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We introduce a finite dimensional version of backstepping controller design for stabilizing solutions of PDEs from boundary. Our controller uses only a finite number of Fourier modes of the state of solution, as opposed to the classical…
This contribution is concerned with the motion planning for underactuated Euler-Bernoulli beams. The design of the feedforward control is based on a differential parametrization of the beam, where all system variables are expressed in terms…
This paper presents novel methods for achieving stable and efficient convergence in multivariable extremum seeking control (ESC) using sliding mode techniques. Drawing inspiration from both classical sliding mode control and more recent…
We study in this paper the problem of iterative feedback gains tuning for a class of nonlinear systems. We consider Input-Output linearizable nonlinear systems with additive uncertainties. We first design a nominal Input-Output…
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…
The optimal control input for linear systems can be solved from algebraic Riccati equation (ARE), from which it remains questionable to get the form of the exact solution. In engineering, the acceptable numerical solutions of ARE can be…
Existing extremum-seeking control (ESC) approaches typically rely on applying repeated perturbations to input parameters and performing measurements of the corresponding performance output. The required separation between the different…
This work deals with optimal control problems as a strategy to drive bifurcating solution of nonlinear parametrized partial differential equations towards a desired branch. Indeed, for these governing equations, multiple solution…
We propose a semi-discrete numerical scheme and establish well-posedness of a class of parabolic systems. Such systems naturally arise while studying the optimal control of grain boundary motions. The latter is typically described using a…
We study a convex optimization framework for bounding extreme events in nonlinear dynamical systems governed by ordinary or partial differential equations (ODEs or PDEs). This framework bounds from above the largest value of an observable…
We deal with the problem of parameter estimation in stochastic differential equations (SDEs) in a partially observed framework. We aim to design a method working for both elliptic and hypoelliptic SDEs, the latters being characterized by…
This paper presents an adaptive observer design for semilinear hyperbolic rolling contact ODE-PDE systems with uncertain friction characteristics parameterized by a matrix of unknown coefficients appearing in the nonlinear (and possibly…
Reliable optimal control is challenging when the dynamics of a nonlinear system are unknown and only infrequent, noisy output measurements are available. This work addresses this setting of limited sensing by formulating a Bayesian prior…
This paper studies robust output tracking and disturbance rejection for boundary controlled infinite-dimensional port--Hamiltonian systems including second order models such as the Euler--Bernoulli beam. The control design is achieved using…
This paper is concerned with the output feedback boundary stabilization of general 1-D reaction diffusion PDEs in the presence of an arbitrarily large input delay. We consider the cases of Dirichlet/Neumann/Robin boundary conditions for the…
An explicit output-feedback boundary feedback law is introduced that stabilizes an unstable linear constant-coefficient reaction-diffusion equation on an $n$-ball (which in 2-D reduces to a disk and in 3-D reduces to a sphere) using only…
Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) offer the potential to examine quantum behavior at large length and time scales, as well as forming promising candidates for quantum technology applications. Thus, the manipulation of BECs using control…
Many problems in electrical engineering or fluid mechanics can be modeled by parabolic-elliptic interface problems, where the domain for the exterior elliptic problem might be unbounded. A possibility to solve this class of problems…
The energy shaping method, Controlled Lagrangian, is a well-known approach to stabilize the under-actuated Euler Lagrange (EL) systems. In this approach, to construct a control rule, some nonlinear, nonhomogeneous partial differential…
This paper is concerned with necessary and sufficient conditions for near-optimal singular stochastic controls for systems driven by a nonlinear stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short). The proof of our result is based on…