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Soft and soft-rigid hybrid robots are inherently underactuated and operate under tight actuator limits, making task-space control with stability guarantees challenging. Common nonlinear strategies for soft robots (e.g., those based on PD…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Huy Pham , Zach J. Patterson

In the article$^a$, the authors introduced a time-varying Lyapunov function for the stability analysis of nonlinear systems whose motion is governed by standard Newton-Euler equations. The authors established asymptotic stability with the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Lekan Molu

We consider the problem of designing a stabilizing and optimal static controller with a pre-specified sparsity pattern. Since this problem is NP-hard in general, it is necessary to resort to approximation approaches. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Luca Furieri , Yang Zheng , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Maryam Kamgarpour

We present a technique for learning control Lyapunov-like functions, which are used in turn to synthesize controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems that can stabilize the system, or satisfy specifications such as remaining inside a safe…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Polyhedral Lyapunov functions can approximate any norm arbitrarily well. Because of this, they are used to study the stability of linear time varying and linear parameter varying systems without being conservative. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Dimitris Kousoulidis , Fulvio Forni

In this paper, a novel robust tracking control law is proposed for constrained robots under unknown stiffness environment. The stability and the robustness of the controller are proved using a Lyapunov-based approach where the relationship…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Haifa Mehdi , Olfa Boubaker

This paper presents the design of a control model to navigate the differential mobile robot to reach the desired destination from an arbitrary initial pose. The designed model is divided into two stages: the state estimation and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-19 T. T. Hoang , P. M. Duong , N. T. T. Van , T. Q. Vinh

This article presents an adaptive nonlinear delayed feedback control scheme for stabilizing the unstable periodic orbit of unknown fractional-order chaotic systems. The proposed control framework uses the Lyapunov approach and sliding mode…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Bahram Yaghooti , Kaveh Safavigerdini , Reza Hajiloo , Hassan Salarieh

The notion of safety in multi-agent systems assumes great significance in many emerging collaborative multi-robot applications. In this paper, we present a multi-UAV collaborative target-tracking application by defining bounded inter-UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Aditya Hegde , Jasmine Jerry Aloor , Debasish Ghose

In this paper quotients of control systems which are generalizations of system reductions are used to study the stabilizability property of non-linear systems. Given a control system and its quotient we study under what conditions…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Tinashe Chingozha , Otis T. Nyandoro , Anton van Wyk

We introduce High-Relative Degree Stochastic Control Lyapunov functions and Barrier Functions as a means to ensure asymptotic stability of the system and incorporate state dependent high relative degree safety constraints on a non-linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Meenakshi Sarkar , Debasish Ghose , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Design and analysis of stabilizing controllers with safety guarantees for nonlinear systems have received considerable attention in recent years. Control Lyapunov-barrier functions (CLBFs) provide a powerful framework for simultaneously…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Yiming Meng , Jun Liu

In the design and operation of complex dynamical systems, it is essential to ensure that all state trajectories of the dynamical system converge to a desired equilibrium within a guaranteed stability region. Yet, for many practical systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Tomoki Koike , Elizabeth Qian

This work addresses the problem of constrained motion control of the uncrewed surface vessels. The constraints are imposed on states/inputs of the vehicles due to the physical limitations, mission requirements, and safety considerations. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Ram Milan Kumar Verma , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Hemendra Arya

In this work, we propose a methodology for the expression of necessary and sufficient Lyapunov-like conditions for the existence of stabilizing feedback laws. The methodology is an extension of the well-known Control Lyapunov Function (CLF)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-31 Iasson Karafyllis , Zhong-Ping Jiang

Electric propulsion is used to maximize payload capacity in communication satellites. These orbit raising maneuvers span several months and hundreds of revolutions, making trajectory design a complex challenge. The literature typically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Suraj Kumar , Aditya Rallapalli , Nivriti Priyadarshini , Bharat Kumar GVP , Ravi Kumar L

This paper provides a systematic exposition of Lyapunov stability for compact sets in locally compact metric spaces. We explore foundational concepts, including neighborhoods of compact sets, invariant sets, and the properties of dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Reza Hadadi

Title: Global stabilization of control nonlinear system "inverted pendulum on a cart" using method of two Lyapunov functions Authors: B. L. Mazov (Nizhny Novgorod Technical University) Comments: 10 pages Subj-class: Dynamical Systems…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. L. Mazov

Using a nonlocal second-order traffic flow model we present an approach to control the dynamics towards a steady state. The system is controlled by the leading vehicle driving at a prescribed velocity and also determines the steady state.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Jan Friedrich , Simone Göttlich , Michael Herty

This paper presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the stability of higher-order geometric nonlinear control laws for attitude control on the Special Orthogonal Group $\mathrm{SO(3)}$. In particular, the paper extends existing…

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