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In this paper, we present a data-driven controller design method for continuous-time nonlinear systems, using no model knowledge but only measured data affected by noise. While most existing approaches focus on systems with polynomial…
Research on control using models based on machine-learning methods has now shifted to the practical engineering stage. Achieving high performance and theoretically guaranteeing the safety of the system is critical for such applications. In…
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Robust output regulation for linear time-varying systems has remained an open problem for decades. To address this, we propose the trajectory-matching system immersion framework, by reformulating the regulator equation into a more…
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Nonlinear dynamical systems are widely encountered in various scientific and engineering fields. Despite significant advances in theoretical understanding, developing complete and integrated frameworks for analyzing and designing these…
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We propose an extension of the input-output feedback linearization for a class of multivariate systems that are not input-output linearizable in a classical manner. The key observation is that the usual input-output linearization problem…
This paper revisits a classical challenge in the design of stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems with a norm-bounded input constraint. By extending Lin-Sontag's universal formula and introducing a generic (state-dependent) scaling…
A high-gain observer is used for a class of feedback linearisable nonlinear systems to synthesize safety-preserving controllers over the observer output. A bound on the distance between trajectories under state and output feedback is…
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The identification of a linear system model from data has wide applications in control theory. The existing work that provides finite sample guarantees for linear system identification typically uses data from a single long system…