Related papers: Switching control for incremental stabilization of…

We propose a stability analysis method for sampled-data switched linear systems with finite-level static quantizers. In the closed-loop system, information on the active mode of the plant is transmitted to the controller only at each…

This paper presents an optimal dynamic control framework for bounded Jacobian nonlinear discrete-time (DT) systems with nonlinear observations affected by both state and process noise. Rather than directly stabilizing the uncertain system,…

This paper addresses the safe stabilization problem of stochastic nonlinear time-delay systems. Based on theKrasovskii approach, we first propose a stochastic control Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional to guarantee the stabilization objective…

The event-triggered control with intermittent output can reduce the communication burden between the controller and plant side over the network. It has been exploited for adaptive output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems in…

In this paper we explore the stabilization of closed invariant sets for passive systems, and present conditions under which a passivity-based feedback asymptotically stabilizes the goal set. Our results rely on novel reduction principles…

This paper concerns the small-time stabilization of some classes of mechanical systems which are not stabilizable by means of at least continuous state feedback laws. This is the case of nonholonomic mechanical systems, an example being the…

In this paper, we study stabilizability of discrete-time switched linear systems where the switching signal is considered as an arbitrary disturbance (and not a control variable). We characterize feedback stabilization via necessary and…

In this paper, we consider the stability analysis of large-scale distributed networked control systems with random communication delays between linearly interconnected subsystems. The stability analysis is performed in the Markov jump…

This paper deals with an isoperimetric optimal control problem for nonlinear control-affine systems with periodic boundary conditions. As it was shown previously, the candidates for optimal controls for this problem can be obtained within…

In this paper, we present a strictly negative imaginary state feedback control methodology for relative degree two negative imaginary systems such as flexible structures with collocated sensors and actuators. We show that by augmenting a…

Fixed-time stable dynamical systems are capable of achieving exact convergence to an equilibrium point within a fixed time that is independent of the initial conditions of the system. This property makes them highly appealing for designing…

There have been many recent efforts to study accelerated optimization algorithms from the perspective of dynamical systems. In this paper, we focus on the robustness properties of the time-varying continuous-time version of these dynamics.…

In this paper we provide a set of stability conditions for linear time-varying networked control systems with arbitrary topologies using a piecewise quadratic switching stabilization approach with multiple quadratic Lyapunov functions. We…

This paper studies the structural controllability of a class of uncertain switched linear systems, where the parameters of subsystems state matrices are either unknown or zero. The structural controllability is a generalization of the…

We develop a tracking model predictive control (MPC) scheme for nonlinear systems using the linearized dynamics at the current state as a prediction model. Under reasonable assumptions on the linearized dynamics, we prove that the proposed…

We study the possibility to stabilize unstable steady states and unstable periodic orbits in chaotic fractional-order dynamical systems by the time-delayed feedback method. By performing a linear stability analysis, we establish the…

In this paper, we will investigate the moment exponential stabilization of highly nonlinear hybrid stochastic differential delay equations. A periodically intermittent controller based on discrete time state observations with asynchronous…

In this paper, we investigate the stabilization of a nonlinear plant subject to network constraints, under the assumption of partial knowledge of the plant state. The event triggered paradigm is used for the observation and the control of…

In real-world control applications, actuator constraints and output constraints (specifically in tracking problems) are inherent and critical to ensuring safe and reliable operation. However, generally, control strategies often neglect…

This paper analyzes distributed control protocols for first- and second-order networked dynamical systems. We propose a class of nonlinear consensus controllers where the input of each agent can be written as a product of a nonlinear gain,…