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Approaching a set goal for a UAV comprises a trajectory plan and a controller design (control after plan problems). The optimal trajectory (reference) is calculated before being tracked with a proper controller. It is believed that the…
We present a trajectory-based optimization framework for arrival sequencing and scheduling in the terminal maneuvering area (TMA). Unlike node-link scheduling models that reduce trajectories to time-delay variables, the proposed method…
Adaptive control strategies have progressively advanced to accommodate increasingly uncertain, delayed, and interconnected systems. This paper addresses the model reference adaptive control (MRAC) of networked, heterogeneous, and unknown…
Aerial manipulators, composed of multirotors and robotic arms, have a structure and function highly reminiscent of avian species. This paper studies the tracking control problem for aerial manipulators. This paper studies the tracking…
Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft pose a challenge in generating reference commands during transition flight. While sparsity between hover and cruise flight modes can be promoted for effective transitions by formulating…
We consider trajectory tracking for minimum-phase nonlinear systems in Byrnes-Isidori form using the model-following control (MFC) architecture. The tracking problem is motivated by a hierarchical control concept where a higher-level…
This paper presents a continuous-time output feedback adaptive control technique for stabilization and tracking control problems. The adaptive controller is motivated by the classical discrete-time retrospective cost adaptive control…
In this research, we consider the commercial aircraft trajectory optimization problem for a general cruise model with arbitrary spatial wind fields to be solved using the Pontryagin maximum principle. The model features two fundamental…
For any storage ring-based large-scale scientific facility, one of the most important performance parameters is the dynamic aperture (DA), which measures the motion stability of charged particles in a global manner. To date, long-term…
Model-free control based on the idea of Reinforcement Learning is a promising approach that has recently gained extensive attention. However, Reinforcement-Learning-based control methods solely focus on the regulation problem or learn to…
We consider joint trajectory generation and tracking control for under-actuated robotic systems. A common solution is to use a layered control architecture, where the top layer uses a simplified model of system dynamics for trajectory…
Design, control, and estimation for dynamic systems require accurate and analytically tractable models. However, modern engineered systems contain components that are described with heterogeneous modeling paradigms, as well as subsystems…
This paper proposes a framework for adaptively learning a feedback linearization-based tracking controller for an unknown system using discrete-time model-free policy-gradient parameter update rules. The primary advantage of the scheme over…
In this paper we consider an interacting two-agent sequential decision-making problem consisting of a Markov source process, a causal encoder with feedback, and a causal decoder. Motivated by a desire to foster links between control and…
In this study, an innovative intelligent optimization system for mesh quality is proposed, which is based on a deep convolutional neural network architecture, to achieve mesh generation and optimization. The core of the study is the…
We present a robotics-oriented, coordinate-free formulation of inverse flight dynamics for fixed-wing aircraft on SO(3). Translational force balance is written in the world frame and rotational dynamics in the body frame; aerodynamic…
Direct Ink Writing (DIW) has gained attention for its potential to reduce printing time and material waste. However, maintaining precise geometry and consistent print quality remains challenging under dynamically varying operating…
The paper [TF19] proposes a data-driven control technique for single-input single-output feedback linearizable systems with unknown control gain by relying on a persistency of excitation assumption. This note extends those results by…
This paper presents a machine learning approach for tuning the parameters of a family of stabilizing controllers for orbital tracking. An augmented random search algorithm is deployed, which aims at minimizing a cost function combining…
Online selection of optimal waveforms for target tracking with active sensors has long been a problem of interest. Many conventional solutions utilize an estimation-theoretic interpretation, in which a waveform-specific Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower…