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The Piecewise Constant Curvature (PCC) model is the most widely used soft robotic modeling and control. However, the PCC fails to accurately describe the deformation of the soft robots when executing dynamic tasks or interacting with the…

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In comparison to common quadrotors, the shape change of morphing quadrotors endows it with a more better flight performance but also results in more complex flight dynamics. Generally, it is extremely difficult or even impossible for…

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To achieve accurate contour tracking of robotic manipulators with dynamic uncertainties, coupling and actuator faults, an adaptive non-singular terminal sliding mode control (ANTSMC) based on cross-coupling is proposed. Firstly, the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Zhu Dachang , Du Baolin , Cui Aodong , Zhu Puchen

Despite decades of research and recent progress in adaptive control and reinforcement learning, there remains a fundamental lack of understanding in designing controllers that provide robustness to inherent non-asymptotic uncertainties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Benjamin Gravell , Tyler Summers

Control contraction metrics (CCMs) are a new approach to nonlinear control design based on contraction theory. The resulting design problems are expressed as pointwise linear matrix inequalities and are and well-suited to solution via…

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In this paper, a novel dual-mode robust model predictive control (MPC) approach is proposed for solving the tracking control problem of non-holonomoic mobile robots with additive bounded disturbance. To reduce the negative effect of…

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In this paper, an exponentially stable trajectory tracking controller is proposed for multi-UAV payload transport. The multi-UAV payload system has a 2-DOF magnetic spherical joint between the UAVs and the vertical rigid links of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Nishanth Rao , Suresh Sundaram

This article presents the design of a robust observer based on the discrete-time formulation of Uncertainty and Disturbance Estimator (UDE), a well-known robust control technique, for the purpose of controlling robot manipulators. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Ram Padmanabhan , Maithili Shetty , T. S. Chandar

Neural networks have been increasingly employed in Model Predictive Controller (MPC) to control nonlinear dynamic systems. However, MPC still poses a problem that an achievable update rate is insufficient to cope with model uncertainty and…

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In real-world control applications, actuator constraints and output constraints (specifically in tracking problems) are inherent and critical to ensuring safe and reliable operation. However, generally, control strategies often neglect…

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This paper presents a new adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) framework for quadrotors that achieves robust and agile flight under tight computational constraints. The proposed controller addresses key limitations of prior SMC formulations,…

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We present a method for contraction-based feedback motion planning of locally incrementally exponentially stabilizable systems with unknown dynamics that provides probabilistic safety and reachability guarantees. Given a dynamics dataset,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Glen Chou , Necmiye Ozay , Dmitry Berenson

Future unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) will be shared by multiple users and will have to operate in conditions where their fully-autonomous function is required. Calculation of a drones trajectory will be important but optimal…

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Sliding mode control (SMC) is a robust and computationally efficient solution for tracking control problems of highly nonlinear systems with a great deal of uncertainty. High frequency oscillations due to chattering phenomena and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Mohammad Reza Amini , Mahdi Shahbakhti , Selina Pan , J. Karl Hedrick

This paper addresses distributed robust learning-based control for consensus formation tracking of multiple underwater vessels, in which the system parameters of the marine vessels are assumed to be entirely unknown and subject to the…

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Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs) are widely employed in high-performance drive systems owing to their high efficiency and power density. However, nonlinear dynamics, parameter uncertainties, and load disturbances complicate their…

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Distributed drive electric vehicles offer superior yaw moment control for autonomous drifting in extreme maneuvers. Conventional drift analysis constructs stability boundaries from open loop equilibria points and assumes a fixed envelope…

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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

Real-time nonlinear stabilization techniques are often limited by inefficient or intractable online and/or offline computations, or a lack guarantee for global stability. In this paper, we explore the use of Control Contraction Metrics…

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