a procedure for simultaneously stabilizing a collection of single input linear systems using non linear state feedback control abstract this paper considers the problem of simultaneously stabilizing a finite collection of single input linear systems this stabilization is achieved using a single non linear state feedback controller the stability of the resulting closed loop system is established using a collection of quadratic lyapunov functions the main result of this paper is a sufficient condition for simultaneous stabilizability furthermore when this sufficient condition is satisfied the paper gives a formula for constructing the stabilizing feedback control law the paper includes an example in which the stabilization procedure is applied to the stabilization of an f4e fighter aircraft

fuzzy stability criterion of a class of nonlinear systems abstract a fuzzy stability criterion of a class of nonlinear systems is discussed in accordance with the definition of stability in the sense of lyapunov first a sufficient condition that guarantees stability of a fuzzy system is given in terms of lyapunov s direct method two concepts for stability of fuzzy systems are defined locally stable and globally table second a construction procedure for lyapunov functions is presented finally the construction procedure is applied to the fuzzy stability criterion of a class of nonlinear systems that can be approximated by fuzzy systems

design of fuzzy control systems with guaranteed stability abstract this paper addresses the analysis and design of fuzzy control systems the fuzzy systems are represented by a family of local state space models with aggregation the controller is designed by considering each local state feedback controller and a compensating controller the compensating controller is based on the well known variable structure control theory it is shown that this controller guarantees global stability of the closed loop fuzzy system the issues of a state observer for the fuzzy system is also addressed a numerical example and an example of nonlinear system control are given for demonstration of the performance of the method

on the stability of fuzzy systems studies the global asymptotic stability of a class of fuzzy systems it demonstrates the equivalence of stability properties of fuzzy systems and linear time invariant lti switching systems a necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of such systems are given and it is shown that under the sufficient condition a common lyapunov function exists for the lti subsystems a particular case when the system matrices can be simultaneously transformed to normal matrices is shown to correspond to the existence of a common quadratic lyapunov function a constructive procedure to check the possibility of simultaneous transformation to normal matrices is provided

robust design of rule based fuzzy controllers this paper deals with the design of stable and robust rule based fuzzy control systems new expressions to compute indices which provide a measure of the stability and robustness of fuzzy control systems are presented the relation between the modification of the rules and the stability is studied through the so called sensitivity indices the paper presents procedures that make use of these indices to improve the design of fuzzy control systems including the modification of the rules to obtain the global stability of an unstable system with multiple attractors and to improve the dynamic behavior or the robustness of a non linear plant an example with a fuzzy controller for a system with non linear damping and saturation in the actuation is presented to illustrate the design procedure

finite time singularities for the free boundary incompressible euler equations in this paper we prove the existence of smooth initial data for the 2d free boundary incompressible euler equations also known for some particular scenarios as the water wave problem for which the smoothness of the interface breaks down in nite time into a splash singularity or a splat singularity

on the absence of splash singularities in the case of two fluid interfaces we show that splash singularities cannot develop in the case of locally smooth solutions of the two fluid interfaces in two dimensions more precisely we show that the scenario of formation of singularities discovered by castro cordoba fefferman gancedo gomez serrano 6 in the case of the water waves system in which the interface remains locally smooth but self intersects in finite time is completely prevented in the case of two fluid interfaces with positive densities

trajectory stabilization of a model car via fuzzy control abstract this paper deals with trajectory stabilization of a computer simulated model car via fuzzy control stability conditions of fuzzy systems are given in accordance with the definition of stability in the sense of lyapunov first we approximate a computer simulated model car whose dynamics is nonlinear by t s takagi and sugeno fuzzy model fuzzy control rules which guarantee stability of the control system under a condition are derived from the approximated fuzzy model the simulation results show that the fuzzy control rules effectively realize trajectory stabilization of the model car along a given reference trajectory from all initial positions under a condition and the dynamics of the approximated fuzzy model agrees well with that of the model car

finite time analyticity for the two and three dimensional rayleigh taylor instability the rayleigh taylor instability refers to the dynamics of the interface between two ideal irrotational fluids of different densities superposed one over the other and in relative motion the well posedness of this problem is considered for twoand three dimensional flows in the entire space and in the presence of a horizontal bottom in the entire space finite time analyticity of the interface is proven when the initial interface has sufficiently small gradients and is flat at infinity in the presence of a horizontal bottom the initial interface corrugations has also to be small initially but it is not required to vanish at infinity

duchon robert solutions for the rayleigh taylor and muskat problems abstract we construct analytic solutions to the euler equations with an interface between two fluids extending work of duchon and robert we also show that the estimates of duchon and robert yield global analytic solutions to the muskat problem with small initial data

an approach to fuzzy control of nonlinear systems stability and design issues presents a design methodology for stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems first the authors represent a nonlinear plant with a takagi sugeno fuzzy model then a model based fuzzy controller design utilizing the concept of the so called parallel distributed compensation is employed the main idea of the controller design is to derive each control rule so as to compensate each rule of a fuzzy system the design procedure is conceptually simple and natural moreover the stability analysis and control design problems can be reduced to linear matrix inequality lmi problems therefore they can be solved efficiently in practice by convex programming techniques for lmis the design methodology is illustrated by application to the problem of balancing and swing up of an inverted pendulum on a cart

