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Increasingly stringent throughput requirements in the industry necessitate the need for lightweight design of high-precision motion systems to allow for high accelerations, while still achieving accurate positioning of the moving-body. The…
In this paper, we present a state-feedback controller design method for bilinear systems. To this end, we write the bilinear system as a linear fractional representation by interpreting the state in the bilinearity as a structured…
This paper develops a novel control synthesis approach for a wide class of practical systems. The control action is derived by inserting a compensator device in the forward path of the system that is to be controlled. The compensator design…
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This paper considers the safety-critical navigation problem with Signal Temporal Logic (STL) tasks. We developed an explicit reference governor-guided control barrier function (ERG-guided CBF) method that enables the application of…
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Configuration optimization remains a critical bottleneck in machine learning, requiring coordinated tuning across model architecture, training strategy, feature engineering, and hyperparameters. Traditional approaches treat these dimensions…
In this study, a heuristic dynamic programming controller is proposed to control a boost converter. Conventional controllers such as proportional integral-derivative (PID) or proportional integral (PI) are designed based on the linearized…
Transformer architectures dominate modern NLP but often demand heavy computational resources and intricate hyperparameter tuning. To mitigate these challenges, we propose a novel framework, BoostTransformer, that augments transformers with…
Optimal nonlinear damping control was recently introduced for the second-order SISO systems, showing some advantages over a classical PD feedback controller. This paper summarizes the main theoretical developments and properties of the…
This letter introduces attack-resilient Control Lyapunov Functions (AR-CLFs) and attack-resilient Control Barrier Functions (AR-CBFs) for nonlinear control-affine systems subject to control-input false data injection attacks (FDIA)…
As the share of renewable generation in large power systems continues to increase, the operation of power systems becomes increasingly challenging. The constantly shifting mix of renewable and conventional generation leads to largely…
In this paper a new optimum tuning method of PI controllers in first-order time-delay systems, based on the deadbeat response to a step setpoint variation, is presented. The deadbeat performance, already studied for the plants without…