Constructive Nonlinear Control

Abstract

During this grant period, we have enhanced robustness of our designs and thus increased their ability to accommodate disturbances and unmodeled dynamics. We have also broadened the class of systems to which these methods are applicable. In a different direction, we have developed structure specific methods to analyze boundedness properties of systems with "stiffening" nonlinearities, as in micro-electromechanical probes. A major advance has been made on difficult output feedback problem with a novel nonlinear observer design, achieving robustness to modeling errors. Explicit necessary and sufficient conditions have been derived for coordinated passivation designs. A new maneuvering design has been developed. Further progress was made in MIMO adaptive control. We now briefly summarize our main results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA419568

Entities

People

  • Petar V. Kokotovic

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Axial Flow Compressors
  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Compressors
  • Control Systems
  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Control Theory
  • Dynamics
  • Electromechanical Devices
  • Engineering
  • Feedback
  • Lyapunov Functions
  • Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • Nonlinear Systems
  • Observers
  • Stiffening
  • Students

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems