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While many event-triggered control strategies are available in the literature, most of them are designed ignoring the presence of measurement noise. As measurement noise is omnipresent in practice and can have detrimental effects, for…

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Predicting the response of an observed system to a known input is a fruitful first step to accurately control the system's dynamics. Despite the recent advances in fully data-driven algorithms, the most interpretable way to reach this goal…

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Model-based robust control requires not only accurate nominal models but also systematic uncertainty representations to guarantee stability and performance. However, constructing polytopic uncertainty models typically demands multiple…

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