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Time-optimal control of a multi-rotor remains an open problem due to the under-actuation and nonlinearity of its dynamics, which make it difficult to solve this problem directly. In this paper, the time-optimal control problem of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Guangyu Zhang , Yongjie Zheng , Yuqing He , Liying Yang , Hongyu Nie , Chaoxiong Huang , Yiwen Zhao

In this work, we address the output--feedback control problem for nonlinear systems under bounded disturbances using a moving horizon approach. The controller is posed as an optimization-based problem that simultaneously estimates the state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Nestor N. Deniz , Guido Sanchez , Marina H. Murillo , Leonardo L. Giovanini

This paper studies the kinematic tracking control problem for aerial manipulators. Existing kinematic tracking control methods, which typically employ proportional-derivative feedback or tracking-error-based feedback strategies, may fail to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Huazi Cao , Jiahao Shen , Zhengzhen Li , Qinquan Ren , Shiyu Zhao

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time stochastic control problem with uncertain initial and target states. We first discuss the connection between optimal transport and stochastic control problems of this form. Next, we formulate a…

This paper presents a novel position control strategy for a single-link flexible manipulator, tailored for applications where precise position must be achieved within strict time constraints. To accomplish this objective, firstly, a nested…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Atul Sharma , Chayan Kumar Paul , S. Janardhanan

This paper proposes a Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm for target tracking amongst static and dynamic obstacles. Our main contribution lies in improving the computational tractability and reliability of the underlying non-convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Houman Masnavi , Vivek Adajania , Karl Kruusamae , Arun Kumar Singh

Circumnavigation control is useful in real-world applications such as entrapping a hostile target. In this paper, we consider a heterogeneous multi-robot system where robots have different physical properties, such as maximum movement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Weijia Yao , Sha Luo , Huimin Lu , Junhao Xiao

This paper considers the distributed H-infinity leader-following tracking problem for a class of discrete time multi-agent systems with a high-dimensional dynamic leader. It is assumed that output information about the leader is only…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Guanghui Wen , Valery Ugrinovskii

This paper studies the time-varying bearing-based tracking of leader-follower formations. The desired constraints between agents are specified by bearing vectors, and several leaders are moving with a bounded reference velocity. Each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Dung Van Vu , Minh Hoang Trinh

In this paper we propose a model predictive control scheme for constrained fractional-order discrete-time systems. We prove that all constraints are satisfied at all time instants and we prescribe conditions for the origin to be an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Pantelis Sopasakis , Haralambos Sarimveis

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has established itself as the primary methodology for constrained control, enabling autonomy across diverse applications. While model fidelity is crucial in MPC, solving the corresponding optimization problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Lukas Schroth , Daniel Morton , Amon Lahr , Daniele Gammelli , Andrea Carron , Marco Pavone

Output reference tracking of unknown nonlinear systems is considered. The control objective is exact tracking in predefined finite time, while in the transient phase the tracking error evolves within a prescribed boundary. To achieve this,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Lukas Lanza

We formulate an attention mechanism for continuous and ordered sequences that explicitly functions as an alignment model, which serves as the core of many sequence-to-sequence tasks. Standard scaled dot-product attention relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hyungjoon Soh , Junghyo Jo

In this paper, we propose a chance constrained stochastic model predictive control scheme for reference tracking of distributed linear time-invariant systems with additive stochastic uncertainty. The chance constraints are reformulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Christoph Mark , Steven Liu

This article addresses the moving target enclosing control problem for nonholonomic multi-agent systems with guaranteed network connectivity and collision avoidance. We propose a novel control scheme to handle distance constraints imposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Boyin Zheng , Yahui Hao , Lu Liu

This paper is devoted to the distributed continuous-time optimization problem with time-varying objective functions and time-varying nonlinear inequality constraints. Different from most studied distributed optimization problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Shan Sun , Wei Ren

This paper presents novel controllers that yield finite-time stability for linear systems. We first present a sufficient condition for the origin of a scalar system to be finite-time stable. Then we present novel finite-time controllers…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Kunal Garg , Dimitra Panagou

This paper deals with the finite-time stabilization of a class of nonlinear infinite-dimensional systems. First, we consider a bounded matched perturbation in its linear form. It is shown that by using a set-valued function, both the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Kamal Fenza , Moussa Labbadi , Mohamed Ouzahra

According to recent results, convergence in a prespecified or prescribed finite time can be achieved under extreme model uncertainty if control is applied continuously over time. This paper shows that this extreme amount of uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Hernan Haimovich , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Richard Seeber , David Gomez-Gutierrez

We tackle the problem of flying time-optimal trajectories through multiple waypoints with quadrotors. State-of-the-art solutions split the problem into a planning task - where a global, time-optimal trajectory is generated - and a control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Angel Romero , Sihao Sun , Philipp Foehn , Davide Scaramuzza