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A novel method for control of dynamical systems, proposed in the paper, ensures an output signal belonging to the given set at any time. The method is based on a special change of coordinates such that the initial problem with given…
In this paper we design discrete port-Hamiltonian systems systematically in two different ways, by applying discrete gradient methods and splitting methods respectively. The discrete port-Hamiltonian systems we get satisfy a discrete notion…
We examine the problem of two-point boundary optimal control of nonlinear systems over finite-horizon time periods with unknown model dynamics by employing reinforcement learning. We use techniques from singular perturbation theory to…
Passive systems are characterized by their inability to generate energy internally, providing a powerful tool for modeling physical phenomena. Additionally, algebraically encoding passivity in the system description can be advantageous. For…
Two ways of designing low-order discrete-time (i.e. digital) controls for low-order plant (i.e. process) models are considered in this tutorial. The first polynomial method finds the controller coefficients that place the poles of the…
In this article we present a novel discrete-time design approach which reduces the deteriorating effects of sampling on stability and performance in digitally controlled nonlinear mechanical systems. The method is motivated by recent…
Passivity-based control (PBC) for port-Hamiltonian systems provides an intuitive way of achieving stabilization by rendering a system passive with respect to a desired storage function. However, in most instances the control law is obtained…
In this paper we present a method for the addition of integral action to non-passive outputs of a class of port-Hamiltonian systems. The proposed integral controller is a dynamic extension, constructed from the open loop system, such that…
We will show that there is a universal connection between the achievable closed-loop dynamics and the corresponding feedback controller that produces it. This connection shows promise to lead to new methods for robust nonlinear control in…
The modeling framework of port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems and their use in numerical simulation and control are discussed. The structure is ideal for automated network-based modeling since it is invariant under power-conserving…
This paper addresses the problem of designing an optimal output feedback controller with a specified controller structure for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems to maximize the passivity level for the closed-loop system, in both…
We provide a fully nonlinear port-Hamiltonian formulation for discrete elastodynamical systems as well as a structure-preserving time discretization. The governing equations are obtained in a variational manner and represent index-1…
We study a type of port-Hamiltonian system, in which the controller or disturbance is not applied to the flow variables, but to the systems power, a scenario that appears in many practical applications. A suitable framework is provided to…
The objective of designing a control system is to steer a dynamical system with a control signal, guiding it to exhibit the desired behavior. The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equation offers a framework for optimal…
This paper addresses the trajectory-tracking problem for a class of electromechanical systems. To this end, the dynamics of the plants are modeled in the so-called port-Hamiltonian framework. Then, the notion of contraction is exploited to…
We study nonlinear singular optimal control problems of port-Hamil-tonian (descriptor) systems. We employ general control-affine cost functionals that include as a special case the energy supplied to the system. We first derive optimality…
In this paper, we propose a suboptimal and reduced-order Model Predictive Control (MPC) architecture for discrete-time feedback-interconnected systems. The numerical MPC solver: (i) acts suboptimally, performing only a finite number of…
We study $H_\infty$ control design for linear time-invariant port-Hamiltonian systems. By a modification of the two central algebraic Riccati equations, we ensure that the resulting controller will be port-Hamiltonian. Using these modified…
In the present work, we consider nonlinear control systems for which there exist structural obstacles to the design of classical continuous backstepping feedback laws. We conceive feedback laws such that the origin of the closed-loop system…
The control of relaxation-type systems of ordinary differential equations is investigated using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. First, we recast the model as a singularly perturbed dynamics which we embed in a family of controlled…