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We consider the problem of discounted optimal state-feedback regulation for general unknown deterministic discrete-time systems. It is well known that open-loop instability of systems, non-quadratic cost functions and complex nonlinear…
In this paper, an adaptive nonlinear controller is designed for a parallel DC-DC converter system that feeds an unknown ZIP load, characterized by constant impedance (Z), constant current (I), and constant power (P), at the DC bus. The…
H2-conic controller design seeks to minimize the closed-loop H2-norm for a nominal linear system while satisfying the Conic Sector Theorem for nonlinear stability. This problem has only been posed with limited design freedom, as opposed to…
We propose the application of Koopman operator theory for the design of stabilizing feedback controller for a nonlinear control system. The proposed approach is data-driven and relies on the use of time-series data generated from the…
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…
This paper considers a collection of networked nonlinear dynamical systems, and addresses the synthesis of feedback controllers that seek optimal operating points corresponding to the solution of network-wide constrained optimization…
This note addresses the output synchronization problem of incrementally output-feedback passive nonlinear systems in the presence of exogenous disturbances. Two kinds of distributed controllers are proposed; one placed at the nodes and the…
This paper presents a systematic approach to the design of a robust dynamic state feedback controller using copies of the plant nonlinearities, which is based on the use of IQCs and minimax LQR control. The approach combines a linear state…
Given the recent surge of interest in data-driven control, this paper proposes a two-step method to study robust data-driven control for a parameter-unknown linear time-invariant (LTI) system that is affected by energy-bounded noises.…
Recent studies on encrypted control using homomorphic encryption allow secure operation by directly performing computations on encrypted data without decryption. Implementing dynamic controllers on encrypted data presents unique challenges…
In this paper, we present a data-driven secondary controller for regulating to some desired values several variables of interest in a power system, namely, electrical frequency, voltage magnitudes at critical buses, and active power flows…
This paper considers the leader-follower tracking control problem for linear interconnected systems with undirected topology and linear dynamic coupling. Interactions between the systems are treated as linear dynamic uncertainty and are…
The increase in system complexity paired with a growing availability of operational data has motivated a change in the traditional control design paradigm. Instead of modeling the system by first principles and then proceeding with a…
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…
This paper proposes a novel nonlinear sliding mode state feedback controller for perturbed second-order systems. In analogy to a linear proportional-derivative (PD) feedback control, the proposed nonlinear scheme uses the output of interest…
This paper considers the problem of designing a continuous-time dynamical system that solves a constrained nonlinear optimization problem and makes the feasible set forward invariant and asymptotically stable. The invariance of the feasible…
We study a nonlinear, non-autonomous feedback controller applied to boundary control systems. Our aim is to track a given reference signal with prescribed performance. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to the resulting closed-loop…
In this paper, the notion of contraction is used to solve the trajectory-tracking problem for a class of mechanical systems. Additionally, we propose a dynamic extension to remove velocity measurements from the controller while rejecting…
In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach for control of nonlinear dynamical systems. The proposed data-driven approach relies on transfer Koopman and Perron-Frobenius (P-F) operators for linear representation and control of such…
In many nonlinear control problems, the plant can be accurately described by a linear model whose operating point depends on some measurable variables, called scheduling signals. When such a linear parameter-varying (LPV) model of the…