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Conditions preserving observability of specifications between the plant and its abstraction are essential for hierarchical supervisory control of discrete-event systems under partial observation. Observation consistency and local…
A reflection of our ultimate understanding of a complex system is our ability to control its behavior. Typically, control has multiple prerequisites: It requires an accurate map of the network that governs the interactions between the…
This paper explores the structural controllability of switched linear continuous-time systems. It first identifies a gap in the proof for a pivotal criterion for the structural controllability of switched linear systems in the literature.…
The problem of corrupted data, missing features, or missing modalities continues to plague the modern machine learning landscape. To address this issue, a class of regularization methods that enforce consistency between imputed and fully…
There exist many examples of systems which have some symmetries, and which one may monitor with symmetry preserving controls. Since symmetries are preserved along the evolution, full controllability is not possible, and controllability has…
This paper proposes an algorithm that combines Fast Moving Horizon Parameter Estimation and Model Predictive Control subject to an observability constraint designed to ensure a lower bound on the performance of the parameter estimator.…
Robust state estimation in coupled dynamical systems depends critically not only on sensor quality but on the structural alignment between observation channels and the system's intrinsic dynamics. This paper develops a rigorous framework…
The concept of observability of linear systems initiated with Kalman in the mid 1950s. Roughly a decade later, the observability of nonlinear systems appeared. By such definitions a system is either observable or not. Continuous measures of…
We consider a class of systems over finite alphabets with linear internal dynamics, finite-valued control inputs and finitely quantized outputs. We motivate the need for a new notion of observability and propose three new notions of output…
Controllability scores provide control-theoretic centrality measures that quantify the relative importance of state nodes in networked dynamical systems. We establish a structural connection between finite-time controllability scoring and…
In this technical note, we study the controllability of diffusively coupled networks from a graph theoretic perspective. We consider leader-follower networks, where the external control inputs are injected to only some of the agents, namely…
Estimating the influence that individual nodes have on one another in a Boolean network is essential to predict and control the system's dynamical behavior, for example, detecting key therapeutic targets to control pathways in models of…
We address the problem of dynamic output feedback stabilization at an unobservable target point. The challenge lies in according the antagonistic nature of the objective and the properties of the system: the system tends to be less…
Power electronic interfaced devices progressively enable the increasing provision of flexible operational actions in distribution networks. The feasible flexibility these devices can effectively provide requires estimation and…
We focus in this paper in the estimation of a target trajectory defined by whether a time constant parameter in a simple stochastic process or a random walk with binary observations. The binary observation comes from binary derivative…
A new formulation of Stochastic Model Predictive Output Feedback Control is presented and analyzed as a translation of Stochastic Optimal Output Feedback Control into a receding horizon setting. This requires lifting the design into a…
Matrix analysis plays a crucial role in the field of control engineering, providing a powerful mathematical framework for the analysis and design of control systems. This research report explores various applications of matrix analysis in…
This paper proposes a notion termed perturbation-tolerant structural controllability (PTSC) to study the generic property of controllability preservation/resilience of structured linear systems under structured perturbations. A structured…
A simply structured distributed observer is described for estimating the state of a discrete-time, jointly observable, input-free, linear system whose sensed outputs are distributed across a time-varying network. It is explained how to…
In this paper, we mainly focus on the problem of multi-target observability, focusing on the unique state estimation criteria for multiple targets. We derive the condition which is necessary as well as sufficient for observability using…