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This paper considers the problem of finite dimensional output feedback H-infinity control for a class of nonlinear spatially distributed processes (SDPs) described by highly dissipative partial differential equations (PDEs), whose state is…
In optimization the duality gap between the primal and the dual problems is a measure of the suboptimality of any primal-dual point. In classical mechanics the equations of motion of a system can be derived from the Hamiltonian function,…
We consider an interlinked production model consisting of conservation laws (PDE) coupled to ordinary differential equations (ODE). Our focus is the analysis of control laws for the coupled system and corresponding stabilization questions…
This paper presents a backstepping solution for the output feedback control of general linear heterodirectional hyperbolic PDE-ODE systems with spatially-varying coefficients. Thereby, the coupling in the PDE is in-domain and at the…
In this paper, we prove the stabilizability of abstract Parabolic Integro-Differential Equations (PIDE) in a Hilbert space with decay rate $e^{-\gamma t} $ for certain $\gamma > 0,$ by means of a finite dimensional controller in the…
We study the relationship between disturbance decoupling (DD) and H2 optimal control for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, revealing a fundamental gap between DD subspace constraints and semi-definite program (SDP)-based H2 minimization.…
We consider a bilinear optimal control problem with pointwise tracking for a semilinear elliptic PDE in two and three dimensions. The control variable enters the PDE as a (reaction) coefficient and the cost functional contains point…
This paper considers the class of deterministic continuous-time optimal control problems (OCPs) with piecewise-affine (PWA) vector field, polynomial Lagrangian and semialgebraic input and state constraints. The OCP is first relaxed as an…
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 $H_\infty$…
Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) structured controller is the most popular class of industrial control but still could not be appropriately exploited in fuzzy systems. To gain the practicability and tractability of fuzzy systems, this…
The Partial Integral Equation (PIE) framework was developed to computationally analyze linear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) where the PDE is first converted to a PIE and then the analysis problem is solved by solving operator-valued…
This thesis is concerned with the stochastic filtering problem for a hidden Markov model (HMM) with the white noise observation model. For this filtering problem, we make three types of original contributions: (1) dual controllability…
We consider constrained bilinear optimal control of second-order linear evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) with a reaction term on the half line, where control arises as a time-dependent reaction coefficient and constraints are…
Recent work by Mania et al. has proved that certainty equivalent control achieves nearly optimal regret for linear systems with quadratic costs. However, when parameter uncertainty is large, certainty equivalence cannot be relied upon to…
We design fixed-order strong H-infinity controllers for general time-delay systems. The designer chooses the controller order and may introduce constant time-delays in the controller. We represent the closed-loop system of the plant and the…
Periodic operation often emerges as the economically optimal mode in industrial processes, particularly under varying economic or environmental conditions. This paper proposes a robust model predictive control (MPC) framework for uncertain…
We provide a duality result linking the value function for a control problem with supremum cost H under an isoperimetric inequality G $\le$ gmax, and the value function for the same controlled dynamics with cost G and state constraint H…
It has recently been shown that the evolution of a linear Partial Differential Equation (PDE) can be more conveniently represented in terms of the evolution of a higher spatial derivative of the state. This higher spatial derivative (termed…
We consider an optimal control problem governed by a rate-inde\-pendent system with non-convex energy. The state equation is approximated by means of viscous regularization w.r.t.\ to hierarchy of two different Hilbert spaces. The…
This paper presents the design and analysis of a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) approximation for a distributed optimal control problem governed by the Poisson equation. We propose three distinct schemes to address unconstrained control problems…