English
Related papers

Related papers: Synchronization with prescribed transient behavior…

200 papers

We study synchronization of nonlinear systems that satisfy an incremental passivity property. We consider the case where the control input is subject to a class of disturbances, including constant and sinusoidal disturbances with unknown…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-24 He Bai , S. Yusef Shafi

This paper focuses on the problem of constructing time-varying feedback laws that asymptotically stabilize a given part of the state variables for nonlinear control-affine systems. It is assumed that the class of systems under consideration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Victoria Grushkovskaya , Alexander Zuyev

This paper addresses the output synchronization problem for heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems with distributed event-based controllers. Employing the two-step synchronization process, we first outline the distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Gulam Dastagir Khan , Zhiyong Chen , Yamin Yan

This paper proposes a neuro-adaptive distributive cooperative tracking control with prescribed performance function (PPF) for highly nonlinear multi-agent systems. PPF allows error tracking from a predefined large set to be trapped into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Sami El-Ferik , Hashim. A. Hashim , Frank L. Lewis

This paper introduces a continuous-time constrained nonlinear control scheme which implements a model predictive control strategy as a continuous-time dynamic system. The approach is based on the idea that the solution of the optimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Marco M. Nicotra , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Ilya V. Kolmanovsky

Uncertainty-aware prediction is essential for safe motion planning, especially when using learned models to forecast the behavior of surrounding agents. Conformal prediction is a statistical tool often used to produce uncertainty-aware…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Allen Emmanuel Binny , Anushri Dixit

Techniques for coordination of multi-agent systems are vast and varied, often utilizing purpose-built solvers or controllers with tight coupling to the types of systems involved or the coordination goal. In this paper, we introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Tyler Hanks , Hans Riess , Samuel Cohen , Trevor Gross , Matthew Hale , James Fairbanks

Cooperation emergence in multi-agent systems represents a fundamental statistical physics problem where microscopic learning rules drive macroscopic collective behavior transitions. We propose a Q-learning-based variant of adaptive rewiring…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-04 Yi-Ning Weng , Hsuan-Wei Lee

This paper addresses the problem of composite synchronization and learning control in a network of multi-agent robotic manipulator systems with heterogeneous nonlinear uncertainties under a leader-follower framework. A novel two-layer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Emadodin Jandaghi , Dalton L. Stein , Adam Hoburg , Paolo Stegagno , Mingxi Zhou , Chengzhi Yuan

In this paper, we utilize event-triggered coupling configuration to realize synchronization of linearly coupled dynamical systems. Here, the diffusion couplings are set up from the latest observations of the nodes of its neighborhood and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-02-13 Wenlian Lu , Yujuan Han , Tianping Chen

This paper presents the design and analysis of the finite/fixed-time scaled consensus for multiagent systems. A study on a generic attracting law, the certain classes of nonlinear systems that admit attractors with finite/fixed-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Mingxuan Sun , Xing Li

This letter investigates the problem of output synchronisation in heterogeneous dynamical networks with nonlinear diffusive couplings in the presence of disturbances on the coupling links. By exploiting relative dissipativity properties…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yongkang Su , Joaquin Carrasco , Iñaki Esnaola , Lanlan Su

We present an improvement of a recent funnel controller design for uncertain nonlinear multi-input, multi-output systems modeled by higher order functional differential equations in the presence of input constraints. The objective is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Thomas Berger

We study synchronization in delay-coupled neural networks of heterogeneous nodes. It is well known that heterogeneities in the nodes hinder synchronization when becoming too large. We show that an adaptive tuning of the overall coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-10 S. A. Plotnikov , J. Lehnert , A. L. Fradkov , E. Schöll

This paper addresses a formation tracking problem for nonlinear multi-agent systems with time-varying actuator faults, in which only a subset of agents has access to the leader's information over the directed leader-follower network with a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-23 Z. Feng , G. Hu

Many robotic systems are underactuated, meaning not all degrees of freedom can be directly controlled due to lack of actuators, input constraints, or state-dependent actuation. This property, compounded by modeling uncertainties and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Daniel M. Cherenson , Dimitra Panagou

Rhythmic activities that alternate between coherent and incoherent phases are ubiquitous in chemical, ecological, climate, or neural systems. Despite their importance, general mechanisms for their emergence are little understood. In order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-06-01 Max Thiele , Rico Berner , Peter A. Tass , Eckehard Schöll , Serhiy Yanchuk

This paper focuses on analyzing the finite-time convergence of a nonlinear consensus algorithm for multi-agent networks with unknown inherent nonlinear dynamics. Due to the existence of the unknown inherent nonlinear dynamics, the stability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-21 Yongcan Cao , Wei Ren

Many network applications rely on the synchronization of coupled oscillators. For example, such synchronization can provide networked devices with a common temporal reference necessary for coordinating actions or decoding transmitted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Enrique Mallada , Randy A. Freeman , Ao Tang

Concurrent synchronization is a regime where diverse groups of fully synchronized dynamic systems stably coexist. We study global exponential synchronization and concurrent synchronization in the context of Lagrangian systems control. In a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-18 Soon-Jo Chung , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine