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Roll stabilization is an important problem of ship motion control. This problem becomes especially difficult if the same set of actuators (e.g. a single rudder) has to be used for roll stabilization and heading control of the vessel, so…
In solving the problem of asymptotic tracking and disturbance rejection, it has been long always assumed that the reference to be tracked and the disturbance to be rejected must be generated by an exosystem such as a finite dimensional…
Solving optimal control problems to determine a stabilizing controller involves a significant computational effort. Time-varying optimal control provides a remedy by designing a tracking system, given as an ordinary differential equation,…
This paper examines learning the optimal filtering policy, known as the Kalman gain, for a linear system with unknown noise covariance matrices using noisy output data. The learning problem is formulated as a stochastic policy optimization…
In this paper, the optimal consensus problem for general nonlinear multi-agent systems is studied, where both leaderless and leader-follower cases are considered in a unified framework. The key idea is to convert consensus problems into…
This paper introduces a novel approach to the optimal control of linear discrete-time systems subject to bounded disturbances. Our approach is based on the newly established duality between ellipsoidal approximations of reachable and hardly…
This paper considers two different problems in trajectory tracking control for linear systems. First, if the control is not unique which is most input energy efficient. Second, if exact tracking is infeasible which control performs most…
This paper addresses the mean-square optimal control problem for \a class of discrete-time linear systems with a quasi-colored control-dependent multiplicative noise via output feedback. The noise under study is novel and shown to have…
Recently developed control methods with strong disturbance rejection capabilities provide a useful option for control design. The key lies in a general concept of disturbance and effective ways to estimate and compensate the disturbance.…
This paper presents a coupled, neural network-aided longitudinal cruise and lateral path-tracking controller for an autonomous vehicle with model uncertainties and experiencing unknown external disturbances. Using a feedback error learning…
We study how to safely control nonlinear control-affine systems that are corrupted with bounded non-stochastic noise, i.e., noise that is unknown a priori and that is not necessarily governed by a stochastic model. We focus on safety…
This paper develops an underwater navigation solution that utilizes a strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) and fuses a set of auxiliary sensors such as an acoustic positioning system, Doppler velocity log, depth meter, attitude…
We present safe control of partially-observed linear time-varying systems in the presence of unknown and unpredictable process and measurement noise. We introduce a control algorithm that minimizes dynamic regret, i.e., that minimizes the…
The optimal tracking problem is addressed in the robotics literature by using a variety of robust and adaptive control approaches. However, these schemes are associated with implementation limitations such as applicability in uncertain…
Output regulation is the problem of finding a control input to asymptotically track reference trajectories and reject disturbances. This can be addressed by using the internal model principle to embed a model of the disturbance in the…
In this paper, a position and velocity estimation method for robotic manipulators which are affected by constant bounded disturbances is considered. The tracking control problem is formulated as a disturbance rejection problem, with all the…
This paper proposes a robust disturbance observer framework for maritime autonomous surface vessels considering model and measurement uncertainties. The core contribution lies in a nonlinear disturbance observer, reconstructing the forces…
This paper proposes an off-policy risk-sensitive reinforcement learning based control framework for stabilization of a continuous-time nonlinear system that subjects to additive disturbances, input saturation, and state constraints. By…
In this paper, multi-agent systems minimizing a sum of objective functions, where each component is only known to a particular node, is considered for continuous-time dynamics with time-varying interconnection topologies. Assuming that each…
Control of continuous time dynamics with multiplicative noise is a classic topic in stochastic optimal control. This work addresses the problem of designing infinite horizon optimal controls with stability guarantees for \textit{a single…