Optimal tracking control for large-scale interconnected systems with time-delays

This paper considers an infinite-horizon optimal tracking control problem for a class of large-scale interconnected systems with state time-delays. By using the successive approximation approach, two iteration sequences of vector differential equations are constructed. Meanwhile the large-scale interconnected system is decomposed into finite decoupled subsystems. The existence and uniqueness of the optimal solution is proved, as well as the convergence of the solution sequence. By finite iterations of the solution sequence, a suboptimal tracking control law is obtained. A reduced-order reference input observer is designed to make the feedforward term of the optimal tracking control law physically realizable. A numerical example shows that the presented algorithm is effective and easy to implement.