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This thesis investigates optimal trajectory tracking of nonlinear dynamical systems with affine controls. The control task is to enforce the system state to follow a prescribed desired trajectory as closely as possible. The concept of…
This paper studies the tracking control problem of nonlinear networked and quantized control systems (NQCSs) with communication delays. The desired trajectory is generated by a reference system. The communication network is to guarantee the…
Dynamical systems theory and complexity science provide powerful tools for analysing artificial agents and robots. Furthermore, they have been recently proposed also as a source of design principles and guidelines. Boolean networks are a…
A high-gain extended observer is designed for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems. This observer has the ability of estimating system uncertainty, and it can be used to estimate the derivatives of signal up to order n. The controller…
The discrete-time robust repetitive control (RC, or repetitive controller, also designated RC) problem for nonlinear systems is both challenging and practical. This paper proposes a discrete-time output-feedback RC design for a class of…
Biological processes, including cell differentiation, organism development, and disease progression, can be interpreted as attractors (fixed points or limit cycles) of an underlying networked dynamical system. In this paper, we study the…
Controllability, a basic property of various networked systems, has gained profound theoretical applications in complex social, technological, biological, and brain networks. Yet, little attention has been given to the control trajectory…
The trajectory tracking problem for multivariable linear systems is considered. Two different techniques are examined: the output regulation theory (ORT) and the flatness based tracking (FBT). ORT and FBT are two different approaches to…
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…
The output regulation problem for unknown linear systems has been studied using state-based and output-based internal model approaches in the special case with no disturbances. This paper further investigates the output regulation problem…
Boolean networks have been used in a variety of settings, as models for general complex systems as well as models of specific systems in diverse fields, such as biology, engineering, and computer science. Traditionally, their properties as…
The emergence of Context-aware systems in the domains of autonomic, monitoring, and safety-critical applications asks for the definition of methods to formally assess their correctness and dependability properties. Many of these properties…
In this paper, a distributed output regulation problem is formulated for a class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to local disturbances. The formulation is given to study a leader-following problem when the leader contains…
The problem at the heart of this tutorial consists in modeling the path choice behavior of network users. This problem has been extensively studied in transportation science, where it is known as the route choice problem. In this…
The problem of tracking an arbitrary curve in the state space is considered for underactuated driftless control-affine systems. This problem is formulated as the stabilization of a time-varying family of sets associated with a neighborhood…
Tracking the solution of time-varying variational inequalities is an important problem with applications in game theory, optimization, and machine learning. Existing work considers time-varying games or time-varying optimization problems.…
Given a geometric path, the Time-Optimal Path Tracking problem consists in finding the control strategy to traverse the path time-optimally while regulating tracking errors. A simple yet effective approach to this problem is to decompose…
This article addresses the output regulation problem for a class of nonlinear systems using a data-driven approach. An output feedback controller is proposed that integrates a traditional control component with a data-driven learning…
This paper investigates the finite-horizon optimal control (FHOC) problem of Boolean control networks (BCNs) from a graph theory perspective. We first formulate two general problems to unify various special cases studied in the literature:…
Occlusion is a long-standing problem that causes many modern tracking methods to be erroneous. In this paper, we address the occlusion problem by exploiting the current and future possible locations of the target object from its past…