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We propose a second-order time to collision (TTC) considering non-static acceleration and turning with realistic assumptions. This is equivalent to considering that the steering wheel is held at a fixed angle with constant pressure on the…

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In various applications in the field of control engineering the estimation of the state variables of dynamic systems in the presence of unknown inputs plays an important role. Existing methods require the so-called observer matching…

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This paper presents a control methodology for achieving orbital stabilization with simultaneous time synchronization of periodic trajectories in underactuated robotic systems. The proposed approach extends the classical transverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Surov Maksim

Autonomous agents are limited in their ability to observe the world state. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) formally model the problem of planning under world state uncertainty, but POMDPs with continuous actions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Dicong Qiu , Yibiao Zhao , Chris L. Baker

It is well known that for ergodic channel processes the Generalized Max-Weight Matching (GMWM) scheduling policy stabilizes the network for any supportable arrival rate vector within the network capacity region. This policy, however, often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mahdi Lotfinezhad , Ben Liang , Elvino S. Sousa

Drift diffusion models (DDMs) have found widespread use in computational neuroscience and other fields. They model evidence accumulation in simple decision tasks as a stochastic process drifting towards a decision barrier. In models where…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-12 Sicheng Liu , Alexander Fengler , Michael J. Frank , Matthew T. Harrison

In this paper we study the problem of designing periodic orbits for a special class of hybrid systems, namely mechanical systems with underactuated continuous dynamics and impulse events. We approach the problem by means of optimal control.…

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We examine the stability of hierarchical triple systems using direct $N$-body simulations without adopting a secular perturbation approximation. We estimate their disruption timescales in addition to the mere stable/unstable criterion, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Toshinori Hayashi , Alessandro A. Trani , Yasushi Suto

Simulating the dynamics of a nonequilibrium quantum many-body system by computing the two-time Green's function associated with such a system is computationally challenging. However, we are often interested in the time diagonal of such a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-21 Jia Yin , Yang-hao Chan , Felipe da Jornada , Diana Qiu , Chao Yang , Steven G. Louie

This study proposes a new automated strategy for designing and optimizing three-dimensional interplanetary low-thrust (LT) trajectories. The method formulates the design as a hybrid optimal control problem and solves it using a two-step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Burhani M. Burhani , Elena Fantino , Roberto Flores , Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo

In this paper the finite-time stabilization problem is solved for a linear time-varying system with unknown control direction by exploiting a modified version of the classical extremum seeking algorithm. We propose to use a suitable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Adriano Mele , Gianmaria De Tommasi , Alfredo Pironti

Many topological data analysis (TDA) pipelines compute large collections of persistence diagrams, yet vectorizations and kernel methods discard the rank-induced implication relations among persistence intervals that are essential for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Charles Fanning , Mehmet Aktas

Sliding mode control (SMC) is a robust and computationally efficient solution for tracking control problems of highly nonlinear systems with a great deal of uncertainty. High frequency oscillations due to chattering phenomena and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Mohammad Reza Amini , Mahdi Shahbakhti , Selina Pan , J. Karl Hedrick

The purpose of this article is to introduce the original results which devoted with the nonlinear control system problems involves of nonlinear differential equations of fractional orders. Thus, this system is described with a mixed of…

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Time-distributed Optimization (TDO) is an approach for reducing the computational burden of Model Predictive Control (MPC). When using TDO, optimization iterations are distributed over time by maintaining a running solution estimate and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Dominic Liao-McPherson , Terrence Skibik , Jordan Leung , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Marco M. Nicotra

High-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) is an effective approach for computing saddle points of a prescribed Morse index and constructing solution landscapes for complex nonlinear systems. However, for problems with ill-conditioned Hessians…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Bingzhang Huang , Hua Su , Lei Zhang , Jin Zhao

True-time-delay (TTD) lines are recently applied inside Terahertz (THz) hybrid-precoding transceiver to acquire high beamforming gain against beam squint effect. However, beam tracking turns into a challenging puzzle where enormous…

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In this paper, disturbance reconstruction and robust trajectory tracking control of biped robots with hybrid dynamics in the port-Hamiltonian form is investigated. A new type of Hamiltonian function is introduced, which ensures the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yousef Farid , Fabio Ruggiero

Recent advancements in self-driving car technologies have enabled them to navigate autonomously through various environments. However, one of the critical challenges in autonomous vehicle operation is trajectory planning, especially in…