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The problem of robust distributed control arises in several large-scale systems, such as transportation networks and power grid systems. In many practical scenarios controllers might not have enough information to make globally optimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Luca Furieri , Maryam Kamgarpour

Certifying feasibility in decision-making, critical in many industries, can be framed as a constraint satisfaction problem. This paper focuses on characterising a subset of parameter values from an a priori set that satisfy constraints on a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Max Mowbray , Nilay Shah , Benoît Chachuat

Successfully synthesizing controllers for complex dynamical systems and specifications often requires leveraging domain knowledge as well as making difficult computational or mathematical tradeoffs. This paper presents a flexible and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Eric S. Kim , Murat Arcak , Sanjit A. Seshia

This paper presents a new approach to distributed controller design that exploits a partial-structure representation of linear time invariant systems to characterize the structure of a system. This partial-structure representation, called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-18 Anurag Rai , Sean Warnick

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a given specification. A natural way to specify programs is to provide examples of desired input-output behavior, and many current program synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alexander Suh , Yuval Timen

This paper considers the problem of distributed state estimation using multi-robot systems. The robots have limited communication capabilities and, therefore, communicate their measurements intermittently only when they are physically close…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Reza Khodayi-mehr , Yiannis Kantaros , Michael M. Zavlanos

A common approach to distributed control design is to impose sparsity constraints on the controller structure. Such constraints, however, may greatly complicate the control design procedure. This paper puts forward an alternative structure,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Daria Madjidian , Leonid Mirkin

This paper studies an optimal control problem for a string of vehicles with safety requirements and finite-time specifications on the approach time to a target region. Our problem formulation is motivated by scenarios involving autonomous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Pavankumar Tallapragada , Jorge Cortes

The paper deals with local robust feedback synthesis for systems with multidimensional control and unknown bounded perturbations. Using V.~I.~Korobov's controllability function method, we construct a bounded control which steers an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 V. I. Korobov , T. V. Revina

This paper studies problems on locally stopping distributed consensus algorithms over networks where each node updates its state by interacting with its neighbors and decides by itself whether certain level of agreement has been achieved…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Pei Xie , Keyou You , Cheng Wu

Developing critical components, such as mission controllers or embedded systems, is a challenging task. Reactive synthesis is a technique to automatically produce correct controllers. Given a high-level specification written in LTL,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Matías Brizzio , César Sánchez

This paper considers the problem of regulating a dynamical system to equilibria that are defined as solutions of an input- and state-constrained optimization problem. To solve this regulation task, we design a state feedback controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Yiting Chen , Liliaokeawawa Cothren , Jorge Cortes , Emiliano Dall'Anese

The generation of synthetic data is an essential tool to study complex systems, allowing for example to test models of these in precisely controlled settings, or to parametrize simulation models when data is missing. This paper focuses on…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-25 Juste Raimbault

We study asynchronous finite sum minimization in a distributed-data setting with a central parameter server. While asynchrony is well understood in parallel settings where the data is accessible by all machines -- e.g., modifications of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Margalit Glasgow , Mary Wootters

This paper deals with fractional-order controllers. We outline mathematical description of fractional controllers and methods of their synthesis and application. Synthesis method is a modified root locus method for fractional-order systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Petras

A key issue in the control of distributed discrete systems modeled as Markov decisions processes, is that often the state of the system is not directly observable at any single location in the system. The participants in the control scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Jie Ren , Solmaz Torabi , John MacLaren Walsh

This article shows that distributionally robust controller synthesis as investigated in \cite{taskesen2024distributionally} can be formulated as a convex linear matrix inequality (LMI) synthesis problem. To this end, we rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Dennis Gramlich , Shuhao Yan , Carsten W. Scherer , Christian Ebenbauer%

The paper presents a novel approach to synthesize robust controllers for nonlinear systems along perturbed trajectories. The approach linearizes the system with respect to a reference trajectory. In contrast to existing methods rooted in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Felix Biertümpfel , Peter Seiler , Harald Pfifer

In distributed model predictive control (MPC), the control input at each sampling time is computed by solving a large-scale optimal control problem (OCP) over a finite horizon using distributed algorithms. Typically, such algorithms require…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Giuseppe Belgioioso , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Nicolas Pelzmann , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler

In order to deal with issues caused by the increasing penetration of renewable resources in power systems, this paper proposes a novel distributed frequency control algorithm for each generating unit and controllable load in a transmission…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Luwei Yang , Tao Liu , Zhiyuan Tang , David J. Hill