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In this article, we investigate the problem of exponential stabilization via output feedback for a cascaded system composed of an ordinary differential equation (ODE) and a wave partial differential equation (PDE) under boundary control.…

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We propose a stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) framework for a broad class of unconstrained controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and establish its mean-square exponential stability in the infinite-horizon limit. At…

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We study stochastic delay differential equations (SDDE) where the coefficients depend on the moving averages of the state process. As a first contribution, we provide sufficient conditions under which a linear path functional of the…

These notes are issued from a short course given by the author in a summer school in Chamb{\'e}ry in June 2015. We consider general semilinear PDE's and we address the following two questions: 1) How to design an efficient feedback control…

We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

This paper presents a safe output regulation control strategy for a class of systems modeled by a coupled $2\times 2$ hyperbolic PDE-ODE structure, subject to fully distributed disturbances throughout the system. A state-feedback controller…

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In this paper, we study the stochastic optimal control problem for control system with time-varying delay. The corresponding stochastic differential equation is a kind of stochastic differential delay equation. We prove the existence and…

This paper proposes an approach, Spectral Dynamics Embedding Control (SDEC), to optimal control for nonlinear stochastic systems. This method reveals an infinite-dimensional feature representation induced by the system's nonlinear…

We develop a backstepping control design for a class of continuum systems of linear hyperbolic PDEs, described by a coupled system of an ensemble of rightward transporting PDEs and a (finite) system of $m$ leftward transporting PDEs. The…

This paper deals with the backstepping design of observer-based compensators for parabolic ODE-PDE-ODE systems. The latter consist of n coupled parabolic PDEs with distinct diffusion coefficients and spatially-varying coefficients, that are…

Motivated by linear-quadratic optimal control problems (LQ problems, for short) for mean-field stochastic differential equations (SDEs, for short) with the coefficients containing regime switching governed by a Markov chain, we consider an…

We develop a new generalized coupling approach to the study of stochastic delay equations with H\"older continuous coefficients, for which analytical PDE-based methods are not available. We prove that such equations possess unique weak…

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In this paper we study the control co-design (CCD) synthesis problem for a class of systems with parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) dynamics. We formulate CCD problem and finally derive an approximate CCD problem with matrix…