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In this paper, we design an output-feedback controller to stabilize n +m hetero-directional transport partial differential equations (PDEs) coupled on both domain boundaries to ordinary differential equations (ODEs). This class of systems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Jean Auriol , Federico Bribiesca Argomedo

Backstepping is a mature and powerful Lyapunov-based design approach for a specific set of systems. Throughout the development over three decades, innovative theories and practices have extended backstepping to stabilization and tracking…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Zhengru Ren

This work studies the design problem of feedback stabilizers for discrete-time systems with input delays. A backstepping procedure is proposed for disturbance-free discrete-time systems. The feedback law designed by using backstepping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-05 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

We study the backstepping stabilization of higher order linear and nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations on a finite interval, where the boundary feedback acts from the left Dirichlet boundary condition. The plant is stabilized with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Ahmet Batal , Türker Özsarı , Kemal Cem Yılmaz

This paper proposes a backstepping boundary control design for robust stabilization of linear first-order coupled hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with Markov-jumping parameters. The PDE system consists of 4 X 4 coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Yihuai Zhang , Jean Auriol , Huan Yu

In this paper we propose a new methodology for decision-making under uncertainty using recent advancements in the areas of nonlinear stochastic optimal control theory, applied mathematics, and machine learning. Grounded on the fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Marcus Pereira , Ziyi Wang , Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This paper develops output feedback boundary control to mitigate traffic congestion of a unidirectional two-lane freeway segment. The macroscopic traffic dynamics are described by the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) model respectively for both the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Huan Yu , Miroslav Krstic

This paper introduces a novel decentralized implementation of a continuification-based strategy to control the density of large-scale multi-agent systems on the unit circle. While continuification methods effectively address micro-to-macro…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Beniamino Di Lorenzo , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

This paper extends backstepping to higher-dimensional PDEs by leveraging domain symmetries and structural properties. We systematically address three increasingly complex scenarios. First, for rectangular domains, we characterize boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Rafael Vazquez

We develop reinforcement learning (RL) boundary controllers to mitigate stop-and-go traffic congestion on a freeway segment. The traffic dynamics of the freeway segment are governed by a macroscopic Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) model, consisting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Huan Yu , Saehong Park , Alexandre Bayen , Scott Moura , Miroslav Krstic

We introduce a finite dimensional version of backstepping controller design for stabilizing solutions of PDEs from boundary. Our controller uses only a finite number of Fourier modes of the state of solution, as opposed to the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Varga Kalantarov , Türker Özsarı , Kemal Cem Yılmaz

In this article, we detail the design of an output feedback stabilizing control law for an underactuated network of N subsystems of n + m heterodirectional linear first-order hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations interconnected through…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Jean Auriol

In this paper, a backstepping control of the one-phase Stefan Problem, which is a 1-D diffusion Partial Differential Equation (PDE) defined on a time varying spatial domain described by an ordinary differential equation (ODE), is studied. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Shumon Koga , Mamadou Diagne , Shuxia Tang , Miroslav Krstic

A novel approach to design the feedback control based on past states is proposed for hybrid stochastic differential equations (HSDEs). This new theorem builds up the connection between the delay feedback control and the control function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Junhao Hu , Wei Liu , Feiqi Deng , Xuerong Mao

In this paper we extend our recently proposed Deadzone-Adapted Disturbance Suppression (DADS) Control approach from systems with matched uncertainties to general systems in parametric strict feedback form. The DADS approach prevents gain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic , Alexandros Aslanidis

The recently introduced DeepONet operator-learning framework for PDE control is extended from the results for basic hyperbolic and parabolic PDEs to an advanced hyperbolic class that involves delays on both the state and the system output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Jie Qi , Jing Zhang , Miroslav Krstic

We present a novel methodology for designing output-feedback backstepping boundary controllers for an unstable 1-D diffusion-reaction partial differential equation with spatially-varying reaction. Using "folding" transforms the parabolic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Stephen Chen , Rafael Vazquez , Miroslav Krstic

We propose a Reinforcement Learning framework for sparse indirect control of large-scale multi-agent systems, where few controlled agents shape the collective behavior of many uncontrolled agents. The approach addresses this multi-scale…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Luigi Catello , Italo Napolitano , Davide Salzano , Mario di Bernardo

In this paper, we present output feedback boundary stabilization for a class of semilinear parabolic PDEs with a boundary measurement and an actuation located at the same place. The method uses backstepping transformations, where the state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Agus Hasan

This paper studies the robustness of a PDE backstepping delay-compensated boundary controller for a reaction-diffusion partial differential equation (PDE) with respect to a nominal delay subject to stochastic error disturbance. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Dandan Guan , Jie Qi , Mamadou Diagne