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This work is devoted to the construction of feedback laws which guarantee the robust global exponential stability of the uncongested equilibrium point for general discrete-time freeway models. The feedback construction is based on a control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Iasson Karafyllis , Maria Kontorinaki , Markos Papageorgiou

This work proposes a new procedure for the stabilization of time-delay systems using Static Output Feedback (SOF) control. A previous convex optimization approach to SOF for Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) is extended to time-delay…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Danilo Braghini , Eduardo S. Tognetti , Matthew M. Peet

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have emerged as a powerful tool in the design of safety-critical controllers for nonlinear systems. In modern applications, complex systems often involve the feedback interconnection of subsystems evolving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Stefano Di Gregorio , Guido Carnevale , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this study, we propose new global stabilization approaches for a class of polynomial systems in both model-based and data-driven settings. The existing model-based approach guarantees global asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Huayuan Huang , M. Kanat Camlibel , Raffaella Carloni , Henk J. van Waarde

This paper develops a semidefinite-programming-based method for online feedback control of nonlinear systems using a state-dependent representation. We formulate sequences of time-varying SDPs whose optimal solutions jointly yield a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Xiaoyan Dai

In this paper, we focus on the problem about direct way to design a stable controller for nonlinear system. A framework of learning controller with Lyapunov-based constraint is proposed, which is intended to transform designing and analyis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Me Le , Chi Yanxun , Li Zhiwei , Xu Dongfu , Zhang Yulong

This paper presents an approach to systematically design sliding mode control and manifold to stabilize nonlinear uncertain systems. The objective is also accomplished to enlarge the inner bound of region of attraction for closed-loop…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Sina Sanjari , Sadjaad Ozgoli

A learning approach for optimal feedback gains for nonlinear continuous time control systems is proposed and analysed. The goal is to establish a rigorous framework for computing approximating optimal feedback gains using neural networks.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Karl Kunisch , Daniel Walter

We present the stability analysis for the new regulation-triggered approach to adaptive control introduced in a companion paper. Due to the fact that the closed-loop system is hybrid, our proofs have essential differences from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

It has been known in the robotics literature since about 1995 that, in polar coordinates, the nonholonomic unicycle is asymptotically stabilizable by smooth feedback, even globally. We introduce a modular design framework that selects the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Velimir Todorovski , Kwang Hak Kim , Alessandro Astolfi , Miroslav Krstic

We develop a predictor-feedback control design for multi-input nonlinear systems with distinct input delays, of arbitrary length, in each individual input channel. Due to the fact that different input signals reach the plant at different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis , Miroslav Krstic

Safety critical systems involve the tight coupling between potentially conflicting control objectives and safety constraints. As a means of creating a formal framework for controlling systems of this form, and with a view toward automotive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Aaron D. Ames , Xiangru Xu , Jessy W. Grizzle , Paulo Tabuada

Switched affine systems are often used to model and control complex dynamical systems that operate in multiple modes. However, uncertainties in the system matrices can challenge their stability and performance. This paper introduces a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Negar Monir , Mahdieh S. Sadabadi , Sadegh Soudjani

Non-overshooting stabilization is a form of safe control where the setpoint chosen by the user is at the boundary of the safe set. Exponential non-overshooting stabilization, including suitable extensions to systems with deterministic and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Andrey Polyakov , Miroslav Krstic

We propose an SDP-based framework to address the stabilization of input delay systems while taking into account dissipative constraints. A key to our approach is the introduction of the concept of parameterized linear dynamical state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Qian Feng , Cong Zhang , Bo Wei

This paper develops a sequential-linearization feedback optimization framework for driving nonlinear dynamical systems to an optimal steady state. A fundamental challenge in feedback optimization is the requirement of accurate first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Shijie Huang , Sergio Grammatico

Feedback optimisation is an emerging technique aiming at steering a system to an optimal steady state for a given objective function. We show that it is possible to employ this control strategy in a distributed manner. Moreover, we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Antonio Terpin , Sylvain Fricker , Michel Perez , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Florian Dörfler

We study the problem of synthesizing non-smooth control barrier functions (CBFs) for continuous-time switched affine systems. Switched affine systems are defined by a set of affine dynamical modes, wherein the control consists of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Sara Kamali , Guillaume O. Berger , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

This paper considers enforcing safety and stability of dynamical systems in the presence of model uncertainty. Safety and stability constraints may be specified using a control barrier function (CBF) and a control Lyapunov function (CLF),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Kehan Long , Yinzhuang Yi , Jorge Cortes , Nikolay Atanasov

Control barrier function (CBF) has recently started to serve as a basis to develop approaches for enforcing safety requirements in control systems. However, constructing such function for a general system is a non-trivial task. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Zihao Liang , Jason King Ching Lo