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For systems that are not observable at the very equilibrium of interest to be stabilized, output-feedback stabilization is considerably challenging. In this paper we solve this control problem for the case-study of a second-order system…
Sufficient conditions are established for sampled-data feedback global asymptotic stabilization for nonlinear autonomous systems. One of our main results is an extension of the well known Artstein-Sontag theorem on feedback stabilization…
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Sufficient and necessary conditions are established for controllability of affine control systems where the control is constrained to a set whose convex hull contains the origin but is not necessarily, in contrast with previously known…
This paper studies a fundamental relation that exists between stabilizability assumptions usually employed in distributed model predictive control implementations, and the corresponding notions of invariance implicit in such controllers.…
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In this article, we focus on the global stabilizability problem for a class of second order uncertain stochastic control systems, where both the drift term and the diffusion term are nonlinear functions of the state variables and the…
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This paper studies multi-agent systems with nonlinear consensus protocols, i.e., only nonlinear measurements of the states are available to agents. The solutions of these systems are understood in Filippov sense since the possible…
Time delayed feedback control is one of the most successful methods to discover dynamically unstable features of a dynamical system in an experiment. This approach feeds back only terms that depend on the difference between the current…
We deal with a singularly perturbed optimal control problem with slow and fast variable depending on a parameter {\epsilon}. We study the asymptotic, as {\epsilon} goes to 0, of the corresponding value functions, and show convergence, in…
Under a regularity assumption we prove that reachability in fixed time for nonlinear control systems is robust under control sampling.
The local controllability of a rich class of affine nonlinear control systems with nonhomogeneous quadratic drift and constant control vector fields is analyzed. The interest in this particular class of systems stems from the ubiquity in…
We consider the Nernst-Planck-Stokes system on a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$ with general nonequilibrium Dirichlet boundary conditions for the ionic concentrations. It is well known that, in a wide range of cases, equilibrium…
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