Probabilistic analysis and control of dynamic systems with uncertain parameters over non-hypercube domain

in Journal Process Control (2014), 22(4), 358-367

Generalised polynomial chaos expansion provides a computationally efficient way of quantifying the influence of stochastic parametric uncertainty on the states and outputs of a system. In this study, a ... [more ▼]

Generalised polynomial chaos expansion provides a computationally efficient way of quantifying the influence of stochastic parametric uncertainty on the states and outputs of a system. In this study, a polynomial chaos-based method was proposed for an analysis and design of control systems with para-metric uncertainty over a non-hypercube support domain. In the proposed method, the polynomial chaosfor the hypercube domain was extended to non-hypercube domains through proper parameterizationto transform the non-hypercube domains to hypercube domains. Based on the proposed polynomialchaos framework, a constrained optimization problem minimizing the mean under the maximum allow-able variance was formulated for a robust controller design of dynamic systems with the parametricuncertainties of the non-hypercube domain. Several numerical examples ranging from integer to frac-tional order systems were considered to validate the proposed method. The proposed method providedsuperior control performance by avoiding the over-bounds from a hypercube assumption in a compu-tationally efficient manner. From the simulation examples, the computation time by gPC analysis was approximately 10–100 times lower than the traditional approach. [less ▲]