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In this note we identify a class of underactuated mechanical systems whose desired constant equilibrium position can be globally stabilised with the ubiquitous PID controller. The class is characterised via some easily verifiable conditions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Jose Guadalupe Romero , Alejandro Donaire , Romeo Ortega

To improve the predictive capacity of system models in the input-output sense, this paper presents a framework for model updating via learning of modeling uncertainties in locally (and thus also in globally) Lipschitz nonlinear systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Farhad Ghanipoor , Carlos Murguia , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Nathan van de Wouw

We present a new method for the automated synthesis of safe and robust Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers for stochastic hybrid systems. Despite their widespread use in industry, no automated method currently exists for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Fedor Shmarov , Nicola Paoletti , Ezio Bartocci , Shan Lin , Scott A. Smolka , Paolo Zuliani

In this note we address the problem of indirect adaptive (regulation or tracking) control of nonlinear, input affine dissipative systems. It is assumed that the supply rate, the storage and the internal dissipation functions may be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Romeo Ortega , Rafael Cisneros , Lei Wang , Arjan van der Schaft

In this paper, we present an approach for designing correct-by-design controllers for cyber-physical systems composed of multiple dynamically interconnected uncertain systems. We consider networked discrete-time uncertain nonlinear systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Oliver Schön , Birgit van Huijgevoort , Sofie Haesaert , Sadegh Soudjani

In some of the complicated control problems we have to use the controllers that apply nonlocal operators to the error signal to generate the control. Currently, the most famous controller with nonlocal operators is the fractional-order PID…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-02 Farshad Merrikh-Bayat , Seyedeh-Nafiseh Mirebrahimi , Mohammad-Reza Khalili

The proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller and its variants are widely used in control engineering, but they often rely on linearization around equilibrium points and empirical parameter tuning, making them ineffective for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Zimao Sheng

This paper revisits a classical challenge in the design of stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems with a norm-bounded input constraint. By extending Lin-Sontag's universal formula and introducing a generic (state-dependent) scaling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Ming Li , Zhiyong Sun , Siep Weiland

In this work, we propose a rigorous method for implementing predictor feedback controllers in nonlinear systems with unknown and arbitrarily long actuator delays. To address the analytically intractable nature of the predictor, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Luke Bhan , Miroslav Krstic , Yuanyuan Shi

Overall, in any system, the proportional term, integral term, and derivative term combined to produce a fast response time, less overshoot, no oscillations, increased stability, and no steady-state errors. Eliminating the steady state…

Stability and control of a non-linear system represent an important system configuration that frequently arises in practical engineering. Stability covers a vast range of systems that do not obey the superposition principle and applies to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Asifa Yousaf

This paper addresses the numerical optimization of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers for linear time-invariant systems with delays, where the derivative action is implemented using a low-pass filter. While performance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Diego Torres-García , Wim Michiels

In this paper, a simple heuristic is proposed for the design of uncertainty aware predictive controllers for nonlinear models involving uncertain parameters. The method relies on Machine Learning-based approximation of ideal deterministic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Mazen Alamir

This paper analyzes the motion of solutions to non-homogeneous linear differential equations. It further clarifies that a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller essentially comprises two parts: a homogeneous controller and a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Xinyu Shi

In this paper we propose an end-to-end algorithm for indirect data-driven control for bilinear systems with stability guarantees. We consider the case where the collected i.i.d. data is affected by probabilistic noise with possibly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Nicolas Chatzikiriakos , Robin Strässer , Frank Allgöwer , Andrea Iannelli

This paper investigates adaptive model predictive control (MPC) for a class of constrained linear systems with unknown model parameters. This is also posed as the dual control problem consisting of system identification and regulation. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Kunwu Zhang , Yang Shi

We propose a Stein variational distributionally robust controller for nonlinear dynamical systems with latent parametric uncertainty. The method is an alternative to conservative worst-case ambiguity-set optimization with a deterministic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan , Ian Abraham

This paper proposes a general incremental policy iteration adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) algorithm for model-free robust optimal control of unknown nonlinear systems. The approach integrates recursive least squares estimation with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Qingkai Meng , Fenglan Wang , Lin Zhao

It is nontrivial to achieve exponential stability even for time-invariant nonlinear systems with matched uncertainties and persistent excitation (PE) condition. In this paper, without the need for PE condition, we address the problem of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Hefu Ye , Haijia Wu , Kai Zhao , Yongduan Song

This paper studies the design of neural network (NN)-based controllers for unknown nonlinear systems, using contraction analysis. A Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (NODE) system is constructed by approximating the unknown draft…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Hao Yin , Claudio De Persis , Bayu Jayawardhana , Santiago Sanchez Escalonilla Plaza