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We consider a controlled quantum system whose finite dimensional state is governed by a discrete-time nonlinear Markov process. In open-loop, the measurements are assumed to be quantum non-demolition (QND). The eigenstates of the measured…

Recently developed control methods with strong disturbance rejection capabilities provide a useful option for control design. The key lies in a general concept of disturbance and effective ways to estimate and compensate the disturbance.…

Autonomous agents are often tasked with operating in an area where feedback is unavailable. Inspired by such applications, this paper develops a novel switched systems-based control method for uncertain nonlinear systems with temporary loss…

This paper presents a constraint-enforcing control framework for a class of discrete-time strict-feedback nonlinear systems. The objective is to guarantee closed-loop stability while ensuring forward invariance of a prescribed safe set…

We propose a new method for pure-state and subspace preparation in quantum systems, which employs the output of a continuous measurement process and switching dissipative control to improve convergence speed, as well as robustness with…

We develop a predictor-feedback control design for a class of linear systems with state-dependent switching. The main ingredient of our design is a novel construction of an exact predictor state. Such a construction is possible as for a…

We study a feedback scheme to stabilize an arbitrary photon number state in a microwave cavity. The quantum non-demolition measurement of the cavity state allows a non-deterministic preparation of Fock states. Here, by the mean of a…

This paper develops a semidefinite-programming-based method for online feedback control of nonlinear systems using a state-dependent representation. We formulate sequences of time-varying SDPs whose optimal solutions jointly yield a…

Designing a static state-feedback controller subject to structural constraint achieving asymptotic stability is a relevant problem with many applications, including network decentralized control, coordinated control, and sparse feedback…

This note studies the robust output feedback stabilization problem of multi-input multi-output invertible nonlinear systems with output-dependent multipliers. An "ideal" state feedback is first designed under certain mild assumptions. Then,…

In the transition to net zero, it has been suggested that a massive expansion of the electric power grid will be required to support emerging renewable energy zones. In this paper, we propose the use of battery-based feedback control and…

This paper studies the boundary feedback stabilization of a class of diagonal infinite-dimensional boundary control systems. In the studied setting, the boundary control input is subject to a constant delay while the open loop system might…

In the present work, we consider nonlinear control systems for which there exist structural obstacles to the design of classical continuous backstepping feedback laws. We conceive feedback laws such that the origin of the closed-loop system…

This paper addresses the problem of robust and optimal control for the class of nonlinear quadratic systems subject to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties and disturbances, and in presence of some amplitude constraints on the control…

The paper is considered with the dissipative theory and feedback control under the framework of dissipation with the supply rate is the inner product of input u and the derivation of output y for the linear/nonlinear time-invariant input…

Predictor-based stabilization results are provided for nonlinear systems with input delays and a compact absorbing set. The control scheme consists of an inter-sample predictor, a global observer, an approximate predictor, and a nominal…

This paper presents some physical interpretations of recent stability results on the feedback interconnection of negative imaginary systems. These interpretations involve spring mass damper systems coupled together by springs or RLC…

A dynamic backstepping method is proposed to design controllers for nonlinear systems in the pure-feedback form, for which the traditional backstepping method suffers from solving the implicit nonlinear algebraic equation. The idea of this…

The stabilization of unstable nonlinear systems and tracking control are challenging engineering problems due to the encompassed nonlinearities in dynamic systems and their scale. In the past decades, numerous observer-based control designs…

Predictive safety filters provide a way of projecting potentially unsafe inputs, proposed, e.g. by a human or learning-based controller, onto the set of inputs that guarantee recursive state and input constraint satisfaction by leveraging…