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This work proposes a decision-making framework for partially observable systems in continuous time with discrete state and action spaces. As optimal decision-making becomes intractable for large state spaces we employ approximation methods…
In this paper, we consider nonlinear PDEs in a port-Hamiltonian setting based on an underlying jet-bundle structure. We restrict ourselves to systems with 1-dimensional spatial domain and 2nd-order Hamiltonian including certain dissipation…
In this paper, we consider linear boundary port-Hamiltonian distributed parameter systems on a time-varying spatial domain. We derive the specific time-varying Dirac structure that these systems give rise to and use it to formally establish…
This article presents a systematic methodology for modeling a class of flexible multidimensional mechanical structures defined by linear elastic relations that directly allows to obtain their infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian…
The port-Hamiltonian formulation is a powerful method for modeling and interconnecting systems of different natures. In this paper, the port-Hamiltonian formulation in tensorial form of a thick plate described by the Mindlin-Reissner model…
The main contribution of this paper is the extension of the well-known boundary-control strategy based on structural invariants to the control of infinite-dimensional systems with in-domain actuation. The systems under consideration,…
Boundary controlled irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems (BC-IPHS) on 1-dimensional spatial domains are defined by extending the formulation of reversible BC-PHS to irreversible thermodynamic systems controlled at the boundaries of their…
The problem of unknown input observer design is considered for coupled PDE/ODE systems subject to incremental sector bounded nonlinearities and unknown boundary inputs. Assuming available measurements at the boundary of the distributed…
This paper investigates the problem of consensus-based distributed control of linear time-invariant multi-channel systems subject to unknown inputs. A distributed observer-based control framework is proposed, within which observer nodes and…
We consider networks of infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems $\mathfrak{S}_i$ on one-dimensional spatial domains. These subsystems of port-Hamiltonian type are interconnected via boundary control and observation and are allowed to…
In [1], it is established that a convergent observer with an infinite gain margin can be designed for a given nonlinear system when a Riemannian metric showing that the system is differentially detectable (i.e., the Lie derivative of the…
This paper provides a first contribution to port-Hamiltonian modeling of district heating networks. By introducing a model hierarchy of flow equations on the network, this work aims at a thermodynamically consistent port-Hamiltonian…
Implicit representations of finite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems are studied from the perspective of their use in numerical simulation and control design. Implicit representations arise when a system is modeled in Cartesian…
The control of large-scale cyber-physical systems requires optimal distributed policies relying solely on limited communication with neighboring agents. However, computing stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems while optimizing…
This paper presents a novel robust variable-horizon model predictive control scheme designed to intercept a target moving along a known trajectory, in finite time. Linear discrete-time systems affected by bounded process disturbances are…
This paper examines the boundary controllability of a Timoshenko laminated beam system subject to Venttsel-type boundary conditions. The study focuses on a novel configuration in which three controls are applied solely at the boundary of…
Predictive control is frequently used for control problems involving constraints. Being an optimization based technique utilizing a user specified so-called stage cost, performance properties, i.e., bounds on the infinite horizon…
We consider the design of structure-preserving discretization methods for the solution of systems of boundary controlled Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) thanks to the port-Hamiltonian formalism. We first provide a novel general…
A stabilizer based on the forwarding technique is proposed for semilinear infinite-dimensional systems in cascade form. Sufficient conditions for local exponentially stability and global asymptotic stability of the closed-loop are derived.…
This paper studies the boundary feedback stabilization of a class of diagonal infinite-dimensional boundary control systems. In the studied setting, the boundary control input is subject to a constant delay while the open loop system might…