Browsing by Subject "Lyapunov functions"

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Analysis and design of switching and fuzzy systems
(2002-09) Akgül, Murat
In this thesis we consider the controller design problems for switching and fuzzy systems. In switching systems, the system dynamics and/or control input take dierent forms in different parts of the underlying state space. In fuzzy systems, the system dynamics and/or control input consist of certain logical expressions. From this point of view, it is reasonable to expect certain similarities between these systems. We show that under certain conditions, a switching system may be converted into an equivalent fuzzy system. While the changes in the system variables in a switching system may be abrupt, such changes are typically smooth in a fuzzy system. Therefore obtaining such an equivalent fuzzy system may inherit the stability properties of the original switching system while smoothing the system dynamics. Motivated from this idea we propose various switching strategies for certain classes of nonlinear systems and provide some stability results. Due to the dificulties in designing such switching rules for nonlinear systems, most of the results are developed for certain specific type of systems. Due to the logical structure, obtaining rigorous stability results are very difficult for fuzzy systems. We propose a fuzzy controller design method and prove a stability result under certain conditions. The proposed method may also be applied to function approximation. We also consider a different stabilization method, namely phase portrait matching, in which the main aim is to choose the control input appropriately so that the dynamics of the closed-loop system is close to a given desired dynamics. If this is achieved, then the phase portrait of the closed-loop system will also be close to a desired phase portrait. We propose various schemes to achieve this task.
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Chaotic behavior of gas bubble in non-Newtonian fluid: A numerical study
(2013) Behnia, S.; Mobadersani F.; Yahyavi, M.; Rezavand, A.
In the present paper, the nonlinear behavior of bubble growth under the excitation of an acoustic pressure pulse in non-Newtonian fluid domain has been investigated. Due to the importance of the bubble in the medical applications such as drug, protein or gene delivery, blood is assumed to be the reference fluid. Effects of viscoelasticity term, Deborah number, amplitude and frequency of the acoustic pulse are studied. We have studied the dynamic behavior of the radial response of bubble using Lyapunov exponent spectra, bifurcation diagrams, time series and phase diagram. A period-doubling bifurcation structure is predicted to occur for certain values of the effects of parameters. The results show that by increasing the elasticity of the fluid, the growth phenomenon will be unstable. On the other hand, when the frequency of the external pulse increases the bubble growth experiences more stable condition. It is shown that the results are in good agreement with the previous studies. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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Comment on "modeling the electrical conduction in DNA nanowires: Charge transfer and lattice fluctuation theories"
(American Physical Society, 2016) Panahi, M.; Chitsazanmoghaddam, M.
In a recent paper [S. Behnia and S. Fathizadeh, Phys. Rev. E 91, 022719 (2015)10.1103/PhysRevE.91.022719] an analytical approach is proposed for the investigation of the conductivity properties of DNA. The authors use mean Lyapunov exponent methods as the backbone of their approach and try to interpret properties of the system based on its behavior. Their interpretation regarding the change in nature of the mean Lyapunov exponent at the denaturation temperatures and discussions of stability and instability based on the mean Lyapunov exponent method are questioned. Moreover there is misunderstanding between mean Lyapunov exponent and Lyapunov exponent. © 2016 American Physical Society.
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Effect of magnetic field on the radial pulsations of a gas bubble in a non-Newtonian fluid
(Elsevier Ltd, 2015) Behnia, S.; Mobadersani F.; Yahyavi, M.; Rezavand, A.; Hoesinpour, N.; Ezzat, A.
Dynamics of acoustically driven bubbles' radial oscillations in viscoelastic fluids are known as complex and uncontrollable phenomenon indicative of highly active nonlinear as well as chaotic behavior. In the present paper, the effect of magnetic fields on the non-linear behavior of bubble growth under the excitation of an acoustic pressure pulse in non-Newtonian fluid domain has been investigated. The constitutive equation [Upper-Convective Maxwell (UCM)] was used for modeling the rheological behaviors of the fluid. Due to the importance of the bubble in the medical applications such as drug, protein or gene delivery, blood is assumed to be the reference fluid. It was found that the magnetic field parameter (B) can be used for controlling the nonlinear radial oscillations of a spherical, acoustically forced gas bubble in nonlinear viscoelastic media. The relevance and importance of this control method to biomedical ultrasound applications were highlighted. We have studied the dynamic behavior of the radial response of the bubble before and after applying the magnetic field using Lyapunov exponent spectra, bifurcation diagrams and time series. A period-doubling bifurcation structure was predicted to occur for certain values of the parameters effects. Results indicated its strong impact on reducing the chaotic radial oscillations to regular ones. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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On dwell time minimization for switched delay systems: Time-Scheduled Lyapunov Functions
(Elsevier B.V., 2016) Koru, A. T.; Delibaşı, A.; Özbay, Hitay
In the present paper, dwell time stability conditions of the switched delay systems are derived using scheduled Lyapunov-Krasovskii functions. The derivative of the Lyapunov functions are guaranteed to be negative semidefinite using free weighting matrices method. After representing the dwell time in terms of linear matrix inequalities, the upper bound of the dwell time is minimized using a bisection algorithm. Some numerical examples are given to illustrate effectiveness of the proposed method, and its performance is compared with the existing approaches. The yielding values of dwell time via the proposed technique show that the novel approach outperforms the previous ones. © 2016
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On the strain feedback control of a flexible robot arm
(IEEE, 2011) Morgül, Ömer
We consider a flexible robot arm modeled as a rigid hub which rotates in an inertial space; a light flexible link is clamped to the rigid body at one end and is free at the other. We assume that the flexible link performs only planar motion. We assume that the strain of the flexible link at the clamped end is measurable. We show that suitable control torques applied to the rigid hub stabilizes the system and achieves orientation under certain conditions. The proposed torque contains derivative, proportional and integral terms of the strain. The stability proofs depend on the passivity of the controller transfer function.
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Stability analysis of switched systems using Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals
(Elsevier, 2011) Çalişkan, S.Y.; Özbay, Hitay; Niculescu, S.-I.
Piecewise Lyapunov-Razumikhin functions are previously used for obtaining a lower bound for the dwell time of the switched time delay systems under the assumption that each candidate system is delay dependently stable. In this work, using Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, a less conservative lower bound for the dwell time is obtained. Improvement in the dwell time is illustrated with an example. © 2011 IFAC.
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State feedback stabilization of switched systems with delay: trajectory based approach
(IEEE, 2017) Mazenc, F.; Ahmed, Saeed; Özbay, Hitay
We present a new trajectory based approach for state feedback stabilization of switched linear continuous-time systems with a time-varying input delay. In contrast with finding classical common Lyapunov function or multiple Lyapunov functions for establishing the stability of the closed-loop switched system, the new trajectory based approach relies on verifying certain inequalities along the solution of a supplementary system. This study does not make any assumption regarding the stabilizability of all of the constituent subsystems of the switched system. Moreover, no assumption is needed about the differentiability of the delay and no constraint is imposed on the upper bound of the delay derivative. Finally, an illustrative example is included to illustrate the applicability of our results.