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Publication date: 9 July 2018

Changjin Xu and Peiluan Li

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence and global exponential stability of periodic solution of memristor-based recurrent neural networks with time-varying

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence and global exponential stability of periodic solution of memristor-based recurrent neural networks with time-varying delays and leakage delays.

Design/methodology/approach

The differential inequality theory and some novel mathematical analysis techniques are applied.

Findings

A set of sufficient conditions which guarantee the existence and global exponential stability of periodic solution of involved model is derived.

Practical implications

It plays an important role in designing the neural networks.

Originality/value

The obtained results of this paper are new and complement some previous studies. The innovation of this paper concludes two aspects: the analysis on the existence and global exponential stability of periodic solution of memristor-based recurrent neural networks with time-varying delays and leakage delays is first proposed; and it is first time to establish the sufficient criterion which ensures the existence and global exponential stability of periodic solution of memristor-based recurrent neural networks with time-varying delays and leakage delays.

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International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, vol. 11 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-378X

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Article
Publication date: 23 November 2010

Xudong Zhao and Qingshuang Zeng

As a class of stochastic hybrid systems, Markovian jump systems have been extensively studied in the past decades. In light of some results obtained on this topic. The purpose of…

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Purpose

As a class of stochastic hybrid systems, Markovian jump systems have been extensively studied in the past decades. In light of some results obtained on this topic. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stability problems for delayed Markovian jump systems.

Design/methodology/approach

The time‐varyingdelays considered in this paper are switched synchronously with system mode. Based on stochastic Lyapunov theory, the delay‐dependent stability conditions are developed by using some linear matrix inequality techniques. To obtain better stability criteria, the different Lyapunov‐Krasovskii functional is chosen and an important inequality is introduced.

Findings

Numerical examples show that the resulting criteria in this paper have advantages over some previous ones in that they involve fewer matrix variables, but have less conservatism. Furthermore, they only involve the matrix variables appeared in the Lyapunov functional. Therefore, there are no additional matrix variables coupled with the system matrices, which will be easier to investigate the synthesis problems for the underlying systems and save much computation.

Originality/value

The introduced approach is more efficient to investigate the stability for Markovian jump systems with mode‐dependent time‐varyingdelays.

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International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, vol. 3 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-378X

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Article
Publication date: 21 March 2022

Ashutosh Bist and Swati Sondhi

This paper aims to design the fractional order sliding mode controller for highly maneuverable remote piloted unmanned aircraft with time-varying delays.

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Purpose

This paper aims to design the fractional order sliding mode controller for highly maneuverable remote piloted unmanned aircraft with time-varying delays.

Design/methodology/approach

With the assumption that the time-varying delays are bounded and identical for different outputs, an observer-based control technique is implied which reformulates the state variables based on the system model and delayed outputs. The estimated state variables are fed as feedback into the controller. Based on the delayed output observer, a fractional order sliding mode controller is designed. Further, the stability of the closed-loop system is analyzed and asymptotical convergence is realized using Lyapunov–Razumikhin theorem.

Findings

The simulation is done in Matlab and Simulink. The parametric variations and trajectory tracking results are illustrated which looks propitious.

Practical implications

In practical operation, measurement signal is often delayed, which significantly degrade the control performance or even disturb the stability. It is emphasized to choose attitude as the evaluation indicator for unmanned aerial vehicle time delay.

Originality/value

A novel fractional order sliding mode control technique is designed to enhance the trajectory tracking, thus autonomous flight performance, of the aircraft system. Also, the main idea behind this novel procedure is formulated for minimizing the parametric variations in presence of time delays.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 94 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1748-8842

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Article
Publication date: 13 November 2017

Changjin Xu and Peiluan Li

The purpose of this paper is to study the existence and exponential stability of anti-periodic solutions of a class of shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks (SICNNs) with…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study the existence and exponential stability of anti-periodic solutions of a class of shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks (SICNNs) with time-varying delays and continuously distributed delays.

Design/methodology/approach

The inequality technique and Lyapunov functional method are applied.

Findings

Sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure that all solutions of the networks converge exponentially to the anti-periodic solution, which are new and complement previously known results.

Originality/value

There are few papers that deal with the anti-periodic solutions of delayed SICNNs with the form negative feedback – aij(t)αij(xij(t)).

