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Feedback optimization algorithms compute inputs to a system using real-time output measurements, which helps mitigate the effects of disturbances. However, existing work often models both system dynamics and computations in either discrete…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Oscar Jed Chuy , Matthew Hale , Ricardo Sanfelice

Online Feedback Optimization (OFO) steers a dynamical plant to a cost-efficient steady-state, only relying on input-output sensitivity information, rather than on a full plant model. Unlike traditional feedforward approaches, OFO leverages…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Mattia Bianchi , Florian Dörfler

In this letter, we present a versatile hierarchical offline planning algorithm, along with an online control pipeline for agile quadrupedal locomotion. Our offline planner alternates between optimizing centroidal dynamics for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ziyi Zhou , Bruce Wingo , Nathan Boyd , Seth Hutchinson , Ye Zhao

This paper proposes a general framework for constructing feedback controllers that drive complex dynamical systems to "efficient" steady-state (or slowly varying) operating points. Efficiency is encoded using generalized equations which can…

Online Feedback Optimization uses optimization algorithms as dynamic systems to design optimal control inputs. The results obtained from Online Feedback Optimization depend on the setup of the chosen optimization algorithm. In this work we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Marta Zagorowska , Lars Imsland

Flexibility provision from active distribution grids requires efficient and robust methods of optimization and control suitable to online operation. In this paper we introduce conditions for the safe operation of feedback optimization based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Florian Klein-Helmkamp , Tina Möllemann , Irina Zettl , Steffen Kortmann , Andreas Ulbig

The scheme of online optimization as a feedback controller is widely used to steer the states of a physical system to the optimal solution of a predefined optimization problem. Such methods focus on regulating the physical states to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ming Li , Zhaojian Wang , Feng Liu , Ming Cao , Bo Yang

We investigate the real-time voltage regulation problem in distribution systems employing online feedback optimization (OFO) with short-range communication between physical neighbours. OFO does not need an accurate grid model nor estimated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Sen Zhan , Nikolaos G. Paterakis , Wouter van den Akker , Anne van der Molen , Johan Morren , Han Slootweg

This paper investigates real-time control strategies for dynamical systems that involve frictional contact interactions. Hybridness and underactuation are key characteristics of these systems that complicate the design of feedback…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Francois Robert Hogan , Alberto Rodriguez

Real-world control applications in complex and uncertain environments require adaptability to handle model uncertainties and robustness against disturbances. This paper presents an online, output-feedback, critic-only, model-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Tochukwu Elijah Ogri , S. M. Nahid Mahmud , Zachary I. Bell , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Feedback control algorithms traditionally rely on periodic execution on digital platforms. While this simplifies design and analysis, it often leads to inefficient resource usage (e.g., CPU, network bandwidth) in embedded control and shared…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Abbas Tariverdi

This article develops a control method for linear time-invariant systems subject to time-varying and a priori unknown cost functions, that satisfies state and input constraints, and is robust to exogenous disturbances. To this end, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Marko Nonhoff , Mohammad Taher Al Torshan , Matthias A. Müller

Recently, there has been a surge of research on a class of methods called feedback optimization. These are methods to steer the state of a control system to an equilibrium that arises as the solution of an optimization problem. Despite the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Pol Mestres , Jorge Cortés , W. P. M. H. Heemels

Online feedback optimization (OFO) is an emerging control methodology for real-time optimal steady-state control of complex dynamical systems. This tutorial focuses on the application of OFO for the autonomous operation of large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Giuseppe Belgioioso , Saverio Bolognani , Giulia Pejrani , Florian Dörfler

This paper presents convergence analysis of a novel data-driven feedback control algorithm designed for generating online controls based on partial noisy observational data. The algorithm comprises a particle filter-enabled state estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Siming Liang , Hui Sun , Richard Archibald , Feng Bao

Mathematical optimization is one of the cornerstones of modern engineering research and practice. Yet, throughout all application domains, mathematical optimization is, for the most part, considered to be a numerical discipline.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Adrian Hauswirth , Zhiyu He , Saverio Bolognani , Gabriela Hug , Florian Dörfler

Feedback optimization enables autonomous optimality seeking of a dynamical system through its closed-loop interconnection with iterative optimization algorithms. Among various iteration structures, model-based approaches require the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Zhiyu He , Saverio Bolognani , Michael Muehlebach , Florian Dörfler

In this work, we propose a control scheme for linear systems subject to pointwise in time state and input constraints that aims to minimize time-varying and a priori unknown cost functions. The proposed controller is based on online convex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Marko Nonhoff , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller

This paper explores a limit avoidance approach in the case of input (modulation) and output (current) constraints with the aim of enhancing system availability of AC drives. Drawing on the observation that, in a certain range of reactive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Sanjay Chandrasekaran , Catalin Arghir , Pieder Joerg , Florian Doerfler , Silvia Mastellone

In this paper, we propose an optimal control-estimation architecture for distribution networks, which jointly solves the optimal power flow (OPF) problem and static state estimation (SE) problem through an online gradient-based feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Yi Guo , Xinyang Zhou , Changhong Zhao , Lijun Chen , Gabriela Hug , Tyler H. Summers