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In this expository paper, which covers material presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Nonlinear Analysis, Differential Equations, and Control" (Montreal, Jul/Aug 1998), we deal with several questions related to stability and…
The design of controllers from data for nonlinear systems is a challenging problem. In a recent paper, De Persis, Rotulo and Tesi, "Learning controllers from data via approximate nonlinearity cancellation," IEEE Transactions on Automatic…
In this paper, we concentrate on the exponential stabilization of stochastic nonlinear systems. Different from the single event-triggering mechanism in traditional deterministic/stochastic control systems, based on two stopping time…
We consider the stabilization problem for driftless control-affine systems under the bracket-generating condition. In our previous works, a class of time-varying feedback laws has been constructed to stabilize the equilibrium of a…
We consider nonlinear control systems of the so-called generalized triangular form (GTF) with time-varying and periodic dynamics which linearly depends on some external disturbances. Our purpose is to construct a feedback controller which…
In this paper, a novel design scheme is introduced to solve the optimal control problem for nonlinear systems with unsymmetrical and state-dependent input constraints. By introducing an initial stabilizing control policy as the baseline of…
In recent years, Neural Networks (NNs) have been employed to control nonlinear systems due to their potential capability in dealing with situations that might be difficult for conventional nonlinear control schemes. However, to the best of…
This paper proposes a constructive approach to safety control of nonlinear cascade systems subject to multiple state constraints. New design ingredients include a unified characterization of safety and stability for systematic designs of…
In this work we analyze and bound the effect of modeling errors on the stabilization of pure states or subspaces for quantum stochastic evolutions. Different approaches are used for open-loop and feedback control protocols. For both, we…
We investigate the incremental stability properties of It\^o stochastic dynamical systems. Specifically, we derive a stochastic version of nonlinear contraction theory that provides a bound on the mean square distance between any two…
Input-to-state stability (ISS) for systems described by partial differential equations has seen intensified research activity recently, and in particular the class of boundary control systems, for which truly infinite-dimensional effects…
The stability of stochastic Model Predictive Control (MPC) subject to additive disturbances is often demonstrated in the literature by constructing Lyapunov-like inequalities that ensure closed-loop performance bounds and boundedness of the…
This paper deals with an analysis and design of robust, state-feedback control law uniform-asymptotically stabilizing at origin the system consisting of coupled $n$th--order ordinary differential equations in the presence of a non-vanishing…
This paper addresses the problem of computing controllers that are correct by design for safety-critical systems and can provably satisfy (complex) functional requirements. We develop new methods for models of systems subject to both…
In this article, we present a stabilization feedback law with integral action for conservative abstract linear systems subjected to actuator nonlinearity. Based on the designed control law, we first prove the well-posedness and global…
Limitations of the delayed feedback control and of its extended versions have been fully treated in the literature. The oscillating delayed feedback control appears as a promising scheme to overcome this problem. In this work, two methods…
In this paper, we study the stabilization problem for the Ito systems with both multiplicative noise and multiple delays which exist widely in applications such as networked control systems. Sufficient and necessary conditions are obtained…
An experimental method has been developed to locate unstable equilibria of nonlinear structures quasi-statically. The technique involves loading a structure by application of either a force or a displacement at a main actuation point, while…
Almost sure asymptotic stabilization of a discrete-time switched stochastic system is investigated. Information on the active operation mode of the switched system is assumed to be available for control purposes only at random time…
We consider the problem of designing a feedback controller which robustly regulates an LTI system to an optimal operating point in the presence of unmeasured disturbances. A general design framework based on so-called optimality models was…