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In this work, two mathematical models for malaria under resistance are presented. More precisely, the first model shows the interaction between humans and mosquitoes inside a patch under infection of malaria when the human population is…

We develop a switched nonlinear predictor-feedback control law to achieve global asymptotic stabilization for nonlinear systems with arbitrarily long input delay, under state quantization. The proposed design generalizes the nonlinear…

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Robust global stabilization of nonlinear systems by observer-based feedback controllers is a challenging task. This article investigates the problem of designing observer-based stabilizing controllers for incrementally quadratic nonlinear…

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This paper develops a provably stable sensor-driven controller for path-following applications of robots with unicycle kinematics, one specific class of which is the wheeled mobile robot (WMR). The sensor measurement is converted to a…

A switched equilibrium of a switched system of two subsystems is a such a point where the vector fields of the two subsystems point strictly towards one another. Using the concept of stable convex combination that was developed by…

In this paper we present a direct adaptive control method for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with a time-varying structure. We view the nonlinear systems as composed of a finite number of ``pieces,'' which are interpolated by…

Hybrid systems, and especially piecewise affine (PWA) systems, are often used to model gene regulatory networks. In this paper we elaborate on previous work about control problems for this class of models, using also some recent results…

This work concerns feedback global stabilization of the sterile insect technique dynamics. The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is presently one of the most ecological methods for controlling insect pests responsible for crop destruction and…

This paper presents a novel anti-windup proportional-integral controller for stable multi-input multi-output nonlinear plants. We use tools from projected dynamical systems theory to force the integrator state to remain in a desired…

Many West Nile virus (WNV) forecasting frameworks incorporate entomological or avian surveillance data, which may be unavailable in some regions. We introduce a novel data-parsimonious probabilistic model to predict both the timing of…

We study in this paper the problem of adaptive trajectory tracking control for a class of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties. We propose to use a modular approach, where we first design a robust nonlinear state feedback which…

This paper focuses on the equilibria and their regions of attraction for continuous-time nonlinear dynamical systems. The classical Poincar\'e--Hopf Theorem from differential topology is used to derive a result on a sufficient condition on…