Gong-You Tang’s research while affiliated with Ocean University of China and other places

This paper deals with the optimal formation control problem based on model decomposition for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The main contribution of this paper is to integrate the formation control and the trajectory tracking into one unified feedforward control and feedback control framework in an optimal mode. We first establish the dynamic model of the leader-follower UAV formation system, and the communication network topology which only depends on the position information given by the leader. Second, to reduce the complexity of the model, each follower is decomposed into three isolated subsystems. Third, a step-by-step formation controller design scheme decomposed into feedforward control and optimal control of formation control is proposed. Finally, the proposed scheme has been extensively simulated and the results demonstrate the stability and the optimality.

The service life of floating production platforms can be substantially shortened due to undesirable excessive vibrations caused by dynamic loads. It is thus necessary to develop effective vibration reduction methods for floating production platforms. This article proposes a network-based active control approach for a spar-type floating production platform (SP) against wave exciting loads and deception attacks. First, a novel active tuned heave plate (ATHP) mechanism based on the concept of the active tuned mass damper is developed for the SP. Second, in the context of networked control of the SP-ATHP system, an event-triggering transmission mechanism is introduced to significantly improve communication efficiency. Meanwhile, a Bernoulli distribution and a nonlinear function are employed to character possible deception attacks in shared communication channels. Then, by modelling the network-based closed-loop SP-ATHP system as a time-delay stochastic system, its stability and H∞ performance analysis is derived. Besides, some criteria are obtained to co-design the triggering mechanism and the H∞ controller. Finally, simulation studies demonstrate that compared with some existing heave plate mechanisms, the designed event-triggered H∞ controllers under this ATHP mechanism are more effective to suppress heave motions of the platform and save network resources and control expenditure. Furthermore, even though there are deception attacks, the proposed scheme can still guarantee satisfactory system performance.

Vibration damping of jacket platforms is among the significant issues in marine science and engineering, and the design of active vibration control schemes is very important to ensure the stability and safety of the jacket platforms against external loadings. This paper provides three fuzzy output feedback H ∞ controllers of the jacket platforms for irregular wave forces. By considering time-varying masses of jacket platforms, a Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy dynamic model of the structure is established. Then fuzzy output feedback H ∞ control schemes are developed via using output signals of the platform with current and/or are delayed. Several existence conditions of fuzzy output feedback H ∞ controllers are derived. Simulation results demonstrate that the fuzzy output feedback H ∞ control strategies are remarkable to suppress the vibration of structure. Moreover, by choosing proper delayed output information of the system, the presented delayed fuzzy output feedback H ∞ control schemes outperform the conventional fuzzy output feedback H ∞ control approach.

In this article, the fault-tolerant control (FTC) problem of vehicle active suspension is concerned in the discrete-time domain, in which the road disturbances and faults in actuator and measurement are considered. The main contribution consists of proposing an active physically realizable fault-tolerant controller based on a reduced-order observer, which makes up an optimal vibration control component and an event-triggered FTC component. More specifically, by discussing a discrete vehicle active suspension subject to road disturbances generated from the output of a designed exosystem, the optimal vibration control component is derived from maximum principle to offset the inevitable vibrations. Meanwhile, based on the real-time system output of vehicle suspension rather than residual error, a reduced-order observer is proposed to cover the physically unrealizable problem for the designed optimal vibration control component. After that, an event-triggered FTC component and an event-triggered restructured system output are designed to compensate the faults in actuator and measurement, respectively. Finally, extensive experiments are conduced to the control performance of vehicle active suspension under the proposed controller, and confirm its effectiveness and superiority over other control schemes.

In the paper, we study the problem of vibration control for offshore platform in nonideal network environment under wave and current forces based on the modified transformation. We consider the wave and current synchronously and give a dynamical system for the outside loads. The problem of time delay, packet dropouts and disordering due to nonideal network are taken into account. In the networked control model, two buffers output the received packets according to time stamps and upper bound of time delay. Based on a transformation, we reduce the time delay system into an equivalent delay-free system. Taking the nonideal network communication conditions into account, we design a modified transformation based on the past time data, wave and current loads, and received packets through network at current time. The networked controller is presented to depress the vibration of structure in nonideal network communication environment based on the modified transformation. An algorithm is given to simplify the computation of control law by recurrence. The system stability under presented networked controller is analyzed based on Lyapunov functional. Through the simulation results and comparison with other networked controllers, we can see that the presented controller can reduce the oscillation of offshore platform effectively.

