Stabilizing stochastically-forced oscillation generators with hard excitement: A confidence-domain control approach

Abstract

In this paper, noise-induced destruction of self-sustained oscillations is studied for a stochastically-forced generator with hard excitement. The problem is to design a feedback regulator that can stabilize a limit cycle of the closed-loop system and to provide a required dispersion of the generated oscillations. The approach is based on the stochastic sensitivity function (SSF) technique and confidence domain method. A theory about the synthesis of assigned SSF is developed. For the case when this control problem is ill-posed, a regularization method is constructed. The effectiveness of the new method of confidence domain is demonstrated by stabilizing auto-oscillations in a randomly-forced generator with hard excitement.© EDP Sciences Società Italiana di Fisica Springer-Verlag 2013.