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Alternate control delayed systems
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2015, Article number: 146 (2015)
Abstract
In the previous paper (Feng et al. in Adv. Differ. Equ. 2014:305, 2014), we have already used sandwich control to control a system. But when we considered the influence of delay, can sandwich control also be applied in the delayed system? In order to answer this question, we first introduce the alternate delayed system, then we study the exponential stability of delayed chaotic neural networks by means of alternate control. Some sufficient conditions are given in terms of a set of linear matrix inequalities to ensure the exponential stability of the system. Numerical simulations are presented to verify the correction of the obtained results.
1 Introduction
Alternate control [1] is a special case of switching control [2] and is a generalization of intermittent control [3, 4]. In an alternate control system, two different controls are applied alternately. So there is not rest time for the control. This system is suitable for the case in which the time is precious.
In [1] Feng et al. studied the alternate control system without delay. They have obtained some conditions in terms of LIMs to ensure the stability of the non-delayed system. For delayed systems [5–8], we know that the methods used are different from the ones without delay. There are many papers about delayed system [9–11]. A delayed system is much more difficult to study than the non-delayed one, we are trying to get some conditions to ensure the stability of the delayed system in the theory of control [12–14].
In this paper, we consider the influence of the delay of the system by means of alternate control, that is to say, we study the delayed system by means of alternate control. First of all, we introduce an alternate delayed system. Then we investigate the stability of it by constructing a Lyapunov function, and we obtain stability conditions in terms of LMIs. Lastly we study the stability of Lu oscillator by using the results obtained in the paper.
2 Problem formulation and preliminaries
Consider a class of delayed nonlinear systems described by
where \(x\in R^{n}\) presents state vector, f and g are continuous nonlinear functions of \(R^{n}\rightarrow R^{n}\) with \(f(0)=g(0)=0\) and there exist two diagonal matrices \(L_{1}=\operatorname{diag}(l_{1}^{(1)},l_{2}^{(1)},\ldots,l_{n}^{(1)})\geq0\) and \(L_{2}=\operatorname{diag}(l_{1}^{(2)},l_{2}^{(2)},\ldots,l_{n}^{(2)})\geq0\) such that \(\|f(x)\|^{2}\leq x^{T}L_{1}x\) and \(\|g(x)\|^{2}\leq x^{T}L_{2}x\) for any \(x\in R^{n}\), \(A\in R^{n\times n}\) is a constant matrix, Ï• is a function of \(R^{n}\rightarrow R^{n}\), \(u(t)\) denotes the external input of system (1).
For stabilizing the origin of system (1) by means of periodically alternate control, we assume that the control imposed on the system is of the following form:
where \(K_{1},K_{2}\in R^{n\times n}\) are constant matrices, \(T>0\) denotes the control period, \(\theta\in(0,T)\) is a constant.
Our target is to design suitable T, θ, \(K_{1}\) and \(K_{2}\) such that system (1) can be stabilized at the origin.
By the control law (2), system (1) can be rewritten as follows with \(m=0,1,2,\ldots\) :
It is obvious that system (3) is a classical switched system where the switching rule only depends on the time. Specifically, the switching rule of system (3) depends on T and θ.
In the sequel, we will use the following definitions and lemmas.
Lemma 1
(Sanchez and Perez [15])
Given any real matrices \(\Sigma_{1}\), \(\Sigma_{2}\), \(\Sigma_{3}\) of appropriate dimensions and a scalar \(\epsilon\geq0\) such that \(0<\Sigma_{3}=\Sigma_{3}^{T}\), the following inequality holds:
Lemma 2
(Boyd et al. [16], Horn and Johnson [17])
The LMI
where \(Q(x)=Q^{T}(x)\), \(R(x)=R^{T}(x)\) and \(S(x)\) depend affinely on x, is equivalent to
Definition 1
The zero solution of (1) is said to be globally exponentially stable if there are two constants \(M(|\phi|)>0\), \(\gamma>0\) such that
where \(|\phi|=\sup_{-\tau\leq t\leq0}\|\phi(t)\|\).
Definition 2
Right-upper Dini’s derivative of a function \(V:R^{+}\times R^{n}\rightarrow R^{+}\) is defined by
Note that \(V(x(t))\) or \(V(x)\) is short for \(V(t,x(t))\).
Lemma 3
(Halany inequality [18])
Assume that \(\tau>0\) and \(\omega:[\mu-\tau,\infty)\rightarrow [0,\infty)\) is a continuous function such that
is satisfied for all \(t\geq\mu\). If \(a>b>0\), then
where \(\overline{\omega}(t)=\sup_{t-\tau\leq\theta\leq t}\omega(\theta)\) and \(\gamma>0\) is the smallest real root of the equation
Lemma 4
([3])
Assume that \(\tau>0\) and \(\omega:[\mu-\tau,\infty)\rightarrow [0,\infty)\) is a continuous function such that
is satisfied for all \(t\geq\mu\). If \(a>0\) and \(b>0\), then
where \(\overline{\omega}(t)=\sup_{t-\tau\leq\theta\leq t}\omega(\theta)\) and \(\eta>0\) is the unique root of the equation
Throughout this paper, we use \(P^{T}\), \(\lambda_{M}(P)\) and \(\lambda_{m}(P)\) to denote the transpose, the maximum eigenvalue and the minimum eigenvalue of a square matrix P, respectively. \(\|x\|\) is used to denote the Euclidean norm of the vector x. The matrix norm \(\|\cdot\|\) is also referred to as the Euclidean norm. We use \(P>0\) (<0, ≤0, ≥0) to denote a symmetrical positive (negative, semi-negative, semi-positive) definite matrix P. \(f(x(t_{1}^{-}))\) is defined by \(f(x(t_{1}^{-}))=\lim_{t\rightarrow t_{1}^{-}}f(x(t))\).
