2023

C. Letellier, S. Mangiarotti, L. Minati, Mattia Frasca & J.-P. Barbot
Optimal placement of sensor and actuator for controlling low-dimensional chaotic systems based on global modeling
Chaos, 33, 013140, 2023. Online

 Abstract
Controlling chaos is fundamental in many applications, and for this reason, many techniques have been proposed to address this problem. Here, we propose a strategy based on an optimal placement of the sensor and actuator providing global observability of the state space and global controllability to any desired state. The first of these two conditions enables the derivation of a model of the system by using a global modeling technique. In turn, this permits the use of feedback linearization for designing the control law based on the equations of the obtained model and providing a zero-flat system. The procedure is applied to three case studies, including two piecewise linear circuits, namely, the Carroll circuit and the Chua circuit whose governing equations are approximated by a continuous global model. The sensitivity of the procedure to the time constant of the dynamics is also discussed.

C. Letellier, L. Minati & J.-P. Barbot
Optimal placement of sensor and actuator for controlling the piecewise linear Chua circuit via a discretized controller
Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, published
Online

 Abstract
Controlling the dynamics of chaotic systems is a task which is often addressed in an empirical way, particularly for placing sensors and actuators. Here, we show that selecting the measured variable and placing the actuator can be guided by considering the observability and controllability symbolic coefficients and applying the notion of flatness. This approach is here demonstrated on the piecewise linear Chua circuit, whose specific features are leveraged in constructing a discretized controller with a switch mechanism and optimally placed sensor and actuator. The feedback linearization is compared to a homogeneous and a passivity-based control laws, the flat control laws being more efficient than the others. It is thus shown that the proposed flat control law by feedback linearization is very efficient. The continuous time and discretized Chua circuit, governed by differential and difference equations, respectively, are treated. Most likely, these results could be extendable to a large group of natural and experimental systems.