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We consider a class of monotone systems in which the control signal multiplies the state. Among other applications, such bilinear systems can be used to model the evolutionary dynamics of HIV in the presence of combination drug therapy. For…

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The objective of model reference control is to design a controller that regulates the system's behavior so as to match a specified reference model. This paper investigates necessary and sufficient conditions for model reference control from…

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In this paper, we present an approach for designing correct-by-design controllers for cyber-physical systems composed of multiple dynamically interconnected uncertain systems. We consider networked discrete-time uncertain nonlinear systems…

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This article proposes an approach to design output-feedback controllers for unknown continuous-time linear time-invariant systems using only input-output data from a single experiment. To address the lack of state and derivative…

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We develop an interpolation-based framework for noisy linear systems with unknown system matrix with bounded norm (implying bounded growth or non-increasing energy), and bounded process noise energy. The proposed approach characterizes all…

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We present an approach to compute stabilizing controllers for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems directly from an input-output trajectory affected by process and measurement noise. The proposed output-feedback design combines (i)…

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This paper deals with the trajectory tracking control problem for a class of bilinear systems with unmeasurable states and unknown parameters. Firstly, a full-information controller is suggested that guarantees global tracking under a…

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In a recent paper it was shown how a matrix S-lemma can be applied to construct controllers from noisy data. The current paper complements these results by proving a matrix version of the classical Finsler's lemma. This matrix Finsler's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Henk J. van Waarde , M. Kanat Camlibel

In a paper by Willems and coauthors it was shown that persistently exciting data can be used to represent the input-output behavior of a linear system. Based on this fundamental result, we derive a parametrization of linear feedback systems…

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We consider robust control synthesis for linear systems with complex specifications that are affected by uncertain disturbances. This work is motivated by autonomous systems interacting with partially known, time-varying environments. Given…

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Output regulation is a fundamental problem in control theory, extensively studied since the 1970s. Traditionally, research has primarily addressed scenarios where the system model is explicitly known, leaving the problem in the absence of a…

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In an open-loop experiment, an input sequence is applied to an unknown linear time-invariant system (in continuous or discrete time) affected also by an unknown-but-bounded disturbance sequence (with an energy or instantaneous bound); the…

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This paper considers the problem of controlling a dynamical system when the state cannot be directly measured and the control performance metrics are unknown or partially known. In particular, we focus on the design of data-driven…

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This paper presents an adaptive, model-based, nonlinear controller for the bicopter trajectory-tracking problem. The nonlinear controller is constructed by dynamically extending the bicopter model, stabilizing the extended dynamics using…

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The synthesis of robust invariant sets for nonlinear systems has traditionally been hindered by the inherent non convexity and a strict reliance on exact analytical models. This paper presents a purely data-driven framework to compute…

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This paper addresses the joint state estimation and control problems for unknown linear time-invariant systems subject to both process and measurement noise. The aim is to redesign the linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller based solely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Wenjie Liu , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Francesco Bullo , Jie Chen

This paper formulates adaptive controller design as a minimax dual control problem. The objective is to design a controller that minimizes the worst-case performance over a set of uncertain systems. The uncertainty is described by a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Olle Kjellqvist , Anders Rantzer

This paper investigates the linear output regulation problem with both the exosystem and the plant fully unknown. A data-driven regulator is proposed to achieve asymptotic regulation and closed-loop stability without performing model…

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