The Schedule

Session 16: System Modelling Using Fractional Calculus

Dr. Utkal Mehta, Associate Professor, TUSP Fiji

Session 17: Structural Observability Conditions and Robust Observer Design for Switched Systems

Dr. Manuel Mera Hernández, Associate Professor, IPN Mexico

Session 18: Cooperative Control of DC Microgrids

Dr. Sowmya Ranjan Sahoo, Associate Professor, IIT Kanpur

Session 19: Adaptive Switched Systems with Application in Networked Systems

Dr. Simone Baldi, Professor, TU Delft, The Netherlands

About his Talk: Switched systems are a special class of hybrid systems that consists of collections of subsystems (or modes) with continuous dynamics, and a rule to regulate the switching behavior between them, called switching law or switching signal. Nowadays, switched dynamics appear in many technological systems, including robotic systems, logic-based controllers, communication networks, interconnected systems, up to networked and intelligent systems. When controlling such complex systems, parameter uncertainties and external disturbances are regarded as crucial undesired factors that should be addressed. Adaptive control methods use adjustable control parameters that can be effective in dealing with uncertainties and disturbances. While productive research has been conducted on the fundamental problems of stability and stabilization of switched systems, uncertain switched systems using adaptive techniques is not equally mature: in fact, combining adaptive laws with switching phenomena creates additional difficulties when proving stability of the closed-loop system. This lecture will cover some basic concepts behind adaptive switched systems. After that, a relevant application of such concepts in the field of autonomous driving, namely Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC), will be discussed.