Abstract:
We consider an artificial swarm mechanical system consisting of multiple agents. The agents are composed of mechanical components. The ideal kinematic performance include...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
We consider an artificial swarm mechanical system consisting of multiple agents. The agents are composed of mechanical components. The ideal kinematic performance includes mutual attractions and repulsions. This kinematic performance is embedded into the dynamics by being treated as a constraint. The Udwadia-Kalaba theory is then used to generate the required servo constraint force to assure the constraint is met for the nominal system. The system also includes uncertainty. The uncertainty in the swarm mechanical system is time-varying, whose value falls within a prescribed fuzzy set. For the robust control design, a creative β-measure-based approach is introduced. The robust control guarantees uniform boundedness and uniform ultimate boundedness regardless of the actual value of the uncertainty. For the optimal choice of a control design parameter, a fuzzy-theoretic performance index is introduced. The resulting optimization problem is proven to be tractable, with the global solution to be existent and unique. Furthermore, the analytic expression of this solution is obtained. As a result, the optimal design problem is completely solved. To further demonstrate its effectiveness, we compare the performances of the swarm mechanical system under the robust control and linear-quadratic regulator control through simulation results with an illustrative example.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems ( Volume: 27, Issue: 6, June 2019)