15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF RESET CONTROL SYSTEMS
Orhan Beker* C.V. Hollot** Y. Chait*** H. Han****
* Maxtor Corporation, Shrewsbury, MA
** ECE Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
*** MIE Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
**** ECE Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

Reset controllers are linear controllers that reset some of their states to zero when their input is zero. We are interested in their feedback connection with linear plants, and in this paper we establish fundamental closed-loop properties including stability and asymptotic tracking. This paper considers more general reset structures than previously considered, allowing for higher-order controllers and partial-state resetting. It gives a testable necessary and sufficient condition for quadratic stability and links it to both uniform bounded-input bounded-output state stability and steady-state performance. Unlike previous related research, which includes the study of impulsive differential equations, our stability results require no assumptions on the evolution of reset times.
Keywords: reset actions, stability analysis, nonlinear control systems
Session slot T-Tu-M16: New Approaches to Controller Design/Area code 2a : Control Design