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For periodic linear control systems with bounded control range, an autonomized system is introduced by adding the phase to the state of the system. Here a unique control set (i.e., a maximal set of approximate controllability) with nonvoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Fritz Colonius , Alexandre Santana , Juliana Setti

The feedback linearization method is further developed for the controller design on general nonlinear systems. Through the Lyapunov stability theory, the intractable nonlinear implicit algebraic control equations are effectively solved, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Sheng Zhang , Fei Liao , Yanqing Chen , Kaifeng He

In optimal control theory, infimum gap means that there is a gap between the infimum values of a given minimum problem and an extended problem, obtained by enlarging the set of original solutions and controls. The gap phenomenon is somewhat…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Giovanni Fusco , Monica Motta

We introduce the concept of a control contraction metric, extending contraction analysis to constructive nonlinear control design. We derive sufficient conditions for exponential stabilizability of all trajectories of a nonlinear control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Ian R. Manchester , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

In this article, we study the existence of insensitizing controls for a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation with dynamic boundary conditions. Here, we have a partially unknown data of the system, and the problem consists in finding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Mauricio C. Santos , Nicolás Carreño , Roberto Morales

We give a constructive proof of a global controllability result for an autonomous system of ODEs guided by bounded locally Lipschitz and divergence free (i.e.\ incompressible) vector field, when the phase space is the whole Euclidean space…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Sergey Kryzhevich , Eugene Stepanov

In this paper we prove new connections between two frameworks for analysis and control of nonlinear systems: the Koopman operator framework and contraction analysis. Each method, in different ways, provides exact and global analyses of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Bowen Yi , Ian R. Manchester

The aim of this paper is to study the null controllability of a class of quasilinear parabolic equations. In a first step we prove that the associated linear parabolic equations with non-constant diffusion coefficients are approximately…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Nicolae Cindea , Geoffrey Lacour

We consider a class of spin networks where each spin in a certain set interacts, via Ising coupling, with a set of central spins, and the control acts simultaneously on all the spins. This is a common situation for instance in NV centers in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Francesca Albertini , Domenico D'Alessandro

This review surveys previous and recent results on null controllability and inverse problems for parabolic systems with dynamic boundary conditions. We aim to demonstrate how classical methods such as Carleman estimates can be extended to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 S. E. Chorfi , L. Maniar

Given a finite-dimensional time continuous control system and $\varepsilon>0$, we address the question of the existence of controls that maintain the corresponding state trajectories in the $\varepsilon$-neighborhood of any prescribed path…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Manuel Rissel , Marius Tucsnak

This paper completely solves the controllability problems of two-dimensional multi-input discrete-time bilinear systems with and without drift. Necessary and sufficient conditions for controllability, which cover the existing results, are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Lin Tie

This paper proposes an optimal control problem for a parabolic equation with a nonlocal nonlinearity. The system is described by a parabolic equation involving a nonlinear term that depends on the solution and its integral over the domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Cyrille Kenne , Landry Djomegne , Gisèle Mophou

This paper deals with controllability properties of a cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation with dynamic boundary conditions. More precisely, we prove a local null controllability result by using a single control supported in a small subset of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Nicolás Carreño , Alberto Mercado , Roberto Morales

We consider the decidability of state-to-state reachability in linear time-invariant control systems over discrete time. We analyse this problem with respect to the allowable control sets, which in general are assumed to be defined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Joël Ouaknine , Amaury Pouly , João Sousa-Pinto , James Worrell

This paper addresses the problems of stabilization, robust control, and observer design for nonlinear systems. We build upon recently a proposed method based on contraction theory and convex optimization, extending the class of systems to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Ian R. Manchester , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

This paper deals with the analysis of the internal control with constraint of positive kind of a parabolic PDE with nonlinear diffusion when the time horizon is large enough. The minimal controllability time will be strictly positive. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Miguel R. Nuñez-Chávez

Recent developments in data-driven control have revived interest in the behavioral approach to systems theory, where systems are defined as sets of trajectories rather than being described by a specific model or representation. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 L. P. Wieringa , A. Padoan , F. Dorfler , J. Eising

This paper is concerned with the design of optimal control for finite-dimensional control-affine nonlinear dynamical systems. We introduce an optimal control problem that specifically optimizes nonlinear observability in addition to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Atiye Alaeddini , Kristi A. Morgansen , Mehran Mesbahi

We develop a feedback controller that minimizes the observability of a set of adversarial sensors of a linear system, while adhering to strict closed-loop performance constraints. We quantify the effectiveness of adversarial sensors using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Filippos Fotiadis , Ufuk Topcu