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Epidemics have shaped human history, often with devastating consequences, motivating the development of mathematical models to understand and control their dynamics. Among the many aspects of epidemic behavior, the conditions that lead to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-01 Germano Hartmann Brill , Pablo Enrique Jurado Silvestrin , Sebastian Gonçalves

Motivated by perception-based control problems in autonomous systems, this paper addresses the problem of developing feedback controllers to regulate the inputs and the states of a dynamical system to optimal solutions of an optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Liliaokeawawa Cothren , Gianluca Bianchin , Sarah Dean , Emiliano Dall'Anese

In various applications in the field of control engineering the estimation of the state variables of dynamic systems in the presence of unknown inputs plays an important role. Existing methods require the so-called observer matching…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Helmut Niederwieser , Markus Tranninger , Richard Seeber , Markus Reichhartinger

In this paper, a novel approach to the output-feedback inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) problem is developed by casting the IRL problem, for linear systems with quadratic cost functions, as a state estimation problem. Two observer-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Ryan Self , Kevin Coleman , He Bai , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

We consider the problem of the optimal allocation of vaccination and protection measures for the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered-Infected (SIRI) epidemiological model, which generalizes the classical Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Urmee Maitra , Ashish R. Hota , Rohit Gupta , Alfred O. Hero

This is an epidemiological SIRV model based study that is designed to analyze the impact of vaccination in containing infection spread, in a 4-tiered population compartment comprised of susceptible, infected, recovered and vaccinated…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-14 Ewa Grela , Michael Stich , Amit K Chattopadhyay

This paper deals with the state estimation of linear time-invariant systems using distributed observers with local sampled-data measurement and aperiodic communication. Each observer agent perceives partial information of the system to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Shimin Wang , Ya-Jun Pan , Martin Guay

This paper studies the boundary output feedback stabilization of general 1-D reaction-diffusion PDEs in the presence of a state delay in the reaction term. The control input applies through a Robin boundary condition while the system output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Hugo Lhachemi , Robert Shorten

Our study is based on an epidemiological compartmental model, the SIRS model. In the SIRS model, each individual is in one of the states susceptible (S), infected(I) or recovered (R), depending on its state of health. In compartment R, an…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-10 Michael Bestehorn , Thomas M. Michelitsch

In the recent COVID-19 pandemic we assisted at a sequence of epidemic waves intertwined by anomalous fade-outs with periods of low but persistent epidemic prevalence. These long-living epidemic states complicate epidemic control and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-27 Javier Aguilar , Beatriz Arregui García , Raúl Toral , Sandro Meloni , Jose J. Ramasco

This paper develops systematically the output feedback exponential stabilization for a one-dimensional unstable/anti-stable wave equation where the control boundary suffers from both internal nonlinear uncertainty and external disturbance.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Hua-Cheng Zhou , George Weiss

This paper presents an output feedback control law for the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The control design is based on the backstepping method and the introduction of an appropriate observer. The local exponential stability of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Swann Marx , Eduardo Cerpa

We consider a behavioral-feedback SIR epidemic model, in which the infection rate depends in feedback on the fractions of susceptible and infected agents, respectively. The considered model allows one to account for endogenous adaptation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Martina Alutto , Leonardo Cianfanelli , Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani , Francesca Parise

In this paper, we considered a design method of non-linear state feedback controller for input-affine non-linear system taking data losses into account. When data is lost in control system, control input is fixed to constant value or to the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Su-Yong Paek , Jin-Song Ri

Autonomous agents are often tasked with operating in an area where feedback is unavailable. Inspired by such applications, this paper develops a novel switched systems-based control method for uncertain nonlinear systems with temporary loss…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Hsi-Yuan Chen , Zachary I. Bell , Patryk Deptula , Warren E. Dixon

This paper presents several simple linear vaccination-based control strategies for a SEIR (susceptible plus infected plus infectious plus removed populations) propagation disease model. The model takes into account the total population…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-03-28 M. De la Sen , S. Alonso-Quesada

This paper generalises an early lumped observer-based state-feedback (OBSF) control design methodology, originally developed for one-dimensional (1-D) boundary-controlled port-Hamiltonian systems, to a two-dimensional (2-D)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Ignacio Diaz Alastuey , Yann Le Gorrec , Yongxin Wu

This paper deals with the problem of designing a sampled-data state feedback control law for continuous-time linear control systems subject to uniform input quantization. The sampled-data state feedback is designed to ensure the uniform…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 Francesco Ferrante , Sophie Tarbouriech

In this article, we construct an age-structured model for COVID-19 with vaccination and analyze it from multiple perspectives. We derive the unique disease-free equilibrium point and the basic reproduction number $ \mathscr{R}_0 $, then we…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-09 Ruiyang Zhou , Fengying Wei

In adaptive control, a controller is precisely designed for a certain model of the system, but that model's parameters are updated online by another mechanism called the adaptive update. This allows the controller to aim for the benefits of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jason Nezvadovitz