Event-triggered adaptive dynamic programming for decentralized tracking control of input constrained unknown nonlinear interconnected systems.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

This paper addresses decentralized tracking control (DTC) problems for input constrained unknown nonlinear interconnected systems via event-triggered adaptive dynamic programming. To reconstruct the system dynamics, a neural-network-based local observer is established by using local input-output data and the desired trajectories of all other subsystems. By employing a nonquadratic value function, the DTC problem of the input constrained nonlinear interconnected system is transformed into an optimal control problem. By using the observer-critic architecture, the DTC policy is obtained by solving the local Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation through the local critic neural network, whose weights are tuned by the experience replay technique to relax the persistence of excitation condition. Under the event-triggering mechanism, the DTC policy is updated at the event-triggering instants only. Then, the computational resource and the communication bandwidth are saved. The stability of the closed-loop system is guaranteed by implementing event-triggered DTC policy via Lyapunov's direct method. Finally, simulation examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

Authors

  • Qiuye Wu
    School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China. Electronic address: 1112004007@mail2.gdut.edu.cn.
  • Bo Zhao
    State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Derong Liu
    State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Marios M Polycarpou