Główne pojęcia
The authors introduce a periodic event-triggered control (PETC) mechanism to enhance the practical implementation of a backstepping-based boundary control law for regulating axon growth in neurons. The PETC approach updates the control input aperiodically while evaluating the triggering condition periodically, which is well-suited for standard time-sliced actuators like Chondroitinase ABC (ChABC) used in neuron regeneration therapies.
Streszczenie
The content presents a model for tubulin-driven axon growth, which is described by a coupled moving boundary partial differential equation (PDE) and ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The authors first introduce a continuous-time boundary control law based on the backstepping method that locally exponentially stabilizes the system.
To address the practical challenges in implementing the continuous-time control law, the authors then propose a periodic event-triggered control (PETC) mechanism. The PETC approach evaluates the triggering condition periodically but updates the control input aperiodically, which is more suitable for standard time-sliced actuators like ChABC used in neuron regeneration therapies.
The key aspects of the PETC design include:
- Deriving a novel triggering condition that ensures the system remains locally exponentially stable and prevents Zeno behavior.
- Establishing an upper bound on the continuous-time event trigger between two periodic examinations, which is explicitly derived as the sampling period.
- Proving the local exponential convergence of the closed-loop system in the L2-norm sense under the PETC framework.
Numerical simulations are provided to confirm the theoretical findings and demonstrate the performance of the PETC approach compared to the continuous-time event-triggered control (CETC) and the continuous control law.
Statystyki
The authors use the following key parameters and metrics in their analysis:
Tubulin diffusivity (D)
Tubulin velocity (a)
Tubulin degradation constant (g)
Growth ratio (lc)
Reaction rate of microtubules production (rg)
Equilibrium tubulin concentration in the cone (c∞)
Lumped parameter (rg)
Cytaty
"Periodic event-triggering control (PETC) and self-triggered control are proposed in [35] and [36], respectively, for a class of reaction diffusion PDEs."
"The PETC improves the practical implementation of the control law because it can be applied to standard time-sliced actuators (like ChABC) for axon growth."