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We study the controllability of the Bloch equation, for an ensemble of non interacting half-spins, in a static magnetic field, with dispersion in the Larmor frequency. This system may be seen as a prototype for infinite dimensional bilinear…
Motivated by the need for formal guarantees on the stability and safety of controllers for challenging robot control tasks, we present a control design procedure that explicitly seeks to maximize the size of an invariant "funnel" that leads…
The controllability issue of control-affine systems on smooth manifolds is one of the main problems in the theory, and it is recently known [Jouan P. Equivalence of control systems with linear systems on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces.…
We investigate the controllability of an infinite-dimensional quantum system: a quantum particle confined on a Thick Quantum Graph, a generalisation of Quantum Graphs whose edges are allowed to be manifolds of arbitrary dimension with…
In this paper we establish the theory on semiglobal classical solution to first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems with a kind of nonlocal boundary conditions, and based on this, the corresponding exact boundary controllability and…
In this work, we investigate the small-time global controllability properties of a class of fourth-order nonlinear parabolic equations driven by a bilinear control posed on the one-dimensional torus. The controls depend only on time and act…
This article addresses the moving target enclosing control problem for nonholonomic multi-agent systems with guaranteed network connectivity and collision avoidance. We propose a novel control scheme to handle distance constraints imposed…
This paper is concerned with the null controllability problem for a class of quasilinear parabolic equations under multiplicative control, locally supported in space. For the purpose of proving the existence of a multiplicative control…
This paper proposes control laws ensuring the stabilization of a time-varying desired joint trajectory, as well as joint limit avoidance, in the case of fully-actuated manipulators. The key idea is to perform a parametrization of the…
We study controllability of a Partial Differential Equation of transport type, that arises in crowd models. We are interested in controlling such system with a control being a Lipschitz vector field on a fixed control set $\omega$. We prove…
In quantum control theory, the fundamental issue of controllability covers the questions whether and under which conditions a system can be steered from one pure state into another by suitably tuned time evolution operators. Even though Lie…
Safety and stability are common requirements for robotic control systems; however, designing safe, stable controllers remains difficult for nonlinear and uncertain models. We develop a model-based learning approach to synthesize robust…
This paper presents a computationally efficient model predictive control formulation that uses an integral Chebyshev collocation method to enable rapid operations of autonomous agents. By posing the finite-horizon optimal control problem…
We prove the null controllability of a cascade system of \(n\) coupled backward stochastic parabolic equations involving both reaction and convection terms, as well as general second-order parabolic operators, with \(n \geq 2\). To achieve…
This article is dedicated to improve the controllability results obtained by Cerpa et al. in Commun. Contemp. Math 13 (2011) and by Micu et al. in Commun. Contemp. Math 11 (5) (2009) for a nonlinear coupled system of two Korteweg-de Vries…
We consider a linear viscoelastic system of Maxwell-Boltzmann type. Hence, viscosity contributes a memory term to the elastic equation. The system is controlled via the traction exerted on a part $\Gamma_1$ of the boundary of the body. We…
We discuss smooth nonlinear control systems with symmetry. For a free and proper action of the symmetry group, the reduction of symmetry gives rise to a reduced smooth nonlinear control system. If the action of the symmetry group is only…
Online planning of collision-free trajectories is a fundamental task for robotics and self-driving car applications. This paper revisits collision avoidance between ellipsoidal objects using differentiable constraints. Two ellipsoids do not…
This paper presents a framework for the safety-critical control of robotic systems, when safety is defined on safe regions in the configuration space. To maintain safety, we synthesize a safe velocity based on control barrier function…
This paper presents a switched model reference admittance control framework to achieve safe and compliant human-robot collaboration through reference trajectory shaping. The proposed method generates variable admittance parameters according…