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The problem of modeling and control of multi-terminal high-voltage direct-current transmission systems is addressed in this paper, which contains five main contributions. First, to propose a unified, physically motivated, modeling framework…
Since the classical proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller has continued to be the most widely used feedback methods in engineering systems by far, it is crucial to investigate the working mechanism of PID in dealing with…
Feedback control is an essential component of many modern technologies and provides a key capability for emergent quantum technologies. We extend existing approaches of direct feedback control in which the controller applies a function…
A magnetizable piezoelectric beam model, free at both ends, is considered. Piezoelectric materials have a strong interaction of electromagnetic and acoustic waves, whose wave propagation speeds differ substantially. The corresponding…
In this note we address the problem of indirect adaptive (regulation or tracking) control of nonlinear, input affine dissipative systems. It is assumed that the supply rate, the storage and the internal dissipation functions may be…
Set-point tracking for systems with unknown model parameters is a fundamental problem in control, and two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) Proportional-Integral (PI) controllers -- consisting of a feedforward controller and PI controller -- are…
Practical design and tuning of feedback controllers has often to get by without a model of the dynamic process at hand. Only some general assumptions about the system dynamics, in this work type-one stable, can be available for engineers,…
The varied and complex dynamics of real-world systems challenge the formulation of a systematic strategy for designing a stabilizing feedback law. Rather than taking a universal approach, the control strategies developed thus far to handle…
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This paper is about the nonlinear local error feedback regulator problem. The plant is a nonlinear finite-dimensional system with a single control input and a single output and it is locally exponentially stable around the origin. The plant…
With the increasing penetration of converter-interfaced distributed generation systems, it would be advantageous to specify local compliance criteria for these devices to ensure the small-signal stability of the interconnected system.…
The canonical proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control approach has been widely used in industrial application due to their simplicity and ease of use. However, its corresponding controller parameters are hard to be adjusted,…
Proportional-Integral-Differential (PID) control is widely used in industrial control systems. However, up to now there are at least two open problems related with PID control. One is to have a comprehensive understanding of its robustness…
This paper addresses the problem of voltage regulation in a power distribution grid using the reactive power injections of grid-connected power inverters. We first discuss how purely local voltage control schemes cannot regulate the…
We propose a control approach for a class of nonlinear mechanical systems to stabilize the system under study while ensuring that the oscillations of the transient response are reduced. The approach is twofold: (i) we apply our technique…
This paper analyzes the motion of solutions to non-homogeneous linear differential equations. It further clarifies that a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller essentially comprises two parts: a homogeneous controller and a…
A dynamic backstepping method is proposed to design controllers for nonlinear systems in the pure-feedback form, for which the traditional backstepping method suffers from solving the implicit nonlinear algebraic equation. The idea of this…
In this paper, we propose a novel four-stage distributed controller for a DC microgrid that achieves power sharing and average voltage regulation for the voltages at actuated and unactuated buses. The controller is presented for a DC…
In this article, we detail the design of an output feedback stabilizing control law for an underactuated network of N subsystems of n + m heterodirectional linear first-order hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations interconnected through…