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International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-378X

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Article
Publication date: 8 May 2007

Yushing Cheung and Jae H. Chung

This paper aims to make an industrial robot intelligently and remotely cooperate with humans to work in unknown unstructured environments.

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to make an industrial robot intelligently and remotely cooperate with humans to work in unknown unstructured environments.

Design/methodology/approach

Presents a bilateral adaptive teleoperation control approach involving a contact force driven compensation with an auto‐switching function, which utilizes a biologically motivated compliance function. Based on sensed contact force, the switching function can adjust its slave control input to decide how much robotic intelligences should intervene in the system by switching modes. Other schemes for robotic intelligence, robotic impedances and compensators, are investigated to guarantee good transparency without warranting human error and maintain a stable contact, based on the force feedback, in constrained motion while a communication delay exists.

Findings

The simulation and experimental results demonstrate transparency and contact stability in the presence of constant and time‐varying communication delays, respectively. The proposed bilateral adaptive teleoperation control method outperforms three other techniques.

Originality/value

This paper introduces an adaptive teleoperation control method with local robotic intelligence assistance. The developed method does not modify the existing designs of industrial robots. The contact force and position and force errors are well controlled to obtain a stable contact and transparency, through adaptation of robotic impedances.

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Industrial Robot: An International Journal, vol. 34 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-991X

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Article
Publication date: 13 December 2017

Huiyu Sun, Guangming Song, Zhong Wei and Ying Zhang

This paper aims to tele-operate the movement of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the obstructed environment with asymmetric time-varying delays. A simple passive proportional…

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Purpose

This paper aims to tele-operate the movement of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the obstructed environment with asymmetric time-varying delays. A simple passive proportional velocity errors plus damping injection (P-like) controller is proposed to deal with the asymmetric time-varying delays in the aerial teleoperation system.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper presents both theoretical and real-time experimental results of the bilateral teleoperation system of a UAV for collision avoidance over the wireless network. First, a position-velocity workspace mapping is used to solve the master-slave kinematic/dynamic dissimilarity. Second, a P-like controller is proposed to ensure the stability of the time-delayed bilateral teleoperation system with asymmetric time-varying delays. The stability is analyzed by the Lyapunov–Krasovskii function and the delay-dependent stability criteria are obtained under linear-matrix-inequalities conditions. Third, a vision-based localization is presented to calibrate the UAV’s pose and provide the relative distance for obstacle avoidance with a high accuracy. Finally, the performance of the teleoperation scheme is evaluated by both human-in-the-loop simulations and real-time experiments where a single UAV flies through the obstructed environment.

Findings

Experimental results demonstrate that the teleoperation system can maintain passivity and collision avoidance can be achieved with a high accuracy for asymmetric time-varying delays. Moreover, the operator could tele-sense the force reflection to improve the maneuverability in the aerial teleoperation.

Originality/value

A real-time bilateral teleoperation system of a UAV for collision avoidance is performed in the laboratory. A force and visual interface is designed to provide force and visual feedback of the slave environment to the operator.

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Industrial Robot: An International Journal, vol. 45 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-991X

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Article
Publication date: 5 September 2016

S. Vahid Naghavi, A.A. Safavi, Mohammad Hassan Khooban, S. Pourdehi and Valiollah Ghaffari

The purpose of this paper is to concern the design of a robust model predictive controller for distributed networked systems with transmission delays.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to concern the design of a robust model predictive controller for distributed networked systems with transmission delays.

Design/methodology/approach

The overall system is composed of a number of interconnected nonlinear subsystems with time-varying transmission delays. A distributed networked system with transmission delays is modeled as a nonlinear system with a time-varying delay. Time delays appear in distributed systems due to the information transmission in the communication network or transport of material between the sub-plants. In real applications, the states may not be available directly and it could be a challenge to address the control problem in interconnected systems using a centralized architecture because of the constraints on the computational capabilities and the communication bandwidth. The controller design is characterized as an optimization problem of a “worst-case” objective function over an infinite moving horizon.

Findings

The aim is to propose control synthesis approach that depends on nonlinearity and time varying delay characteristics. The MPC problem is represented in a time varying delayed state feedback structure. Then the synthesis sufficient condition is provided in the form of a linear matrix inequality (LMI) optimization and is solved online at each time instant. In the rest, an LMI-based decentralized observer-based robust model predictive control strategy is proposed.

