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Self-excited systems arise in numerous applications, such as biochemical systems, fluid-structure interaction, and combustion. This paper analyzes a discrete-time Lur'e system with a piecewise-linear saturation feedback nonlinearity. The…
Self-excited systems (SES) arise in numerous applications, such as fluid-structure interaction, combustion, and biochemical systems. In support of system identification and digital control of SES, this paper analyzes discrete-time Lur'e…
For a general class of dynamical systems (of which the canonical continuous and uniform discrete versions are but special cases), we prove that there is a state feedback gain such that the resulting closed-loop system is uniformly…
The paper addresses the exact linearization of flat nonlinear discrete-time systems by generalized static or dynamic feedbacks which may also depend on forward-shifts of the new input. We first investigate the question which forward-shifts…
Dynamic feedback linearization-based methods allow us to design control algorithms for a fairly large class of nonlinear systems in continuous time. However, this feature does not extend to their sampled counterparts, i.e., for a given…
The time evolution of a physical system is generally described by a differential equation, which can be solved numerically by adopting a difference scheme with space-time discretization. This discretization, as a numerical artifact, results…
This work studies the design problem of feedback stabilizers for discrete-time systems with input delays. A backstepping procedure is proposed for disturbance-free discrete-time systems. The feedback law designed by using backstepping…
Rate-independent systems arise in a number of applications. Usually, weak solutions to such problems with potentially very low regularity are considered, requiring mathematical techniques capable of handling nonsmooth functions. In this…
Control laws for continuous-time dynamical systems are most often implemented via digital controllers using a sample-and-hold technique. Numerical discretization of the continuous system is an integral part of subsequent analysis. Feedback…
This paper investigates the robustness of the Lur'e problem under positivity constraints, drawing on results from the positive Aizerman conjecture and robustness properties of Metzler matrices. Specifically, we consider a control system of…
In this paper, we study stabilizability of discrete-time switched linear systems where the switching signal is considered as an arbitrary disturbance (and not a control variable). We characterize feedback stabilization via necessary and…
A suite of input-to-state stability results are presented for a class of forced differential inclusions, so-called Lur'e inclusions. As a consequence, semi-global incremental input-to-state stability results for systems of forced Lur'e…
We consider the problem of designing robust state-feedback controllers for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems, based directly on measured data. The proposed design procedures require no model knowledge, but only a single open-loop…
Self-excited systems arise in many applications, such as biochemical systems, mechanical systems with fluid-structure interaction, and fuel-driven systems with combustion dynamics. This paper presents a Lur'e model that exhibits biased…
This paper presents a system identification technique for systems whose output is asymptotically periodic under constant inputs. The model used for system identification is a discrete-time Lur'e model consisting of asymptotically stable…
We revisit the problem of computing (robust) controlled invariant sets for discrete-time linear systems. Departing from previous approaches, we consider implicit, rather than explicit, representations for controlled invariant sets.…
This paper presents a computationally efficient robust model predictive control law for discrete linear time invariant systems subject to additive disturbances that may depend on the state and/or input norms. Despite the dependency being…
In this paper we first study the fixed-time stabilizability of discrete-time switched linear control systems. Using a geometric approach, we derive conditions under which such systems can be stabilized within a prescribed number of steps,…
As the main contribution, this document provides a consistent discretization of a class of fixed-time stable systems, namely predefined-time stable systems. In the unperturbed case, the proposed approach allows obtaining not only a…
In this article we present a novel discrete-time design approach which reduces the deteriorating effects of sampling on stability and performance in digitally controlled nonlinear mechanical systems. The method is motivated by recent…