared with conventional linear GPC.
基金Project(61175128) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2008AA040203) supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China
文摘Walking is the most basic and essential part of the activities of daily living. To enable the elderly and non-ambulatory gait-impaired patients, the repetitive practice of this task, a novel gait training robot(GTR) was designed followed the end-effector principle, and an active partial body weight support(PBWS) system was introduced to facilitate successful gait training. For successful establishment of a walking gait on the GTR with PBWS, the motion laws of the GTR were planned to enable the phase distribution relationships of the cycle step, and the center of gravity(COG) trajectory of the human body during gait training on the GTR was measured. A coordinated control strategy was proposed based on the impedance control principle. A robotic prototype was developed as a platform for evaluating the design concepts and control strategies. Preliminary gait training with a healthy subject was implemented by the robotic-assisted gait training system and the experimental results are encouraging.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11772185)the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province(F2017005)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(HEUCFP201770).
文摘To solve the problem of attitude synchronization control for spacecraft formation flying(SFF)suffering from external disturbances under a directed communication topology,a sliding mode disturbance observer(SMDO)based on the finite-time control strategy is developed to observe the time-varying external disturbance via estimating the upper bound of its first derivative.Meanwhile,the rotation matrix is employed to describe the attitude of SFF for the purpose of the avoidance of singularity and unwinding phenomenon.As for the attitude synchronization and the tracking control architecture,a sliding mode surface(SMS)is given such that the control objective can be achieved.The effectiveness and the validity of the proposed method are elaborated via theoretical analysis and numerical simulations.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61174037)the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(2012AA120602CAST20120602)
文摘This paper investigates a distributed coordination control scheme using an adaptive terminal sliding mode for formation flying spacecraft with coupled attitude and translational dynamics. In order to overcome the singularity of the traditional fast terminal sliding manifold, a novel fast terminal sliding manifold is given. And then, based on the adaptive control method, a continuous robust coordinated controller is designed to compensate external disturbances and to alleviate the chattering phenomenon. The theoretical analysis shows that the coordinated controller can guarantee the finite-time stability of the overall closed-loop system through local information exchange, and numerical simulations also demonstrate its effectiveness.
基金“National Science and Technology Council”(NSTC 111-2221-E-027-088)。
文摘This paper presents a Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller(NMPC)for the path following of autonomous vehicles and an algorithm to adaptively adjust the preview distance.The prediction model includes vehicle dynamics,path following dynamics,and system input dynamics.The single-track vehicle model considers the vehicle’s coupled lateral and longitudinal dynamics,as well as nonlinear tire forces.The tracking error dynamics are derived based on the curvilinear coordinates.The cost function is designed to minimize path tracking errors and control effort while considering constraints such as actuator bounds and tire grip limits.An algorithm that utilizes the optimal preview distance vector to query the corresponding reference curvature and reference speed.The length of the preview path is adaptively adjusted based on the vehicle speed,heading error,and path curvature.We validate the controller performance in a simulation environment with the autonomous racing scenario.The simulation results show that the vehicle accurately follows the highly dynamic path with small tracking errors.The maximum preview distance can be prior estimated and guidance the selection of the prediction horizon for NMPC.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFB2501000)the Consultancy Research Project on the Strategic Study of the Integration and Innovative Development of Intelligent Connected Vehicles and New Energy Ecology in Zhejiang Province(2023ZL0007)+1 种基金the Hetao Shenzhen-HongKong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone(HZQB-KCZYZ-2021055)the Open Project of the Key Laboratory of Modern Measurement and Control Technology of the Ministry of Education(KF2022-1123202).
文摘With the advantage of exceptional long-range traffic perception capabilities and data fusion computational prowess,the cloud control system(CCS)has exhibited formidable poten-tial in the realm of connected assisted driving,such as the adap-tive cruise control(ACC).Based on the CCS architecture,this paper proposes a cloud-based predictive ACC(PACC)strategy,which fully considers the road slope information and the preced-ing vehicle status.In the cloud,based on the dynamic program-ming(DP),the long-term economic speed planning is carried out by using the slope information.At the vehicle side,the real-time fusion planning of the economic speed and the preceding vehi-cle state is realized based on the model predictive control(MPC),taking into account the safety and economy of driving.In order to ensure the safety and stability of the vehicle-cloud cooperative control system,an event-triggered cruise mode switching method is proposed based on the state of each sub-system of the vehicle-cloud-network-map.Simulation results indicate that the PACC system can still ensure stable cruising under delays and some complex conditions.Moreover,under normal conditions,compared to the ACC system,the PACC sys-tem can further improve economy while ensuring safety and improve the overall energy efficiency of the vehicle,thus achiev-ing fuel savings of 3%to 8%.
