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We study tracking control for uncertain nonlinear multi-input, multi-output systems modelled by $r$-th order functional differential equations (encompassing systems with arbitrary strict relative degree) in the presence of input…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Thomas Berger

We study tracking control for a nonlinear moving water tank system modelled by the linearized Saint-Venant equations, where the output is given by the position of the tank and the control input is the force acting on it. For a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Thomas Berger , Marc Puche , Felix Schwenninger

The methodology of funnel control was introduced in the early 2000s, and it has developed since then in many respects achieving a level of mathematical maturity balanced by practical applications. Its fundamental tenet is the attainment of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Thomas Berger , Achim Ilchmann , Eugene P. Ryan

Tracking of reference signals is addressed in the context of a class of nonlinear controlled systems modelled by $r$-th order functional differential equations, encompassing inter alia systems with unknown "control direction" and dead-zone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Thomas Berger , Achim Ilchmann , Eugene P Ryan

This paper addresses output reference tracking with prescribed transient performance for unknown nonlinear multi-input multi-output systems with arbitrary relative degree. We propose a novel derivative-free extension of funnel control based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Janina Schaa , Thomas Berger

We present an improvement of a recent funnel controller design for uncertain nonlinear multi-input, multi-output systems modeled by higher order functional differential equations in the presence of input constraints. The objective is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Thomas Berger

We propose model predictive funnel control, a novel model predictive control (MPC) scheme building upon recent results in funnel control. The latter is a high-gain feedback methodology that achieves evolution of the measured output within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Jens Göbel , Dario Dennstädt , Lukas Lanza , Karl Worthmann , Thomas Berger , Tobias Damm

This paper proposes a funnel control method under time-varying hard and soft output constraints. First, an online funnel planning scheme is designed that generates a constraint consistent funnel, which always respects hard (safety)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Farhad Mehdifar , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We consider output trajectory tracking for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems whose internal dynamics may be modelled by infinite-dimensional systems which are bounded-input, bounded-output stable. We describe under which conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Thomas Berger , Marc Puche , Felix Schwenninger

We consider tracking control for uncertain linear systems with known relative degree which are possibly non-minimum phase, i.e., their zero dynamics may have an unstable part. For a given sufficiently smooth reference signal we design a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Thomas Berger

We address the problem of output reference tracking for unknown non-linear multi-input, multi-output systems described by functional differential equations. This class of systems includes those with a strict relative degree, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Dario Dennstädt

We address the problem of output reference tracking for unknown nonlinear multi-input, multi-output systems with relative degree two and bounded-input bounded-state (BIBS) stable internal dynamics. We propose a novel model-free adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 D. Dennstädt , J. Schaa , T. Berger

We propose a novel sampled-data output-feedback controller for nonlinear systems of arbitrary relative degree that ensures reference tracking within prescribed error bounds. We provide explicit bounds on the maximum input signal and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Lukas Lanza , Dario Dennstädt , Karl Worthmann , Philipp Schmitz , Gökçen Devlet Şen , Stephan Trenn , Manuel Schaller

Funnel control achieves output tracking with guaranteed tracking performance for unknown systems and arbitrary reference signals. In particular, the tracking error is guaranteed to satisfy time-varying error bounds for all times (it evolves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Thomas Berger , Christoph M. Hackl , Stephan Trenn

This paper proposes a novel control framework for handling (potentially coupled) multiple time-varying output constraints for uncertain nonlinear systems. First, it is shown that the satisfaction of multiple output constraints boils down to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Farhad Mehdifar , Lars Lindemann , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We consider tracking control of linear minimum phase systems with known arbitrary relative degree which are subject to possible output measurement losses. We provide a control law which guarantees the evolution of the tracking error within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Thomas Berger , Lukas Lanza

We introduce a sampling-based learning method for solving optimal control problems involving task satisfaction constraints for systems with partially known dynamics. The control problems are defined by a cost to be minimized and a task to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Peter Varnai , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We study tracking control for nonlinear systems with known relative degree and stable internal dynamics by the recently introduced technique of Funnel MPC. The objective is to achieve the evolution of the tracking error within a prescribed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Thomas Berger , Dario Dennstädt

The paper addresses the problem of controller synthesis for control-affine nonlinear systems to meet reach-avoid-stay specifications. Specifically, the goal of the research is to obtain a closed-form control law ensuring that the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

In this paper, we present a prescribed performance control framework for trajectory tracking in Euler-Lagrange systems with unknown dynamics and prescribed input constraints. The proposed approach enforces hard funnel constraints, meaning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap
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