3 Main results
Theorem 1
If \(\theta>\tau\) and there exist a symmetric and positive definite matrix \(P\in R^{n\times n}\), positive scalar constants \(g_{1}>0\), \(g_{2}>0\), \(q_{1}>0\), \(q_{2}>0\), \(\epsilon_{1}>0\), \(\epsilon_{2}>0\), \(\eta_{1}>0\) and \(\eta_{2}>0\) such that the following hold:
-
(1)
\(PA+A^{T}P+PK_{1}+K_{1}^{T}P+(\epsilon_{1}+\eta_{1})P^{2}+\epsilon _{1}^{-1}L_{1}+g_{1}P\leq 0\),
-
(2)
\(PA+A^{T}P+PK_{2}+K_{2}^{T}P+(\epsilon_{2}+\eta_{2})P^{2}+\epsilon _{2}^{-1}L_{1}-g_{2}P\leq0\),
-
(3)
\(\eta_{1}^{-1}L_{2}-q_{1}P\leq0\),
-
(4)
\(\eta_{2}^{-1}L_{2}-q_{2}P\leq0\),
-
(5)
\(g_{1}>q_{1}\) and \(\gamma(\theta-\tau)-\eta(T-\theta+\tau)>0\),
where \(\gamma>0\) is the smallest real root of the equation \(g_{1}-q_{1}\exp(\gamma\tau)=\gamma\) and \(\eta>0\) is the unique root of the equation \(g_{2}+q_{2}\exp(-\eta\tau)=\eta\), then the origin of system (3) is globally exponentially stable, and
where \(|\phi|=\sup_{-\tau\leq t\leq0}\|\phi(t)\|\).
Proof
Let us construct the following Lyapunov function:
from which we obtain that
If \(mT< t\leq mT+\theta\), then by (3), (4) and (5) we have that
which implies that
where \(\gamma>0\) is the smallest real root of the equation \(g_{1}-q_{1}\exp(\gamma\tau)=\gamma\).
Similarly, if \(mT+\theta< t\leq(m+1)T\), then we have that
which implies that
where \(\eta>0\) is the unique root of the equation \(g_{2}+q_{2}\exp(-\eta\tau)=\eta\).
It follows from (7) and (8) that
(1) If \(0< t\leq\theta\), then we have that
So
(2) If \(\theta< t\leq T\), then we have that
So
(3) If \(T< t\leq T+\theta\), then we have that
So
(4) If \(T+\theta< t\leq2T\), then we have that
So
(5) If \(2T< t\leq2T+\theta\), then we have that
So
(6) If \(2T+\theta< t\leq3T\), then we have that
So
By induction, we have that
(7) If \(mT< t\leq mT+\theta\), i.e., \(\frac{t-\theta}{T}< m\leq\frac{t}{T}\), then we have that
(8) If \(mT+\theta< t\leq(m+1)T\), i.e., \(\frac{t}{T}< m+1\leq\frac{t+T-\theta}{T}\), then we have that
From (9) we know that
where \(mT< t\leq mT+\tau\).
From (10) we know that
where \(mT+\tau< t\leq(m+1)T\).
It follows from (11) and (12) that, for any \(t>0\),
By (5), (6) and (13), we conclude that
where \(|\phi|=\sup_{-\tau\leq t\leq0}\|\phi(t)\|\).
So we finish the proof. □
From Lemma 2, we know that the two conditions of Theorem 1 are equivalent to the following two LMIs, respectively:
Corollary 1
If \(\theta>\tau\) and there exist a symmetric and positive definite matrix \(P\in R^{n\times n}\), positive scalar constants \(\epsilon_{1}>0\), \(\epsilon_{2}>0\), \(\eta_{1}>0\), \(\eta_{2}>0\), \(q_{1}>0\), \(q_{2}>0\) and \(\eta>0\) such that the following hold:
-
(1)
\(PA+A^{T}P+PK_{1}+K_{1}^{T}P+(\epsilon_{1}+\eta_{1})P^{2}+\epsilon _{1}^{-1}L_{1}+g_{1}P\leq 0\), where \(g_{1}=\gamma+q_{1}\exp(\gamma\tau)\) and \(\gamma= \frac{\eta(T-\theta+\tau)}{\theta-\tau}+q_{1}\),
-
(2)
\(PA+A^{T}P+PK_{2}+K_{2}^{T}P+(\epsilon_{2}+\eta_{2})P^{2}+\epsilon _{2}^{-1}L_{1}-g_{2}P\leq0\), where \(g_{2}=\eta-q_{2}\exp(-\eta\tau)>0\),
-
(3)
\(\eta_{1}^{-1}L_{2}-q_{1}P\leq0\),
-
(4)
\(\eta_{2}^{-1}L_{2}-q_{2}P\leq0\), then the origin of system (3) is globally exponentially stable, and
$$\bigl\| x(t)\bigr\| < \sqrt{\frac{\lambda_{M}(P)}{ \lambda_{m}(P)}}|\phi|\exp\biggl( -\bigl(\gamma(\theta-\tau)- \eta(T-\theta+\tau)\bigr)\frac{t-\theta}{2T}\biggr), \quad t>0, $$where \(|\phi|=\sup_{-\tau\leq t\leq0}\|\phi(t)\|\).
