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The first part of this paper proposed a family of penalized convex relaxations for solving optimization problems with bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) constraints. In this part, we generalize our approach to a sequential scheme which starts…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Fariba Zohrizadeh , Muhammad Adil , Ramtin Madani

The inverse linear-quadratic optimal control problem is a system identification problem whose aim is to recover the quadratic cost function and hence the closed-loop system matrices based on observations of optimal trajectories. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Han Zhang , Axel Ringh

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the design of optimal structured and sparse $H_\infty$ controllers for continuous-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. Three problems are considered. First, designing the sparsest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Zhaohua Yang , Pengyu Wang , Haishan Zhang , Shiyue Jia , Nachuan Yang , Yuxing Zhong , Ling Shi

This study addresses a distributed state feedback controller design problem for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems by means of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). As structural constraints on a control gain result in non-convexity…

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We consider the problem of designing a feedback controller that guides the input and output of a linear time-invariant system to a minimizer of a convex optimization problem. The system is subject to an unknown disturbance that determines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Liam S. P. Lawrence , Zachary E. Nelson , Enrique Mallada , John W. Simpson-Porco

We consider the problem of false data injection attacks modeled as additive disturbances in various parts of a general LTI feedback system and derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of stealthy unbounded attacks. We…

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Achieving optimal steady-state performance in real-time is an increasingly necessary requirement of many critical infrastructure systems. In pursuit of this goal, this paper builds a systematic design framework of feedback controllers for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Zachary E. Nelson , Enrique Mallada

This paper presents a convex optimization-based solution to the design of state-feedback controllers for solving the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem of uncertain discrete-time systems with multiplicative noise. To synthesize a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Majid Mazouchi , Farzaneh Tatari , Hamidreza Modares

This paper proposes a framework for secure and resilient controller design for positive systems against cyber-attacks. In particular, we consider a network-controlled system where an adversary injects false data into the actuator channels…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Alba Gurpegui , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

This work is concerned with robust filtering of nonlinear sampled-data systems with and without exact discrete-time models. A linear matrix inequality (LMI) based approach is proposed for the design of robust $H_{\infty}$ observers for a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Masoud Abbaszadeh , Horacio J. Marquez

This paper addresses the sparse actuation problem for nonlinear systems represented in the Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) form. We propose a convex optimization framework that concurrently determines actuator magnitude limits and the…

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In this paper, a new approach based on convex analysis is introduced to solve the $H_\infty$ problem for discrete-time nonlinear stochastic systems. A stochastic version of bounded real lemma is proved and the state feedback $H_\infty$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Xiangyun Lin , Tianliang Zhang , Weihai Zhang , Bor-Sen Chen

We consider the problem of output feedback controller sparsification for systems with parametric uncertainties. We develop an optimization scheme that minimizes the performance deterioration caused by the sparsification process, while…

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We address the problem of designing optimal linear time-invariant (LTI) sparse controllers for LTI systems, which corresponds to minimizing a norm of the closed-loop system subject to sparsity constraints on the controller structure. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Luca Furieri , Yang Zheng , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Maryam Kamgarpour

We consider the problem of designing a feedback controller which robustly regulates an LTI system to an optimal operating point in the presence of unmeasured disturbances. A general design framework based on so-called optimality models was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-18 John W. Simpson-Porco

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Sebastian A. Nugroho , Suyash C. Vishnoi , Ahmad F. Taha , Christian G. Claudel

The regression problem associated with finding a matrix approximation of the Koopman operator from data is considered. The regression problem is formulated as a convex optimization problem subject to linear matrix inequality (LMI)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Steven Dahdah , James Richard Forbes

Recently, bandit optimization has received significant attention in real-world safety-critical systems that involve repeated interactions with humans. While there exist various algorithms with performance guarantees in the literature,…

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