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. 2017 Jan 31;2017(1):29. doi: 10.1186/s13660-017-1302-6

The convergence analysis of P-type iterative learning control with initial state error for some fractional system

Xianghu Liu 1,2,, Yanfang Li 2
PMCID: PMC5285440  PMID: 28216984

Abstract

In this paper, the convergence of iterative learning control with initial state error for some fractional equation is studied. According to the Laplace transform and the M-L function, the concept of mild solutions is showed. The sufficient conditions of convergence for the open and closed P-type iterative learning control are obtained. Some examples are given to illustrate our main results.

Keywords: Caputo fractional derivative, iterative learning control, convergence, Mittag-Leffler function

Introduction

In this paper, we will analysis the convergence of iterative learning control initial state error of the following fractional system:

{Dtαcx(t)=Ax(t)+Bu(t),tJ=[0,b],x(0)=x0,y(t)=Cx(t), 1

where Dtαc denotes the Caputo fractional derivative of order α, 0<α<1. A,B,CRn×n, u(t) is a control vector.

Iterative learning control (ILC) was shown by Uchiyama in 1978 (in Japanese), but only few people noticed it, Arimoto et al. developed the ILC idea and studied the effective algorithm until 1984, they made it to be the iterative learning control theory, more and more people paid attention to it.

The fractional calculus and fractional difference equations have attracted lots of authors during in the past years, they published some outstanding work [112], because they described many phenomena in engineering, physics, science, and controllability. The work of fractional order systems in iterative learning control appeared in 2001, and extensive attention has been paid to this field and great progress has been made in the following 15 years [1319], many fractional nonlinear systems were researched [2023]. To our knowledge, it has not been studied very extensively. In the study of iterative control theory, assume that the initial state of each run is on the desired trajectory, however, the actual operation often causes some error from the iterative initial state to the desired trajectory, so we consider the system (1) and study the convergence of the learning law.

Motivated by the above mentioned works, the rest of this paper is organized as follows: In Section 2, we will show some definitions and preliminaries which will be used in the following parts. In Sections 3 and 4, we give some results for P-type ILC for some fractional system. In Section 5, some simulation examples are given to illustrate our main results.

In this paper, the norm for the n-dimensional vector w=(w1,w2,,wn) is defined as w=max1in|wi|, and the λ-norm is defined as xλ=supt[0,T]{eλt|x(t)|}, λ>0.

Some preliminaries for some fractional system

In this section, we will give some definitions and preliminaries which will be used in the paper, for more information, one can see [14].

Definition 2.1

The integral

Itαf(t)=1Γ(α)0t(ts)α1f(s)ds,α>0,

is called the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of order α, where Γ is the gamma function.

For a function f(t) given in the interval [0,), the expression

DtαLf(t)=1Γ(nα)(ddt)n0t(ts)nα1f(s)dt,

where n=[α]+1, [α] denotes the integer part of number α, is called the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order α>0.

Definition 2.2

Caputo’s derivative for a function f:[0,)R can be written as

Dtαcf(t)=LDtα[f(t)k=0n1tkk!f(k)(0)],n=[α]+1,

where [α] denotes the integer part of real number α.

Definition 2.3

The definition of the two-parameter function of the Mittag-Leffler type is described by

Eα,β(z)=k=0zkΓ(αk+β),α>0,β>0,zC,

if β=1, we get the Mittag-Leffler function of one parameter,

Eα(z)=k=0zkΓ(αk+1).

Now, according to [2429], we shall give the following lemma.

Lemma 2.4

The general solution of equation (1) is given by

x(t)=Sα,1(A,t)x0+0tSα,α(A,ts)Bu(s)ds,Sα,β(A,t)=k=0Aktαk+β1Γ(αk+β). 2

Lemma 2.5

From Definition 2.4 in [30], we know that the operators Sα,1(t), Sα,α(t), Sα,α1(t) are exponentially bounded, there is a constant C0=1α, C1=1αA1αα, C2=1αA2αα, eα(t)=eA1αt, M=eα(b),

