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Recent developments in data-driven control have revived interest in the behavioral approach to systems theory, where systems are defined as sets of trajectories rather than being described by a specific model or representation. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 L. P. Wieringa , A. Padoan , F. Dorfler , J. Eising

This paper, the second of a two-part series, presents a method for mean-field feedback stabilization of a swarm of agents on a finite state space whose time evolution is modeled as a continuous time Markov chain (CTMC). The resulting…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Shiba Biswal , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Spring Berman

We develop a linear systems theory that coincides with the existing theories for continuous and discrete dynamical systems, but that also extends to linear systems defined on nonuniform time domains. The approach here is based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-03 John M. Davis , Ian A. Gravagne , Billy J. Jackson , Robert J. Marks

This article presents novel methods for synthesizing distributionally robust stabilizing neural controllers and certificates for control systems under model uncertainty. A key challenge in designing controllers with stability guarantees for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Kehan Long , Jorge Cortes , Nikolay Atanasov

In this paper we consider distributed adaptive stabilization for uncertain multivariable linear systems with a time-varying diagonal matrix gain. We show that uncertain multivariable linear systems are stabilizable by diagonal matrix high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Zhiyong Sun , Anders Rantzer , Zhongkui Li , Anders Robertsson

This paper is concerned with the distributed control and stabilization problems for linear discrete-time large scale systems with imposed constraints. The main contributions of this paper are: Firstly, by using the maximum principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Qingyuan Qi , Huanshui Zhang , Peijun Ju

Linear systems governed by continuous-time difference equations cover a wide class of linear systems. From the Lyapunov-Krasovskii approach, we investigate stability for such a class of systems. Sufficient conditions, and in some particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-30 S. Damak , M. Di Loreto , W. Lombardi , V Andrieu

In this paper, we extend well-known relationships between global asymptotic controllability, sample stabilizability, and the existence of a control Lyapunov function to a wide class of control systems with unbounded controls, which includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Anna Chiara Lai , Monica Motta

Positive systems describing networks with inherently non-negative states and inputs arise naturally in routing, logistics, and compartmental modelling. We consider problems modelled as positive linear systems in incidence form with linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Roland Schurig , David Ohlin , Anders Rantzer , Emma Tegling , Rolf Findeisen

This article aims at providing a unified analysis of the exponential stabilization of some abstract infinite dimensional systems undergoing an event-triggering mechanism that samples the control input. The partial differential equation is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Lucie Baudouin , Sylvain Ervedoza

The paper shows that positive linear systems can be stabilized using positive Luenberger-type observers. This is achieved by structuring the observer as monotonically converging upper and lower bounds on the state. Analysis of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 David Ohlin , Anders Rantzer , Emma Tegling

This technical note studies Lyapunov-like conditions to ensure a class of dynamical systems to exhibit predefined-time stability. The origin of a dynamical system is predefined-time stable if it is fixed-time stable and an upper bound of…

This article provides a characterization of stability for switched nonlinear systems under average dwell-time constraints, in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions involving multiple Lyapunov functions. Earlier converse results focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Matteo Della Rossa , Aneel Tanwani

We provide Lyapunov-like characterizations of boundedness and convergence of non-trivial solutions for a class of systems with unstable invariant sets. Examples of systems to which the results may apply include interconnections of stable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-06-12 A. Gorban , I. Tyukin , E. Steur , H. Nijmeijer

We present a technique for learning control Lyapunov-like functions, which are used in turn to synthesize controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems that can stabilize the system, or satisfy specifications such as remaining inside a safe…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

A controller synthesis method for state- and input-constrained nonlinear systems is presented that seeks continuous piecewise affine (CPA) Lyapunov-like functions and controllers simultaneously. Non-convex optimization problems are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Reza Lavaei , Leila Bridgeman

In a recent paper we have shown how to learn controllers for unknown linear systems using finite-sized noisy data by solving linear matrix inequalities. In this note we extend this approach to deal with unknown nonlinear polynomial systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Meichen Guo , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

We introduce a distributed control architecture for a class of heterogeneous, nonlinear dynamical agents moving in the "string" formation, while guaranteeing trajectory tracking, collision avoidance and the preservation of the formation's…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Serban Sabau , Irinel-Constantin Morarescu , Lucian Busoniu , Ali Jadbabaie

This paper proposes a model predictive controller for discrete-time linear systems with additive, possibly unbounded, stochastic disturbances and subject to chance constraints. By computing a polytopic probabilistic positively invariant set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Kai Wang , Kiet Tuan Hoang , Sébastien Gros

This paper studies controllability of a discrete-time linear dynamical system using nonnegative and sparse inputs. These constraints on the control input arise naturally in many real-life systems where the external influence on the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Geethu Joseph