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This paper presents a general form of integral sliding mode manifold, and proposes an algorithmic approach based on Sum of Squares (SOS) programming to design generalized integral sliding mode manifold and controller for nonlinear systems…
Finite time analysis of the continuous system is investigated through both stability and stabilization based on Sum of squares programming. A systematic approach is proposed to construct Lyapunov function and Control Lyapunov function for…
Stability analysis tools are essential to understanding and controlling any engineering system. Recently sum-of-squares (SOS) based methods have been used to compute Lyapunov based estimates for the region-of-attraction (ROA) of polynomial…
In this paper, we present a novel approach to determine the stability of switched linear and nonlinear systems using Sum of Squares optimisation. Particularly, we use Sum of Squares optimisation to search for a Lyapunov function that…
This paper proposes a new adaptation methodology to find the control inputs for a class of nonlinear systems with time-varying bounded uncertainties. The proposed method does not require any prior knowledge of the uncertainties including…
This paper designs a servo control system based on sliding mode control for the shape control of elastic objects. In order to solve the effect of non-smooth and asymmetric control saturation, a Gaussian-based continuous differentiable…
Recent advances in learning techniques have enabled the modelling of unknown dynamical systems directly from data. However, in many contexts, these learning-based methods are short of safety guarantee and strict stability verification. To…
In this paper, we propose a framework for designing sliding mode controllers for a class of mechanical systems with symmetry, both unconstrained and constrained, that evolve on principal fiber bundles. Control laws are developed based on…
We present a method for synthesizing dynamic, reduced-order output-feedback polynomial control policies for control-affine nonlinear systems which guarantees runtime stability to a goal state, when using visual observations and a learned…
Neural network controllers have the potential to improve the performance of feedback systems compared to traditional controllers, due to their ability to act as general function approximators. However, quantifying their safety and…
Within the framework of Sliding Mode Control, safety critical control looks at two problems of theoretical significance: construct a sliding manifold that does not intersect a given unsafe set of the state space, and design a robust…
This work estimates safe invariant subsets of the Region of Attraction (ROA) for a seven-state vehicle-with-driver system, capturing both asymptotic stability and the influence of state-safety bounds along the system trajectory. Safe sets…
In this study, we present a novel sliding mode safety-critical controller designed to address both stability and safety concerns in a class of nonlinear uncertain systems. The controller features two feedback loops: an inner loop designed…
This paper proposes a robust control method based on sliding mode design for two-level quantum systems with bounded uncertainties. An eigenstate of the two-level quantum system is identified as a sliding mode. The objective is to design a…
We present a new data-driven method to provide probabilistic stability guarantees for black-box switched linear systems. By sampling a finite number of observations of trajectories, we construct approximate Lyapunov functions and deduce the…
This paper deals with the stabilization of a class of linear infinite-dimensional systems with unbounded control operators and subject to a boundary disturbance. We assume that there exists a linear feedback law that makes the origin of the…
Reliable quasi-static object manuipulation and robotic locomotion require verification of the stability of equilibria under rigid contacts and friction. In a recent paper, M. Posa, M. Tobenkin, and R. Tedrake demonstrated that…
For the class of nonlinear input-affine systems with polynomial dynamics, we consider the problem of designing an input-to-state stabilizing controller with respect to typical exogenous signals in a feedback control system, such as actuator…
This paper presents a combined sliding-mode control and subspace stabilization methodology for orbital stabilization of periodic trajectories in underactuated mechanical systems with one degree of underactuation. The approach starts with…
This work has the goal of briefly surveying some key stabilization techniques for general nonlinear systems, for which, as it is well known, a smooth control Lyapunov function may fail to exist. A general overview of the situation with…