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1. Adaptive Modified RISE-based Quadrotor Trajectory Tracking with Actuator Uncertainty Compensation

Author

Kidambi, Krishna Bhavithavya, Tiwari, Madhur, Ijoga, Emmanuel Ogbanje, and MacKunis, William

Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control
Abstract

This paper presents an adaptive robust nonlinear control method, which achieves reliable trajectory tracking control for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle in the presence of gyroscopic effects, rotor dynamics, and external disturbances. Through novel mathematical manipulation in the error system development, the quadrotor dynamics are expressed in a control-oriented form, which explicitly incorporates the uncertainty in the gyroscopic term and control actuation term. An adaptive robust nonlinear control law is then designed to stabilize both the position and attitude loops of the quadrotor system. A rigorous Lyapunov-based analysis is utilized to prove asymptotic trajectory tracking, where the region of convergence can be made arbitrarily large through judicious control gain selection. Moreover, the stability analysis formally addresses gyroscopic effects and actuator uncertainty. To illustrate the performance of the control law, comparative numerical simulation results are provided, which demonstrate the improved closed-loop performance achieved under varying levels of parametric uncertainty and disturbance magnitudes.

Published
2023

18. A sliding mode estimation method for fluid flow fields using a differential inclusions-based analysis.

Author

Kidambi, Krishna Bhavithavya, MacKunis, William, Drakunov, Sergey V., and Golubev, Vladimir

Subjects
*FLUID flow, *DIFFERENTIAL inclusions, *MATHEMATICAL forms, *DISCONTINUOUS functions, *FLOW velocity
Abstract

A sliding mode observer (SMO) design and convergence analysis are presented in this paper, which includes a rigorous treatment to address multiple discontinuities in the resulting estimation error dynamics. In an extension of our previous SMO results, the current work provides a non-trivial reworking of the SMO estimation error system development and stability analysis that incorporates differential inclusions. The specific contributions presented in this paper beyond the previous work include: (1) A differential inclusions-based analysis of the SMO, which incorporates the set-valued definition of the discontinuous signum function; (2) An expanded derivation of the estimation error dynamics, which emphasises advantageous properties particular to our SMO structure; (3) A Lyapunov-based stability analysis of the SMO, that rigorously incorporates the multiple discontinuities in the estimation error dynamics. The Lyapunov-based stability analysis proves that the SMO achieves finite-time estimation of the complete state vector, where the output equation is in a nonstandard mathematical form. To test the performance of the SMO, numerical simulation results are also provided, which demonstrate the capability of the SMO to estimate the state of a fluid flow dynamic system using only a single sensor measurement of the flow field velocity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021
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19. Adaptive Nonlinear Regulation Control of Thermoacoustic Oscillations in Rijke-Type Systems

Author

MacKunis, William

Subjects
Technology & Engineering / Electrical
Abstract

Adaptive nonlinear control of self-excited oscillations in Rijke-type thermoacoustic systems is considered. To demonstrate the methodology, a well-accepted thermoacoustic dynamic model is introduced, which includes arrays of sensors and monopole-like actuators. To facilitate the derivation of the adaptive control law, the dynamic model is recast as a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations, which are amenable to control design. The control-oriented nonlinear model includes unknown, unmeasurable, nonvanishing disturbances in addition to parametric uncertainty in both the thermoacoustic dynamic model and the actuator dynamic model. To compensate for the unmodeled disturbances in the dynamic model, a robust nonlinear feedback term is included in the control law. One of the primary challenges in the control design is the presence of input-multiplicative parametric uncertainty in the dynamic model for the control actuator. This challenge is mitigated through innovative algebraic manipulation in the regulation error system derivation along with a Lyapunov-based adaptive control law. To address practical implementation considerations, where sensor measurements of the complete state are not available for feedback, a detailed analysis is provided to demonstrate that system observability can be ensured through judicious placement of pressure (and/or velocity) sensors. Based on this observability condition, a sliding-mode observer design is presented, which is shown to estimate the unmeasurable states using only the available sensor measurements. A detailed Lyapunov-based stability analysis is provided to prove that the proposed closed-loop active thermoacoustic control system achieves asymptotic (zero steady-state error) regulation of multiple thermoacoustic modes in the presence of the aforementioned model uncertainty. Numerical Monte Carlo-type simulation results are also provided, which demonstrate the performance of the proposed closed-loop control system under various sets of operating conditions.

Published
2018

31. A closed‐loop nonlinear control and sliding mode estimation strategy for fluid flow regulation.

Author

Kidambi, Krishna Bhavithavya, Ramos‐Pedroza, Natalie, MacKunis, William, and Drakunov, Sergey V.

Subjects
CLOSED loop systems, NONLINEAR control theory, FLUID dynamics, LYAPUNOV functions, PARTIAL differential equations
Abstract

Summary: Novel sliding mode observer (SMO) and robust nonlinear control methods are presented, which are shown to achieve finite‐time state estimation and asymptotic regulation of a fluid flow system. To facilitate the design and analysis of the closed‐loop active flow control (AFC) system, proper orthogonal decomposition–based model order reduction is utilized to express the Navier‐Stokes partial differential equations as a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The resulting reduced‐order model contains a measurement equation that is in a nonstandard mathematical form. This challenge is mitigated through the detailed design and analysis of an SMO. The observer is shown to achieve finite‐time estimation of the unmeasurable states of the reduced‐order model using direct sensor measurements of the flow field velocity. The estimated states are utilized as feedback measurements in a closed‐loop AFC system. To address the practical challenge of actuator bandwidth limitations, the control law is designed to be continuous. A rigorous Lyapunov‐based stability analysis is presented to prove that the closed‐loop flow estimation and control method achieves asymptotic regulation of a fluid flow field to a prescribed state. Numerical simulation results are also provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed closed‐loop AFC system, comparing 2 different designs for the SMO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2019
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