A feedback interconnection consisting of two nonlinear systems is shown to be input-output stable when a “mixed” small gain and passivity assumption is placed on each of the systems. The “mixed” small gain and passivity property captures the well-known notions of passivity and small gain associated with systems: the property can be appropriately reduced to an input and output strictly passive s...

In this article, our objective is to develop novel passivity-based control techniques by introducing a new passivity concept named Krasovskii passivity . As preliminary step, we investigate the properties of Krasovskii passive systems and establish relations among four relevant concepts includi...

This paper addresses the problem of time-varying communication delay in force reflecting bilateral teleoperation. The problem is motivated by the increasing use of the Internet as a communication medium where the time delay varies depending on factors such as congestion, bandwidth, or distance. The well-known scattering formalism introduced in (Anderson and Spong, 1989) preserves passivity of t...

This report covers open-loop conditions that guarantee closed-loop stability of a feedback interconnection of two systems. The traditional solutions for this problem are passivity theory and the small gain theorem. These approaches can be shown to be part of a larger design framework. Two such larger frameworks are the conic systems framework and the passivity index framework. This report shows...

In bilateral telemanipulation algorithms based on enforcing time-domain passivity, internal friction in the devices poses an additional energy drain. This can severely decrease the obtainable transparency of these algorithms when high amounts of friction are present in the slave device. Based on a model of the friction, the dissipated energy can be estimated and reclaimed inside the energy bala...

This presentation focuses on passivity-based control methods for hybrid systems. This includes a summary of previous definitions of passivity and dissipativity for switched systems. This framework allows for the generalization of passivity index theory to this important class of hybrid systems. It is a method of quantifying the level of passivity of a given system and is closely related to coni...

This paper proposes a design method for a robust controller to improve the stability and system dynamic behavior for variable speed wind energy conversion systems. By analyzing the mathematical model of a wind power conversion system, control strategies for both a generator-side converter and a grid-side converter are given. For the generator-side converter, the well-known maximum power point t...

This chapter provides a practical strategy to realize accurate and robust control for 6 DOFs (degrees of freedom) parallel robots. The presented approach consists in two parts. The first basic part is based on the the compensation of the desired dynamics in combination with controller/observer for the single actuators. The passivity formalism offers an excellent framework to design and to tune ...

In this paper, adaptive NN control is proposed for bilateral teleoperation system with dynamic uncertainties, unknown external disturbances, and unsymmetrical stochastic delays in communication channel to achieve transparency and robust stability. Compared with previous passivity-based teleoperation framework, the communication delays are unsymmetrical and stochastic. By partial feedback linear...