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Layered control architectures have been a standard paradigm for efficiently managing complex constrained systems. A typical architecture consists of: i) a higher layer, where a low-frequency planner controls a simple model of the system,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Charis Stamouli , Anastasios Tsiamis , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

A novel method for control of dynamical systems, proposed in the paper, ensures an output signal belonging to the given set at any time. The method is based on a special change of coordinates such that the initial problem with given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Igor Furtat

This paper addresses three complex control challenges related to input-saturated systems from a data-driven perspective. Unlike the traditional two-stage process involving system identification and model-based control, the proposed approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Federico Porcari , Valentina Breschi , Luca Zaccarian , Simone Formentin

We derive novel criteria for designing stabilizing dynamic output-feedback controllers for a class of aperiodic impulsive systems subject to a range dwell-time condition. Our synthesis conditions are formulated as clock-dependent linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Tobias Holicki , Carsten W. Scherer

We give a characterization of the controllability for discrete-time linear systems with convex output constraints. It extends all previously known characterizations in the literature, as well as our previous results on controllability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Mustafa Devrim Kaba , M. Kanat Camlibel

Many cyber-physical systems can naturally be formulated as switched systems with constrained switching. This includes systems where one of the signals in the feedback loop may be lost. Possible sources for losses are shared or unreliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Simon Lang , Marc Seidel , Frank Allgöwer

This paper considers a class of bilinear systems with a neural network in the loop. These arise naturally when employing machine learning techniques to approximate general, non-affine in the input, control systems. We propose a controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Dhruv Shah , Jorge Cortés

This paper addresses the problem of robust and optimal control for the class of nonlinear quadratic systems subject to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties and disturbances, and in presence of some amplitude constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Merola Alessio , Cosentino Carlo , Colacino Domenico , Amato Francesco

This paper proposes a specification-guided framework for control of nonlinear systems with linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. In contrast with well-known abstraction-based methods, the proposed framework directly characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Yinan Li , Zhibing Sun , Jun Liu

Continuous-time control of multiple quadrotors in constrained environments under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is critical due to their nonlinear dynamics, safety constraints, and the requirement to ensure continuous-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yating Yuan , Yu Liu

This paper addresses problems on the structural design of control systems taking explicitly into consideration the possible application to large-scale systems. We provide an efficient and unified framework to solve the following major…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Sergio Pequito , Soummya Kar , A. Pedro Aguiar

This paper presents an indirect data-driven output feedback controller synthesis for nonlinear systems, leveraging Structured State-space Models (SSMs) as surrogate models. SSMs have emerged as a compelling alternative in modelling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Muhammad Zakwan , Vaibhav Gupta , Alireza Karimi , Efe C. Balta , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

This paper presents novel controllers that yield finite-time stability for linear systems. We first present a sufficient condition for the origin of a scalar system to be finite-time stable. Then we present novel finite-time controllers…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Kunal Garg , Dimitra Panagou

We present a procedure to simultaneously design the output feedback law and the event-triggering condition to stabilize linear systems. The closed-loop system is shown to satisfy a global asymptotic stability property and the existence of a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Mahmoud Abdelrahim , Romain Postoyan , Jamal Daafouz , Dragan Nešić

In this paper, we focus on the problem about direct way to design a stable controller for nonlinear system. A framework of learning controller with Lyapunov-based constraint is proposed, which is intended to transform designing and analyis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Me Le , Chi Yanxun , Li Zhiwei , Xu Dongfu , Zhang Yulong

This article proposes an approach to design output-feedback controllers for unknown continuous-time linear time-invariant systems using only input-output data from a single experiment. To address the lack of state and derivative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Alessandro Bosso , Marco Borghesi , Andrea Iannelli , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Andrew R. Teel

In an open-loop experiment, an input sequence is applied to an unknown linear time-invariant system (in continuous or discrete time) affected also by an unknown-but-bounded disturbance sequence (with an energy or instantaneous bound); the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

In this paper, we study a class of finite-time control problems for discrete-time positive linear systems with time-varying state parameters. Although several interesting control problems appearing in population biology, economics, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Chengyan Zhao , Masaki Ogura , Kenji Sugimoto

Control systems that satisfy temporal logic specifications have become increasingly popular due to their applicability to robotic systems. Existing control methods, however, are computationally demanding, especially when the problem size…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this work, we propose a robust approach to design distributed controllers for unknown-but-sparse linear and time-invariant systems. By leveraging modern techniques in distributed controller synthesis and structured linear inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Salar Fattahi , Nikolai Matni , Somayeh Sojoudi