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Maintaining stability in feedback systems, from aircraft and autonomous robots to biological and physiological systems, relies on monitoring their behavior and continuously adjusting their inputs. Incremental damage can make such control…

Current state-of-the-art correct-by-design controllers are designed for full-state measurable systems. This work first extends the applicability of correct-by-design controllers to partially observable LTI systems. Leveraging 2nd order…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Sofie Haesaert , Paul M. J. Van den Hof , Alessandro Abate

The growing complexity of modern control tasks calls for controllers that can react online as objectives and disturbances change, while preserving closed-loop stability. Recent approaches for improving the performance of nonlinear systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Danilo Saccani , Luca Furieri , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Understanding how time delays impact the stability of a delay differential equation is important for modeling many natural and technological systems that experience time delays. Here we introduce a new stability criterion for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Quinlan Leishman , Benjamin Webb

Ensuring nominal asymptotic stability of the Nonlinear Model Predictive Control controller is not trivial. Stabilizing ingredients such as terminal penalty term and terminal region are crucial in establishing the asymptotic stability.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Chinmay Rajhans , Sowmya Gupta

We introduce a control design and analysis framework for micro-macro, boundary control of large-scale, $n+m$ hyperbolic PDE systems. Specifically, we develop feedback laws for stabilization of hyperbolic systems at the micro level (i.e., of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Jukka-Pekka Humaloja , Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

This study proposes a simple controller design approach to achieve a class of robustness, the so-called iso-damping property. The proposed approach can be executed using only one-shot input/output data. An accurate mathematical model of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Ansei Yonezawa , Heisei Yonezawa , Shuichi Yahagi , Itsuro Kajiwara

Designing a stabilizing controller for nonlinear systems is a challenging task, especially for high-dimensional problems with unknown dynamics. Traditional reinforcement learning algorithms applied to stabilization tasks tend to drive the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Thanin Quartz , Ruikun Zhou , Hans De Sterck , Jun Liu

We propose a robust data-driven output feedback control algorithm that explicitly incorporates inherent finite-sample model estimate uncertainties into the control design. The algorithm has three components: (1) a subspace identification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Benjamin Gravell , Iman Shames , Tyler Summers

Output feedback stabilization of control systems is a crucial issue in engineering. Most of these systems are not uniformly observable, which proves to be a difficulty to move from state feedback stabilization to dynamic output feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Ludovic Sacchelli , Lucas Brivadis , Vincent Andrieu , Ulysse Serres , Jean-Paul Gauthier

Inverter-dominated microgrids are quickly becoming a key building block of future power systems. They rely on centralized controllers that can provide reliability and resiliency in extreme events. Nonetheless, communication failures due to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Siddharth Bhela , Abhishek Banerjee , Ulrich Muenz , Joachim Bamberger

This paper introduces and studies the notion of output-input stability, which represents a variant of the minimum-phase property for general smooth nonlinear control systems. The definition of output-input stability does not rely on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Daniel Liberzon , A. Stephen Morse , Eduardo D. Sontag

In this paper, we considered a design method of non-linear state feedback controller for input-affine non-linear system taking data losses into account. When data is lost in control system, control input is fixed to constant value or to the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Su-Yong Paek , Jin-Song Ri

We present a novel methodology for designing output-feedback backstepping boundary controllers for an unstable 1-D diffusion-reaction partial differential equation with spatially-varying reaction. Using "folding" transforms the parabolic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Stephen Chen , Rafael Vazquez , Miroslav Krstic

The idea of symbolic controllers tries to bridge the gap between the top-down manual design of the controller architecture, as advocated in Brooks' subsumption architecture, and the bottom-up designer-free approach that is now standard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nicolas Godzik , Marc Schoenauer , Michèle Sebag

We present a novel study on enhancing the capability of preserving the content in world models, focusing on a property we term World Stability. Recent diffusion-based generative models have advanced the synthesis of immersive and realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Soonwoo Kwon , Jin-Young Kim , Hyojun Go , Kyungjune Baek

In this expository paper, which covers material presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Nonlinear Analysis, Differential Equations, and Control" (Montreal, Jul/Aug 1998), we deal with several questions related to stability and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eduardo D. Sontag

This paper presents the design and robustness analysis of fractional and integer order PID controllers for the control of a non-linear industrial process in the presence of parametric uncertainness and external disturbances. The nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-31 J. Viola , L. Angel

In modern power systems, the operating point, at which the demand and supply are balanced, may take different values due to changes in loads and renewable generation levels. Understanding the dynamics of stressed power systems with a range…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Thanh Long Vu , Hung Dinh Nguyen , Alexandre Megretski , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Konstantin Turitsyn

The research area of Networked Control Systems (NCS) has been the topic of intensive study in the last decade. In this paper we give a contribution to this research line by addressing symbolic control design of (possibly unstable) nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Alessandro Borri , Giordano Pola , Maria D. Di Benedetto