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We will consider exact controllability of the distributed system governed by the wave equation with memory. It will be proved that this mechanical system can be driven to rest in finite time, the absolute value of the distributed control…
The critical brain hypothesis states that there are information processing advantages for neuronal networks working close to the critical region of a phase transition. If this is true, we must ask how the networks achieve and maintain this…
This paper studies the relations among system parameters, uniqueness, and stability of equilibria, for kinetic systems given in the form of polynomial ODEs. Such models are commonly used to describe the dynamics of nonnegative systems, with…
We give a singular control approach to the problem of minimizing an energy functional for measures with given total mass on a compact real interval, when energy is defined in terms of a completely monotone kernel. This problem occurs both…
The problem of controlling a finite state Markov chain in the presence of an adversary so as to ensure desired performance levels for a vector of objectives is cast in the framework of Blackwell approachability. Relying on an elementary two…
Computing the viability kernel is key in providing guarantees of safety and proving existence of safety-preserving controllers for constrained dynamical systems. Current numerical techniques that approximate this construct suffer from a…
A quantum system subject to external fields is said to be controllable if these fields can be adjusted to guide the state vector to a desired destination in the state space of the system. Fundamental results on controllability are reviewed…
We develop a unified theory of designs for controlled experiments that balance baseline covariates a priori (before treatment and before randomization) using the framework of minimax variance and a new method called kernel allocation. We…
Explaining biodiversity in nature is a fundamental problem in ecology. An outstanding challenge is embodied in the so-called Competitive Exclusion Principle: two species competing for one limiting resource cannot coexist at constant…
We study a spatially homogeneous model of a market where several agents or companies compete for a wealth resource. In analogy with ecological systems the simplest case of such models shows a kind of "competitive exclusion" principle.…
In this paper, we study the concept of approximate controllability of retarded network systems of neutral type. On one hand, we reformulate such systems as free-delay boundary control systems on product spaces. On the other hand, we use the…
In this paper we study a criterion for the viability of stochastic semilinear control systems on a real, separable Hilbert space. The necessary and sufficient conditions are given using the notion of stochastic quasi-tangency. As a…
A mean field type control system is a dynamical system in the Wasserstein space describing an evolution of a large population of agents with mean-field interaction under a control of a unique decision maker. We develop the viability theorem…
Inventory and queueing systems are often designed by controlling weighted combination of some time-averaged performance metrics (like cumulative holding, shortage, server-utilization or congestion costs); but real-world constraints, like…
H2-conic controller design seeks to minimize the closed-loop H2-norm for a nominal linear system while satisfying the Conic Sector Theorem for nonlinear stability. This problem has only been posed with limited design freedom, as opposed to…
A system of renewal equations on a graph provides a framework to describe the exploitation of a biological resource. In this context, we formulate an optimal control problem, prove the existence of an optimal control and ensure that the…
In a series of papers on optimal control problems for the monodomain as well as for the bidomain equations of cardiac electrophysiology, the authors studied existence of minimizers and derived first-order necessary optimality conditions.…
We present a conic sector theorem for linear parameter varying (LPV) systems in which the traditional definition of conicity is violated for certain values of the parameter. We show that such LPV systems can be defined to be conic in an…
Biological processes, including cell differentiation, organism development, and disease progression, can be interpreted as attractors (fixed points or limit cycles) of an underlying networked dynamical system. In this paper, we study the…