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This article proposes an improved trajectory optimization approach for stochastic optimal control of dynamical systems affected by measurement noise by combining optimal control with maximum likelihood techniques to improve the reduction of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-25 Prakash Mallick , Zhiyong Chen

The modeling of phenomenological structure is a crucial aspect in inverse imaging problems. One emerging modeling tool in computational imaging is the optimal transport framework. Its ability to model geometric displacements across an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 John Lee , Nicholas P. Bertrand , Christopher J. Rozell

This paper addresses the trajectory tracking problem of an autonomous tractor-trailer system by using a decentralized control approach. A fully decentralized model predictive controller is designed in which interactions between subsystems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Erkan Kayacan , Erdal Kayacan , Herman Ramon , Wouter Saeys

Regularization is used in many different areas of optimization when solutions are sought which not only minimize a given function, but also possess a certain degree of regularity. Popular applications are image denoising, sparse regression…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Bennet Gebken , Katharina Bieker , Sebastian Peitz

This paper addresses the problem of generating dynamically admissible trajectories for control tasks using diffusion models, particularly in scenarios where the environment is complex and system dynamics are crucial for practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Darshan Gadginmath , Fabio Pasqualetti

This paper focuses on optimal control problem for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. In practical applications, computation time is a crucial consideration when solving nonlinear optimal control problems, especially under real-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Chuanzhi Lv , Xunmin Yin , Hongdan Li , Huanshui Zhang

The note focuses on the differential geometric approach to the study of nonlinear systems that are affine in control. We first develop normal forms for nonlinear system affine in control. Based on these normal forms, we then address the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Xinmin Liu

We treat the periodic trajectory tracking problem: given a periodic trajectory of a control-affine, left-invariant driftless system in a compact and connected Lie group $G$ and an initial condition in $G$, find another trajectory of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Gabriel Araújo

This article studies the control ideas of the optimal backstepping technique, proposing an event-triggered optimal tracking control scheme for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with non-affine and nonlinear faults. A simplified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Ling Wang , Xin Wang , Ziming Wang

We investigate several control strategies for the transport of an excitation along a spin chain. We demonstrate that fast, high fidelity transport can be achieved using protocols designed with differentiable programming. Building on this,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Luuk Coopmans , Steve Campbell , Gabriele De Chiara , Anthony Kiely

We present a novel technique to drive a nonlinear system to reach a target state under input constraints. The proposed controller consists only of piecewise constant inputs, generated from a simple linear driftless approximation to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Ram Padmanabhan , Melkior Ornik

Target tracking entails the estimation of the evolution of the target state over time, namely the target trajectory. Different from the classical state space model, our series of studies, including this paper, model the collection of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Tiancheng Li , Yan Song , Guchong Li , Hao Li

This paper studies the tracking control problem for nonholonomic mobile robots based on second order dynamics, with application to consensus tracking and formation tracking. The greatest novelty in this paper is that the reference…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Xiaodong He , Zhiyong Geng

Stable concurrent learning and control of dynamical systems is the subject of adaptive control. Despite being an established field with many practical applications and a rich theory, much of the development in adaptive control for nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Nicholas M. Boffi , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

This paper studies optimal control under the average-reward/cost criterion for deterministic linear systems. We derive the value function and optimal policy, and propose an approximate solution using Model Predictive Control to enable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Duc Cuong Nguyen

In this paper we address the problem of tracking control of nonlinear systems via contraction analysis. The necessary conditions of the systems which can achieve universal asymptotic tracking are studied under several different cases. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Bowen Yi , Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester

Safe trajectory planning for high-performance automated vehicles in an environment with both static and moving obstacles is a challenging problem. Part of the challenge is developing a formulation that can be solved in real-time while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Huckleberry Febbo , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Jeffrey L. Stein , Tulga Ersal

The purpose of this paper is to use the framework of Lie algebroids to study optimal control problems for affine connection control systems on Lie groups. In this context, the equations for critical trajectories of the problem are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-16 L. Abrunheiro , M. Camarinha

In this paper, a new control scheme, called as additive-decomposition-based tracking control, is proposed to solve the output feedback tracking problem for a class of systems with measurable nonlinearities and unknown disturbances. By the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-10 Quan Quan , Kai-Yuan Cai , Hai Lin

Aircraft failures alter dynamics, diminishing manoeuvrability. Such manoeuvring flight envelope variations, governed by the aircraft's complex nonlinear dynamics, are unpredictable by pilots and existing flight management systems. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Ramin Norouzi , Amirreza Kosari , Mark H. Lowenberg