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In this paper, a new yet indirect performance guaranteed framework is established to address the distributed tracking control problem for networked uncertain nonlinear strict-feedback systems with unknown time-varying gains under a directed…

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In this paper, a model reference adaptive control architecture is proposed for uncertain nonlinear systems to achieve prescribed performance guarantees. Specifically, a general nonlinear reference model system is considered that captures an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Ehsan Arabi , Kunal Garg , Dimitra Panagou

This paper presents a robust control synthesis and analysis framework for nonlinear systems with uncertain initial conditions. First, a deep learning-based lifting approach is proposed to approximate nonlinear dynamical systems with linear…

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A unified solution to adaptive approximation-based control for nonlinear systems with accurate and inaccurate state measurement is synthesized in this study. Starting from the standard adaptive approximation-based controller with accurate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Dong Zhao

Real-world control applications in complex and uncertain environments require adaptability to handle model uncertainties and robustness against disturbances. This paper presents an online, output-feedback, critic-only, model-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Tochukwu Elijah Ogri , S. M. Nahid Mahmud , Zachary I. Bell , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

This paper presents a low-complexity, model-free, output-feedback controller for a class of unknown time-varying nonlinear systems with unknown input constraints. The controller achieves the preset control accuracy when the actuator is not…

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Real-world control applications in complex and uncertain environments require adaptability to handle model uncertainties and robustness against disturbances. This paper presents an online, output-feedback, critic-only, model-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Tochukwu Elijah Ogri , Zachary I. Bell , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

In real-world control applications, actuator constraints and output constraints (specifically in tracking problems) are inherent and critical to ensuring safe and reliable operation. However, generally, control strategies often neglect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Saurabh Kumar , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Abhinav Sinha

Stability and control of a non-linear system represent an important system configuration that frequently arises in practical engineering. Stability covers a vast range of systems that do not obey the superposition principle and applies to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Asifa Yousaf

This paper presents a novel approach for the safe control design of systems with parametric uncertainties in both drift terms and control-input matrices. The method combines control barrier functions and adaptive laws to generate a safe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Yujie Wang , Xiangru Xu

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

This paper considers the problem of output feedback control for non-square multi-input multi-output systems with arbitrary relative degree. The proposed controller, based on the L1 adaptive control architecture, is designed using the right…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Hanmin Lee , Venanzio Cichella , Naira Hovakimyan

This paper considers the prescribed performance control (PPC) of spacecraft attitude tracking under multiple physical constraints, focusing on the robust issues. A novel Barrier Lyapunov function is proposed to realize the…

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In this paper we address the problem of tracking control of nonlinear systems via contraction analysis. The necessary conditions of the systems which can achieve universal asymptotic tracking are studied under several different cases. We…

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This paper addresses the problem of robust and optimal control for the class of nonlinear quadratic systems subject to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties and disturbances, and in presence of some amplitude constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Merola Alessio , Cosentino Carlo , Colacino Domenico , Amato Francesco

A control design approach is developed for a general class of uncertain strict-feedback-like nonlinear systems with dynamic uncertain input nonlinearities with time delays. The system structure considered in this paper includes a nominal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami

This study addresses the challenge of achieving real-time Universal Self-Learning Control (USLC) in nonlinear dynamic systems with uncertain models. The proposed control method incorporates a Universal Self-Learning module, which introduces…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Yanhui Zhang , Weifang Chen

This paper proposes a novel control framework for handling (potentially coupled) multiple time-varying output constraints for uncertain nonlinear systems. First, it is shown that the satisfaction of multiple output constraints boils down to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Farhad Mehdifar , Lars Lindemann , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper describes the design process for developing a nonlinear model predictive controller for fault tolerant flight control. After examining and implementing a number of numerical techniques, this paper identifies pseudospectral…

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