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Lately, data-driven control has become a widespread area of research. A few recent big-data based approaches for data-driven control of nonlinear systems try to use classical input-output techniques to design controllers for systems for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Miel Sharf

We consider the problem of zeroing an error output of a nonlinear discrete-time system in the presence of constant exogenous disturbances, subject to hard convex constraints on the input signal. The design specification is formulated as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-07 John W. Simpson-Porco

The so-called Fundamental Theorem of Dynamical Systems -- which(1) relates attractors and repellers to the chain recurrent set and (2) gives the existence of a complete Lyapunov function -- can be seen as a means of separating out…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Andrew D. Lewis

The topic of this manuscript is the stability analysis of continuous-time switched nonlinear systems with constraints on the admissible switching signals. Our particular focus lies in considering signals characterized by upper and lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Matteo Della Rossa

Koopman operator theory has gained significant attention in recent years for identifying discrete-time nonlinear systems by embedding them into an infinite-dimensional linear vector space. However, providing stability guarantees while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Ruikun Zhou , Yiming Meng , Zhexuan Zeng , Jun Liu

A new framework for adaptive regulation to invariant sets is proposed. Reaching the target dynamics (invariant set) is to be ensured by state feedback while adaptation to parametric uncertainties is provided by additional adaptation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ivan Tyukin , Denis Efimov , Cees van Leeuwen

Deep learning methods have demonstrated significant potential for addressing complex nonlinear control problems. For real-world safety-critical tasks, however, it is crucial to provide formal stability guarantees for the designed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Han Wang , Keyan Miao , Diego Madeira , Antonis Papachristodoulou

We develop a predictor-feedback control design for multi-input nonlinear systems with distinct input delays, of arbitrary length, in each individual input channel. Due to the fact that different input signals reach the plant at different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis , Miroslav Krstic

This article presents a novel numerically tractable technique for synthesizing Lyapunov functions for equilibria of nonlinear vector fields. In broad strokes, corresponding to an isolated equilibrium point of a given vector field, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Raavi Gupta , Sameep Chattopadhyay , Pradyumna Paruchuri , Debasish Chatterjee

In this note, a novel methodology that can extract a number of analysis results for linear time-invariant systems (LTI) given only a single trajectory of the considered system is proposed. The superiority of the proposed technique relies on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Hassan Abdelraouf , Fahad Albalawi , Eric Feron

The present paper is mainly aimed at introducing a novel notion of stability of nonlinear time-delay systems called Rational Stability. According to the Lyapunov-type, various sufficient conditions for rational stability are reached. Under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Nadhem Echi , Boulbaba Ghanmi

The traditional quantum control theory focuses on linear quantum system. Here we show the effect of nonlinearity on quantum control of a two-level system, we find that the nonlinearity can change the controllability of quantum system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. Wang , J. Shen , X. X. Yi

In this paper, adaptive set-point regulation controllers for discrete-time nonlinear systems are constructed. The system to be controlled is assumed to have a parametric uncertainty, and an excitation signal is used in order to obtain the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Shigeru Hanba

We present a new method for learning control law that stabilizes an unknown nonlinear dynamical system at an equilibrium point. We formulate a system identification task in a self-supervised learning setting that jointly learns a controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-17 Priyabrata Saha , Magnus Egerstedt , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

In the present paper, a novel result for inferring uniform global, not semi-global, exponential stability in the sense of Lyapunov with respect to input-affine systems from global uniform exponential stability properties with respect to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Marc Weber , Bahman Gharesifard , Christian Ebenbauer

In this paper, we present Lyapunov-based {\color{black}time varying} controllers for {\color{black}fast} stabilization of a perturbed chain of integrators with bounded uncertainties. We refer to such controllers as {\color{black}time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Salah Laghrouche , Mohamed Harmouche , Yacine Chitour , Hussein Obeid , Leonid Fridman

This paper presents a synthesis approach aiming to guarantee a minimum upper-bound for the time taken to reach a target set of non-zero measure that encompasses the origin, while taking into account uncertainties and input and state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Víctor Costa da Silva Campos , Mariella Maia Quadros , Luciano Frezzato , Leonardo Mozelli , Anh-Tu Nguyen

Lyapunov stability theory is the bedrock of direct adaptive control. Fundamentally, Lyapunov stability requires constructing a distance-like function which must decrease with time to ensure stability. Feedback linearization, backstepping,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Brett T. Lopez , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

The increasing integration of renewable energy sources into electrical grids necessitates a paradigm shift toward advanced control schemes that guarantee safe and stable operations with scalable properties. Accordingly, this paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Cornelia Skaga , Mahdieh S. Sadabadi , Gilbert Bergna-Diaz

In this work sufficient conditions expressed by means of single and vector Lyapunov functions of Uniform Input-to-Output Stability (UIOS) and Uniform Input-to-State Stability (UISS) are given for finite-dimensional systems under feedback…

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