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In this letter, we report the first experimental demonstration of the recently emerged new paradigm in hovering and flapping flight physics called (Natural Hovering Extremum Seeking (NH-ES)) [doi.org/10.1103/4dm4-kc4g], which theorized that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ahmed A. Elgohary , Rohan Palanikumar , Simone Martini , Sameh A. Eisa

In this paper, we take an initial and novel step toward characterizing the physics of the hovering phenomenon in flapping insects and hummingbirds as a new class of extremum seeking (ES) feedback systems. By characterizing hovering flight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Ahmed A. Elgohary , Sameh A. Eisa

We introduce a type of safe extremum seeking (ES) controller, which minimizes an unknown objective function while also maintaining practical positivity of an unknown barrier function. We show semi-global practical asymptotic stability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Alan Williams , Miroslav Krstic , Alexander Scheinker

This paper presents a new stochastic relay-based extremum-seeking controller (ESC) for multi-input-single-output (MISO) systems. The goal of this work was to create an algorithm that is much simpler to configure than alternative approaches…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Timothy I. Salsbury , Min Gyung Yu

Grid-forming (GFM) inverters are essential for enhancing stability in modern power systems with high penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs). However, their performance highly depends on control parameters tuning, particularly the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Kyung-Bin Kwon , Min Gyung Yu , Sayak Mukherjee , Timothy I. Salsbury

This paper proposes the incorporation of static event-triggered control in the actuation path of Newton-based extremum seeking and its comparison with the earlier gradient version. As in the continuous methods, the convergence rate of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstic , Paulo Tabuada

This paper addresses the design and analysis of an extremum-seeking (ES) controller for scalar static maps in the context of infinite-dimensional dynamics governed by complex-valued partial differential equations (PDEs) of Schrodinger type.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Paulo Henrique Foganholo Biazetto , Gustavo Artur de Andrade , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstic

The paper deals with the extremum seeking problem for a class of cost functions depending only on a part of state variables of a control system. This problem is related to the concept of partial asymptotic stability and analyzed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Victoria Grushkovskaya , Alexander Zuyev

When humans perform complex insertion tasks such as pushing a cup into a cupboard, routing a cable, or putting a key in a lock, they wiggle the object and adapt the process through tactile feedback. A similar robotic approach has not been…

Extremum seeking feedback is a powerful method to steer a dynamical system to an extremum of a partially or completely unknown map. It often requires advanced system-theoretic tools to understand the qualitative behavior of extremum seeking…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Hans-Bernd Dürr , Miloš S. Stanković , Christian Ebenbauer , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we study gradient-based classical extremum seeking (ES) for uncertain n-dimensional (nD) static quadratic maps in the presence of known large constant distinct input delays and large output constant delay with a small…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Xuefei Yang , Emilia Fridman

We introduce and analyze the stability of a class of event-triggered extremum-seeking algorithms designed to solve resource-aware, model-free, optimization problems. Leveraging recent advances in Lie-Bracket Averaging for hybrid systems, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Jorge I. Poveda

In this paper the finite-time stabilization problem is solved for a linear time-varying system with unknown control direction by exploiting a modified version of the classical extremum seeking algorithm. We propose to use a suitable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Adriano Mele , Gianmaria De Tommasi , Alfredo Pironti

This paper presents a longitudinal slip control system for a rear-wheel-driven electric endurance race car. The control system integrates Model Predictive Control (MPC) with Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) to optimize the traction and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Wytze de Vries , Jorn van Kampen , Mauro Salazar

This paper proposes an event-triggered control scheme for multivariable extremum seeking of static maps. Both static and dynamic triggering conditions are developed. Integrating Lyapunov and averaging theories for discontinuous systems, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Liu Hsu , Mamadou Diagne , Miroslav Krstic

This paper proposes a discrete-time event-triggered extremum seeking control scheme for real-time optimization of nonlinear systems. Unlike conventional discrete-time implementations relying on periodic updates, the proposed approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstić , Frank Allgöwer

In recent years, an approach to extremum seeking control made it possible to design control vector fields that lead to asymptotic stability of the minimum point provided that the minimum value of the function is known a priori. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Haithem Taha

This paper investigates multivariable extremum seeking using unit-vector control. By employing the gradient algorithm and a polytopic embedding of the unknown Hessian matrix, we establish sufficient conditions, expressed as linear matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Enzo Ferreira Tomaz Silva , Pedro Henrique Silva Coutinho , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstić

We consider bounded extremum seeking controls for time-varying linear systems with uncertain coefficient matrices and measurement uncertainty. Using a new change of variables, Lyapunov functions, and a comparison principle, we provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Frederic Mazenc , Michael Malisoff , Emilia Fridman

In this paper, we present a novel Newton-based extremum seeking controller for the solution of multivariable model-free optimization problems in static maps. Unlike existing asymptotic and fixed-time results in the literature, we present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Jorge I. Poveda , Miroslav Krstic