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In this paper it is established that any jointly controllable, jointly observable, multi-channel, discrete or continuous time linear system with a strongly connected neighbor (communication) graph can be exponentially stabilized with any…
This paper presents a new distributed control framework to coordinate inverter-interfaced distributed energy resources (DERs) in island microgrids. We show that under bounded load uncertainties, the proposed control method can steer the…
For microscale heterogeneous PDEs, this article further develops novel theory and methodology for their macroscale mathematical/asymptotic homogenization. This article specifically encompasses the case of quasi-periodic heterogeneity with…
We propose Teamwork Synthesis, a version of the distributed synthesis problem with application to teamwork multi-agent systems. We reformulate the distributed synthesis question by dropping the fixed interaction architecture among agents as…
The synthesis problem for the compositional performance certification of interconnected systems is considered. A fairly unified description of control synthesis problem is given using integral quadratic constraints (IQC) and dissipativity.…
Given the advances in reactive synthesis, it is a natural next step to consider more complex multi-process systems. Distributed synthesis, however, is not yet scalable. Compositional approaches can be a game changer. Here, the challenge is…
A new method is developed to deal with the problem that a complex decentralized control system needs to keep centralized control performance. The systematic procedure emphasizes quickly finding the decentralized subcontrollers that matching…
Supervisory control theory provides means to synthesize supervisors for systems with discrete-event behavior from models of the uncontrolled plant and of the control requirements. The applicability of supervisory control theory often fails…
Large-scale chemical plants rely on distributed process control systems (PCS) comprising numerous processing units, communication modules, and I/O devices interconnected via industrial networks. The design of a cost-efficient and reliable…
Successfully synthesizing controllers for complex dynamical systems and specifications often requires leveraging domain knowledge as well as making difficult computational or mathematical tradeoffs. This paper presents a flexible and…
The controllability problem for nonlinear control systems with one-dimensional control of the form $ dx/dt=a(x)+B(x)\beta(x,u)$ is considered, where $a(x)$ is an $n$-dimensional vector function, $B(x)$ is an $(n\times m)$-matrix, and…
This paper addresses the problem of control synthesis for nonlinear optimal control problems in the presence of state and input constraints. The presented approach relies upon transforming the given problem into an infinite-dimensional…
In this paper we present a new approach to decentralized supervisory control of large automata with communicating supervisors. We first generalize the recently developed top-down architecture of multilevel coordination control with a…
A system is called positive if the set of non-negative states is left invariant by the dynamics. Stability analysis and controller optimization are greatly simplified for such systems. For example, linear Lyapunov functions and storage…
We propose a distributed design method for decentralized control by exploiting the underlying sparsity properties of the problem. Our method is based on chordal decomposition of sparse block matrices and the alternating direction method of…
This work introduces a controller synthesis method via system level synthesis for nonlinear systems characterized by polynomial dynamics. The resulting framework yields finite impulse response, time-invariant, closed-loop transfer functions…
We consider the problem of steering a multi-agent system to multi-consensus, namely a regime where groups of agents agree on a given value which may be different from group to group. We first address the problem by using distributed…
Controller synthesis, including reset controller, feedback controller, and switching logic controller, provides an essential mechanism to guarantee the correctness and reliability of hybrid systems in a correct-by-construction manner.…
This paper deals with the non-quadratic decentralized stabilization of a set of n Takagi-Sugeno descriptors. To ensure the stability of the whole closed-loop dynamics and to minimize interconnection effects between subsystems, the main…
We propose novel controller synthesis techniques for probabilistic systems modelled using stochastic two-player games: one player acts as a controller, the second represents its environment, and probability is used to capture uncertainty…