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The paper revisits a Lyapunov-based feedback control to implement spacecraft orbital transfer maneuvers. The spacecraft equations of motion in the form of Gauss Variational Equations (GVEs) are used. By shaping the Lyapunov function using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Simone Semeraro , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Emanuele Garone

In this paper, a control scheme is developed based on an input constrained Model Predictive Controller (MPC) and the idea of modifying the reference command to enforce constraints, usual of Reference Governors (RG). The proposed scheme,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Miguel Castroviejo Fernandez , Jordan Leung , Ilya Kolmanovsky

This paper introduces an explicit reference governor-based control scheme tailored for addressing the velocity-free spacecraft attitude maneuver problem. This problem is subject to specific constraints, namely the pointing constraint,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Qingqing Dang , Wenbo Libo , Haichao Gui

Reference governors are add-on schemes that are used to modify trajectories to prevent controlled dynamical systems from violating constraints and so are playing an increasingly important role in aerospace, robotic, and other engineering…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Rick Schieni , Chengwei Zhao , Michael Malisoff , Laurent Burlion

This paper presents an adaptive reference governor (RG) framework for a linear system with matched nonlinear uncertainties that can depend on both time and states, subject to both state and input constraints. The proposed framework…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Pan Zhao , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Naira Hovakimyan

This paper presents a constraint management strategy based on Scalar Reference Governors (SRG) to enforce output, state, and control constraints while taking into account the preview information of the reference and/or disturbances signals.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-03 Yudan Liu , Hamid Ossareh

The controller state and reference governor (CSRG) is an add-on scheme for nominal closed-loop systems with dynamic controllers which supervises the controller internal state and the reference input to the closed-loop system to enforce…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Nan Li , Anouck Girard , Ilya Kolmanovsky

This paper develops a Time Shift Governor (TSG)-based control scheme to enforce constraints during rendezvous and docking (RD) missions in the setting of the Two-Body problem. As an add-on scheme to the nominal closed-loop system, the TSG…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Taehyeun Kim , Robin Inho Kee , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Anouck Girard

In this paper, we consider the problem of constraint management in Linear Periodic (LP) systems using Reference Governors (RG). First, we present the periodic-invariant maximal output admissible sets for LP systems. We extend the earlier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Hamid R. Ossareh

This paper introduces an explicit reference governor approach for controlling time delay linear systems subject to state and input constraints. The proposed framework relies on suitable invariant sets that can be built using both…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Marco M. Nicotra , Tam Nguyen , Emanuele Garone , Ilya V. Kolmanovsky

The applications of reference governors to systems with unmeasured set-bounded disturbances can lead to conservative solutions. This conservatism can be reduced by estimating the disturbance from output measurements and canceling it in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Miguel Castroviejo-Fernandez , Huayi Li , Andrés Cotorruelo , Emanuele Garone , Ilya Kolmanovsky

This letter presents a constrained control framework that integrates Explicit Reference Governors (ERG) with Control Barrier Functions (CBF) to ensure recursive feasibility without online optimization. We formulate the reference update as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Satoshi Nakano , Emanuele Garone , Gennaro Notomista

This paper introduces a novel closed-form strategy that dynamically modifies the reference of a pre-compensated nonlinear system to ensure the satisfaction of a set of convex constraints. The main idea consists of translating constraints in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Emanuele Garone , Marco M. Nicotra

This paper proposes a control architecture integrating adaptation with Lyapunov-based Reference Governors (LRGs) to ensure state constraint satisfaction for first-order systems with parametric uncertainties. Adaptation combined with LRGs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Mychal Amoafo , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Anuradha Annaswamy

The prediction-based nonlinear reference governor (PRG) is an add-on algorithm to enforce constraints on pre-stabilized nonlinear systems by modifying, whenever necessary, the reference signal. The implementation of PRG carries a heavy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Mostafaali Ayubirad , Hamid R. Ossareh

This paper presents a fault-tolerant control scheme for constrained linear systems. First, a new variant of the Reference Governor (RG) called At Once Reference Governor (AORG) is introduced. The AORG is distinguished from the conventional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Sanjoy Baruah , Bruno Sinopoli

This paper presents a computationally efficient solution for constraint management of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) systems. The solution, referred to as the Decoupled Reference Governor (DRG), maintains the highly-attractive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Yudan Liu , Joycer Osorio , Hamid R. Ossareh

This paper introduces a novel attitude controller for spacecraft subject to actuator saturation and multiple exclusion cone constraints. The proposed solution relies on a two-layer approach where the first layer prestabilizes the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Marco Nicotra , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Laurent Burlion , Ilya Kolmanovsky

This paper considers constrained spacecraft rendezvous and docking (RVD) in the setting of the Bicircular Restricted Four-Body Problem (BCR4BP), while accounting for attitude dynamics. We consider Line of Sight (LoS) cone constraints,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Taehyeun Kim , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Anouck Girard

This paper presents a simple approach to low-thrust optimal-fuel and optimal-time transfer problems between two elliptic orbits using the Cartesian coordinates system. In this case, an orbit is described by its specific angular momentum and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Hantian Zhang , Dong Eui Chang , Qingjie Cao
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