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This paper presents a convex optimization-based framework for synthesizing time-varying controlled invariant funnels and associated feedback control around a given nominal trajectory for nonlinear systems subject to bounded disturbances.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Taewan Kim , Dayou Luo , Behçet Açıkmeşe

We construct a trajectory tracking controller for a quadrotor system by finding a coordinate change which transforms the quadrotor's vector field into that of a thrust propelled system. In a thrust propelled system, the goal is to stabilize…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Pedro O. Pereira , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper a novel approach is presented for control design with guaranteed transient performance for multiple-input multiple-output discrete-time linear polytopic difference inclusions. We establish a theorem that gives necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Willem Esterhuizen , Qing-Guo Wang

In this work, we propose novel LMI-based controller synthesis frameworks for periodically time-varying Markov-jump linear systems. We first discuss the necessary conditions for mean square stability and derive Lyapunov-like conditions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Shaurya Shrivastava , Kenshiro Oguri

In real-time and safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPSs), control synthesis must guarantee that generated policies meet stringent timing and correctness requirements under uncertain and dynamic conditions. Signal temporal logic (STL)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xiaochen Tang , Zhenya Zhang , Miaomiao Zhang , Jie An

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) offers verifiable task specifications and is crucial for safety-critical control. Yet STL planning remains challenging: exact optimization-based methods are often too slow, and learning-based methods struggle to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bowen Ye , Ancheng Hou , Junyue Huang , Ruijia Liu , Xiang Yin

We present a robust model predictive control method (MPC) for discrete-time linear time-delayed systems with state and control input constraints. The system is subject to both polytopic model uncertainty and additive disturbances. In the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Shaoru Chen , Ning-Yuan Li , Victor M. Preciado , Nikolai Matni

This paper presents a control law for stabilization and trajectory tracking of a multicopter subject to safety constraints. The proposed approach guarantees forward invariance of a prescribed safety set while ensuring smooth tracking…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jhon Manuel Portella Delgado , Ankit Goel

In many mobile robotics scenarios, such as drone racing, the goal is to generate a trajectory that passes through multiple waypoints in minimal time. This problem is referred to as time-optimal planning. State-of-the-art approaches either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Philipp Foehn , Davide Scaramuzza

Real-world scenarios are characterized by timing uncertainties, e.g., delays, and disturbances. Algorithms with temporal robustness are crucial in guaranteeing the successful execution of tasks and missions in such scenarios. We study…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Nhan-Khanh Le , Erfaun Noorani , Sandra Hirche , John Baras

We address multi-robot motion planning under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications with kinodynamic constraints. Exact approaches face scalability bottlenecks and limited adaptability, while conventional sampling-based methods require…

Many safety-critical systems must achieve high-level task specifications with guaranteed safety and correctness. Much recent progress towards this goal has been made through controller synthesis from temporal logic specifications. Existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Rafael Rodrigues da Silva , Vince Kurtz , Hai Lin

Comparing with traditional fixed formation for a group of dynamical systems, time-varying formation can produce the following benefits: i) covering the greater part of complex environments; ii) collision avoidance. This paper studies the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Ming-Feng Ge , Zhi-Hong Guan , Chao Yang , Tao Li , Yan-Wu Wang

Automatic synthesis from temporal logic specifications is an attractive alternative to manual system design, due to its ability to generate correct-by-construction implementations from high-level specifications. Due to the high complexity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

This paper presents a distributed continuous-time optimization framework aimed at overcoming the challenges posed by time-varying cost functions and constraints in multi-agent systems, particularly those subject to disturbances. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zeinab Ebrahimi , Mohammad Deghat

Recent development of contraction theory based analysis of singularly perturbed system has opened the door for inspecting differential behavior of multi time-scale systems. In this paper a contraction theory based framework is proposed for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Madan Mohan Rayguru , I N Kar

In this paper, a fixed-time disturbance observerbased model predictive control algorithm is proposed for trajectory tracking of quadrotor in the presence of disturbances. First, a novel multivariable fixed-time disturbance observer is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Liwen Xu , Bailing Tian , Cong Wang , Junjie Lu , Dandan Wang , Zhiyu Li , Qun Zong

This paper introduces an adaptive-neuro geometric control for a centralized multi-quadrotor cooperative transportation system, which enhances both adaptivity and disturbance rejection. Our strategy is to coactively tune the model parameters…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tianhua Gao , Kohji Tomita , Akiya Kamimura

Autonomous agents often operate in uncertain environments where their decisions are made based on beliefs over states of targets. We are interested in controller synthesis for complex tasks defined over belief spaces. Designing such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Chanyeol Yoo , Calin Belta

Within the field of complicated multivariate time series forecasting (TSF), popular techniques frequently rely on intricate deep learning architectures, ranging from transformer-based designs to recurrent neural networks. However, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Aiyinsi Zuo , Haixi Zhang , Zirui Li , Ce Zheng