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The purpose of this paper is to study and design direct and indirect couplings for use in coherent feedback control of a class of linear quantum stochastic systems. A general physical model for a nominal linear quantum system coupled…
We discuss control of the quantum-transport properties of a mesoscopic device by connecting it in a coherent feedback loop with a quantum-mechanical controller. We work in a scattering approach and derive results for the combined scattering…
Feedback optimization is a control paradigm that enables physical systems to autonomously reach efficient operating points. Its central idea is to interconnect optimization iterations in closed-loop with the physical plant. Since iterative…
This paper presents a systematic approach to the design of a robust dynamic state feedback controller using copies of the plant nonlinearities, which is based on the use of IQCs and minimax LQR control. The approach combines a linear state…
We demonstrate the use of a new, control-oriented notion of finite state approximation for a particular class of hybrid systems. Specifically, we consider the problem of designing a stabilizing binary output feedback switching controller…
In this work, fundamental control limitations for rotor angle stability are considered. Limitations are identified by characterizing open-loop transfer function zeros for input-output combinations of certain power system configurations. Of…
Presented is an algorithm to synthesize an infinite-horizon LQR optimal feedback controller for continuous-time systems. The algorithm does not require knowledge of the system dynamics, but instead uses only a finite-length sampling of…
The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretic and numerical study of utilizing squeezing and phase shift in coherent feedback control of linear quantum optical systems. A quadrature representation with built-in phase shifters is…
This paper tackles state feedback control of switched linear systems under arbitrary switching. We propose a data-driven control framework that allows to compute a stabilizing state feedback using only a finite set of observations of…
Presented is an algorithm to synthesize the optimal infinite-horizon LQR feedback controller for continuous-time systems. The algorithm does not require knowledge of the system dynamics but instead uses only a finite-length sampling of…
In this paper, we present a strictly negative imaginary state feedback control methodology for relative degree two negative imaginary systems such as flexible structures with collocated sensors and actuators. We show that by augmenting a…
Fundamental limits on the performance of feedback controllers are essential for benchmarking algorithms, guiding sensor selection, and certifying task feasibility -- yet few general-purpose tools exist for computing them. Existing…
This paper develops a semidefinite-programming-based method for online feedback control of nonlinear systems using a state-dependent representation. We formulate sequences of time-varying SDPs whose optimal solutions jointly yield a…
We study distributed output feedback control for a heterogeneous multi-agent system (MAS), consisting of N different continuous-time linear dynamical systems. For achieving output consensus, a virtual reference model is assumed to generate…
In this paper, we propose a suboptimal and reduced-order Model Predictive Control (MPC) architecture for discrete-time feedback-interconnected systems. The numerical MPC solver: (i) acts suboptimally, performing only a finite number of…
This paper presents the analysis and a method to design supplementary damping controllers (SDCs) for synchronous generators considering the effects of saturation limits. Usually such saturations of control signals are imposed in order to…
The increased penetration of volatile renewable energy into distribution networks necessities more efficient distributed voltage control. In this paper, we design distributed feedback control algorithms where each bus can inject \emph{both…
In this paper we propose a methodology for stabilizing single-input single-output feedback linearizable systems when no system model is known and no prior data is available to identify a model. Conceptually, we have been greatly inspired by…
In this paper, we propose a distributed voltage control in power distribution networks through reactive power compensation. The proposed control can (i) operate in a distributed fashion where each bus makes its decision based on local…
This paper presents an adaptive equivalent consumption minimization strategy (ECMS) and a linear quadratic tracking (LQT) method for optimal power-split control of combustion engine and electric machine in a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV).…