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Swarm robotic systems have foreseeable applications in the near future. Recently, there has been an increasing amount of literature that employs mean-field partial differential equations (PDEs) to model the time-evolution of the probability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Tongjia Zheng , Qing Han , Hai Lin

Recent years have seen an increased interest in using mean-field density based modelling and control strategy for deploying robotic swarms. In this paper, we study how to dynamically deploy the robots subject to their physical constraints…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Tongjia Zheng , Hai Lin

With the rapid development of AI and robotics, transporting a large swarm of networked robots has foreseeable applications in the near future. Existing research in swarm robotics has mainly followed a bottom-up philosophy with predefined…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Tongjia Zheng , Qing Han , Hai Lin

Modern applications, such as orchestrating the collective behavior of robotic swarms or traffic flows, require the coordination of large groups of agents evolving in unstructured environments, where disturbances and unmodeled dynamics are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Gian Carlo Maffettone , Davide Salzano , Mario di Bernardo

Systems modeled by partial differential equations (PDEs) are at least as ubiquitous as systems that are by nature finite-dimensional and modeled by ordinary differential equations (ODEs). And yet, systematic and readily usable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Rafael Vazquez , Jean Auriol , Federico Bribiesca-Argomedo , Miroslav Krstic

We study the problem of mean-field control when the state dynamics are given by general systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with heterogeneous mean-field interactions. Firstly, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Andreas Sojmark , Zeng Zhang

This work studies how to estimate the mean-field density of large-scale systems in a distributed manner. Such problems are motivated by the recent swarm control technique that uses mean-field approximations to represent the collective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Tongjia Zheng , Qing Han , Hai Lin

This paper considers the backstepping state feedback and observer design for hyperbolic and parabolic PDEs, which are bidirectionally interconnected in a general coupling structure. Both PDE subsystems consist of coupled scalar PDEs with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-23 Joachim Deutscher , Nicole Gehring , Nick Jung

We introduce a control design and analysis framework for micro-macro, boundary control of large-scale, $n+m$ hyperbolic PDE systems. Specifically, we develop feedback laws for stabilization of hyperbolic systems at the micro level (i.e., of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Jukka-Pekka Humaloja , Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

This paper considers the backstepping design of state feedback controllers for coupled linear parabolic partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs) of Volterra-type with distinct diffusion coefficients, spatially-varying parameters and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Joachim Deutscher , Simon Kerschbaum

The paper is concerned with the strict-feedback form of hyperbolic distributed-parameter systems. Such a system structure is well known to be the basis for the recursive backstepping control design for nonlinear ODEs and is also reflected…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Nicole Gehring

We develop a backstepping control design for a class of continuum systems of linear hyperbolic PDEs, described by a coupled system of an ensemble of rightward transporting PDEs and a (finite) system of $m$ leftward transporting PDEs. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Jukka-Pekka Humaloja , Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

In this article, we consider the problem of stabilizing stochastic processes, which are constrained to a bounded Euclidean domain or a compact smooth manifold, to a given target probability density. Most existing works on modeling and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Spring Berman

This paper presents a backstepping solution for the output feedback control of general linear heterodirectional hyperbolic PDE-ODE systems with spatially-varying coefficients. Thereby, the coupling in the PDE is in-domain and at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Joachim Deutscher , Nicole Gehring , Richard Kern

This paper systematically introduces dynamic extensions for the boundary control of general heterodirectional hyperbolic PDE systems. These extensions, which are well known in the finite-dimensional setting, constitute the dynamics of state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Nicole Gehring , Joachim Deutscher , Abdurrahman Irscheid

This paper presents a novel density control framework for multi-robot systems with spatial safety and energy sustainability guarantees. Stochastic robot motion is encoded through the Fokker-Planck Partial Differential Equation (PDE) at the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Longchen Niu , Andrew Nasif , Gennaro Notomista

We establish that stabilization of a class of linear, hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with a large (nevertheless finite) number of components, can be achieved via employment of a backstepping-based control law, which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Jukka-Pekka Humaloja , Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

We propose a PDE-based accelerated gradient algorithm for optimal feedback controls of McKean-Vlasov dynamics that involve mean-field interactions both in the state and action. The method exploits a forward-backward splitting approach and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

While for coupled hyperbolic PDEs of first order there now exist numerous PDE backstepping designs, systems with zero speed, i.e., without convection but involving infinite-dimensional ODEs, which arise in many applications, from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Gustavo A. de Andrade , Rafael Vazquez , Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

We develop a novel multi-layer predictor-feedback to achieve exact compensation of state-dependent input delay of general nonlinear integro-differential equations. The system of interest is an unconventional mixed Partial Differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Tong Li , Peipei Shang , Mamadou Diagne
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