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In this note we consider a class of linear time invariant systems with infinitely many unstable modes. By using the parameterization of all stabilizing controllers and a data transformation, we show that H-infinity controllers for such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Suat Gumussoy , Hitay Ozbay

In this note, the problem of simultaneous leader-following consensus and parameter estimation is studied for a class of multi-agent systems subject to an uncertain leader system. The leader system is described by a sum of sinusoids with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Shimin Wang , Xiangyu Meng

Model-reference adaptive systems refer to a consortium of techniques that guide plants to track desired reference trajectories. Approaches based on theories like Lyapunov, sliding surfaces, and backstepping are typically employed to advise…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Mohammed Abouheaf , Wail Gueaieb , Davide Spinello , Salah Al-Sharhan

An approach to stabilization of control systems with ultimately wide ranges of uncertainly disturbed parameters is offered. The method relies on using of nonlinear structurally stable functions from catastrophe theory as controllers.…

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This paper introduces an adaptive-neuro geometric control for a centralized multi-quadrotor cooperative transportation system, which enhances both adaptivity and disturbance rejection. Our strategy is to coactively tune the model parameters…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tianhua Gao , Kohji Tomita , Akiya Kamimura

The present paper provides a sufficient condition to ensure output finite-time and fixed-time stability. Comparing with analogous researches the proposed result is less restrictive and obtained for a wider class of systems. The presented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Konstantin Zimenko , Denis Efimov , Andrey Polyakov

When fine-tuning Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to new data, DNNs are prone to overwriting network parameters required for task-specific functionality on previously learned tasks, resulting in a loss of performance on those tasks. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Christopher Angelini , Nidhal Bouaynaya

We consider a networked control system (NCS) consisting of two plants, a global plant and a local plant, and two controllers, a global controller and a local controller. The global (resp. local) plant follows discrete-time stochastically…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Yi Ouyang , Ashutosh Nayyar

Underactuated legged robots depict highly nonlinear and complex dynamical behaviors that create significant challenges in accurately modeling system dynamics using both first principles and system identification approaches. Hence, it makes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Güner Dilşad Er , Mustafa Mert Ankaralı

We propose a learning-based robust predictive control algorithm that compensates for significant uncertainty in the dynamics for a class of discrete-time systems that are nominally linear with an additive nonlinear component. Such systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Rohan Sinha , James Harrison , Spencer M. Richards , Marco Pavone

The paper presents a new control algorithm for unstable linear systems with input delay. In comparison with known analogues, the control law has been designed, which is a modification of the Smith predictor, and is the simplest one to…

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We consider the multivariate response regression problem with a regression coefficient matrix of low, unknown rank. In this setting, we analyze a new criterion for selecting the optimal reduced rank. This criterion differs notably from the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-30 Xin Bing , Marten Wegkamp

This paper investigates the linear output regulation problem with both the exosystem and the plant fully unknown. A data-driven regulator is proposed to achieve asymptotic regulation and closed-loop stability without performing model…

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This article proposes a Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) strategy to achieve fixed-time convergence of parameter estimation and tracking errors for unknown linear time-invariant systems, without relying on the persistence of…

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One approach to robust control for linear plants with structured uncertainty as well as for linear parameter-varying (LPV) plants (where the controller has on-line access to the varying plant parameters) is through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-08-20 J. A. Ball , Q. Fang , G. J. Groenewald , S. ter Horst

Adaptive control technique is adopted to synchronize two identical non-autonomous systems with unknown parameters in finite time. A virtual unknown parameter is introduced in order to avoid the unknown parameters from appearing in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jianping Cai , Meili Lin

Owing to uncertainties in both kinematics and dynamics, the current trajectory tracking framework for mobile robots like spherical robots cannot function effectively on multiple terrains, especially uneven and unknown ones. Since this is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yifan Liu , Tao Hu , Xiaoqing Guan , Yixu Wang , Bixuan Zhang , You Wang , Guang Li

We propose a novel adaptive reinforcement learning control approach for fault tolerant control of degrading systems that is not preceded by a fault detection and diagnosis step. Therefore, \textit{a priori} knowledge of faults that may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Ibrahim Ahmed , Marcos Quiñones-Grueiro , Gautam Biswas

This short note shows that the Deadzone-Adapted Disturbance Suppression (DADS) adaptive control scheme is applicable to systems with unknown input coefficients. We study time-invariant, control-affine systems that satisfy the matching…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic