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We consider the problem of designing output feedback controllers that use measurements from a set of landmarks to navigate through a cell-decomposable environment using duality, Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions (CLF, CBF), and Linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Mahroo Bahreinian , Mehdi Kermanshah , Roberto Tron

We propose a constricting Control Barrier Function (CBF) framework for prescribed-time control of control-affine systems with input constraints. Given a system starting outside a target safe set, we construct a time-varying safety tube that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Darshan Gadginmath , Ahmed Allibhoy , Fabio Pasqualetti

Ensuring safety for black-box hybrid dynamical systems presents significant challenges due to their instantaneous state jumps and unknown explicit nonlinear dynamics. Existing solutions for strict safety constraint satisfaction, like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Aayushi Shrivastava , Kartik Nagpal , Sairam Jinkala , Jean-Baptiste Bouvier , Negar Mehr

A systematic approach to maximise estimates on the region of attraction in the exponential stabilisation of geometrically exact (nonlinear) beam models via boundary feedback is presented. Starting from recently established stability results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Marc Artola , Charlotte Rodriguez , Andrew Wynn , Rafael Palacios , Günter Leugering

Finding a control Lyapunov function (CLF) in a dynamical system with a controller is an effective way to guarantee stability, which is a crucial issue in safety-concerned applications. Recently, deep learning models representing CLFs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yupu Lu , Shijie Lin , Hao Xu , Zeqing Zhang , Jia Pan

Adaptive Control Lyapunov Functions (aCLFs) were introduced 20 years ago, and provided a Lyapunov-based methodology for stabilizing systems with parameter uncertainty. The goal of this paper is to revisit this classic formulation in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Andrew J. Taylor , Aaron D. Ames

Sufficient conditions are established for sampled-data feedback global asymptotic stabilization for nonlinear autonomous systems. One of our main results is an extension of the well known Artstein-Sontag theorem on feedback stabilization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-05 J. Tsinias

This paper studies the problem of constructing control Lyapunov functions (CLFs) and feedback stabilization strategies for deterministic nonlinear control systems described by ordinary differential equations. Many numerical methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Ivan Yegorov , Peter M. Dower , Lars Grüne

This note studies the robust output feedback stabilization problem of a class of multi-input multi-output invertible nonlinear systems, for which an "ideal" state feedback based on feedback linearization can be designed under certain mild…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Lei Wang , Christopher M. Kellett

This paper presents a safe feedback control framework for nonlinear control-affine systems with parametric uncertainty by leveraging adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) with barrier-state augmentation. The developed ADP-based controller…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Trivikram Satharasi , Tochukwu E. Ogri , Muzaffar Qureshi , Kyle Volle , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

This paper explores the design of hybrid feedback for a class of affine nonlinear systems with topological constraints that prevent global asymptotic stability. A new hybrid control strategy is introduced, which differs conceptually from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Miaomiao Wang , Abdelhamid Tayebi

Prediction-based transformation is applied to control-affine systems with distributed input delays. Transformed system state is calculated as a prediction of the system's future response to the past input with future input set to zero.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Anton Ponomarev

We study the problem of co-designing control barrier functions (CBF) and linear state feedback controllers for continuous-time linear systems. We achieve this by means of a single semi-definite optimization program. Our formulation can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Han Wang , Kostas Margellos , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Claudio De Persis

The paper presents an approach to the construction of stabilizing feedback for strongly nonlinear systems. The class of systems of interest includes systems with drift which are affine in control and which cannot be stabilized by continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Hannah Michalska , Miguel Torres-Torriti

We propose a hybrid feedback control law that guarantees both safety and asymptotic stability for a class of Lagrangian systems in environments with obstacles. Rather than performing trajectory planning and implementing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Fernando S. Barbosa , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Jana Tumova

To address feasibility issues in model predictive control (MPC), most implementations relax state constraints by using slack variables and adding a penalty to the cost. We propose an alternative strategy: relaxing the initial state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Johannes Köhler , Melanie N. Zeilinger

The control barrier function (CBF) has become a fundamental tool in safety-critical systems design since its invention. Typically, the quadratic optimization framework is employed to accommodate CBFs, control Lyapunov functions (CLFs),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Junjun Xie , Liang Hu , Jiahu Qin , Jun Yang , Huijun Gao

This survey paper deals with the stabilization of nonlinear systems by analyzing the controlling method in terms of state feedback and output feedback. A brief overview of some literature on how the feedback controller of some dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Demelash Abiye Deguale

Practical stabilization of input-affine systems in the presence of measurement errors and input constraints is considered in this brief note. Assuming that a Lyapunov function and a stabilizing control exist for an input-affine system, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Patrick Schmidt , Pavel Osinenko , Stefan Streif

Recent development of contraction theory based analysis of singularly perturbed system has opened the door for inspecting differential behavior of multi time-scale systems. In this paper a contraction theory based framework is proposed for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Madan Mohan Rayguru , I N Kar