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    Extremum seeking control of cascaded Raman optical amplifiers
    Dower, PM ; Farrell, PM ; Nesic, D (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2008-05-01)
    This paper considers the control of a particular type of optical amplifier that finds application in long-haul wavelength division multiplexed optical communications systems. The objective of this consideration is to demonstrate an application of extremum seeking to the regulation of amplifier output signal power across a range of signal wavelengths, where limited control authority is available. Although such amplifiers are nonlinear and distributed parameter devices, an extremum seeking design is demonstrated to be a promising approach for achieving the stated amplifier control objectives.
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    Analysis of input-to-state stability for discrete time nonlinear systems via dynamic programming
    Huang, SD ; James, MR ; Nesic, D ; Dower, PM (Elsevier, 2005-12-01)
    The input-to-state stability (ISS) property for systems with disturbances has received considerable attention over the past decade or so, with many applications and characterizations reported in the literature. The main purpose of this paper is to present analysis results for ISS that utilize dynamic programming techniques to characterize minimal ISS gains and transient bounds. These characterizations naturally lead to computable necessary and sufficient conditions for ISS. Our results make a connection between ISS and optimization problems in nonlinear dissipative systems theory (including L2-gain analysis and nonlinear H∞ theory). As such, the results presented address an obvious gap in the literature.
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    A unified approach to controller design for achieving ISS and related properties
    Huang, SD ; James, MR ; Nesic, D ; Dower, PM (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2005-11-01)
    A unified approach to the design of controllers achieving various specified input-to-state stability (ISS) like properties is presented. Both full state and measurement feedback cases are considered. Synthesis procedures based on dynamic programming are given using the recently developed results on controller synthesis to achieve uniform l/sup /spl infin// bound. Our results provide a link between the ISS literature and the nonlinear H/sup /spl infin// design literature.
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    A note on input-to-state stability and averaging of systems with inputs
    Nesic, D ; Dower, PM (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2001-11)
    Two different definitions of an average for time-varying systems with inputs and a small parameter that were recently introduction in the literature are considered: "strong" and "weak" averages. It is shown that if the strong average is input-to-state stable (ISS), then the solutions of the actual system satisfy an integral bound in a semiglobal practical sense. The integral bound that we prove can be viewed as a generalization of the notion of finite-gain L2 stability, that was recently introduced in the literature. A similar result is proved for weak averages but the class of inputs for which the integral bound holds is smaller (Lipschitz inputs) than in the case of strong averages (measurable inputs).
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    Optimization Methods on Riemannian Manifolds via Extremum Seeking Algorithms
    TARINGOO, F ; Dower, PM ; Nesic, D ; Tan, Y (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2018)
    This paper formulates the problem of extremum seeking for optimization of cost function defined on Riemannian manifolds. We extend the conventional extremum seeking algorithms for optimization problems in Euclidean spaces to optimization of cost functions defined on smooth Riemannian manifolds. This problem falls within the category of online optimization methods. We introduce the notion of geodesic dithers, which is a perturbation of the optimizing trajectory in the tangent bundle of the ambient state manifolds, and obtain the extremum seeking closed loop as a perturbation of the averaged gradient system. The main results are obtained by applying closeness of solutions and averaging theory on Riemannian manifolds. The main results are further extended for optimization on Lie groups. Numerical examples on the Stiefel manifold V3;2 and the Lie group SEp3q are presented at the end of the paper.
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    L-p stability of networked control systems implemented on WirelessHART
    Maass, AI ; Nesic, D ; Postoyan, R ; Dower, PM (Elsevier, 2019-11-01)
    This paper provides results on input–output Lp stability of networked control systems (NCSs) implemented over WirelessHART (WH). WH is a communication protocol widely used in process instrumentation. It is mainly characterised by its multi-hop structure, slotted communication cycles, and the possibility to simultaneously transmit over different frequencies. We propose a non-linear hybrid model of WH–NCSs that is able to capture these network functionalities, and that it is more general than existing models in the literature. Particularly, the multi-hop nature of the network is translated into an interesting mathematical structure in our model. We then follow the emulation approach to stabilise the NCS. We first assume that we know a stabilising controller for the plant without the network. We subsequently show that, under reasonable assumptions on the scheduling protocol, stability is preserved when the controller is implemented over the network with sufficiently frequent data transmission. Specifically, we provide bounds on the maximum allowable transmission interval (MATI) under which all protocols that satisfy the property of being persistently exciting (PE) lead to Lp stable WH–NCSs. These bounds exploit the mathematical structure of our WH–NCS model, improving the existing bounds in the literature. Additionally, we explain how to schedule transmissions over the hops to satisfy the PE property. In particular, we show how simultaneous transmissions over different frequency channels can be exploited to further enlarge the MATI bound.