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We consider the adaptive control problem for discrete-time, nonlinear stochastic systems with linearly parameterised uncertainty. Assuming access to a parameterised family of controllers that can stabilise the system in a bounded set within…
We present an analysis of time-delayed feedback control used to stabilize an unstable steady state of a neutral delay differential equation. Stability of the controlled system is addressed by studying the eigenvalue spectrum of a…
In this work we consider robust stabilization of uncertain dynamical systems and show that this can be achieved by solving a non-classically constrained analytic interpolation problem. In particular, this non-classical constraint confines…
New methods are developed for the stabilization of a linear system with general time-varying distributed delays existing at the system's states, inputs and outputs. In contrast to most existing literature where the function of time-varying…
Stability perserving is an important topic in approximation of systems, e.g.\ model reduction. If the original system is stable, we often want the approximation to be stable. But even if an algorithm preserves stability the resulting system…
We propose a control approach for a class of nonlinear mechanical systems to stabilize the system under study while ensuring that the oscillations of the transient response are reduced. The approach is twofold: (i) we apply our technique…
In this paper we study the stabilization problem of a general class of slow-fast systems with one fast and arbitrarily many slow states. Moreover, the class of systems under study is slowly actuated, meaning that only the slow states are…
This paper addresses the stabilization of linear systems with multiple time-varying input delays. In scenarios where neither the exact delays information nor their bound is known, we propose a class of linear time-varying state feedback…
We present a stabilizing output-feedback controller for nonlinear finite and infinite-dimensional control systems governed by monotone operators that respects given input constraints. In particular, we show under a detectability-like…
Consider that a linear time-invariant (LTI) plant is given and that we wish to design a stabilizing controller for it. Admissible controllers are LTI and must comply with a pre-selected sparsity pattern. The sparsity pattern is assumed to…
We report on our experience with strong stabilization using HIFOO, a toolbox for H-infinity fixed-order controller design. We applied HIFOO to 21 fixed-order stable H-infinity controller design problems in the literature, comparing the…
An eigenvalue based framework is developed for the H-infinity norm analysis and its norm minimization of coupled systems with time-delays, which are naturally described by delay differential algebraic equations (DDAEs). For these equations…
In this paper, we study the application of switched systems stability criteria to derive delay-dependent conditions for systems affected by both a constant and a time-varying delay. The main novelty of our approach lies on the use of…
This paper deals with the development and analysis of novel time-optimal point-to-point model predictive control concepts for nonlinear systems. Recent approaches in the literature apply a time transformation, however, which do not maintain…
In this paper, we will investigate the moment exponential stabilization of highly nonlinear hybrid stochastic differential delay equations. A periodically intermittent controller based on discrete time state observations with asynchronous…
This paper deals with the convergence time analysis of a class of fixed-time stable systems with the aim to provide a new non-conservative upper bound for its settling time. Our contribution is fourfold. First, we revisit the well-known…
We present safe control of partially-observed linear time-varying systems in the presence of unknown and unpredictable process and measurement noise. We introduce a control algorithm that minimizes dynamic regret, i.e., that minimizes the…
The skew Toeplitz approach is one of the well developed methods to design H-infinity controllers for infinite dimensional systems. In order to be able to use this method the plant needs to be factorized in some special manner. This paper…
This paper considers the optimization landscape of linear dynamic output feedback control with $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ robustness constraints. We consider the feasible set of all the stabilizing full-order dynamical controllers that satisfy an…