Volume 31, Issue 17 pp. 8124-8146
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE

Set-based gain-scheduled control via quasi-convex difference inclusions

Antonio Sala

Corresponding Author

Antonio Sala

Instituto de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

Correspondence Antonio Sala, Instituto de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de València, Cno. Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.

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Carlos Ariño

Carlos Ariño

Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Design, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain

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Ruben Robles

Ruben Robles

Universidad Tecmilenio, Campus Las Torres, Monterrey, Mexico

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First published: 28 September 2020

Summary

A nonlinear system with sector-bounded nonlinearities may be expressed as a quasi-linear parameter-varying (LPV) system (convex combination of linear models), being this a well-known fact. The convex difference inclusion (CDI) modeling framework proposed by Fiacchini and coworkers in several of their works generalizes the quasi-LPV modeling procedure and proposes robust controllers enlarging polytopic domain of attraction estimates. This works further generalizes the CDI approach to a gain-scheduled case including, also, some quasi-convex cases. Controller design is based on convexity properties of two set valued maps describing (with some uncertainty) the state evolution and the state-dependent set where scheduling variables take values. As most set-based approaches, the proposal is tractable in low-dimensional cases. The presented results encompass prior quasi-LPV and CDI models as particular cases.

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