Related papers: On topological obstructions to global stabilizatio…
Attitude control systems naturally evolve on nonlinear configuration spaces, such as S^2 and SO(3). The nontrivial topological properties of these configuration spaces result in interesting and complicated nonlinear dynamics when studying…
We consider a parametrically forced pendulum with a vertically oscillating suspension point. It is well known that, as the amplitude of the vertical oscillation is increased, its inverted state (corresponding to the vertically-up…
It is well-known that the classical PID controller is by far the most widely used ones in industrial processes, despite of the remarkable progresses of the modern control theory over the past half a century. It is also true that the…
The onset and development of instabilities is one of the central problems in fluid mechanics. Here we develop a connection between instabilities of free fluid interfaces and inverted pendula. When acted upon solely by the gravitational…
In this paper, a novel recurrent adaptive backstepping optimal control strategy for a single inverted pendulum system is studied. By this method, an inverted pendulum is stabilized using projection recurrent neural network-based adaptive…
The concepts of stability and balance represent many critical problems faced by engineering today. The inverted pendulum on a cart is one such non-linear, unstable, multivariate system whose goal is to determine a suitable control action…
A driven pendulum with vertical oscillations of pendulum support (Kapitza pendulum) possesses a number of unusual properties and is a popular object of both analytical and numerical studies. Although some spectacular results can be…
In this paper we explore the stability of an inverted pendulum with generalized parametric excitation described by a superposition of $N$ sines with different frequencies and phases. We show that when the amplitude is scaled with the…
We analyze the stability of spin spiral states in the two-dimensional Heisenberg model. Our analysis reveals that the SU(2) symmetric point hosts a dynamic instability that is enabled by the existence of energetically favorable transverse…
This paper extends sliding-mode control theory to nonlinear systems evolving on smooth manifolds. Building on differential geometric methods, we reformulate Filippov's notion of solutions, characterize well-defined vector fields on quotient…
The method of controlled Lagrangians for discrete mechanical systems is extended to include potential shaping in order to achieve complete state-space asymptotic stabilization. New terms in the controlled shape equation that are necessary…
In formation control, an ensemble of autonomous agents is required to stabilize at a given configuration in the plane, doing so while agents are allowed to observe only a subset of the ensemble. As such, formation control provides a rich…
We study how the topological properties of a one-dimensional staggered lattice, loaded into states with orbital angular momentum $l=1$, can be controlled simply by tuning the relative angle between sites. The original system under…
The present paper extends the classical second-order variational problem of Herglotz type to the more general context of the Euclidean sphere S^n following variational and optimal control approaches. The relation between the Hamiltonian…
This paper is dedicated to the stability analysis of the optimal solutions of a control problem associated with a semilinear elliptic equation. The linear differential operator of the equation is neither monotone nor coercive due to the…
The paper is devoted to the study of a stabilization problem for the 2D incompressible Euler system in an infinite strip with boundary controls. We show that for any stationary solution (c, 0) of the Euler system there is a control which is…
This review surveys previous and recent results on null controllability and inverse problems for parabolic systems with dynamic boundary conditions. We aim to demonstrate how classical methods such as Carleman estimates can be extended to…
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…
We consider the problem of stabilization to zero of semilinear normal parabolic equations connected with the 3D Helmholtz system with periodic boundary conditions and arbitrary initial datum. This problem was previously studied in…
We study affine control systems on smooth manifolds and their complete lifts to the tangent bundle, providing an explicit geometric description of the solutions of the lifted system. We show that, although controllability of the complete…