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Dynamical systems can be used to model a broad class of physical processes, and conservation laws give rise to system properties like passivity or port-Hamiltonian structure. An important problem in practical applications is to steer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Tobias Breiten , Attila Karsai

In this paper, we propose a deterministic diffusion-based framework for controlling the probability density of nonlinear control-affine systems, with theoretical guarantees for drift-free and linear time-invariant (LTI) dynamics. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Darshan Gadginmath , Fabio Pasqualetti

This paper studies the set of terminal state covariances that are reachable over a finite time horizon from a given initial state covariance for a linear stochastic system with additive noise. For discrete-time systems, a complete…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Fengjiao Liu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Introduction of renewable generation leads to significant reduction of inertia in power system, which deteriorates the quality of frequency control. This paper suggests a new control scheme utilizing controllable load to deal with low…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Oleg O. Khamisov , Janusz W. Bialek , Anatoly Dymarsky

We develop a feedback control framework for stabilizing the McKean-Vlasov PDE on the torus. Our goal is to steer the dynamics toward a prescribed stationary distribution or accelerate convergence to it using a time-dependent control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Dante Kalise , Lucas M. Moschen , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

This paper studies the data-driven control of unknown linear-threshold network dynamics to stabilize the state to a reference value. We consider two types of controllers: (i) a state feedback controller with feed-forward reference input and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Xuan Wang , Duy Duong-Tran , Jorge Cortés

We present a suboptimal control design algorithm for a family of continuous-time parameter-dependent linear systems that are composed of interconnected subsystems. We are interested in designing the controller for each subsystem such that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Farhad Farokhi , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

This paper aims to study a family of deterministic optimal control problems in infinite dimensional spaces. The peculiar feature of such problems is the presence of a positivity state constraint, which often arises in economic applications.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Alessandro Calvia , Salvatore Federico , Fausto Gozzi

State-dependent networked dynamical systems are ones where the interconnections between agents change as a function of the states of the agents. Such systems are highly nonlinear, and a cohesive strategy for their control is lacking in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Utku Eren , Behcet Acikmese , Mehran Mesbahi

This letter investigates dynamical optimal transport of underactuated linear systems over an infinite time horizon. In our previous work, we proposed to integrate model predictive control and the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm to perform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

This paper develops a generalized finite horizon recursive solution to the discrete time signal bound disturbance attenuation regulator (SiDAR) for state feedback control. This problem addresses linear dynamical systems subject to signal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Davide Mannini , James B. Rawlings

In dense traffic scenarios, ensuring safety while keeping high task performance for autonomous driving is a critical challenge. To address this problem, this paper proposes a computationally-efficient spatiotemporal receding horizon control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lei Zheng , Rui Yang , Zengqi Peng , Michael Yu Wang , Jun Ma

Recent research shows that supervised learning can be an effective tool for designing near-optimal feedback controllers for high-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems. But the behavior of neural network controllers is still not well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

In this paper, we study a class of finite-time control problems for discrete-time positive linear systems with time-varying state parameters. Although several interesting control problems appearing in population biology, economics, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Chengyan Zhao , Masaki Ogura , Kenji Sugimoto

We consider a finite-time stochastic drift control problem with the assumption that the control is bounded and the system is controlled until the state process leaves the half-line. Assuming general conditions, it is proved that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Dariusz Zawisza

We develop a novel frequency-based H-infinity control method for a large class of infinite-dimensional Linear-Time-Invariant systems in transfer function form. Major benefits of our approach is that reduction or identification techniques…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-18 P. Apkarian , D. Noll

We consider a class of monotone systems in which the control signal multiplies the state. Among other applications, such bilinear systems can be used to model the evolutionary dynamics of HIV in the presence of combination drug therapy. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Neil K. Dhingra , Marcello Colombino , Mihailo R. Jovanović , Anders Rantzer , Roy S. Smith

This work presents three computational methods for real time energy management in a hybrid hydraulic vehicle (HHV) when driver behavior and vehicle route are not known in advance. These methods, implemented in a receding horizon control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Kyle Williams

We propose a method to establish the rapid stabilization of the bilinear Schr\"odinger control system and its linearized system, and the finite time stabilization of the linearized system using the Grammian operators. The analysis of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Hoai-Minh Nguyen

We consider a simply-supported Euler-Bernoulli beam with viscous and Kelvin--Voigt damping. Our objective is to attenuate the effect of an unknown distributed disturbance using one piezoelectric actuator. We show how to design a suitable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Anton Selivanov , Emilia Fridman