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Recently finite-dimensional observer-based controllers were introduced for the 1D heat equation, where at least one of the observation or control operators is bounded. In this paper, for the first time, we manage with such controllers for…
We consider the feedback design for stabilizing a rigid body system by making and breaking multiple contacts with the environment without prespecifying the timing or the number of occurrence of the contacts. We model such a system as a…
In this work, we initiate the study of the biharmonic heat equation in a spatial bounded domain subject to dynamic boundary conditions involving the bi-Laplace-Beltrami operator on the boundary. The boundary heat equation is coupled to the…
We devise and analyze a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for a semilinear control-constrained optimal control problem in two and three dimensional Lipschitz, but not necessarily convex, polytopal domains. We consider a…
This paper generalises an early lumped observer-based state-feedback (OBSF) control design methodology, originally developed for one-dimensional (1-D) boundary-controlled port-Hamiltonian systems, to a two-dimensional (2-D)…
This paper introduces a systematic method for designing robust linear controllers using output feedback in the presence of operational constraints. The design uses Nagumo's Theorem and the Comparison Lemma to guarantee constraint…
This work represents a first contribution on the problem of boundary stabilization for the phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type, which models the phase separation in a binary mixture. The feedback controller we design here is with…
The aim of this work is to give a broad panorama of the control properties of fractional diffusive models from a numerical analysis and simulation perspective. We do this by surveying several research results we obtained in the last years,…
This work is concerned with the development of a space-time adaptive numerical method, based on a rigorous a posteriori error bound, for the semilinear heat equation with a general local Lipschitz reaction term whose solution may blow-up in…
This paper addresses the synthesis of safety-critical controllers using estimate feedback. We propose an observer-controller interconnection to ensure that the nonlinear system remains safe despite bounded disturbances on the system…
In this paper, a new control scheme, called as additive-decomposition-based tracking control, is proposed to solve the output feedback tracking problem for a class of systems with measurable nonlinearities and unknown disturbances. By the…
We present three dynamic error feedback controllers for robust output regulation of regular linear systems. These controllers are (i) a minimal order robust controller for exponentially stable systems (ii) an observer-based robust…
Numerous state-feedback and observer designs for nonlinear dynamic systems (NDS) have been developed in the past three decades. These designs assume that NDS nonlinearities satisfy one of the following function set classifications: bounded…
This paper explores how to adapt a new dynamical core to enable its use in one-way nested regional weather and climate models, where lateral boundary conditions (LBCs) are provided by a lower-resolution driving model. The dynamical core has…
This paper develops and analyzes feedback-based online optimization methods to regulate the output of a linear time-invariant (LTI) dynamical system to the optimal solution of a time-varying convex optimization problem. The design of the…
Current state-of-the-art correct-by-design controllers are designed for full-state measurable systems. This work first extends the applicability of correct-by-design controllers to partially observable LTI systems. Leveraging 2nd order…
We consider the output-feedback stabilization of a one-dimensional cascade coupling a reaction-diffusion equation and a wave equation through an internal term, with Neumann boundary control acting at the wave endpoint. Two measurements are…
The exact distributed controllability of the semilinear heat equation $\partial_{t}y-\Delta y + g(y)=f \,1_{\omega}$ posed over multi-dimensional and bounded domains, assuming that $g\in C^1(\mathbb{R})$ satisfies the growth condition…
This paper deals with designing a robust fixed-order dynamic output feedback controller for uncertain fractional order linear time invariant (FO-LTI) systems by means of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Our purpose is to design a low…