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The increasing integration of renewable energy resources into power grids has led to time-varying system inertia and consequent degradation in frequency dynamics. A promising solution to alleviate performance degradation is using power…
This note studies the robust output feedback stabilization problem of multi-input multi-output invertible nonlinear systems with output-dependent multipliers. An "ideal" state feedback is first designed under certain mild assumptions. Then,…
Transient energy growth suppression is a common control objective for feedback flow control aimed at delaying transition to turbulence. A prevailing control approach in this context is observer-based feedback, in which a full-state feedback…
Employing model predictive control to systems with unbounded, stochastic disturbances poses the challenge of guaranteeing safety, i.e., repeated feasibility and stability of the closed-loop system. Especially, there are no strict repeated…
We solve the problem of output feedback stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems, which may have unstable zero dynamics. We allow for any globally stabilizing full state feedback control scheme to be used as long as it satisfies a…
This paper deals with the trajectory tracking control problem for a class of bilinear systems with unmeasurable states and unknown parameters. Firstly, a full-information controller is suggested that guarantees global tracking under a…
Time delay based control, recently proposed for non-collocated fourth-order systems, has several advantages over an observer-based state-feedback compensation of the low-damped oscillations in output. In this paper, we discuss a practical…
In this letter, we study the nonlinear stability problem of converter-based power systems, where the converter dynamics are governed by a complex droop control. This complex droop control augments the well-known power-frequency (p-f) droop…
The design of a position observer for the interior permanent magnet synchronous motor is a challenging problem that, in spite of many research efforts, remained open for a long time. In this paper we present the first globally exponentially…
This paper proposes a new extended-state observer-based framework for adaptive nonlinear regulator design of a class of nonlinear systems, in the general nonequilibrium theory. By augmenting an extended-state observer with an internal…
The grid-forming converter is an important unit in the future power system with more inverter-interfaced generators. However, improving its performance is still a key challenge. This paper proposes a generalized architecture of the…
We consider distributed control of double-integrator networks, where agents are subject to stochastic disturbances. We study performance of such networks in terms of coherence, defined through an H2 norm metric that represents the variance…
This paper presents a novel approach to stability analysis for grid-connected converters utilizing Scaled Relative Graphs (SRG). Our method effectively decouples grid and converter dynamics, thereby establishing a comprehensive and…
This study proposes a feedback linearisation based on the back-stepping method with simple implementation and unique design process to design a non-linear controller with a goal of improving both steady-state and transient stability. The…
Inverter-based resources (IBRs) are becoming increasingly prevalent in power systems. Due to the inherently low inertia of inverters, there is a heightened risk of disruptive voltage oscillations. A particular challenge in the operation of…
We consider a grid-connected voltage source converter (VSC) and address the problem of estimating the grid angle and frequency, information that is essential for an appropriate operation of the converter. We design phase-locked loop (PLL)…
In this paper, we analytically study the transient stability of grid-connected converters with grid-forming complex droop control, also known as dispatchable virtual oscillator control. We prove theoretically that complex droop control, as…
This paper presents a passive compliance control for aerial manipulators to achieve stable environmental interactions. The main challenge is the absence of actuation along body-planar directions of the aerial vehicle which might be required…
The increasing penetration of converter-based renewable generation has resulted in faster frequency dynamics, and low and variable inertia. As a result, there is a need for frequency control methods that are able to stabilize a disturbance…
Sustained research efforts have been devoted to learning optimal controllers for linear stochastic dynamical systems with unknown parameters, but due to the corruption of noise, learned controllers are usually uncertified in the sense that…