Optimal guaranteed cost intermittent control to the efficient movement of freight trains

Freight train system is under constant pressure to optimize operational efficiency, a factor that has led the sector to spearhead many new technologies. To address this, the optimal guaranteed cost intermittent cruise control of freight train system with time-varying uncertain parameters is investigated. In particular, the guaranteed cost intermittent control approach is proposed, which can achieve both advantages of guaranteed cost control and intermittent control methods. In addition, the acceptable conditions for the guaranteed cost control laws are weakened to insure that the proposed strategy is suitable for the application in freight train systems. Moreover, to promote the optimal control design in the freight train system, the proposed optimal guaranteed cost intermittent control for the nonlinear system subjected to norm bounded parametric uncertainties is addressed. The results of numerical experiments are presented to ascertain the effectiveness of the proposed freight train control methodology and to compare it to prior methods. •The optimal guarantee cost intermittent control are firstly studied on train system.•Our method improve the cruise performance compared to the intermittent controls.•The guaranteed cost intermittent control is superior to the GCC on energy efficiency.