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Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) provide a powerful framework for ensuring safety in dynamical systems. However, their application typically relies on full state information, which is often violated in real-world due to the availability of…

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This paper is concerned with fault/disturbance compensation control for fully actuated systems. In particular, we explore observer-based control, incorporating an active compensation mechanism. First, we propose a novel observer with…

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In this paper, we propose a novel approach to synthesize linear feedback controllers for navigating in polygonal environments using noisy measurements and a convex cell decomposition. Our method is based on formulating chance constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Chenfei Wang , Mahroo Bahreinian , Roberto Tron

We consider the problem of controller synthesis under imperfect information in a setting where there is a set of available observable predicates equipped with a cost function. The problem that we address is the computation of a subset of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-07-06 Peter Bulychev , Franck Cassez , Alexandre David , Kim G. Larsen , Jean-Francois Raskin , Pierre-Alain Reynier

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for nonlinear discrete-time systems with parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach constructs a data-consistent closed-loop representation that enables…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Amir Modares , Bahare Kiumarsi , Hamidreza Modares

For systems that are not observable at the very equilibrium of interest to be stabilized, output-feedback stabilization is considerably challenging. In this paper we solve this control problem for the case-study of a second-order system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Mohamed Maghenem , William Pasillas-Lépine , Antonio Loría , Missie Aguado-Rojas

This paper proposes a novel unified interval-valued observer synthesis approach for locally Lipschitz nonlinear continuous-time (CT) and discrete-time (DT) systems with nonlinear observations. A key feature of our proposed observer, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Mohammad Khajenejad , Fatima Shoaib , Sze Zheng Yong

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have emerged as a powerful tool in the design of safety-critical controllers for nonlinear systems. In modern applications, complex systems often involve the feedback interconnection of subsystems evolving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Stefano Di Gregorio , Guido Carnevale , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We consider the problem of synthesizing a dynamic output-feedback controller for a linear system, using solely input-output data corrupted by measurement noise. To handle input-output data, an auxiliary representation of the original system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Lidong Li , Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Nima Monshizadeh

In this paper, we provide a compositional framework for synthesizing hybrid controllers for interconnected discrete-time control systems enforcing specifications expressed by co-Buchi automata. In particular, we first decompose the given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Pushpak Jagtap , Abdalla Swikir , Majid Zamani

This paper investigates the output feedback stabilization of parabolic equation with Lipschitz nonlinearity over general multidimensional domain using spectral geometry theories. First, a novel nonlinear observer is designed, and the error…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Kai Liu , Hua-Cheng Zhou , Zhong-Jie Han , Xiangyang Peng

A safe controller for multicopter is proposed using control barrier function. Multicopter dynamics are reformulated to deal with mixed-relative-degree and non-strict-feedback-form dynamics, and a time-varying safe backstepping controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Jinrae Kim , Youdan Kim

We study the constrained linear quadratic regulator with unknown dynamics, addressing the tension between safety and exploration in data-driven control techniques. We present a framework which allows for system identification through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Sarah Dean , Stephen Tu , Nikolai Matni , Benjamin Recht

This paper investigates the problem of consensus-based distributed control of linear time-invariant multi-channel systems subject to unknown inputs. A distributed observer-based control framework is proposed, within which observer nodes and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Ganghui Cao , Xunyuan Yin

In this paper, we develop a safe control synthesis method that integrates state estimation and parameter estimation within an adaptive optimal control (AOC) and control barrier function (CBF)-based control architecture. The developed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Tochukwu E. Ogri , Muzaffar Qureshi , Zachary I. Bell , Wanjiku A. Makumi , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Control Barrier Functions (CBF) have provided a very versatile framework for the synthesis of safe control architectures for a wide class of nonlinear dynamical systems. Typically, CBF-based synthesis approaches apply to systems that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Shuo Yang , Mitchell Black , Georgios Fainekos , Bardh Hoxha , Hideki Okamoto , Rahul Mangharam

We present a controller synthesis algorithm for reach-avoid problems for piecewise linear discrete-time systems. Our algorithm relies on SMT solvers and in this paper we focus on piecewise constant control strategies. Our algorithm…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Zhenqi Huang , Yu Wang , Sayan Mitra , Geir E. Dullerud , Swarat Chaudhuri

Current state-of-the-art correct-by-design controllers are designed for full-state measurable systems. This work first extends the applicability of correct-by-design controllers to partially observable LTI systems. Leveraging 2nd order…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Sofie Haesaert , Paul M. J. Van den Hof , Alessandro Abate

In this paper, a novel online, output-feedback, critic-only, model-based reinforcement learning framework is developed for safety-critical control systems operating in complex environments. The developed framework ensures system stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Tochukwu Elijah Ogri , Muzaffar Qureshi , Zachary I. Bell , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

In this paper, we provide a direct data-driven approach to synthesize safety controllers for unknown linear systems affected by unknown-but-bounded disturbances, in which identifying the unknown model is not required. First, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Bingzhuo Zhong , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo