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This paper presents novel methods for achieving stable and efficient convergence in multivariable extremum seeking control (ESC) using sliding mode techniques. Drawing inspiration from both classical sliding mode control and more recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Roberto Luo , Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstic

Extremum seeking feedback is a powerful method to steer a dynamical system to an extremum of a partially or completely unknown map. It often requires advanced system-theoretic tools to understand the qualitative behavior of extremum seeking…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Hans-Bernd Dürr , Miloš S. Stanković , Christian Ebenbauer , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we introduce a model-free, real-time, dynamic optimization and control method for a class of rigid body dynamics. Our method is based on a recent extremum seeking control for vibrational stabilization (ESC-VS) approach that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Rohan Palanikumar , Ahmed A. Elgohary , Simone Martini , Sameh A. Eisa

We present a novel extremum seeking method for affine connection mechanical control systems. The proposed control law involves periodic perturbation signals with sufficiently large amplitudes and frequencies. A suitable averaging analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Raik Suttner

Reinforcement learning for control over continuous spaces typically uses high-entropy stochastic policies, such as Gaussian distributions, for local exploration and estimating policy gradient to optimize performance. Many robotic control…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ya-Chien Chang , Sicun Gao

We generalize the Safe Extremum Seeking algorithm to address the minimization of an unknown objective function subject to multiple unknown inequality and equality constraints, relying on recent results of gradient flow systems. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alan Williams , Jorge Cortés , Alexander Scheinker

This paper introduces extremum seeking (ES) algorithms designed to achieve perfect tracking of arbitrary time-varying extremum. In contrast to classical ES approaches that employ constant frequencies and controller gains, our algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Cemal Tugrul Yilmaz , Mamadou Diagne , Miroslav Krstic

Grid-forming (GFM) inverters are essential for enhancing stability in modern power systems with high penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs). However, their performance highly depends on control parameters tuning, particularly the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Kyung-Bin Kwon , Min Gyung Yu , Sayak Mukherjee , Timothy I. Salsbury

This paper addresses the nonovershooting control problem for strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown control direction. We propose a method that integrates extremum seeking with Lie bracket-based design to achieve approximately…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Kaixin Lu , Ziliang Lyu , Yanfang Mo , Yiguang Hong , Haoyong Yu

The paper deals with the extremum seeking problem for a class of cost functions depending only on a part of state variables of a control system. This problem is related to the concept of partial asymptotic stability and analyzed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Victoria Grushkovskaya , Alexander Zuyev

This paper provides a rigorous derivation for what is known in the literature as the Lie bracket approximation of control-affine systems in a more general and sequential framework for higher-orders. In fact, by using chronological calculus,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Sameer Pokhrel , Sameh A. Eisa

Stability results for extremum seeking control in $\mathbb{R}^n$ have predominantly been restricted to local or, at best, semi-global practical stability. Extending semi-global stability results of extremum-seeking systems to unbounded sets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Jorge Poveda

In this paper, we develop an extremum seeking control method integrated with iterative learning control to track a time-varying optimizer within finite time. The behavior of the extremum seeking system is analyzed via an approximating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Zhixing Cao , Hans-Bernd Dürr , Christian Ebenbauer , Frank Allgöwer , Furong Gao

This paper focuses on the further development of the Lie bracket approximation approach for extremum seeking systems. Classical results in this area provide extremum seeking algorithms with exponential convergence rates for quadratic-like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Victoria Grushkovskaya , Sameh A. Eisa

In this paper, we study a tracking control problem for linear time-invariant systems, with model parametric uncertainties, under input and states constraints. We apply the idea of modular design introduced in Benosman et al. 2014, to solve…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Anantharaman Subbaraman , Mouhacine Benosman

This paper investigates multivariable extremum seeking using unit-vector control. By employing the gradient algorithm and a polytopic embedding of the unknown Hessian matrix, we establish sufficient conditions, expressed as linear matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Enzo Ferreira Tomaz Silva , Pedro Henrique Silva Coutinho , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstić

Extremum seeking systems are powerful methods able to steer the input of a (dynamical) cost function towards an optimizer, without any prior knowledge of the cost function. To achieve their objective, they typically combine time-periodic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Christophe Labar , Christian Ebenbauer , Lorenzo Marconi

This paper presents a longitudinal slip control system for a rear-wheel-driven electric endurance race car. The control system integrates Model Predictive Control (MPC) with Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) to optimize the traction and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Wytze de Vries , Jorn van Kampen , Mauro Salazar

This paper deals with the gradient-based extremum seeking control for multivariable maps under actuator saturation. By exploiting a polytopic embedding of the unknown Hessian, we derive a LMI-based synthesis condition to ensure that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Enzo Ferreira Tomaz Silva , Pedro Henrique Silva Coutinho , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstić

This paper proposes a non-adaptive control solution framework to the practical output regulation problem (PORP) for a class of nonlinear systems with uncertain parameters, unknown control directions and uncertain exosystem dynamics. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Shimin Wang , Martin Guay , Denis Dochain