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This paper addresses the nonovershooting control problem for strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown control direction. We propose a method that integrates extremum seeking with Lie bracket-based design to achieve approximately…
This paper studies the extremum seeking control (ESC) problem for a class of constrained nonlinear systems. Specifically, we focus on a family of constraints allowing to reformulate the original nonlinear system in the so-called…
This paper introduces a novel model-free, real-time unicycle-based source seeking design. This design autonomously steers the unicycle dynamic system towards the extremum point of an objective function or physical/scalar signal that is…
We present a novel extremum seeking method for affine connection mechanical control systems. The proposed control law involves periodic perturbation signals with sufficiently large amplitudes and frequencies. A suitable averaging analysis…
In this paper we validate, including experimentally, the effectiveness of a recent theoretical developments made by our group on control-affine Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) systems. In particular, our validation is concerned with the…
This paper presents the design of an extremum seeking controller based on sliding modes and cyclic search for real-time optimization of non-linear multivariable dynamic systems. These systems have arbitrary relative degree, compensated by…
In [22] a form of extremum seeking for control (ESC) was developed for the stabilization of uncertain nonlinear systems. In ESC the extremum seeker itself controls the systems through feedback rather than fine tuning a controller. The ESC…
This paper proposes a non-adaptive control solution framework to the practical output regulation problem (PORP) for a class of nonlinear systems with uncertain parameters, unknown control directions and uncertain exosystem dynamics. The…
In this paper, we investigate the problem of source seeking with a unicycle in the presence of local extrema. Our study is motivated by the fact that most of the existing source seeking methods follow the gradient direction of the signal…
We introduce a type of safe extremum seeking (ES) controller, which minimizes an unknown objective function while also maintaining practical positivity of an unknown barrier function. We show semi-global practical asymptotic stability of…
We consider bounded extremum seeking controls for time-varying linear systems with uncertain coefficient matrices and measurement uncertainty. Using a new change of variables, Lyapunov functions, and a comparison principle, we provide…
We study in this paper the problem of adaptive trajectory tracking for nonlinear systems affine in the control with bounded state-dependent and time-dependent uncertainties. We propose to use a modular approach, in the sense that we first…
Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) is a well-known set of continuous time algorithms for model-free optimization of a cost function. One issue for ESCs is the convergence rates of parameters to extrema of unknown cost functions. The local…
In this paper, we deal with a network of agents that want to cooperatively minimize the sum of local cost functions depending on a common decision variable. We consider the challenging scenario in which objective functions are unknown and…
This paper investigates multivariable extremum seeking using unit-vector control. By employing the gradient algorithm and a polytopic embedding of the unknown Hessian matrix, we establish sufficient conditions, expressed as linear matrix…
In this paper, we develop the extremum-seeking approach to generate admissible trajectories in a neighborhood of a given reference curve in the state space. The cost function of the problem represents the distance between the current system…
This paper deals with the gradient extremum seeking control for static scalar maps with actuators governed by distributed diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs). To achieve the real-time optimization objective, we design a…
This paper investigates extremum seeking control for a torque-controlled antenna pointing system without direct angular measurements. We consider a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) antenna system that receives an unknown signal from its…
We study the problem of global extremum seeking in the presence of local extrema. We investigate two different perturbation-based methods: 1) a well-known classical extremum seeking scheme for steady-state output optimization, and 2) a…
Extremum seeking control (ESC) often employs perturbation-based estimates of derivatives for some sensor field or cost function. These estimates are generally obtained by simply multiplying the output of a single-unit sensor by some…