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The paper describes a novel method of sampled-data in space (spatial variable) control of scalar semilinear systems of parabolic and hyperbolic type with unknown parameters and distributed disturbances. A finite set of sampled-data in the…
In this paper, a fixed-time safe control problem is investigated for an uncertain high-order nonlinear pure-feedback system with state constraints. A new nonlinear transformation function is firstly proposed to handle both the constrained…
We present a dynamical system approach for the control of a nonlinear dynamical system by defining the control problem in a Fiber bundle framework. The constructive procedure derived results in the generation of a NHIM/NAIM which…
A recent approach to the control of underactuated systems is to look for control laws which will induce some specified structure on the closed loop system. This basic idea is used in several papers already. In this paper, we will describe…
This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…
A geometric formulation for stabilization of systems with one degree of underactuation which fully solves the energy shaping problem for these system is given. The results show that any linearly controllable simple mechanical system with…
We develop a Nitsche finite element method for a model of Euler--Bernoulli beams with axial stiffness embedded in a two--dimensional elastic bulk domain. The beams have their own displacement fields, and the elastic subdomains created by…
Two novel version of weak form quadrature elements are proposed based on Lagrange and Hermite interpolations, respectively, for a sec- ond strain gradient Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. The second strain gradient theory is governed by eighth…
We study an optimal control problem governed by elliptic PDEs with interface, which the control acts on the interface. Due to the jump of the coefficient across the interface and the control acting on the interface, the regularity of…
The stability of a piezoelectric structure controlled by a digital vibration absorber emulating a shunt circuit is investigated in this work. The formalism of feedback control theory is used to demonstrate that systems with a low…
A novel control design approach for general nonlinear systems is described in this paper. The approach is based on the identification of a polynomial model of the system to control and on the on-line inversion of this model. Extensive…
This paper is concerned with fault/disturbance compensation control for fully actuated systems. In particular, we explore observer-based control, incorporating an active compensation mechanism. First, we propose a novel observer with…
We derive in a direct way the exact controllability of the 1D free Schr\"odinger equation with Dirichlet boundary control. We use the so-called flatness approach, which consists in parametrizing the solution and the control by the…
In the dynamics of linear structures, the impulse response function is of fundamental interest. In some cases one examines the short term response wherein the disturbance is still local and the boundaries have not yet come into play, and…
In this paper, we are concerned with the stabilization of linear port-Hamiltonian systems of arbitrary order $N \in \mathbb{N}$ on a bounded $1$-dimensional spatial domain $(a,b)$. In order to achieve stabilization, we couple the system to…
Predictor-based stabilization results are provided for nonlinear systems with input delays and a compact absorbing set. The control scheme consists of an inter-sample predictor, a global observer, an approximate predictor, and a nominal…
This paper shows that the dynamics of a general class of aerial manipulators, consist of an underactuated multi-rotor base with an arbitrary k-linked articulated manipulator, are differentially flat. Methods of Lagrangian Reduction under…
Shape control of deformable objects is a challenging and important robotic problem. This paper proposes a model-free controller using novel 3D global deformation features based on modal analysis. Unlike most existing controllers using…
A numerical study of an optimal control formulation for a shape optimization problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality is performed. The shape optimization problem is reformulated as a boundary control problem in a fixed…
This paper develops a novel physics-inspired traffic coordination approach and applies it to Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) traffic management. We extend available physics-inspired approaches previously applied to 1-D traffic flow on…