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Incremental stability is a property of dynamical and control systems, requiring the uniform asymptotic stability of every trajectory, rather than that of an equilibrium point or a particular time-varying trajectory. Similarly to stability,…
Incremental stability is a property of dynamical systems ensuring the uniform asymptotic stability of each trajectory rather than a fixed equilibrium point or trajectory. Here, we introduce a notion of incremental stability for stochastic…
A dynamic backstepping method is proposed to design controllers for nonlinear systems in the pure-feedback form, for which the traditional backstepping method suffers from solving the implicit nonlinear algebraic equation. The idea of this…
Incremental stability of dynamical systems ensures the convergence of trajectories from different initial conditions towards each other rather than a fixed trajectory or equilibrium point. Here, we introduce and characterize a novel class…
This study proposes a feedback linearisation based on the back-stepping method with simple implementation and unique design process to design a non-linear controller with a goal of improving both steady-state and transient stability. The…
Incremental stability is a property of dynamical systems that ensures the convergence of trajectories with respect to each other rather than a fixed equilibrium point or a fixed trajectory. In this paper, we introduce a related stability…
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The main objective of this paper is to propose an alternative procedure to carry out one of the key steps of immersion and invariance stabilising controller design. Namely, the one that ensures attractivity of the manifold whose internal…
In the present work, we consider nonlinear control systems for which there exist structural obstacles to the design of classical continuous backstepping feedback laws. We conceive feedback laws such that the origin of the closed-loop system…
The focus of this thesis is developing a framework for designing correct-by-construction controllers using control certificates. We use nonlinear dynamical systems to model the physical environment (plants). The goal is to synthesize…
Learning stabilizing controllers from data is an important task in engineering applications; however, collecting informative data is challenging because unstable systems often lead to rapidly growing or erratic trajectories. In this work,…
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This work provides a design method for achieving a specified level of stability for inverter-based interconnected distributed generation. The stability of parallel connected distributed energy resources determined from a linearized…
This work primarily focuses on an operator inference methodology aimed at constructing low-dimensional dynamical models based on a priori hypotheses about their structure, often informed by established physics or expert insights. Stability…
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We consider nonlinear control systems for which there exist some structural obstacles to the design of classical continuous stabilizing feedback laws. More precisely, it is studied systems for which the backstepping tool for the design of…
In this paper we present a switching control strategy to incrementally stabilize a class of nonlinear dynamical systems. Exploiting recent results on contraction analysis of switched Filippov systems derived using regularization, sufficient…
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 technical communique, we develop a graphical design procedure for reset controllers for unstable LTI plants based on recent developments on Scaled Relative Graph analysis, yielding an $L_2$-gain performance bound. The stabilizing…
We consider the problem of designing a feedback controller which robustly regulates an LTI system to an optimal operating point in the presence of unmeasured disturbances. A general design framework based on so-called optimality models was…