-Gain scheduling has proven to be a successful design methodology in many engineering applications. However in the absence of a sound theoretical analysis, these designs come with no guarantees on the robustness, performance, or even nominal stability of the overall gain scheduled design. This paper presents such an analysis for one type of gain scheduled system, namely, a linear parameter-vary...

AbstructIn the present paper we describe the design of a fuzzy gain scheduler for tracking a reference trajectory of a nonlinear autonomous system. The proposed fuzzy gain scheduling method has two major advantages over the existing crisp gain scheduling methods. First, it provides a general and formally motivated method for the interpolation of available local control laws into a global gain s...

In this paper, the problem of the stabilization of Linear Parameter Varying systems by means of Gain Scheduling Control, is considered This technique consists on designing a controller which is able to update its parameters on–line according to the variations of the plant parameters. We first consider the state feedback case and we show a design procedure based on the construction of a Lyapunov...

A simple method is presented to reduce the number of scheduling parameters for gain-scheduled controller implementation. The method is based on careful reformulation of the dynamic representation using dimensionless parameters. Parameter re-scaling is necessary to transform from one unit system to another, and this work utilizes unit transformations carefully to act as an implicit method of gai...

This paper investigates packet scheduling in the context of Self-Optimizing Networks, and demonstrates how to improve coverage dynamically by adjusting the scheduling strategy. We focus on α-fair schedulers, and we provide methods for calculating the scheduling gain, including several closed form formulas. Scheduling gain is analyzed for different fading models, with a particular focus on the f...