Related papers: Insensitizing control problem for the Hirota-Satsu…
Linear systems of neutral type are considered using the infinite dimensional approach. The main problems are asymptotic, non-exponential stability, exact controllability and regular asymptotic stabilizability. The main tools are the moment…
This paper studies controllability of a discrete-time linear dynamical system using nonnegative and sparse inputs. These constraints on the control input arise naturally in many real-life systems where the external influence on the system…
This paper considers a class of uncertain linear quantum systems subject to uncertain perturbations in the system Hamiltonian. We present a method to design a coherent robust H-infinity controller so that the closed loop system is robustly…
In this paper, we consider the wave equation with both a viscous Kelvin-Voigt and frictional damping as a model of viscoelasticity in which we incorporate an internal control with a moving support. We prove the null controllability when the…
We study a non-local optimal control problem involving a linear, bond-based peridynamics model. In addition to existence and uniqueness of solutions to our problem, we investigate their behavior as the horizon parameter $\delta$, which…
The article deals with the output regulation of a Korteweg-de-Vries (KdV) system subject to a distributed disturbance. The control input and the output are located at the boundary. To achieve this objective, we follow a Lyapunov approach.…
This paper considers the problem of finite dimensional output feedback H-infinity control for a class of nonlinear spatially distributed processes (SDPs) described by highly dissipative partial differential equations (PDEs), whose state is…
In this announcement we present a general and new approach to analyzing the asymptotics of oscillatory Riemann-Hilbert problems. Such problems arise, in particular, in evaluating the long-time behavior of nonlinear wave equations solvable…
In this paper, we consider the inverse optimal control problem for the discrete-time linear quadratic regulator, over finite-time horizons. Given observations of the optimal trajectories, and optimal control inputs, to a linear…
We consider systems of parabolic equations coupled in zero order terms in a star-like or a tree-like shape, with an internal control acting in only one of the equations. We obtain local exact controllability to the stationary solutions of…
In this note we consider a class of linear time invariant systems with infinitely many unstable modes. By using the parameterization of all stabilizing controllers and a data transformation, we show that H-infinity controllers for such…
We study feedback control for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems in the presence of quantization both in the control action and in the measurement of the controlled variable. While in some application the quantization effects can…
This paper proposes a framework for adaptively learning a feedback linearization-based tracking controller for an unknown system using discrete-time model-free policy-gradient parameter update rules. The primary advantage of the scheme over…
In this article we establish the well-posedness, energy estimates, stability, and local null controllability for the thermistor system modeled by a parabolic-parabolic system using a control force acting on just one equation of the system.…
The purpose of this article is the investigation of the global control properties of a coupled nonlinear dispersive system posed in the periodic domain $\mathbb{T}$, a system with the structure of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and a…
In this paper, we prove a local null controllability result for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations on a (smooth) bounded domain of R^3 with null Dirichlet boundary conditions. The control is distributed in an arbitrarily small…
In this paper, we prove the null controllability of some parabolic-elliptic systems. The control is distributed, locally supported in space and appears only in one PDE. The arguments rely on fixed-point reformulation and suitable Carleman…
We study the small dispersion limit for the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation $u_t+6uu_x+\epsilon^{2}u_{xxx}=0$ in a critical scaling regime where $x$ approaches the trailing edge of the region where the KdV solution shows oscillatory…
We study control systems invariant under a Lie group with application to the problem of nonlinear trajectory planning. A theory of symmetry reduction of exterior differential systems is employed to demonstrate how symmetry reduction and…
In this paper we consider an optimal control problem (OCP) for the coupled system of a nonlinear monotone Dirichlet problem with matrix- valued non-smooth controls in coefficients and a nonlinear equation of Ham- merstein type. Since…