Intelligent Control of Dynamical Processes and Systems

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

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Interests: intelligent control; robotics; image processing; computer vision; control theory; mechatronics; automation and robotics; automation; control and instrumentation

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Dear Colleagues,

Due to the difficulties associated with attempting to control complex processes, higher-order plants and multi-body dynamics with highly nonlinear interconnections, the decentralized control approach may be a good choice in the proposal and design of fault detection and control schemes for these classes of dynamical processes and systems. The decentralized control approach has proven to be a suitable option for some dynamic systems whose mathematical/parametric model is viewed as symmetrical with respect to a coordinate axis or to more than one plane of motion. The decentralized control approach also offers the degree of freedom of to propose a different controller for each of the subsystems that constitute the whole system. It is essential to establish the assumptions related to the dynamical interconnections between such subsystems.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present recent applications and advances pertaining to the decentralized control approach of complex dynamical processes and systems. Potential topics include (but are not limited to) modeling, identification, tracking control, decentralized control, adaptive control, artificial neural network control, fuzzy control, nonlinear control, optimization, reinforcement learning, biological processes, chemical processes, wastewater treatment, renewable energy processes, mobile robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, robotic manipulators, soft robotics, applications and experiments.

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Dr. Francisco Jurado
Prof. Dr. Alma Y. Alanis
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Keywords

  • modeling
  • identification
  • decentralized control
  • nonlinear control
  • intelligent control
  • optimization
  • reinforcement learning
  • robotics
  • biological processes
  • industrial processes
  • applications

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Neural Robust Control for a Mobile Agent Leader–Follower System
by David Rodriguez-Castellanos, Marco Blas-Valdez, Gualberto Solis-Perales and Marco Antonio Perez-Cisneros
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(13), 5374; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14135374 - 21 Jun 2024
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A controller employing a combined new strategy of output feedback linearization and a recurrent high-order neural network (RHONN) adaptive approach for a mobile agent leader–follower system is presented. The controller structure is based on feedback linearization; then, a scheme of lumping uncertainties which [...] Read more.
A controller employing a combined new strategy of output feedback linearization and a recurrent high-order neural network (RHONN) adaptive approach for a mobile agent leader–follower system is presented. The controller structure is based on feedback linearization; then, a scheme of lumping uncertainties which are estimated via the RHONN is incorporated; with this estimate, the controller is able to produce a robust control action for mobile agents so they track a prescribed reference trajectory. Moreover, the nonlinear system part is transformed into a linearizable one; then, a specific function lumps all the nonlinearities, uncertain parameters, and unmodeled dynamics of the system; this overall function is estimated via the RHONN. Thus, both parametric uncertainties and unmodeled dynamics between agents can be compensated via the controller, and, subsequently, follower agents track the reference provided by the leader. The obtained controller is such that the estimation scheme is not based on high-gain controllers. Here, it is underlined that the main contribution consists of designing a nonlinear controller and combining it with an RHONN to estimate the nonlinear uncertainties in the leader–follower system. This control action includes robust features provided by the online recurrence and the nonlinear base of the neural network in which not general but specific parametric disturbances and unmodeled discrepancies are identified or compensated. For this control scheme, only nominal values of the system parameters are required, as well as the velocities of the agents. Numeric simulation of the model and designed tracking control are carried out in which the control law is applied to a two-wheeled differential mobile robot model, obtaining satisfactory results for tracking angular velocities of the wheels. Full article
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