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Controlling of a flapping flight is one of the recent research topics related to the field of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle (FW MAV). In this work, an adaptive control system for a four-wing FW MAV is proposed, inspired by its advanced…
This paper proposes a novel fixed-time integral sliding mode controller for admittance control to enhance physical human-robot collaboration. The proposed method combines the benefits of compliance to external forces of admittance control…
Conventional sliding mode controllers are based on the assumption of switching control but a well-known drawback of this approach is the chattering phenomenon. To overcome the undesirable chattering effects, the discontinuity in the control…
This is an intuitive introduction to classic sliding mode control that shows how the associated assumptions and condition for its use arise in the context of a derivation of the method. It derives a controller that obviates the need for the…
Two different controlling methods are proposed to stabilize unstable continuous-sliding states of a dry-friction oscillator. Both methods are based on a delayed-feedback mechanism well-known for stabilizing periodic orbits in deterministic…
This paper presents the control design of the two-phase Stefan problem. The two-phase Stefan problem is a representative model of liquid-solid phase transition by describing the time evolutions of the temperature profile which is divided by…
We address the problem of robust safety control design for double integrator systems. We show that, when the constraints are defined only on position states, it is possible to construct a safe sliding domain from the dynamic of a simple…
We show the existence of "mild solutions" for a first-order mean field game of controls under the state constraint that trajectories be confined in a closed and bounded set in euclidean space. This extends the results of Cannarsa and…
This paper proposes a sliding mode controller with smooth control effort for a class of nonlinear plants. The proposed controller is created by allowing some constant parameters of the earlier smooth sliding control (SSC) to vary as a…
Conventional ordering transitions, described by the Landau paradigm, are characterized by the symmetries broken at the critical point. Within the constrained manifold occurring at low temperatures in certain frustrated systems,…
In this paper, we present a new terminal sliding mode control to achieve predefined-time stability of robot manipulators. The proposed control is developed based on a novel predefined-time terminal sliding mode (PTSM) surface, on which the…
This paper introduces a data-based integral sliding mode control scheme for robustification of model-reference controllers, accommodating generic multivariable linear systems with unknown dynamics and affected by matched disturbances.…
Urban traffic congestion is a chronic problem faced by many cities in the US and worldwide. It results in inefficient infrastructure use as well as increased vehicle fuel consumption and emission levels. Congestion is intertwined with…
We study numerically stick slip motions in a model of blocks and springs being pulled slowly. The sliding friction is assumed to change dynamically with a state variable. The transition from steady sliding to stick-slip is subcritical in a…
Controlling the shape and position of moving and pinned droplets on a solid surface is an important feature often found in microfluidic applications. In this work, we consider a well investigated phase field model including contact line…
Learning-based controllers leverage nonlinear couplings and enhance transients but seldom offer guarantees under tight input constraints. Robust feedback like sliding-mode control (SMC) provides these guarantees but is conservative in…
Chattering phenomena is the major problem affecting sliding mode control (SMC). Also, finding a suitable structure and appropriate parameters values of fuzzy logic system (FLS) is a complex and difficult task. In addition, the stability of…
The problem of damping a system of linear oscillators is considered. The problem is solved by using a control in the form of dry friction. The motion of the system under the control is governed by a system of differential equations with…
In this article, a quasi-sliding mode control (QSMC) based on MPC is proposed for the constrained continuous-time nonlinear system with external disturbances. The MPC problem is formulated relating to the design of QSMC, to generate the…
This paper, the second of a two-part series, presents a method for mean-field feedback stabilization of a swarm of agents on a finite state space whose time evolution is modeled as a continuous time Markov chain (CTMC). The resulting…