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This paper extends backstepping to higher-dimensional PDEs by leveraging domain symmetries and structural properties. We systematically address three increasingly complex scenarios. First, for rectangular domains, we characterize boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Rafael Vazquez

We develop a novel computational framework to approximate solution operators of evolution partial differential equations (PDEs). By employing a general nonlinear reduced-order model, such as a deep neural network, to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Nathan Gaby , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou

This paper addresses the nonovershooting control problem for strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown control direction. We propose a method that integrates extremum seeking with Lie bracket-based design to achieve approximately…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Kaixin Lu , Ziliang Lyu , Yanfang Mo , Yiguang Hong , Haoyong Yu

Extremum seeking control (ESC) often employs perturbation-based estimates of derivatives for some sensor field or cost function. These estimates are generally obtained by simply multiplying the output of a single-unit sensor by some…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Dylan James-Kavanaugh , Patrick McNamee , Qixu Wang , Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi

We generalize the Safe Extremum Seeking algorithm to address the minimization of an unknown objective function subject to multiple unknown inequality and equality constraints, relying on recent results of gradient flow systems. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alan Williams , Jorge Cortés , Alexander Scheinker

In this paper, we systematically investigate the feasibility of different extremum-seeking (ES) control schemes to improve the conversion efficiency of wave energy converters (WECs). Continuous-time and model-free ES schemes based on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Luca Parrinello , Panagiotis Dafnakis , Giovanni Bracco , Peiman Naseradinmousavi , Giuliana Mattiazzo , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

This paper proposes a multivariable extremum seeking scheme using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) for a network of subsystems working towards optimizing the sum of their local objectives, where the overall objective is the only available…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Dinesh Krishnamoorthy

In the framework of the application of the Boundary Control method to solving the inverse dynamical problems for the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger and Dirac operators on the half-line and semi-infinite discrete Schr\"odinger operator, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Alexander S. Mikhaylov , Victor S. Mikhaylov

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

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

In this paper, we develop the extremum-seeking approach to generate admissible trajectories in a neighborhood of a given reference curve in the state space. The cost function of the problem represents the distance between the current system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Alexander Zuyev , Victoria Grushkovska

The nested Extremum Seeking (nES) algorithm is a model-free optimization method that has been shown to converge to a neighborhood of a Nash equilibrium. In this work, we demonstrate that the same nES dynamics can instead be made to converge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Brad Ratto , Alan Williams , Miroslav Krstić , Tamer Başar , Alexander Scheinker

In this paper, a distributed non-model based seeking algorithm which combines the extremum seeking control (ESC) jointly with learning algorithms is proposed to seek a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) for a class of noncooperative games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Feng Xiao , Xin Cai , Bo Wei

In this paper we prove necessary conditions for optimality of a stochastic control problem for a class of stochastic partial differential equations that is controlled through the boundary. This kind of problems can be interpreted as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Giuseppina Guatteri

We propose a finite-dimensional control-based method to approximate solution operators for evolutional partial differential equations (PDEs), particularly in high-dimensions. By employing a general reduced-order model, such as a deep neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Nathan Gaby , Xiaojing Ye

We study the backstepping stabilization of higher order linear and nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations on a finite interval, where the boundary feedback acts from the left Dirichlet boundary condition. The plant is stabilized with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Ahmet Batal , Türker Özsarı , Kemal Cem Yılmaz

To be useful for quantum computation, gate operations must be maintained at high fidelities over long periods of time. In addition to decoherence, slow drifts in control hardware leads to inaccurate gates, causing the quality of operation…

We propose a dual mode extremum seeking control design technique that achieves real-time optimization of an unknown measured cost function in a prescribed time. The controller is shown to achieve semi-global practical stability of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Adam Waterman , Martin Guay , Denis Dochain

In this paper, we study the problem of extremum seeking control for mechanical systems in dissipation-free environments. This includes attitude control of satellites in space and displacement control of rigid bodies in ideal fluids. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Raik Suttner , Miroslav Krstic

We introduce a new class of extremum seeking controllers able to achieve fixed time convergence to the solution of optimization problems defined by static and dynamical systems. Unlike existing approaches in the literature, the convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Jorge I. Poveda , Miroslav Krstic