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The stabilization of nonlinear systems under zero-state-detectability assumption or its analogues is considered. The proposed supervisory control provides a finite time practical stabilization of output and it is based on uniting local and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Denis Efimov , Alexander L. Fradkov

Sontag's universal formula is a widely used technique for stabilizing control through control Lyapunov functions. Recently, it has been extended to address safety-critical control by incorporating control barrier functions (CBFs). However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Ming Li , Zhiyong Sun , Patrick J. W. Koelewijn , Siep Weiland

In this paper we introduce the concept of universal stabilizability: the condition that every solution of a nonlinear system can be globally stabilized. We give sufficient conditions in terms of the existence of a control contraction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-21 Ian R. Manchester , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

In this paper, we focus on the problem about direct way to design a stable controller for nonlinear system. A framework of learning controller with Lyapunov-based constraint is proposed, which is intended to transform designing and analyis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Me Le , Chi Yanxun , Li Zhiwei , Xu Dongfu , Zhang Yulong

In real-world control applications, actuator constraints and output constraints (specifically in tracking problems) are inherent and critical to ensuring safe and reliable operation. However, generally, control strategies often neglect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Saurabh Kumar , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Abhinav Sinha

In this paper, we investigate the problem of unified prescribed performance tracking for a class of non-square strict-feedback nonlinear systems under relaxed controllability conditions. By using a skillful matrix decomposition and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Bing Zhou , Kai Zhao , Yongduan Song , Zhen Chen

This paper presents a constraint-lifting control framework for designing stabilizing controllers that guarantee the forward invariance of a prescribed safe set. State-of-the-art safety-enforcing methods, such as control barrier functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Jhon Manuel Portella Delgado , Ankit Goel

We study the problem of designing a controller that satisfies an arbitrary number of affine inequalities at every point in the state space. This is motivated by the fact that a variety of key control objectives, such as stability, safety,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Pol Mestres , Jorge Cortés , Eduardo D. Sontag

A control design approach is developed for a general class of uncertain strict-feedback-like nonlinear systems with dynamic uncertain input nonlinearities with time delays. The system structure considered in this paper includes a nominal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami

This paper proposes a new methodology for design of a stabilizing control law for multi-input linear systems with time-varying, singular gains on the control. The results presented here assume the control gain to satisfy persistence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-17 Srikant Sukumar , Maruthi R. Akella

The complexity of modern control systems necessitates architectures that achieve high performance while ensuring robust stability, particularly for nonlinear systems. In this work, we tackle the challenge of designing output-feedback…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Clara Lucía Galimberti , Luca Furieri , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

An approach to stabilization of control systems with ultimately wide ranges of uncertainly disturbed parameters is offered. The method relies on using of nonlinear structurally stable functions from catastrophe theory as controllers.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-20 Viktor Ten

In this study, we present a novel sliding mode safety-critical controller designed to address both stability and safety concerns in a class of nonlinear uncertain systems. The controller features two feedback loops: an inner loop designed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Yazdan Batmani , Mohammadreza Davoodi

In this paper, a novel design scheme is introduced to solve the optimal control problem for nonlinear systems with unsymmetrical and state-dependent input constraints. By introducing an initial stabilizing control policy as the baseline of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Yangguang Yu , Xiangke Wang , Zhiyong Sun , Lincheng Shen

This paper aims to introduce a design methodology to stabilize a chain of integrators in a fixed-time with predefined Upper Bound for the Settling-Time (UBST). This approach is based on time-varying gains (time-base generator) that become…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-30 David Gómez-Gutiérrez

Results on the problem of stabilizing a nonlinear continuous-time system by a finite number of control or measurement values are presented. The basic tool is a discontinuous version of the so-called semi-global backstepping lemma. We derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-13 C. De Persis

We consider the problem of designing a feedback controller which robustly regulates an LTI system to an optimal operating point in the presence of unmeasured disturbances. A general design framework based on so-called optimality models was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-18 John W. Simpson-Porco

This paper deals with the stabilization of a class of linear infinite-dimensional systems with unbounded control operators and subject to a boundary disturbance. We assume that there exists a linear feedback law that makes the origin of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Ismaïla Balogoun , Swann Marx , Franck Plestan

In this paper, we address the problem of synthesizing safe and stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems subject to complex safety specifications and input constraints. We introduce the Universal Barrier Function (UBF), a single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Vrushabh Zinage , Efstathios Bakolas

This paper addresses the problem of robust and optimal control for the class of nonlinear quadratic systems subject to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties and disturbances, and in presence of some amplitude constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Merola Alessio , Cosentino Carlo , Colacino Domenico , Amato Francesco
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