This paper investigates the vibration control problem for offshore platform, where the nonlinear characteristics, delayed input and external wave force are considered in time domain. By introducing a delay‐free reconstructional vector and applying the maximum principle, the original vibration problem for offshore platform is formulated as a nonlinear two‐point‐boundary‐value (TPBV) problem with delayed items. The major contribution of this paper is that a performance‐based near‐optimal vibration control strategy is proposed by solving this nonlinear TPBV problem, which includes a feedback item with offshore platform system state, a feedforward item with wave force state, and a compensator for nonlinear and delayed items with infinite supersensitive component. In particular, the designed compensator is calculated from two group series of linear differential equations by introducing a parameter for expending the Maclaurin series of nonlinear and delay items. Meanwhile, an iterative algorithm is designed to make the proposed vibration control scheme computable based on the control performance in each iterative procedure. Finally, experimental results show that the displacement, velocity and performance index of an employed offshore platform achieved small values under the proposed control strategy and designed algorithm.

This paper focuses on the fuzzy guaranteed cost $H\infty$ control problem for uncertain nonlinear vehicle active suspension system with random actuator time delay. Its main contribution to the literature is that a fuzzy guaranteed cost $H\infty$ controller (FGCHC) is proposed to ensure the resulting closed-loop vehicle active suspension system to be asymptotically stable and guarantee the performance index to be less than a preset upper bound. More specifically, taking the varying masses and the uncertainties caused by random actuator delay into consideration, a discrete-time Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model for vehicle active suspension is obtained based on an augmented vector, which is without explicit of random actuator delay. By employing the Lyapunov stability theory and the linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, the existence condition and the design approach for proposed FGCHC are presented. Meanwhile, the computability for proposed FGCHC is guaranteed by solving a corresponding convex optimization problem. By analyzing performance requirements for vehicle active suspension under different simulation scenarios, simulation results demonstrate that the proposed FGCHC can offset the vibration and compensate the varying masses and uncertainties for vehicle active suspension effectively.

This paper is concerned with the problem of delayed proportional-integral control of an offshore platform subject to self-excited nonlinear hydrodynamic force. By using current and distributed delayed states, a delayed proportional-integral controller is designed to stabilize the offshore platform. Under such a controller, the closed-loop system of the offshore platform is modeled as a nonlinear system with discrete and distributed delays, which allows us to employ the Lyapnov–Krasovskii functional method to analyze its asymptotic stability. Since an affine Wirtinger-based inequality is exploited to estimate the derivative of the Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, a new stability criterion for the closed-loop system is derived, based on which, suitable control gains can be designed provided that a set of linear matrix inequalities are feasible. It is found through simulation results that the proposed control scheme can improve the control performance remarkably. Moreover, (i) compared with the existing delay-free controllers, the proposed controller can reduce the required control force and the oscillation amplitudes of the platform significantly; and (ii) compared with several delayed controllers, the proposed controller requires less control cost.

This paper addresses the analysis and synthesis issues of event-triggered offshore steel jacket structures with an active tuned mass damper mechanism. First, to save communication resources, an event-triggered data packet processor (DPP) is proposed such that the transmissions of the sensor data can be regulated over the communication channel. Second, by virtue of the time-delay system approach, a unified closed-loop system model is presented which can well accommodate the simultaneous presence of network-induced delays, nonlinearity and uncertainty in the offshore structure. To further increase resilience, the control law is allowed to possess gain perturbations. Then, via the Lyapunov functional method, criteria for designing a resilient event-based synthesis strategy are derived. Finally, an illustrative example is given to verify that the developed resilient strategy can guarantee the prescribed performance of the offshore structure while alleviating the frequent occupancy of the scarce communication resources.