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In this paper, an optimal output consensus problem is studied for discrete-time linear multiagent systems subject to external disturbances. Each agent is assigned with a local cost function which is known only to itself. Distributed…

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This thesis investigates optimal trajectory tracking of nonlinear dynamical systems with affine controls. The control task is to enforce the system state to follow a prescribed desired trajectory as closely as possible. The concept of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Jakob Löber

This paper proposes an adaptive tracking control with prescribed performance function for distributive cooperative control of highly nonlinear multi-agent systems. The use of such approach confines the tracking error within a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by a non-smooth semilinear elliptic equation. We show that the control-to-state mapping is directionally differentiable and precisely characterize its Bouligand…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Constantin Christof , Christian Clason , Christian Meyer , Stephan Walther

The quantification of controllability and observability has recently received new interest in the context of large, complex networks of dynamical systems. A fundamental but computationally difficult problem is the placement or selection of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Fabrizio L. Cortesi , Tyler H. Summers , John Lygeros

Modeling human operator's dynamic plays a very important role in the manual closed-loop control system, and it is an active research area for several decades. Based on the characteristics of human brain and behaviour, a new kind of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Jiacai Huang , Yangquan Chen , Haibin Li , Xinxin Shi

The paper deals with the control and regulation by integral controllers forthe nonlinear systems governed by scalar quasi-linear hyperbolic partial differentialequations. Both the control input and the measured output are located on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Vincent Andrieu , Ngoc-Tu Trinh , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Implementing a component-based system in a distributed way so that it ensures some global constraints is a challenging problem. We consider here abstract specifications consisting of a composition of components and a controller given in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-30 Imene Ben-Hafaiedh , Susanne Graf , Hammadi Khairallah

A class of semilinear parabolic reaction diffusion equations with multiple time delays is considered. These time delays and corresponding weights are to be optimized such that the associated solution of the delay equation is the best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Eduardo Casas , Mariano Mateos , Fredi Tröltzsch

In this paper, by using the Brunovsky normal form, we provide a reformulation of the problem consisting in finding the actuator design which minimizes the controllability cost for finite-dimensional linear systems with scalar controls. Such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Borjan Geshkovski , Enrique Zuazua

This work examines the optimal covariance steering problem for systems subject to unknown parameters that enter multiplicatively with the state and control, in addition to additive disturbances. In contrast to existing works, the unknown…

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In this paper, we present a distributed optimal multiagent control scheme for quadrotor formation tracking under localization errors. Our control architecture is based on a leader-follower approach, where a single leader quadrotor tracks a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Clinton Enwerem , John Baras , Danilo Romero

This paper investigates the distributed optimal output consensus problem of second-order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems over weight-unbalanced directed networks. Under the standard assumption that local cost functions are strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Jin Zhang , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji

Nonlinear systems play a significant role in numerous scientific and engineering disciplines, and comprehending their behavior is crucial for the development of effective control and prediction strategies. This paper introduces a novel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Kaushal Kumar

Optimal nonlinear damping control was recently introduced for the second-order SISO systems, showing some advantages over a classical PD feedback controller. This paper summarizes the main theoretical developments and properties of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Michael Ruderman

In this paper we study the optimal control of a class of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations which have nonlinear constituents that are only accessible by data and are approximated by nonsmooth ReLU neural networks. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Kathrin Völkner

We investigate a control process described by a linear system of ordinary differential equations with a noise of special type acting to the control parameter. As the cost functional the probability of the final state vector to enter to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-05 I. P. Smirnov

Selecting a few available actuators to ensure the controllability of a linear system is a fundamental problem in control theory. Previous works either focus on optimal performance, simplifying the controllability issue, or make the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Luca Ballotta , Geethu Joseph

This paper proposes an simple but yet effective approach to structured parametric controller design in a linear fractional form. The main contribution consists in using structured $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ oriented optimization tools in an…

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