Proof
In fact, the previous four conditions can imply
and
From condition (1) we know
and
which implies
Thus, the fifth condition of Theorem 1 is valid. So the proof is completed. □
Remark 1
In order to judge the global exponential stability of system (3), Corollary 1 needs to determine the existence of a symmetric and positive definite matrix \(P\in R^{n\times n}\) and seven positive scalar constants \(\epsilon_{1}\), \(\epsilon_{2}\), \(\eta_{1}\), \(\eta_{2}\), \(q_{1}\), \(q_{2}\) and η by the four linear matrix inequalities listed in it, while Theorem 1 has to determine the existence of a symmetric and positive definite matrix \(P\in R^{n\times n}\) and eight positive scalar constants \(\epsilon_{1}\), \(\epsilon_{2}\), \(\eta_{1}\), \(\eta_{2}\), \(q_{1}\), \(q_{2}\), \(g_{1}\) and \(g_{2}\) by the five conditions of it. From this view of point, Corollary 1 is more applicative than Theorem 1.
4 Numerical example
Consider the neural oscillator model described by the following delayed differential equation:
where
and
This model was named Lu oscillator [19] and it is shown to be chaotic as in Figure 1. The time response curves are shown in Figure 2.
It is easy to obtain that
where \(L_{1}= ( {\scriptsize\begin{matrix} 29 & -15.2 \cr -15.2 & 9.01 \end{matrix}} )\).
Similarly, we can get that \(\|g(x(t))\|^{2}\leq x^{T}L_{2}x\), where \(L_{2}= ({\scriptsize\begin{matrix} 2.29 &0.65 \cr 0.65 & 6.26 \end{matrix}} )\).
Next, we will use Theorem 1 to judge the global exponential stability of system (16).
Choosing
with \(T=3\) and \(\theta=1.5\), solving LMIs (14), (15), \(\eta_{1}^{-1}L_{2}-q_{1}P\leq0\), \(\eta_{2}^{-1}L_{2}-q_{2}P\leq0\) and inequalities \(g_{1}>q_{1}\), \(\gamma(\theta-1)-\eta(T-\theta+1)>0\), where \(\gamma>0\) is the smallest real root of the equation \(g_{1}-q_{1}\exp(\gamma)=\gamma\) and \(\eta>0\) is the unique root of the equation \(g_{2}+q_{2}\exp(-\eta)=\eta\), we obtain a feasible solution:
and
Thus by Theorem 1 we obtain that the origin of system (3) is globally exponentially stable. The time response curves of Lu oscillator with alternate control are shown in Figure 3, while Figure 4 shows the corresponding control signal.
In the following, we will apply Corollary 1 to determine the global exponential stability of system (16).
Choosing
with \(T=3\) and \(\theta=1.5\), solving LMIs (14), (15), \(\eta_{1}^{-1}L_{2}-q_{1}P\leq0\) and \(\eta_{2}^{-1}L_{2}-q_{2}P\leq0\), where \(g_{1}=\gamma+q_{1}\exp(\gamma\tau)\) and \(\gamma= \frac{\eta(T-\theta+\tau)}{\theta-\tau}+q_{1}\) and \(g_{2}=\eta-q_{2}\exp(-\eta\tau)>0\), we obtain a feasible solution:
and
Thus by Corollary 1 we obtain that the origin of system (16) is globally exponentially stable. The time response curves of Lu oscillator with alternate control are shown in Figure 5. The control signal is shown in Figure 6.
5 Conclusions
This paper studies the delayed system by using alternate control method. Some conditions to ensure the stability of the system are given in terms of linear matrix inequalities. By the results obtained, the Lu oscillate is controlled.
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Acknowledgements
This research is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 61374078), NPRP Grant No. NPRP 4-1162-1-181 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation), Scientific & Technological Research Foundation of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (Grant Nos. KJ1401006, KJ1401019) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. XDJK2015D004).
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The ideal of alternate control delayed system was proposed by CL and YF. The main theory was proved by YF and DT. The paper was typed by YF and TH and all the figures were provided by TH. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Feng, Y., Tu, D., Li, C. et al. Alternate control delayed systems. Adv Differ Equ 2015, 146 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-015-0484-9
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