Sα,1(A,t)C0eα(t),Sα,α(A,t)C1eα(t). 3

Open and closed-loop case

In this section, we consider the following fractional equation: k=0,1,2,3, ,

{Dtαcxk(t)=Axk(t)+Buk(t),tJ=[0,b],yk(t)=Cxk(t). 4

For equation (4), we apply the following open and closed-loop P-type ILC algorithm, t[0,b]:

uk+1(t)=uk(t)+L1ek(t)+L2ek+1(t), 5

where L1, L2 are the parameters which will be determined, ek=yd(t)yk(t), yd(t) are the given functions. The initial state of each iterative learning is

xk+1(0)=xk(0)+BL1ek(t). 6

We make the following assumptions:

  1. 1λ1C1MCL2B>0,

  2. ICSα,1(A,t)BL1+λ1C1MCL1B1λ1C1MCL2B<1.

Theorem 3.1

Assume that the open and closed-loop P-type ILC algorithm (5) is used, (H1) and (H2) hold, let yk() be the output of equation (4), if the initial state of each iterative learning satisfy (6), limkekλ=0, tJ.

Proof

According to (2), (5), and (6), we know

xk+1(t)=Sα,1(A,t)xk+1(0)+0tSα,α(A,ts)Buk+1(s)ds=Sα,1(A,t)(xk(0)+BL1ek(t))+0tSα,α(A,ts)B(uk(s)+L1ek(s)+L2ek+1(s))ds=xk(t)+Sα,1(A,t)BL1ek(t)+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL1ek(s)ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL2ek+1(s)ds,

so the (k+1)th iterative error is

ek+1(t)=yd(t)Cxk+1(t)=yd(t)C(xk(t)+Sα,1(A,t)BL1ek(t)+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL1ek(s)ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL2ek+1(s)ds)=ek(t)C(Sα,1(A,t)BL1ek(t)+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL1ek(s)ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL2ek+1(s)ds)=(ICSα,1(A,t)BL1)ek(t)C0tSα,α(A,ts)BL1ek(s)dsC0tSα,α(A,ts)BL2ek+1(s)ds; 7

take the norm of (7),

ek+1(t)ICSα,1(A,t)BL1ek(t)+C0tC1eα(s)BL1ek(s)ds+C0tC1eα(s)BL2ek+1(s)ds, 8

take the λ-norm of (8),

ek+1λICSα,1(A,t)BL1ekλ+supt[0,T]eλtCC1BL10teα(s)ek(s)ds+supt[0,T]eλtC0tC1eα(s)BL2ek+1(s)dsICSα,1(A,t)BL1ekλ+supt[0,T]eλtCC1BL10teα(s)eλsdsekλ+supt[0,T]eλtC0tC1eα(s)BL2eλsdsek+1λ, 9

if 1λ1C1MCL2B>0,

ek+1λICSα,1(A,t)BL1+λ1C1MCL1B1λ1C1MCL2Bekλ, 10

let ICSα,1(A,t)BL1+λ1C1L1MCB1λ1C1L2MCB<1, (10) is a contraction mapping, and it follows from the contraction mapping that limkekλ=0, tJ. This completes the proof. □

Theorem 3.1 implied that the tracking error ek(t) depends on C and xk(t), it is also observed for (9) that the boundedness of the parameters C, B, L0, L1 implies the boundedness of the ekλ, so Theorem 3.1 indirectly indicated that the output error also depend on ICSα,1(A,t)BL1+λ1C1MCL1B1λ1C1MCL2B. From the result, we can do a more in-depth discussion.

Corollary 3.2

Suppose that all conditions are the same with Theorem  3.1, limkekλ=0, then

lnC1ML1+C1ML2λC0L1A1α<t<b.

Proof

From Theorem 3.1, the important condition is ICSα,1(A,t)BL1+λ1C1MCL1B1λ1C1MCL2B<1, which implies that

1C0eα(t)CL1B+λ1C1MCL1B1λ1C1MCL2B,

we can get

lnC1ML1+C1ML2λC0L1A1α<t<b.

 □

P-type ILC for some fractional system with random disturbance

In this section, we consider the following fractional equation: k=0,1,2,3, ,

{Dtαcxk(t)=Axk(t)+Buk(t)+ωk(t),tJ=[0,b],yk(t)=Cxk(t)+νk(t), 11

where ωk(t), νk(t) are the random disturbance.

Firstly, we will make some assumptions to be satisfied on the data of our problem:

  • (H3):

    ωkλε1, νkλε2 for some positive constants ε1, ε2,

  • (H4):

    ρ1=I+CSα,1(A,t)L2Bλ1C1CL2BM>0, ρ2=ICSα,1(A,t)L1B+λ1C1CL1BM.