comments on robust stabilization of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems via fuzzy control quadratic stabilizability h sup spl infin control theory and linear matrix inequalities this paper presents stability analysis for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems and a method for designing robust fuzzy controllers to stabilize the uncertain nonlinear systems first a stability condition for takagi and sugeno s fuzzy model is given in terms of lyapunov stability theory next new stability conditions for a generalized class of uncertain systems are derived from robust control techniques such as quadratic stabilization h sup spl infin control theory and linear matrix inequalities the derived stability conditions are used to analyze the stability of takagi and sugeno s fuzzy control systems with uncertainty which can be regarded as a generalized class of uncertain nonlinear systems the design method employs the so called parallel distributed compensation important issues for the stability analysis and design are remarked finally three design examples of fuzzy controllers for stabilizing nonlinear systems and uncertain nonlinear systems are presented

quadratic stability analysis of the takagi sugeno fuzzy model the nonlinear dynamic takagi sugeno fuzzy model with offset terms is analyzed as a perturbed linear system a sufficient criterion for the robust stability of this nominal system against nonlinear perturbations guarantees quadratic stability of the fuzzy model the criterion accepts a convex programming formulation of reduced computational cost compared to the common lyapunov matrix approach parametric robust control techniques suggest synthesis tools for stabilization of the fuzzy system application examples on fuzzy models of nonlinear plants advocate the efficiency of the method the examples demonstrate reduced conservatism compared to norm based criteria

upper bounds for q ary covering codes new methods for constructing q ary covering codes are presented the author introduces the concepts of p seminormal and strongly p seminormal codes and shows how seminormal codes and punctured hamming codes can be combined to construct new covering codes using these methods upper bounds for ternary covering codes are improved the new bounds are k sub 3

structure identification of fuzzy model abstract the problems of structure identification of a fuzzy model are formulated a criterion for the verification of a structure is discussed using the criterion an algorithm for identifying a structure is suggested further a successive identification algorithm of the parameters is suggested the proposed methods are applied to an example

finite time analyticity for the two and three dimensional kelvin helmholtz instability the well posed property for the finite time vortex sheet problem with analytic initial data was first conjectured by birkhoff in two dimensions and is shown here to hold both in two and three dimensions incompressible inviscid and irrotational flow with a velocity jump across an interface is assumed in two dimensions global existence of a weak solution to the euler equation with such initial conditions is established in three dimensions a lagrangian representation of the vortex sheet analogous to the birkhoff equation in two dimensions is presented

stability analysis and design of fuzzy control systems abstract the stability analysis and the design technique of fuzzy control systems using fuzzy block diagrams are discussed first we show the concept of fuzzy blocks and consider the connection problems of fuzzy blocks diagrams we derive some theorems and corollaries with respect to two basic types of connections of fuzzy blocks in order to preserve some properties in a connection of fuzzy blocks continuous piecewise polynomial membership functions are defined secondly a sufficient condition which guarantees the stability of fuzzy systems is obtained in terms of lyapunov s direct method we give an important fact based on this condition thirdly we propose a new design technique of a fuzzy controller the fuzzy block diagrams and the stability analysis are applied to the design problems of a model based fuzzy controller

stability analysis and stabilization of fuzzy state space models abstract a new stability test method for linguistic fuzzy state space models is proposed in this paper this method allows the determination of stability of fuzzy models by applying the lyapunov function to each rule a gradient based algorithm is suggested to simplify the stability tests using this algorithm the lyapunov equation can be updated towards the direction where the stability can be determined more correctly an additional gradient based stabilizing algorithm is also derived which allows a systematic approach to find stabilizing controls by updating the lyapunov equations towards the direction where unstable eigenvalues are decreased examples demonstrate the convenience of the stability test and the two suggested gradient based algorithms

existence and uniqueness of analytic solution for rayleigh taylor problem abstract we study the initial value problem for the classical rayleigh taylor problem if the initial data are analytic in disk r r containing the unit disk it is proved that unique solution which is analytic in r s for s 1 r exists locally in time the analysis is based on a nirenberg theorem on abstract cauchy kowalewski problem in properly chosen banach spaces

control laws for takagi sugeno fuzzy models abstract this work presents control laws for fuzzy models of takagi sugeno ts sugeno and kang fuzzy sets and systems 28 1988 15 33 takagi and sugeno ieee trans systems man cybernet 15 1 1985 116 132 these laws are not directly put in the classical form called pdc for parallel distributed compensation wang et al ieee trans fuzzy systems 4 1 1996 14 23 on a particular family of ts fuzzy models the approach allows to reduce the conservatism of results found in the literature tanaka et al ieee trans fuzzy systems 6 2 1998 1 16 this approach utilizes the state space representation according to that remark observers are also considered and a separation principle is also given though results are provided mainly for the continuous case they are also provided for the discrete case an example in both cases illustrates the results obtained

a stability criterion for two fluid interfaces and applications we derive a new stability criterion for two fluid interfaces that ensures the existence of stable local solutions that do not break down too fast due to kelvin helmholtz instabilities it can be seen both as a two fluid generalization of the rayleigh taylor criterion and as a nonlinear version of the kelvin stability condition we show that gravity can control the inertial effects of the shear up to frequencies that are high enough for the surface tension to play a relevant role this explains why surface tension is a necessary condition for well posedness while the low frequency main dynamics of interfacial waves are unaffected by it in order to derive a practical version of this criterion we work with a nondimensionalized version of the equations and allow for the possibility of various asymptotic regimes such as the shallow water limit this limit being singular we have to derive a new symbolic analysis of the dirichlet neumann operator that includes an infinitely smoothing tail accounting for the contribution of the bottom we then validate our criterion by comparison with experimental data in two important settings air water interfaces and internal waves the good agreement we observe allows us to discuss the scenario of wave breaking and the behavior of water brine interfaces and to propose a formula for the maximal amplitude of interfacial waves we also show how to rigorously justify two fluid asymptotic models used for applications and how to relate some of their properties to kelvin helmholtz instabilities