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We design observer-based controllers to stabilise abstract linear boundary control systems on Hilbert spaces. Our main results introduce conditions for exponential, strong, and polynomial stability, and establish external well-posedness of…
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In this paper we develop novel results on self triggering control of nonlinear systems, subject to perturbations and actuation delays. First, considering an unperturbed nonlinear system with bounded actuation delays, we provide conditions…
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We consider the problem of formally verifying almost-sure (a.s.) asymptotic stability in discrete-time nonlinear stochastic control systems. While verifying stability in deterministic control systems is extensively studied in the…
The problem of stabilization of a system of coupled PDEs of the forth-order by means of boundary control is investigated. The considered setup arises from the classical Euler-Bernoulli beam model, and constitutes a generalization of…
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In this paper, the stability and stabilization problem of positive nonlinear systems, described by the Takagi-Sugeno discrete-time fuzzy model, is studied. The proposed approach is based on the linear co-positive Lyapunov function and…
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The conceptually new approach based on the logarithmic norm to design of robust adaptive state-feedback controller for linear time-varying (LTV) systems under system's modeling uncertainty and nonlinear external disturbance is proposed.…
It is quite often claimed, and correctly so, that linear methods cannot achieve global stability results for attitude control, and conversely that nonlinear control is essential in order to achieve (almost) globally stable tracking of…
Stabilization of a coupled system consisting of a parabolic partial differential equation and an elliptic partial differential equation is considered. Even in the situation when the parabolic equation is exponentially stable on its own, the…
In this paper, we study the problem of control of discrete-time nonlinear systems in Lure form over erasure channels at the input and output. The input and output channel uncertainties are modeled as Bernoulli random variables. The main…
In this paper, we concentrate on the exponential stabilization of stochastic nonlinear systems. Different from the single event-triggering mechanism in traditional deterministic/stochastic control systems, based on two stopping time…
A learning approach for optimal feedback gains for nonlinear continuous time control systems is proposed and analysed. The goal is to establish a rigorous framework for computing approximating optimal feedback gains using neural networks.…