A time-scaling technique for time-delay switched systems

Linna Li; Changjun Yu; Ning Zhang; Yanqin Bai; Zhiyuan Gao

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2020108

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2020, Volume 13, Issue 6: 1825-1843. Doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020108

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A time-scaling technique for time-delay switched systems

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Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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Mechatronics Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

^* Corresponding author: Changjun Yu
^* Corresponding author: Changjun Yu

Received: May 2018

Revised: August 2018

Published: April 2020

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC grant number 11871039, 11771275)

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In this paper, we consider a class of optimal control problems governed by nonlinear time-delay switched systems, in which the system parameters and switching times between different subsystems are decision variables to be optimized. We propose a new computational approach to deal with the computational difficulties caused by variable switching times. The original time-delay switched system is firstly transformed into an equivalent switched system defined on a new time horizon where the switching times are fixed, but each of the subsystems contain a variable time-delay that depends on the durations of each sub-system in the original system. By deriving the analytical form for the variable time-delay in the new time horizon, we can solve the new time-delay switched system. Then, gradient-based optimization algorithm can be applied to solve the equivalent problem efficiently. Numerical results show that this new approach is effective.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 58F15, 58F17; Secondary: 53C35.

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Figure 1. The relationship between $ (s, \mu(s|\mathit{\boldsymbol{\sigma}})) $ and $ (\omega(s|\mathit{\boldsymbol{\sigma}}), \mu(s|\mathit{\boldsymbol{\sigma}})-h) $. Note that $ \mu(s|\mathit{\boldsymbol{\sigma}}) $ is a piecewise linear function

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Figure 2. The relationship between $ (s, t) $ and $ (\omega(s), \mu(\omega(s))) $

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Figure 3. A demonstration for two scenarios of $ \sigma_{\lfloor s\rfloor +1} $

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Figure 4. Optimal state trajectory for Problem 1 for $ \sigma_i\in[0, 1) $

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Figure 5. Optimal state trajectory for Problem 2

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Figure 6. Optimal control $ \xi_1, \xi_2, \xi_3, \xi_4 $ for Problem 2

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Table 1. Optimal cost if the interval of $ \sigma_i $ is different

the interval of $ \sigma_i $	$ \tilde{{G}}^*_{0}(s, \mathit{\boldsymbol{\sigma}}) $	the optimal $ \mathit{\boldsymbol{\sigma}} $
$ \sigma_i\in[0, 1] $	$ 3.9855\times 10^{-3} $	$ \mathit{\boldsymbol{\sigma}}^\star=(0.000, 0.46836125, 0.53163875) $
$ \sigma_i\in[0.001, 1) $	$ 4.0432\times 10^{-3} $	$ \mathit{\boldsymbol{\sigma}}^\star=(0.001, 0.46779421, 0.53120579) $
$ \sigma_i\in[0.01, 1) $	$ 4.5411\times 10^{-3} $	$ \mathit{\boldsymbol{\sigma}}^\star=(0.010, 0.46257412, 0.52742588) $

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