Analysis and Synthesis of Low-Gain Integral Controllers for Nonlinear Systems

DOI10.1109/TAC.2020.3035569zbMATH Open1471.93227arXiv2003.01348OpenAlexW3097486956MaRDI QIDQ4957705FDOQ4957705

Authors: John W. Simpson-Porco 

Publication date: 9 September 2021

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Relaxed conditions are given for stability of a feedback system consisting of an exponentially stable multi-input multi-output nonlinear plant and an integral controller. Roughly speaking, it is shown that if the composition of the plant equilibrium input-output map and the integral feedback gain is infinitesimally contracting, then the closed-loop system is exponentially stable if the integral gain is sufficiently low. The main result is illustrated with an application arising in frequency control of AC power systems. We demonstrate how the contraction condition can be checked computationally via semidefinite programming, and how integral gain matrices can be synthesized via convex optimization to achieve robust L2 performance in the presence of nonlinearity and uncertainty.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01348

zbMATH Keywords

linear matrix inequalitiesnonlinear controloutput regulationsingular perturbationintegral controlslow integrators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semidefinite programming (90C22) Feedback control (93B52) Nonlinear systems in control theory (93C10) Multivariable systems, multidimensional control systems (93C35) Time-scale analysis and singular perturbations in control/observation systems (93C70) Exponential stability (93D23)

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