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Modeling and congestion mitigation of mixed-autonomy traffic systems consisting of human-driven vehicles (HVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) have become increasingly critical with the rapid development of autonomous driving technology. This…
This paper investigates the stabilization of a coupled system comprising a parabolic PDE and an elliptic PDE with nonlinear terms. A rigorous backstepping design provides an explicit boundary control law and exponentially convergent…
The energy shaping method, Controlled Lagrangian, is a well-known approach to stabilize the under-actuated Euler Lagrange (EL) systems. In this approach, to construct a control rule, some nonlinear, nonhomogeneous partial differential…
In this paper, an event-triggered control protocol is developed to investigate flocking control of Lagrangian systems, where event-triggering conditions are proposed to determine when the velocities of the agents are transmitted to their…
The problem of robustly, asymptotically stabilizing a point (or a set) with two output-feedback hybrid controllers is considered. These control laws may have different objectives, e.g., the closed-loop systems resulting with each controller…
We elaborate a scheme of trapping-expulsion management (TEM), in the form of the quadratic potential periodically switching between confinement and expulsion, as a means of stabilization of two-dimensional dynamical states against the…
This paper presents a constraint-enforcing control framework for a class of discrete-time strict-feedback nonlinear systems. The objective is to guarantee closed-loop stability while ensuring forward invariance of a prescribed safe set…
The stability of complex networks, from power grids to biological systems, is crucial for their proper functioning. It is thus important to control such systems to maintain or restore their stability. Traditional approaches rely on…
For parabolic PDEs, we present a new certainty equivalence-based adaptive boundary control scheme with a least-squares identifier of an event-triggering type, where the triggering is based on the size of the regulation error (as opposed to…
Here we deal with the stabilization problem of non-diagonal systems by boundary control. In the studied setting, the boundary control input is subject to a constant delay. We use the spectral decomposition method and split the system into…
This paper presents the design of a state-feedback control law for spacecraft rendezvous, formulated using the Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire equations. The proposed method introduces an impulsive control strategy to regulate thruster operations.…
In this paper, we present a rapid boundary stabilization of a Timoshenko beam with anti-damping and anti-stiffness at the uncontrolled boundary, by using PDE backstepping. We introduce a transformation to map the Timoshenko beam states into…
A constructive tool of nonlinear control systems design, the method of Control Lyapunov Functions (CLF) has found numerous applications in stabilization problems for continuous time, discrete-time and hybrid systems. In this paper, we…
The paper considers event-triggered leader-follower tracking control for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics. For both undirected and directed follower graphs, we propose event triggering rules which guarantee bounded tracking…
In this paper, we study the rapid stabilization of an unstable wave equation, in which an unknown disturbance is located at the boundary condition. We address two different boundary conditions: Dirichlet- Dirichlet and Dirichlet-Neumann. In…
This paper studies data-driven control of unknown sampled-data systems with communication delays under an event-triggering transmission mechanism. Data-based representations for time-invariant linear systems with known or unknown system…
This paper provides a qualitative analysis of a non-uniform Euler-Bernoulli beam with degenerate flexural rigidity, subjected to axial force and boundary control with time delay $\tau > 0$. By reformulating the system as an abstract…
We show that if a linear infinite-dimensional system is exponentially stabilizable by compact feedback, it is also stabilizable by means of a sampled-data feedback that is fed through a globally Lipschitz nonlinearity, provided that the…
In systems where the ability to actuate is a scarce resource, e.g., spacecrafts, it is desirable to only apply a given controller in an intermittent manner--with periods where the controller is on and periods where it is off. Motivated by…