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This paper studies the problem of stabilization of a nonlinear system with time-varying delays in both sensing and actuation using event-triggered control. Our proposed strategy seeks to opportunistically minimize the number of control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Erfan Nozari , Pavankumar Tallapragada , Jorge Cortés

This paper proposes a new methodology for design of a stabilizing control law for multi-input linear systems with time-varying, singular gains on the control. The results presented here assume the control gain to satisfy persistence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-17 Srikant Sukumar , Maruthi R. Akella

In this paper, we study output synchronization for multi-agent systems. The objective is to design a protocol which only depends on the agent dynamics and does not require any knowledge of the network. If the network has a directed spanning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Anton A. Stoorvogel , Ali Saberi , Zhenwei Liu , Qiaofeng Wen

This paper studies the emulation-based stabilization of nonlinear networked control systems with two time scales. We address the challenge of using a single communication channel for transmitting both fast and slow variables between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Weixuan Wang , Alejandro I. Maass , Dragan Nešić , Ying Tan , Romain Postoyan , W. P. M. H. Heemels

This paper addresses the finite-time non-overshooting leader-following consensus problem for multi-agent systems, whose agents are modeled by a dynamical system topologically equivalent to the integrator chain. Based on the weighted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Min Li , Andrey Polyakov , Siyuan Wang , Gang Zheng

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…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Hongkeun Kim , Claudio De Persis

In this paper, we study delayed regulated state/output synchronization for discrete-time homogeneous and heterogeneous networks of multi-agent systems (MAS) subject to unknown, non-uniform and arbitrarily large communication delays. A delay…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Donya Nojavanzadeh , Zhenwei Liu , Ali Saberi , Anton A. Stoorvogel

In this paper, a distributed output regulation problem is formulated for a class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to local disturbances. The formulation is given to study a leader-following problem when the leader contains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Yutao Tang , Yiguang Hong , Xinghu Wang

We study the stabilization of networked control systems with asynchronous sensors and controllers. Offsets between the sensor and controller clocks are unknown and modeled as parametric uncertainty. First we consider multi-input linear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Masashi Wakaiki , Kunihisa Okano , Joao P. Hespanha

This paper considers the distributed consensus problem of multi-agent systems with general continuous-time linear dynamics. Two distributed adaptive dynamic consensus protocols are proposed, based on the relative output information of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Zhongkui Li , Xiangdong Liu , Wei Ren , Lihua Xie

We present an event-triggered control strategy for stabilizing a scalar, continuous-time, time-invariant, linear system over a digital communication channel having bounded delay, and in the presence of bounded system disturbance. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Mohammad Javad Khojasteh , Mojtaba Hedayatpour , Jorge Cortes , Massimo Franceschetti

In this paper, containment control of multi-agent systems with measurement noises is studied under directed networks. When the leaders are stationary, a stochastic approximation type protocol is employed to solve the containment control of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Yuanshi Zheng , Tao Li , Long Wang

This work addresses the edge-based synchronization problem in first-order multi-agent systems containing both cooperative and antagonistic interactions with one or multiple leader groups. The presence of multiple leaders and antagonistic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Pelin Sekercioglu , Angela Fontan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The paper investigates the synchronization of a network of identical linear state-space models under a possibly time-varying and directed interconnection structure. The main result is the construction of a dynamic output feedback coupling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-05-23 Luca Scardovi , Rodolphe Sepulchre

In this paper, we address the output synchronization of heterogeneous linear networks. In the literature, all agents are typically required to synchronize exactly to a common trajectory. Here, we introduce optimal stationary synchronization…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Sebastian Bernhard , Saman Khodaverdian , Jürgen Adamy

This paper investigates the distributed optimal output consensus problem of second-order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems over weight-unbalanced directed networks. Under the standard assumption that local cost functions are strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Jin Zhang , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji

This paper derives sufficient conditions for bounded distributed connectivity-preserving coordination of Euler-Lagrange systems with only position measurements and with system uncertainties, respectively. The paper proposes two strategies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Yuan Yang , Daniela Constantinescu , Yang Shi

The non-consensus problems of high order linear time-invariant dynamical homogeneous multi-agent systems are concerned. Based on the conditions of consensus achievement, the mechanisms that lead to non-consensus motions are analyzed.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Ning Cai , Chun-Lin Deng , Qiu-Xuan Wu

A suboptimal active disturbance rejection controller (S-ADRC) is proposed for second-order systems with unknown time-varying nonlinear dynamics. The output-feedback controller guarantees a global convergence to the vicinity of an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Amir Shakouri , M. Reza Emami

This paper re-visits a multi-agent deployment problem where agents are restricted from requesting information from other agents as well as sending acknowledgments when information is received. These communication constraints relax the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Mohanad Ajina , Daniel Tabatabai , Cameron Nowzari