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In a pedagogical but exhaustive manner, this survey reviews the main results on input-to-state stability (ISS) for infinite-dimensional systems. This property allows estimating the impact of inputs and initial conditions on both the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Andrii Mironchenko , Christophe Prieur

Model mismatches prevail in real-world applications. Ensuring safety for systems with uncertain dynamic models is critical. However, existing robust safe controllers may not be realizable when control limits exist. And existing methods use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Tianhao Wei , Shucheng Kang , Weiye Zhao , Changliu Liu

We study singularly perturbed systems that exhibit input-to-state stability (ISS) with fixed-time properties in the presence of bounded disturbances. In these systems, solutions converge to the origin within a time frame independent of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Michael Tang , Miroslav Krstic , Jorge Poveda

Distributed Parameter Systems (DPSs), modelled by partial differential equations (PDEs), are increasingly vulnerable to disturbances arising from various sources. Although detection of disturbances in PDE systems have received considerable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Tanushree Roy , Ashley Knichel , Satadru Dey

We revisit the problem explored in [1] of guaranteeing satisfaction of multiple simultaneous state constraints applied to a single-input, single-output plant consisting of a chain of n integrators subject to input limitations. For this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Peter A. Fisher , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

Ensuring safety in the sense of constraint satisfaction for learning-based control is a critical challenge, especially in the model-free case. While safety filters address this challenge in the model-based setting by modifying unsafe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Kanghui He , Shengling Shi , Ton van den Boom , Bart De Schutter

A common assumption on the deployment of safeguarding controllers on the digital platform is that high sampling frequency translates to a small violation of safety. This paper investigates and formalizes this assumption through the lens of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Gilbert Bahati , Pio Ong , Aaron D. Ames

The efficient utilization of available resources while simultaneously achieving control objectives is a primary motivation in the event-triggered control paradigm. In many modern control applications, one such objective is enforcing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Andrew J. Taylor , Pio Ong , Jorge Cortes , Aaron D. Ames

In this paper, we develop a novel adaptation-based approach to constrained control design under multiple state and input constraints. Specifically, we introduce a method for synthesizing any number of time-varying candidate control barrier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Mitchell Black , Dimitra Panagou

In this paper, we propose a novel sampling control framework based on the emulation technique where the sampling error is regarded as an auxiliary input to the emulated system. Utilizing the supremum norm of sampling error, the design of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Lijun Zhu , Zhiyong Chen

Safety filters based on control barrier functions (CBFs) and high-order control barrier functions (HOCBFs) are often implemented through quadratic programs (QPs). In general, especially in the presence of multiple constraints, feasibility…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Shima Sadat Mousavi , Max H. Cohen , Pol Mestres , Aaron D. Ames

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) enforce safety by rendering a prescribed safe set forward invariant. However, standard CBFs are limited to safety constraints with relative degree one, while High-Order CBF (HOCBF) methods address higher…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Jianye Xu , Bassam Alrifaee

We develop tools for investigation of input-to-state stability (ISS) of infinite-dimensional control systems. We show that for certain classes of admissible inputs the existence of an ISS-Lyapunov function implies the input-to-state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Sergey Dashkovskiy , Andrii Mironchenko

We prove that (local) input-to-state stability ((L)ISS) and integral input-to-state stability (iISS) of time-varying infinite-dimensional systems in abstract spaces follows from the existence of a {corresponding} Lyapunov function. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Rahma Heni , Andrii Mironchenko , Fabian Wirth , Hanen Damak , Mohamed Ali Hammami

Since the concept of input-to-state stability (ISS) was introduced, it has been extensively investigated for finite-dimensional control systems and has recently received attention for infinite-dimensional systems. While numerical techniques…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Birgit Hillebrecht , Benjamin Unger

In this paper we seek to quantify the ability of learning to improve safety guarantees endowed by Control Barrier Functions (CBFs). In particular, we investigate how model uncertainty in the time derivative of a CBF can be reduced via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Andrew J. Taylor , Andrew Singletary , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames

It is shown that impulsive systems of nonlinear, time-varying and/or switched form that allow a stable global state weak linearization are jointly input-to-state stable (ISS) under small inputs and integral ISS (iISS). The system is said to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 José L. Mancilla-Aguilar , Hernan Haimovich

We consider the problem of designing controllers to guarantee safety in a class of nonlinear systems under uncertainties in the system dynamics and/or the environment. We define a class of uncertain control barrier functions (CBFs), and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Vipul K. Sharma , S. Sivaranjani

In this paper, we study input-to-state stability (ISS) of an equilibrium for a scalar conservation law with nonlocal velocity and measurement error arising in a highly re-entrant manufacturing system. By using a suitable Lyapunov function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Simone Göttlich , Michael Herty , Gediyon Weldegiyorgis

In this paper, a triggered Batch Least-Squares Identifier (BaLSI) based adaptive safety control scheme is proposed for uncertain systems with potentially conflicting control objectives and safety constraints. A relaxation term is added to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Jiajun Shen , Wei Wang , Jing Zhou , Jinhu Lü