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We show that Funnel MPC, a novel Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme, allows tracking of smooth reference signals with prescribed performance for nonlinear multi-input multi-output systems of relative degree one with stable internal…
We consider funnel control for linear infinite-dimensional systems that are impedance passive, meaning that they satisfy an energy balance in which the stored energy equals the squared norm of the state and the supplied power is the inner…
We exploit a recently developed funnel control methodology for linear non-minimum phase systems to design an output error feedback controller for a nonlinear robotic manipulator, which is not minimum phase. We illustrate the novel control…
We study output reference tracking of systems with high relative degree via output feedback only; this is, tracking where the output derivatives are unknown. To this end, we prove that the conjunction of the funnel pre-compensator with a…
The paper addresses the problem of controller synthesis for control-affine nonlinear systems to meet reach-avoid-stay specifications. Specifically, the goal of the research is to obtain a closed-form control law ensuring that the…
We consider tracking control for multi-input multi-output differential-algebraic systems. First, the concept of vector relative degree is generalized for linear systems and we arrive at the novel concept of "truncated vector relative…
We study tracking control for a nonlinear moving water tank system modelled by the linearized Saint-Venant equations, where the output is given by the position of the tank and the control input is the force acting on it. For a given…
This paper addresses the problem of asymptotic tracking for high-order control-affine MIMO nonlinear systems with unknown dynamic terms subject to input and transient state constraints. We introduce Barrier Integral Control (BRIC), a novel…
We propose a novel robust Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for nonlinear multi-input multi-output systems of relative degree one with stable internal dynamics. The proposed algorithm is a combination of funnel MPC, i.e., MPC with a…
There is a growing interest in data-driven control of nonlinear systems over the last years. In contrast to related works, this paper takes a step back and aims to solve the output matching problem, a problem closely related to the…
We study in this paper the problem of adaptive trajectory tracking control for a class of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties. We propose to use a modular approach, where we first design a robust nonlinear state feedback which…
We construct two error feedback controllers for robust output tracking and disturbance rejection of a regular linear system with nonsmooth reference and disturbance signals. We show that for sufficiently smooth signals the output converges…
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…
We address the tracking problem for a class of uncertain non-affine nonlinear systems with high relative degrees, performing non-repetitive tasks. We propose a rigorously proven, robust adaptive learning control scheme that relies on a…
This paper deals with the trajectory tracking control problem for a class of bilinear systems with unmeasurable states and unknown parameters. Firstly, a full-information controller is suggested that guarantees global tracking under a…
This paper presents an adaptive, model-based, nonlinear controller for the bicopter trajectory-tracking problem. The nonlinear controller is constructed by dynamically extending the bicopter model, stabilizing the extended dynamics using…
Control barrier functions (CBFs) are a popular approach to design feedback laws that achieve safety guarantees for nonlinear systems. The CBF-based controller design relies on the availability of a model to select feasible inputs from the…
This work provides a framework for nonlinear model-free control of systems with unknown input-output dynamics, but outputs that can be controlled by the inputs. This framework leads to real-time control of the system such that a feasible…
In this paper, the D2-IBC (Data-Driven Inversion Based Control) approach for nonlinear control is introduced and analyzed. The method does not require any a-priori knowledge of the system dynamics and relies on a two degrees of freedom…
We study output reference tracking for unknown continuous-time systems with arbitrary relative degree. The control objective is to keep the tracking error within predefined time-varying bounds while measurement data is only available at…