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In this paper, we present an impedance control design for multi-variable linear and nonlinear robotic systems. The control design considers force and state feedback to improve the performance of the closed loop. Simultaneous feedback of…
The linear quadratic regulator is the fundamental problem of optimal control. Its state feedback version was set and solved in the early 1960s. However the static output feedback problem has no explicit-form solution. It is suggested to…
The challenge of constructing feedback control laws for risk-averse optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) with random coefficients is addressed. The control objective composes a tracking-type cost with the nonlinear…
This paper investigates the robust asymptotic stabilization of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system by a static feedback with a static state quantization. It is shown that the controllable LTI system can be stabilized to zero in a finite…
This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem subject to the $H^1$-critical defocusing semilinear wave equation on a smooth and bounded domain in three spatial dimensions. Due to the criticality of the nonlinearity in the wave…
We consider constrained bilinear optimal control of second-order linear evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) with a reaction term on the half line, where control arises as a time-dependent reaction coefficient and constraints are…
We propose a time domain decomposition approach to optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) based on semigroup theoretic methods. We formulate the optimality system consisting of two coupled forward-backward PDEs, the state…
We consider integer-restricted optimal control of systems governed by abstract semilinear evolution equations. This includes the problem of optimal control design for certain distributed parameter systems endowed with multiple actuators,…
This report concerns the inverse problem of estimating a spacially dependent coefficient of a partial differential equation from observations of the solution at the boundary. Such a problem can be formulated as an optimal control problem…
The paper provides a new approach to the determination of a single state value for stochastic output feedback problems using paradigms from Model Predictive Control, particularly the distinction between open-loop and closed-loop control and…
This paper investigates the optimal co-design of logical and continuous controls for switched linear systems governed by controlled logical switching dynamics. Unlike traditional switched systems with arbitrary or state-dependent switching,…
In this paper we study a first extension of the theory of mild solutions for HJB equations in Hilbert spaces to the case when the domain is not the whole space. More precisely, we consider a half-space as domain, and a semilinear…
We establish a separation principle for the output feedback stabilisation of state-affine systems that are observable at the stabilization target. Relying on control templates (recently introduced in [4]), that allow to approximate a…
In this note, we demonstrate that a locally semiconvex viscosity supersolution to a possibly degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is differentiable along the directions spanned by the range of the…
In the present work, we consider nonlinear control systems for which there exist structural obstacles to the design of classical continuous backstepping feedback laws. We conceive feedback laws such that the origin of the closed-loop system…
In this paper we investigate a dynamic stochastic portfolio optimization problem involving both the expected terminal utility and intertemporal utility maximization. We solve the problem by means of a solution to a fully nonlinear…
This paper proposes an operator-theoretic framework that recasts the minimal value function of a nonlinear optimal control problem as an abstract bilinear form on a suitable function space. The resulting bilinear form is shown to satisfy an…
We consider an abstract framework for the numerical solution of optimal control problems (OCPs) subject to partial differential equations (PDEs). Examples include not only the distributed control of elliptic PDEs such as the Poisson…
In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for steering the state covariance of a discrete-time linear stochastic system over a finite time horizon. First, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the optimal control law for a…
In this paper, we prove the stabilizability of abstract Parabolic Integro-Differential Equations (PIDE) in a Hilbert space with decay rate $e^{-\gamma t} $ for certain $\gamma > 0,$ by means of a finite dimensional controller in the…