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Designing controllers with predefined convergence-time bound using bounded time-varying gains

Optimization and Control 2023-11-07 v1 Systems and Control Systems and Control Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Recently, there has been a great deal of attention in a class of controllers based on time-varying gains, called prescribed-time controllers, that steer the system's state to the origin in the desired time, a priori set by the user, regardless of the initial condition. Furthermore, such a class of controllers has been shown to maintain a prescribed-time convergence in the presence of disturbances even if the disturbance bound is unknown. However, such properties require a time-varying gain that becomes singular at the terminal time, which limits its application to scenarios under quantization or measurement noise. This chapter presents a methodology to design a broader class of controllers, called predefined-time controllers, with a prescribed convergence-time bound. Our approach allows designing robust predefined-time controllers based on time-varying gains while maintaining uniformly bounded time-varying gains. We analyze the condition for uniform Lyapunov stability under the proposed time-varying controllers.

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@article{arxiv.2311.02473,
  title  = {Designing controllers with predefined convergence-time bound using bounded time-varying gains},
  author = {Rodrigo Aldana-López and Richard Seeber and Hernan Haimovich and David Gómez-Gutiérrez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.02473},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This is a preprint of the chapter: "Designing controllers with predefined convergence-time bound using bounded time-varying gains", published in Sliding-Mode Control and Variable-Structure Systems, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37089-2_3

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