English
Related papers

Related papers: Invariance Principles and Observability in Switche…

200 papers

Scale invariance is a central organizing principle in physics, underlying phenomena that range from critical behaviour in statistical mechanics to transport and chaos in nonlinear dynamical systems. Here we present a unified and physically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Edson D. Leonel , Diego F. M. Oliveira

In this paper, we present new results on finite- and fixed-time convergence for dynamical systems using LaSalle-like invariance principles. In particular, we provide first and second-order non-smooth Lyapunov-like results for finite- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Kunal Garg

In this paper, we consider the analysis and control of continuous-time nonlinear systems to ensure universal shifted stability and performance, i.e., stability and performance w.r.t. each forced equilibrium point of the system. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Patrick J. W. Koelewijn , Siep Weiland , Roland Tóth

This paper introduces a new approach for output feedback stabilization of SISO systems which, unlike most of the techniques found in the literature, does not use high-gain observers and control input saturation to achieve separation between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Manfredi Maggiore , Kevin Passino

We consider the problem of asymptotic convergence to invariant sets in interconnected nonlinear dynamic systems. Standard approaches often require that the invariant sets be uniformly attracting. e.g. stable in the Lyapunov sense. This,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ivan Tyukin , Erik Steur , Henk Nijmeijer , Cees van Leeuwen

This paper proposes a new approach to analyze and design distributed robust consensus control protocols for general linear leaderless multi-agent systems (MASs) in presence of relative-state constraints or uncertainties. First, we show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Dinh Hoa Nguyen , Tatsuo Narikiyo , Michihiro Kawanishi

Conformal prediction methods enjoy strong theoretical and empirical predictive inference performance, provided the data is exchangeable, and predictors are trained in a memoryless fashion. However, these assumptions and constraints are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Hanyang Jiang , Rina Foygel Barber , Ashwin Pananjady , Yao Xie

LaSalle techniques to ensure the convergence of a given output usually fail at guaranteeing uniform convergence time, which induces robustness issues. Recent works have provided extra conditions under which a Lyapunov function that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Antoine Chaillet , Iasson Karafyllis , Yuan Wang

In this paper, the possibility of detecting topological variations by observing output trajectories from networked linear time-invariant systems is investigated, where the network topology can be general, but the nodes have identical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Yuqing Hao , Qingyun Wang , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

This paper proposes a reliable learning-based adaptive control framework for nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) subject to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and singular control gains, two critical challenges in cyber-physical systems. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Ladan Khoshnevisan , Xinzhi Liu

In this paper, we study the application of switched systems stability criteria to derive delay-dependent conditions for systems affected by both a constant and a time-varying delay. The main novelty of our approach lies on the use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Thiago Alves Lima , Matteo Della Rossa , Frédéric Gouaisbaut , Raphaël Jungers , Sophie Tarbouriech

The invariance principle from causality is at the heart of notable approaches such as invariant risk minimization (IRM) that seek to address out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization failures. Despite the promising theory, invariance…

Explanatory variables in a predictive regression typically exhibit low signal strength and various degrees of persistence. Variable selection in such a context is of great importance. In this paper, we explore the pitfalls and possibilities…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-02-16 Ji Hyung Lee , Zhentao Shi , Zhan Gao

Discrete-time linear time-varying (LTV) systems form a powerful class of models to approximate complex dynamical systems with nonlinear dynamics for the purpose of analysis, design and control. Motivated by inference of spatio-temporal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Roel Dobbe , Stephan Liu , Ye Yuan , Claire Tomlin

This paper deals with the problem of finding a low-complexity estimate of the impulse response of a linear time-invariant discrete-time dynamic system from noise-corrupted input-output data. To this purpose, we introduce an identification…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Giuseppe C. Calafiore , Carlo Novara , Michele Taragna

This paper introduces a novel control framework to address the satisfaction of multiple time-varying output constraints in uncertain high-order MIMO nonlinear control systems. Unlike existing methods, which often assume that the constraints…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Lars Lindemann , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We prove an invariance principle for continuous-time random walks in a dynamically averaging environment on $\mathbb Z$. In the beginning, the conductances may fluctuate substantially, but we assume that as time proceeds, the fluctuations…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Stein Andreas Bethuelsen , Christian Hirsch , Christian Mönch

In this paper, we study the problem of control of discrete-time nonlinear systems in Lure form over erasure channels at the input and output. The input and output channel uncertainties are modeled as Bernoulli random variables. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Amit Diwadkar , Sambarta Dasgupta , Umesh Vaidya

In this paper, we first study the leader-following output synchronization problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems over jointly connected switching networks. Our approach integrates the output-based adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Jie Huang

We analyze a zeroth-order particle algorithm for the global optimization of a non-convex function, focusing on a variant of Consensus-Based Optimization (CBO) with small but fixed noise intensity. Unlike most previous studies restricted to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Pascal Bianchi , Radu-Alexandru Dragomir , Victor Priser