For equation (11), we choose the following open and closed-loop P-type ILC algorithm, t[0,b]:

uk+1(t)=uk(t)+L1ek(t)+L2ek+1(t), 12

where L1, L2 are the parameters which will be determined, ek=yd(t)yk(t), yd(t) are the given functions.

Assume that the initial state of each iterative learning is (13), where L1, L2 are the parameters which will be determined. We have

xk+1(0)=xk(0)+BL1ek(t)+BL2ek+1(t). 13

Theorem 4.1

Assume that the hypotheses (H3), (H4) are satisfied, let yk() be the output of equation (2), if ε10 and ε20, ρ1>ρ2, the open and closed-loop P-type ILC (12) guarantees that limkekλ=0, tJ.

Proof

According to (2) and assumptions (H2), (H3), we know

xk+1(t)=Sα,1(A,t)xk+1(0)+0tSα,α(A,ts)(Buk+1(s)+ωk+1(s))ds=Sα,1(A,t)(xk(0)+BL1ek(t)+BL2ek+1(t))+0tSα,α(A,ts)B(uk(s)+L1ek(s)+L2ek+1(s))ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)ωk+1(s)ds=xk(t)+Sα,1(A,t)BL1ek(t)+Sα,1(A,t)BL2ek+1(t)+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL1ek(s)ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL2ek+1(s)ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)ωk+1(s)ds,

the (k+1)th iterative error is

ek+1(t)=yd(t)Cxk+1(t)νk+1(t)=yd(t)C(xk(t)+Sα,1(A,t)BL1ek(t)+Sα,1(A,t)BL2ek+1(t)+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL1ek(s)ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL2ek+1(s)ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)ωk+1(s)ds)νk+1(t)=ek(t)C(Sα,1(A,t)BL1ek(t)+Sα,1(A,t)BL2ek+1(t)+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL1ek(s)ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)BL2ek+1(s)ds+0tSα,α(A,ts)ωk+1(s)ds)νk+1(t)=(ICSα,1(A,t)BL1)ek(t)CSα,1(A,t)BL2ek+1(t)C0tSα,α(A,ts)BL1ek(s)dsC0tSα,α(A,ts)BL2ek+1(s)dsC0tSα,α(A,ts)ωk+1(s)dsνk+1(t). 14

Taking the norm of (14), it is easy to obtain

I+CSα,1(A,t)L2Bek+1(t)ICSα,1(A,t)L1Bek(t)+C0tC1eα(s)L1Bek(s)ds+C0tC1eα(s)L2Bek+1(s)ds+C0tC1eα(s)ωk+1(s)ds+νk+1(t), 15

once more using the λ-norm, we have

I+CSα,1(A,t)L2Bek+1λICSα,1(A,t)L1Bekλ+supt[0,T]eλtC1CBL10teα(s)eλsdsekλ+supt[0,T]eλtC1CL2B0teα(s)eλsdsek+1λ+supt[0,T]eλtC1C0teα(s)eλsdsωk+1λ+supt[0,T]eλtνk+1(t),

invoking (H3) and (H4), if ε=λ1C1ε1MC+ε2,

ρ1ek+1λρ2ekλ+ε, 16

which implies that

ekλερ1ρ2,

if ε10 and ε20, ε0, thus limkekλ=0, tJ, and this completes the proof. □

From Theorem 4.1, on the one hand, the random disturbance makes some impact on the system (11), ε10 and ε20 imply the impact is very small; on the other hand, ρ1>ρ2, for this condition, we illustrate the following corollary.

Corollary 4.2

Suppose that all conditions are the same as Theorem  4.1, limkek(t)λ=0, then t satisfies

ln|C1MλC0|A1α<t<ln|1λ1C1CL2BMCL2B|A1α.

Proof

According to (H4), I+CSα,1(A,t)L2Bλ1C1CL2BM>0, then

t<ln|1λ1C1CL2BMCL2B|A1α.

From Theorem 4.1, we know that ε10 and ε20, and the condition is

ρ2ρ1=ICSα,1(A,t)L1B+λ1C1CL1BMI+CSα,1(A,t)L2Bλ1C1CL2BM<1,

which yields ln|C1MλC0|A1α<t. At last, we obtain the estimate

ln|C1MλC0|A1α<t<ln|1λ1C1CL2BMCL2B|A1α.

 □

Simulations

In this section, we will give two simulation examples to demonstrate the validity of the algorithms.

