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Optimal control of bilinear systems has been a well-studied subject in the area of mathematical control. However, techniques for solving emerging optimal control problems involving an ensemble of structurally identical bilinear systems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Shuo Wang , Jr-Shin Li

We propose a theoretical framework to study the eigenvalue spectra of the controllability Gramian of systems with random state matrices, such as networked systems with a random graph structure. Using random matrix theory, we provide…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Victor M. Preciado , M. Amin Rahimian

The model reduction problem for semistable infinite-dimensional control systems is studied in this paper. In relation to these systems, we study an object we call the semistability Gramian, which serves as a generalization of the ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Ingvar Ziemann , Yishao Zhou

We study controllability and constructive synthesis for control-affine systems. We introduce trajectory-dependent Gramian maps that extend the linear time-varying Gramian and yield explicit fixed-point synthesis maps. On feasible coercivity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Cyprien Tamekue , ShiNung Ching

Controllability and observability Gramians, along with their inverses, are widely used to solve various problems in control theory. This paper proposes spectral decompositions of the controllability Gramian and its inverse based on system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Alexey Iskakov , Igor Yadykin

This article presents a scalable implementation of nonlinear Gramian-based control synthesis for control-affine systems, including a minimum energy control construction. These synthesis advances are achieved by addressing key computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Zongxi Yu , Cyprien Tamekue , Ruiqi Chen , ShiNung Ching

The paper introduces and solves a structural controllability problem for continuum ensembles of linear time-invariant systems. All the individual linear systems of an ensemble are sparse, governed by the same sparsity pattern.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Xudong Chen

In this paper we consider the problem of the optimal control of an ensemble of affine-control systems. After proving the well-posedness of the minimization problem under examination, we establish a $\Gamma$-convergence result that allows us…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Alessandro Scagliotti

Contemporary tasks of complex system simulation are often related to the issue of uncertainty management. It comes from the lack of information or knowledge about the simulated system as well as from restrictions of the model set being…

The Ensemble Kalman Filter method can be used as an iterative particle numerical scheme for state dynamics estimation and control--to--observable identification problems. In applications it may be required to enforce the solution to satisfy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Michael Herty , Giuseppe Visconti

This is a brief introduction to control theory in finite-dimensional spaces. The material is partly based on my lectures for the Master 1 program in Math\'ematiques et applications at Sorbonne University, delivered over the past few years.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Hoai-Minh Nguyen

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

The main objective of this article is to develop a matrix pencil approach for the study of the controllability and reachability of a class of linear singular discrete time systems. The description equation of a practical system may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Charalambos P. Kontzalis , Grigoris Kalogeropoulos

We introduce the concept of $\epsilon$-uncontrollability for random linear systems, i.e. linear system in which the usual matrices have been replaced by random matrices. We also estimate the $\epsilon$-uncontrollability in the case where…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-24 John Leventides , Nick Poulios , Costas Poulios

We propose a new controllability property for linear time varying control systems in finite dimension: the nonuniform complete controllability, which is halfway between the classical Kalman's properties of complete controllability and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Ignacio Huerta , Pablo Monzón , Gonzalo Robledo

There exist many examples of systems which have some symmetries, and which one may monitor with symmetry preserving controls. Since symmetries are preserved along the evolution, full controllability is not possible, and controllability has…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Andrei Agrachev , Cyril Letrouit

In this paper, we consider the problem of steering a family of independent, structurally identical, finite-dimensional stochastic linear systems with variation in system parameters between initial and target states of interest by using an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-10 Ji Qi , Anatoly Zlotnik , Jr-Shin Li

This paper investigates the multitime linear normal PDE systems. We study especially the controllability of such systems, obtaining complementary results to those in our recent papers. Here the multitime controllability original results are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Cristian Ghiu , Constantin Udriste

Controllability and observability have long been recognized as fundamental structural properties of dynamical systems, but have recently seen renewed interest in the context of large, complex networks of dynamical systems. A basic problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Tyler H. Summers , John Lygeros

Several theorems on the volume computing of the polyhedron spanned by a n-dimensional vector set with the finite-interval parameters are presented and proved firstly, and then are used in the analysis of the controllable regions of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Mingwang Zhao