Adaptive neural network decentralized stabilization for nonlinear large scale interconnected systems with expanding construction

A backstepping-based adaptive neural network decentralized stabilization approach is presented for the expanding construction of a class of nonlinear large scale interconnected systems in this paper. The expanding construction of large scale interconnected systems is to add some new subsystems into the original system during the operation of the original system. For stabilization of the expanding system, it is more realistic to keep the decentralized control laws of the original subsystems unchanged. And the decentralized control laws of the new subsystems must be designed to stabilize both itself and the resultant large scale system. In this paper, neural networks are used to approximate the unknown nonlinear functions in the new subsystems and the unknown nonlinear interconnection functions. The decentralized control laws and the parameter adaptive laws of the new subsystems are designed by using backstepping technique for the expanding construction of the large-scale interconnected system. Based on Lyapunov stability theory, the uniform and ultimate boundedness of all signals in the closed-loop system is proved. Two illustrative examples show the feasibility of the presented approach.