P-type ILC with initial state error

{Dt0.5cxk(t)=xk(t)+0.2uk(t),tJ=[0,1.8],x(0)=0.5,yk(t)=xk(t), 17

with the iterative learning control and initial state error

{uk+1(t)=uk(t)+0.5ek(t)+0.5ek+1(t),xk+1(0)=xk(0)+0.1ek(t). 18

We set the initial control u0()=0, yd(t)=3t2(15t), t(0,1.8), and set α=0.5, A=1, B=0.2, C=0.5, λ=2, L1=L2=0.5, and C0=2, C1=2, λA1α=1>0, M6>0, 1λ1C1MCL2B0.7>0, ICSα,1(A,t)BL1+λ1C1MCL1B1λ1C1MCL2B0.50.7<1, all conditions of Theorem 3.1 are satisfied.

The simulation result can be seen from Figure 1 and Figure 2, for the open and closed-loop P-type ILC system (17), with the increase of the number of iterations, it can track the desired trajectory gradually by using the algorithm. We do not use the single iteration rate to get the result, because in the late of the iteration, the output of the system may jump around the desired trajectory, so we adopt a correction method, that is, when e(k)>0, u(k)=u(k)0.5×e(k) or e(k)<0, u(k)=u(k)+0.5×e(k), k is the number of iteration, the result approaches the desired trajectory stably and quickly, from Figure 2, the tracking error tends to zero at the 15th iteration, so the iterative learning control is feasible and the efficiency is high.

Figure 1.

Figure 1

denotes the desired trajectory, — denotes the output of the system.

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Number of iterations and tracking error.

P-type ILC with random disturbance

Consider the following P-type ILC system:

{Dt0.5cxk(t)=xk(t)+0.2uk(t)+1015t,tJ=[0,1.8],x(0)=0.5,yk(t)=0.5xk(t)+1010t2, 19

with the iterative learning control and initial state error

{uk+1(t)=uk(t)+ek(t)+0.5ek+1(t),xk+1(0)=xk(0)+0.2ek(t)+0.1ek+1(t). 20

We set the initial control u0()=0, yd(t)=5t2t, t(0,1.8), and set α=0.5, A=1, B=0.2, C=1, λ=2, L1=1, L2=0.5, and C0=2, C1=2, ρ11.65, ρ20.65, ε1=10150, ε2=10100, all conditions of Theorem 4.1 are satisfied. We also use a correction method, that is, when e(k)>0, u(k)=u(k)m×e(k) or e(k)<0, u(k)=u(k)+m×e(k), k is the number of iterations, m is the parameter, we set m=0.5,0.7,1, and the output of the system is shown in Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5. The symbol ∗∗∗ denotes the desired trajectory, — denotes the output of the system, the tracking error is shown in Figure 6, Figure 7, Figure 8, which imply the number of iteration and the tracking error.

Figure 3.

Figure 3

denotes the desired trajectory, — denotes the output of the system.

Figure 4.

Figure 4

denotes the desired trajectory, — denotes the output of the system.

Figure 5.

Figure 5

denotes the desired trajectory, — denotes the output of the system.

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Number of iterations and tracking error.

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Number of iterations and tracking error.

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Number of iterations and tracking error.

From Figures 3-8 and Table 1, we find the tracking error tends to zero within 7 iterations, so the output of the system can track the desired trajectory almost perfectly. By comparing three cases, when m=1, the iteration number is only 2, and the tracking error is 0.0001, thus the tracking performance is best and improved over the iteration domain.

Table 1.

The iteration number and the tracking error and the running time table

m The number of iterations The tracking error Run time (second)
0.5 7 0.002 58.207
0.7 5 0.0013 50.123
1 2 0.0001 24.844

Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the Zunyi Normal College Doctoral Scientific Research Fund BS[2014]19, BS[2015]09, Guizhou Province Mutual Fund LH[2015]7002, Guizhou Province Department of Education Fund KY [2015]391, [2016]046, Guizhou Province Department of Education teaching reform project [2015]337, Guizhou Province Science and technology fund (qian ke he ji chu) [2016]1160, [2016]1161, Zunyi Science and technology talents [2016]15.

Footnotes

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors’ contributions

The authors contributed equally to this work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Contributor Information

Xianghu Liu, Email: liouxianghu04@126.com.

Yanfang Li, Email: liyanfang998@126.com.

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