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This paper proposes a finitely terminating algorithm to solve reach-and-stay control problems for nonlinear systems. The algorithm is guaranteed to return a control strategy if the specification is robustly realizable. Such a feature is…

This paper studies safety and feasibility guarantees for systems with tight control bounds. It has been shown that stabilizing an affine control system while optimizing a quadratic cost and satisfying state and control constraints can be…

We study dynamical transportation networks in a framework that includes extensions of the classical Cell Transmission Model to arbitrary network topologies. The dynamics are modeled as systems of ordinary differential equations describing…

We have witnessed the emergence of several controller parameterizations and the corresponding synthesis methods, including Youla, system level, input-output, and many other new proposals. Meanwhile, under the same synthesis method, there…

Let a control system and a target be given on an open subset of an Euclidean space. The existence of a Control Lyapunov Function - namely a positive definite, semiconcave, solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi inequality corresponding to the…

This article deals with the problem of maximizing the production of a species for a chemical network by controlling the temperature. Under the so-called mass kinetics assumption the system can be modeled as a single-input control system…

A purely state-dependent cost function can be modified by introducing a control-dependent term rewarding submaximal control utilization. A moderation incentive is identically zero on the boundary of the admissible control region and…

We study controllability and observability concepts of tempered fractional linear systems in the Caputo sense. First, we formulate a solution for the class of tempered systems under investigation by means of the Laplace transform method.…

We prove a converse Lyapunov theorem for boundedness of reachability sets for a general class of control systems whose flow is Lipschitz continuous on compact intervals with respect to trajectory-dominated inputs. We show that this…

We address consecutively two problems. First we introduce a class of so called Fre'chet generalized controls for a multi-input control-affine system with non-commuting controlled vector fields. For each control of the class one is able to…

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for nonlinear discrete-time systems with parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach constructs a data-consistent closed-loop representation that enables…

In this paper, we are concerned with the internal control of a class of one-dimensional nonlinear parabolic systems with nonlocal and weakly degenerate diffusion coefficients. Our main theorem establishes a local null controllability result…

This paper focuses on the controller synthesis for unknown, nonlinear systems while ensuring safety constraints. Our approach consists of two steps, a learning step that uses Gaussian processes and a controller synthesis step that is based…

This paper studies the controllability problem of a parabolic system of chemotaxis. The local exact controllability to trajectories of the system imposed one control force only is obtained by applying Kakutani's fixed point theorem combined…

We consider the problem of designing distributed controllers to guarantee dissipativity of a networked system comprised of dynamically coupled subsystems. We require that the control synthesis is carried out locally at the subsystem-level,…

This paper addresses data-driven control of continuous-time systems. We develop a framework based on synthesis operators associated with input and state trajectories. A key advantage of the proposed method is that it does not require the…

Under a regularity assumption we prove that reachability in fixed time for nonlinear control systems is robust under control sampling.

We consider optimal control problems involving two constraint sets: one comprised of linear ordinary differential equations with the initial and terminal states specified and the other defined by the control variables constrained by simple…

In this paper we consider the problem of a multi-agent system achieving a formation in the presence of misbehaving or adversarial agents. We introduce a novel continuous time resilient controller to guarantee that normally behaving agents…

We consider the decidability of state-to-state reachability in linear time-invariant control systems over continuous time. We analyse this problem with respect to the allowable control sets, which are assumed to be the image under a linear…