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The key idea behind PID Passivity-based Control (PID-PBC) is to leverage the passivity property of PIDs (for all positive gains) and wrap the PID controller around a passive output to ensure global stability in closed-loop. However, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Alessio Moreschini , Wei He , Romeo Ortega , Yiheng Lu , Tao Li

We study the problem of robust global stabilization in control-affine systems, focusing on dynamic uncertainties in the control directions \emph{and} the presence of topological obstructions that prevent the existence of smooth global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Jorge I. Poveda

The Lyapunov inequality is an indispensable tool for stability analysis in linear control theory. It provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of an autonomous linear-time invariant system in terms of the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Avinash Kumar

This paper investigates the robust stabilisation of a class of fractional-order non-linear systems via fixed-order dynamic output feedback controller in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The systematic stabilisation algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Elyar Zavary , Mahdi Sojoodi

Standard geometric control relies on force-moment decoupling, an assumption that breaks down in many aerial platforms due to spurious forces naturally induced by control moments. While strategies for such coupled systems have been validated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Simone Orelli , Mirko Mizzoni , Antonio Franchi

In this paper, we propose several rules to tune the gains for a class of passivity-based controllers for nonlinear mechanical systems. Such tuning rules prescribe a desired local transient response behavior to the closed-loop system. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Carmen Chan-Zheng , Pablo Borja , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

In this paper, we examine the shifted passivity property of port-Hamiltonian systems. Shifted passivity accounts for the fact that in many applications the desired steady-state values of the input and output variables are nonzero, and thus…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Nima Monshizadeh , Pooya Monshizadeh , Romeo Ortega , Arjan van der Schaft

Stability analysis and control of linear impulsive systems is addressed in a hybrid framework, through the use of continuous-time time-varying discontinuous Lyapunov functions. Necessary and sufficient conditions for stability of impulsive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-15 Corentin Briat

In this paper, we will consider a class of continuous-time stochastic control systems with both unknown nonlinear structure and unknown disturbances, and investigate the capability of the classical proportional-integral-derivative(PID)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Cheng Zhao , Shuo Yuan

As is well known, classical PID control is ubiquitous in industrial processes, yet a rigorous and explicit design theory for nonlinear uncertain MIMO second-order systems remains underdeveloped. In this paper we consider a class of such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Tianyou Xiang , Cheng Zhao

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

This paper studies the use of vector Lyapunov functions for the design of globally stabilizing feedback laws for nonlinear systems. Recent results on vector Lyapunov functions are utilized. The main result of the paper shows that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Iasson Karafyllis , Zhong-Ping Jiang

Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control scheme has been used to stabilize many physical systems such as underactuated mechanical systems through total energy shaping. In this method, some partial differential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 M. Reza J. Harandi , Hamid D. Taghirad

This paper addresses the problem of exponential and accelerated finite-time, as well as nearly fixed-time, stabilization of switched linear MIMO systems. The proposed approach relies on a generalized homogenization framework for switched…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Moussa Labbadi , Andrey Polyakov , Denis Efimov

This paper deals with the stability analysis of a mass-spring system subject to friction using Lyapunov-based arguments. As the described system presents a stick-slip phenomenon, the mass may then periodically sticks to the ground. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Matthieu Barreau , Sophie Tarbouriech , Frederic Gouaisbaut

In this work, we study finite-time stability of switched and hybrid systems in the presence of unstable modes. We present sufficient conditions in terms of multiple Lyapunov functions for the origin of the system to be finite time stable.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Kunal Garg , Dimitra Panagou

This paper provides necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for the (global) Input-to-State Stability property of simple uncertain vehicular-traffic network models under the effect of a PI-regulator. Local stability properties for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Iasson Karafyllis , Markos Papageorgiou

In this paper we introduce the concept of universal stabilizability: the condition that every solution of a nonlinear system can be globally stabilized. We give sufficient conditions in terms of the existence of a control contraction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-21 Ian R. Manchester , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

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

Several results regarding the stability and the stabilization of linear impulsive positive systems under arbitrary, constant, minimum, maximum and range dwell-time are obtained. The proposed stability conditions characterize the pointwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Corentin Briat