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This paper deals with the stabilization problem for nonlinear control-affine systems with the use of oscillating feedback controls. We assume that the local controllability around the origin is guaranteed by the rank condition with Lie…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Alexander Zuyev , Victoria Grushkovskaya

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Humberto Stein Shiromoto , Vincent Andrieu , Christophe Prieur

The robust stability problem involves designing a controlled system which remains stable in the presence of modeling uncertainty. In this context, results known as small gain theorems are used to quantify the maximum amount of uncertainty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Gavin Glenn , Emma J. Reid

The paper addresses the stabilization of nonlinear systems with semi-quadratic cost: quadratic with respect to controls and nonlinear for state variables. Paper presents the effective new feedback synthesis procedure. The novel feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-31 S. Nikitin

In this paper, we show that a hybrid integrator-gain system (HIGS) is a nonlinear negative imaginary (NNI) system. We prove that the positive feedback interconnection of a linear negative imaginary (NI) system and a HIGS is asymptotically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Kanghong Shi , Nastaran Nikooienejad , Ian R. Petersen , S. O. Reza Moheimani

This work introduces a controller synthesis method via system level synthesis for nonlinear systems characterized by polynomial dynamics. The resulting framework yields finite impulse response, time-invariant, closed-loop transfer functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Lauren Conger , Jing Shuang Li , Eric Mazumdar , Steven L. Brunton

We develop a switched nonlinear predictor-feedback control law to achieve global asymptotic stabilization for nonlinear systems with arbitrarily long input delay, under state quantization. The proposed design generalizes the nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Florent Koudohode , Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

This paper introduces and studies the notion of output-input stability, which represents a variant of the minimum-phase property for general smooth nonlinear control systems. The definition of output-input stability does not rely on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Daniel Liberzon , A. Stephen Morse , Eduardo D. Sontag

This paper investigates the robust stabilisation of a class of fractional-order non-linear systems via fixed-order dynamic output feedback controller in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The systematic stabilisation algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Elyar Zavary , Mahdi Sojoodi

This paper presents a novel framework for stabilizing nonlinear systems represented in state-dependent form. We first reformulate the nonlinear dynamics as a state-dependent parameter-varying model and synthesize a stabilizing controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Lidong Li , Rui Huang , Lin Zhao

This paper focuses on the problem of constructing time-varying feedback laws that asymptotically stabilize a given part of the state variables for nonlinear control-affine systems. It is assumed that the class of systems under consideration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Victoria Grushkovskaya , Alexander Zuyev

This paper presents necessary and sufficient conditions for deriving a strictly proper dynamic controller which satisfies the negative imaginary output feedback control problem. Our synthesis method divides the output feedback control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-09 James Dannatt , Ian Petersen

Output feedback stabilization of control systems is a crucial issue in engineering. Most of these systems are not uniformly observable, which proves to be a difficulty to move from state feedback stabilization to dynamic output feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Ludovic Sacchelli , Lucas Brivadis , Vincent Andrieu , Ulysse Serres , Jean-Paul Gauthier

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 consider nonlinear control systems for which there exist some structural obstacles to the design of classical continuous stabilizing feedback laws. More precisely, it is studied systems for which the backstepping tool for the design of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Humberto Stein Shiromoto , Vincent Andrieu , Christophe Prieur

The paper shows that positive linear systems can be stabilized using positive Luenberger-type observers. This is achieved by structuring the observer as monotonically converging upper and lower bounds on the state. Analysis of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 David Ohlin , Anders Rantzer , Emma Tegling

We study local stabilization of nonlinear control systems under explicit gain constraints on the feedback law. Using a quantitative refinement of Brockett's openness condition, we introduce the notion of a maximal continuous openness rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Bryce Christopherson , Farhad Jafari

The paper presents necessary and sufficient conditions for a nonlinear system to be stabilized by a feedback. The conditions are based on the ideas related to the well-known Pontryagin's maximum principle. That allows us to formulate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Nikitin

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 B. Hassoun , R. Al-Saphory , S. Hassan

We propose a method of producing steady-state coherent light with negative Wigner functions in nonlinear media combined with feedback control. While the nonlinearities are essential to produce the Wigner negativities, this alone is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-05 Cristian Joana , Peter van Loock , Hui Deng , Tim Byrnes