This paper presents an impedance control architecture for an electroacoustic absorber combining both a feedforward and feedback microphone-based system on a current driven loudspeaker. Feedforward systems enable good performance for direct impedance control. However, inaccuracies in the required actuator model can lead to a loss of passivity, which can cause unstable behaviors. The feedback contribution allows the absorber to better handle model errors and still achieve an accurate impedance. Numerical and experimental studies were conducted to compare this new architecture against a state-of-the-art feedforward control method.
Robust dynamic interactions are required to move robots in daily environments alongside humans. Optimisation and learning methods have been used to mimic and reproduce human movements. However, they are often not robust and their generalisation is limited. This work proposed a hierarchical control architecture for robot manipulators and provided capabilities of reproducing human-like motions during unknown interaction dynamics. Our results show that the reproduced end-effector trajectories can preserve the main characteristics of the initial human motion recorded via a motion capture system, and are robust against external perturbations. The data indicate that some detailed movements are hard to reproduce due to the physical limits of the hardware that cannot reach the same velocity recorded in human movements. Nevertheless, these technical problems can be addressed by using better hardware and our proposed algorithms can still be applied to produce imitated motions.
We present a framework for systematically combining data of an unknown linear time-invariant system with prior knowledge on the system matrices or on the uncertainty for robust controller design. Our approach leads to linear matrix inequality (LMI) based feasibility criteria which guarantee stability and performance robustly for all closed-loop systems consistent with the prior knowledge and the available data. The design procedures rely on a combination of multipliers inferred via prior knowledge and learnt from measured data, where for the latter a novel and unifying disturbance description is employed. While large parts of the paper focus on linear systems and input-state measurements, we also provide extensions to robust output-feedback design based on noisy input-output data and against nonlinear uncertainties. We illustrate through numerical examples that our approach provides a flexible framework for simultaneously leveraging prior knowledge and data, thereby reducing conservatism and improving performance significantly if compared to black-box approaches to data-driven control.
In this paper, we consider the application of optimal periodic control sequences to switched dynamical systems. The control sequence is obtained using a finite-horizon optimal method based on dynamic programming. We then consider Euler approximate solutions for the system extended with bounded perturbations. The main result gives a simple condition on the perturbed system for guaranteeing the existence of a stable limit cycle of the unperturbed system. An illustrative numerical example is provided which demonstrates the applicability of the method.
We present a robust control framework for time-critical systems in which satisfying real-time constraints is of utmost importance for the safety of the system. Signal Temporal Logic (STL) provides a formal means to express a variety of real-time constraints over signals and is suited for planning and control purposes as it allows us to reason about the time robustness of such constraints. The time robustness of STL particularly quantifies the extent to which timing uncertainties can be tolerated without violating real-time specifications. In this paper, we first pose a control problem in which we aim to find an optimal input sequence to a control system that maximizes the time robustness of an STL constraint. We then propose a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) encoding and provide correctness guarantees and a complexity analysis of the encoding. We also show in two case studies that maximizing STL time robustness allows to account for timing uncertainties of the underlying control system.
Current commercial adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems consist of an upper-level planner controller that decides the optimal trajectory that should be followed, and a low-level controller in charge of sending the gas/brake signals to the mechanical system to actually move the vehicle. We find that the low-level controller has a significant impact on the string stability (SS) even if the planner is string stable: (i) a slow controller deteriorates the SS, (ii) slow controllers are common as they arise from insufficient control gains, from a weak gas/brake system or both, and (iii) the integral term in a slow controller causes undesired overshooting which affects the SS. Accordingly, we suggest tuning up the proportional/feedforward gain and ensuring the gas/brake is not weak. The study results are validated both numerically and empirically with data from commercial cars.
Maxime Volery
,Xinxin Guo
,Herve Lissek
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(2021)
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"Robust direct acoustic impedance control using two microphones for mixed feedforward-feedback controller"
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Maxime Volery
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