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In this work, we consider the problem of designing a safety filter for a nonlinear uncertain control system. Our goal is to augment an arbitrary controller with a safety filter such that the overall closed-loop system is guaranteed to stay…

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A novel adaptive control approach is proposed to solve the globally asymptotic state stabilization problem for uncertain pure-feedback nonlinear systems which can be transformed into the pseudo-affine form. The pseudo-affine pure-feedback…

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Correct-by-construction techniques, such as control barrier functions (CBFs), can be used to guarantee closed-loop safety by acting as a supervisor of an existing or legacy controller. However, supervisory-control intervention typically…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Yuxiao Chen , Ayonga Hereid , Huei Peng , Jessy Grizzle

In this paper, a control scheme for stochastic predefined-time stabilization is proposed, which improves the control effect compared with stochastic finite-time or fixed-time stabilization. The stochastic predefined-time stabilization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Tianliang Zhang , Shengyuan Xu

We propose an output feedback control-based motion planning technique for agents to enable them to converge to a specified polynomial trajectory while imposing a set of safety constraints on our controller to avoid collisions within the…

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Designing control inputs that satisfy safety requirements is crucial in safety-critical nonlinear control, and this task becomes particularly challenging when full-state measurements are unavailable. In this work, we address the problem of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Shiqing Wei , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami

This paper studies the problem of utilizing data-driven adaptive control techniques to guarantee stability and safety of uncertain nonlinear systems with high relative degree. We first introduce the notion of a High Order Robust Adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Max H. Cohen , Calin Belta

The theoretical unification of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) with Control Lyapunov Functions (CLFs) provides a framework for achieving optimal control performance while ensuring stability guarantees. In this paper we present the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Ruben Grandia , Andrew J. Taylor , Andrew Singletary , Marco Hutter , Aaron D. Ames

Incremental stability is a property of dynamical systems that ensures the convergence of trajectories with respect to each other rather than a fixed equilibrium point or a fixed trajectory. In this paper, we introduce a related stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 P Sangeerth , David Smith Sundarsingh , Bhabani Shankar Dey , Pushpak Jagtap

This paper studies the well-posedness and regularity of safe stabilizing optimization-based controllers for control-affine systems in the presence of model uncertainty. When the system dynamics contain unknown parameters, a finite set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Pol Mestres , Kehan Long , Nikolay Atanasov , Jorge Cortés

Safety is a fundamental requirement of control systems. Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are proposed to ensure the safety of the control system by constructing safety filters or synthesizing control inputs. However, the safety guarantee…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Manan Tayal , Hongchao Zhang , Pushpak Jagtap , Andrew Clark , Shishir Kolathaya

This paper introduces a continuous-time constrained nonlinear control scheme which implements a model predictive control strategy as a continuous-time dynamic system. The approach is based on the idea that the solution of the optimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Marco M. Nicotra , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Ilya V. Kolmanovsky

In this work, we investigate the problem of simultaneously learning and controlling a system subject to adversarial choices of disturbances and system parameters. We study the problem for a scalar system with $l_\infty$-norm bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Dimitar Ho , Nikolai Matni , John C. Doyle

This paper presents the analysis of the stability properties of PID controllers for dynamical systems with multiple state delays, focusing on the mathematical characterization of the potential sensitivity of stability with respect to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Pieter Appeltans , Silviu-Iulian Niculescu , Wim Michiels

This paper presents the design and robustness analysis of fractional and integer order PID controllers for the control of a non-linear industrial process in the presence of parametric uncertainness and external disturbances. The nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-31 J. Viola , L. Angel

Incremental stability is a property of dynamical systems ensuring the uniform asymptotic stability of each trajectory rather than a fixed equilibrium point or trajectory. Here, we introduce a notion of incremental stability for stochastic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Pushpak Jagtap , Majid Zamani

Designing a static state-feedback controller subject to structural constraint achieving asymptotic stability is a relevant problem with many applications, including network decentralized control, coordinated control, and sparse feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Francesco Ferrante , Fabrizio Dabbene , Chiara Ravazzi

We study how to safely control nonlinear control-affine systems that are corrupted with bounded non-stochastic noise, i.e., noise that is unknown a priori and that is not necessarily governed by a stochastic model. We focus on safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Hongyu Zhou , Yichen Song , Vasileios Tzoumas

This paper investigates the design of a robust output-feedback linear parameter-varying (LPV) gain-scheduled controller for the speed regulation of a surface permanent magnet synchronous motor (SPMSM). Motor dynamics is defined in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Shahin Tasoujian , Jaecheol Lee , Karolos Grigoriadis , Matthew Franchek

Modern nonlinear control theory seeks to endow systems with properties such as stability and safety, and has been deployed successfully across various domains. Despite this success, model uncertainty remains a significant challenge in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Andrew J. Taylor , Victor D. Dorobantu , Sarah Dean , Benjamin Recht , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames