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We investigate the coherence and steady-state properties of the Jaynes-Cummings model subjected to time-delayed coherent feedback in the regime of multiple excitations. The introduced feedback qualitatively modifies the dynamical response…
Absolute exponential stability problem of delay time-varying systems (DTVS) with sector-bounded nonlinearity is presented in this paper. By using the comparison principle and properties of positive systems we derive several novel criteria…
We present a linear model, which mimics the response of a spatially extended dissipative medium to a distant perturbation, and investigate its dynamics under delayed feedback control. The time a perturbation needs to propagate to a…
This work is concerned with robust filtering of nonlinear sampled-data systems with and without exact discrete-time models. A linear matrix inequality (LMI) based approach is proposed for the design of robust $H_{\infty}$ observers for a…
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In this report we deal with the problem of global output feedback stabilization of a class of $n$-dimensional nonlinear positive systems possessing a one-dimensional unknown, though measured, part. We first propose our main result, an…
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This paper establishes absolute stability conditions for nonlinear negative imaginary (NI) systems interconnected with static nonlinear feedback. We first show that the NI property is preserved when the feedback nonlinearity can be…
This paper deals with stability of discrete-time switched linear systems whose all subsystems are unstable and the set of admissible switching signals obeys pre-specified restrictions on switches between the subsystems and dwell times on…
The stability of interconnected linear time-invariant systems using singular values and the small gain theorem has been studied for many decades. The methods of mu-analysis and synthesis has been extensively developed to provide robustness…
An alternative approach for minimum and mode-dependent dwell-time characterization for switched systems is derived. The proposed technique is related to Lyapunov looped-functionals, a new type of functionals leading to stability conditions…
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We derive novel criteria for designing stabilizing dynamic output-feedback controllers for a class of aperiodic impulsive systems subject to a range dwell-time condition. Our synthesis conditions are formulated as clock-dependent linear…
This report addresses the maximum likelihood identification of models for offset-free model predictive control, where linear time-invariant models are augmented with (fictitious) uncontrollable integrating modes, called integrating…
We present an extension of Willems' Fundamental Lemma to the class of multi-input multi-output discrete-time feedback linearizable nonlinear systems, thus providing a data-based representation of their input-output trajectories. Two sources…
This paper discusses the stabilizability, weak stabilizability, exact observability and robust quadratic stabilizability of linear stochastic control systems. By means of the spectrum technique of the generalized Lyapunov operator, a…
Stabilizing an unknown dynamical system is one of the central problems in control theory. In this paper, we study the sample complexity of the learn-to-stabilize problem in Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems on a single trajectory. Current…
We study the possibility to stabilize unstable steady states and unstable periodic orbits in chaotic fractional-order dynamical systems by the time-delayed feedback method. By performing a linear stability analysis, we establish the…
We solve the problem of output feedback stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems, which may have unstable zero dynamics. We allow for any globally stabilizing full state feedback control scheme to be used as long as it satisfies a…
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.…