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We study the asymptotic stability properties of nonlinear switched systems under the assumption of the existence of a common weak Lyapunov function. We consider the class of nonchaotic inputs, which generalize the different notions of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-29 Philippe Jouan , Naciri Saïd

The growing need for high-performance controllers in safety-critical applications like autonomous driving has been motivating the development of formal safety verification techniques. In this paper, we design and implement a predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-25 Ben Tearle , Kim P. Wabersich , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Learning for control of dynamical systems with formal guarantees remains a challenging task. This paper proposes a learning framework to simultaneously stabilize an unknown nonlinear system with a neural controller and learn a neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Ruikun Zhou , Thanin Quartz , Hans De Sterck , Jun Liu

The robust tracking and model following problem of linear discrete-time systems is investigated in this paper. An approach to design robust tracking controllers is proposed. The system is controlled to track dynamic inputs generated from a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Omar Zakary , Mostafa Rachik

The present paper is mainly aimed at introducing a novel notion of stability of nonlinear time-delay systems called Rational Stability. According to the Lyapunov-type, various sufficient conditions for rational stability are reached. Under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Nadhem Echi , Boulbaba Ghanmi

We develop an input delay-compensating feedback law for linear switched systems with time-dependent switching. Because the future values of the switching signal, which are needed for constructing an exact predictor-feedback law, may be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Andreas Katsanikakis , Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis , Delphine Bresch-Pietri

This paper presents the analysis of the stability properties of PID controllers for dynamical systems with multiple state delays, focusing on the mathematical characterization of the potential sensitivity of stability with respect to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Pieter Appeltans , Silviu-Iulian Niculescu , Wim Michiels

In recent years, Neural Networks (NNs) have been employed to control nonlinear systems due to their potential capability in dealing with situations that might be difficult for conventional nonlinear control schemes. However, to the best of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Anran Li , John P. Swensen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

We study a control architecture for nonlinear constrained systems that integrates a performance-boosting (PB) controller with a scheduled Predictive Safety Filter (PSF). The PSF acts as a pre-stabilizing base controller that enforces state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Danilo Saccani , Haoming Shen , Luca Furieri , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Real-world control applications in complex and uncertain environments require adaptability to handle model uncertainties and robustness against disturbances. This paper presents an online, output-feedback, critic-only, model-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Tochukwu Elijah Ogri , Zachary I. Bell , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

This article is concerned with stability analysis and stabilization of randomly switched nonlinear systems. These systems may be regarded as piecewise deterministic stochastic systems: the discrete switches are triggered by a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-08 Debasish Chatterjee , Daniel Liberzon

Most of nonlinear robust control methods just consider the affine nonlinear nominal model. When the nominal model is assumed to be affine nonlinear, available information about existing non-affine nonlinearities is ignored. For non-affine…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Chaolun Lu , Yongqiang Li , Zhongsheng Hou , Yuanjing Feng , Yu Feng , Ronghu Chi , Xuhui Bu

This paper develops a robust safety-critical control method for nonlinear strictfeedback systems with mismatched disturbances. Using a state transformation and a linear time-varying disturbance observer, the system is converted into a form…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Imtiaz Ur Rehman , Moussa Labbadi , Amine Abadi , Lew Lew Yan Voon

Ensuring both safety and stability remains a fundamental challenge in learning-based control, where goal-oriented policies often neglect system constraints and closed-loop state convergence. To address this limitation, this paper introduces…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yunda Yan , Chenxi Tao , Jinya Su , Cunjia Liu , Shihua Li

In this paper, we present a nonlinear robust model predictive control (MPC) framework for general (state and input dependent) disturbances. This approach uses an online constructed tube in order to tighten the nominal (state and input)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Johannes Köhler , Raffaele Soloperto , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

We present an optimisation-based approach to ensure robust asymptotic stability stability of a desired set in the state space of nonlinear dynamical systems, while optimising a general control objective. The approach relies on the decrease…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Alexandre Didier , Melanie N. Zeilinger

A dynamic backstepping method is proposed to design controllers for nonlinear systems in the pure-feedback form, for which the traditional backstepping method suffers from solving the implicit nonlinear algebraic equation. The idea of this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Sheng Zhang , Wei-qi Qian

Engineered cyberphysical systems are growing increasingly large and complex. These systems require scalable controllers that robustly satisfy state and input constraints in the presence of additive noise -- such controllers should also be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Carmen Amo Alonso , Jing Shuang Li , Nikolai Matni , James Anderson

Deep learning methods have demonstrated significant potential for addressing complex nonlinear control problems. For real-world safety-critical tasks, however, it is crucial to provide formal stability guarantees for the designed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Han Wang , Keyan Miao , Diego Madeira , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Robots must satisfy safety-critical state and input constraints despite disturbances and model mismatch. We introduce a robust model predictive control (RMPC) formulation that is fast, scalable, and compatible with real-time implementation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Antoine P. Leeman , Johannes Köhler , Melanie N. Zeilinger