Originality/value

The authors develop RMPC strategies for a class of distributed networked systems with transmission delays using LMI-Based technique. To evaluate the applicability of the developed approach, the control design of a networked chemical reactor plant with two sub-plants is studied. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 35 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0332-1649

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Article
Publication date: 28 August 2007

M. De la Sen

This purpose of this paper is to discuss a linear fractional representation (LFR) of parameter‐dependent systems which are linear in the parameters but uncertain, being eventually…

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Abstract

Purpose

This purpose of this paper is to discuss a linear fractional representation (LFR) of parameter‐dependent systems which are linear in the parameters but uncertain, being eventually time‐varying real‐rational nonlinear parameterizations, and dynamics with constant point delays.

Design/methodology/approach

The formulation is made in terms of Lyapunov's second method whereby the Lyapunov function candidate is confirmed to be a Lyapunov function by testing a finite number of linear‐matrix inequalities when the uncertain parameter vector, which might be time‐varying, lies within a known polytope which characterizes the uncertainties. The tests are performed only on the set of vertices associated with polytopes.

Findings

Sufficient conditions for global asymptotic stability are obtained. Conditions constraining the system to be slowly time‐varying around a stable nominal parameterization are not imposed in order to guarantee the stability.

Research limitations/implications

The formulation is applied to a class of systems whose uncertainties might be parameterized through time‐varying real‐rational nonlinear parameterizations and which include point‐delayed dynamics with constant delays. However, such a class includes certain classes of neural networks with delays, systems with switched parameterizations and systems whose uncertain dynamics evolve arbitrarily in regions defined by known polytopes.

Practical implications

The stability tests are less involved than usual for time‐varying systems since only a finite number of them is necessary to investigate the stability.

Originality/value

LFR descriptions of linear time‐varying systems are extended to a wide class of systems with constant point delays. Also, the real‐rational nonlinear parameterizations of the uncertainties are admitted in both the delay‐free and delayed dynamics.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 24 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Article
Publication date: 15 February 2024

Quanwei Yin, Liang Zhang and Xudong Zhao

This paper aims to study the issues of output reachable set estimation for the linear singular Markovian jump systems (SMJSs) with time-varying delay based on a proportional plus…

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Purpose

This paper aims to study the issues of output reachable set estimation for the linear singular Markovian jump systems (SMJSs) with time-varying delay based on a proportional plus derivative (PD) bumpless transfer (BT) output feedback (OF) control scheme.

Design/methodology/approach

To begin with, a sufficient criterion is given in the form of a linear matrix inequality based on the Lyapunov stability theory. Then, a PD-BT OF controller is designed to keep all the output signs of the system are maintain within a predetermined ellipsoid. Finally, numerical and practical examples are used to demonstrate the efficiency of the approach.

Findings

Based on PD control and BT control method, an OF control strategy for the linear SMJSs with time-varying delay is proposed.

Originality/value

The output reachable set synthesis of linear SMJSs with time-varying delay can be solved by using the proposed approach. Besides, to obtain more general results, the restrictive assumptions of some parameters are removed. Furthermore, a sufficiently small ellipsoid can be obtained by the design scheme adopted in this paper, which reduces the conservatism of the existing results.

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Robotic Intelligence and Automation, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2754-6969

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Article
Publication date: 31 May 2013

Cheng‐De Zheng, Ri‐Ming Sun and Zhanshan Wang

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for the existence and global exponential stability of the unique equilibrium point of a class of impulsive Cohen‐Grossberg…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for the existence and global exponential stability of the unique equilibrium point of a class of impulsive Cohen‐Grossberg neural networks.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors perform M‐matrix theory and homeomorphism mapping principle to investigate a class of impulsive Cohen‐Grossberg networks with time‐varying delays and distributed delays. The approach builds on new sufficient criterion without strict conditions imposed on self‐regulation functions.

Findings

The authors' approach results in new sufficient criteria easy to verify but without the usual assumption that the activation functions are bounded and the time‐varying delays are differentiable. An example shows the effectiveness and superiority of the obtained results over some previously known results.

Originality/value

The novelty of the proposed approach lies in removing the usual assumption that the activation functions are bounded and the time‐varying delays are differentiable, and the use of M‐matrix theory and homeomorphism mapping principle for the existence and global exponential stability of the unique equilibrium point of a class of impulsive Cohen‐Grossberg neural networks.

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International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, vol. 6 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-378X

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