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This paper studies the partially observed stochastic optimal control problem for systems with state dynamics governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) that leads to an extremely large problem. First, an open-loop deterministic…
Impulse-to-peak response (I2P) analysis for state-space ordinary differential equation (ODE) systems is a well-studied classical problem. However, the techniques employed for I2P optimal control of ODEs have not been extended to partial…
Dimensionality reduction is crucial for controlling nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE) through a "reduce-then-design" strategy, which identifies a reduced-order model and then implements model-based control solutions. However,…
A popular approach to designing finite-dimensional boundary controllers for partial differential equations (PDEs) is to decompose the PDE into independent modes and focus on the dominant ones while neglecting highly damped residual modes.…
We complete the first step towards the resolution of several decades-old challenges in disturbance-robust adaptive control. For a scalar linear system with an unknown parameter for which no a priori bound is given, with a disturbance that…
We address the control of Partial Differential equations (PDEs) with unknown parameters. Our objective is to devise an efficient algorithm capable of both identifying and controlling the unknown system. We assume that the desired PDE is…
This work concerns the exponential stabilization of underactuated linear homogeneous systems of m parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) in cascade (reaction-diffusion systems), where only the first state is controlled either…
We introduce a monotonicity-based method for studying input-to-state stability (ISS) of nonlinear parabolic equations with boundary inputs. We first show that a monotone control system is ISS if and only if it is ISS w.r.t. constant inputs.…
We establish the dual notions of scaling and saturation from geometric control theory in an infinite-dimensional setting. This generalization is applied to the low-mode control problem in a number of concrete nonlinear partial differential…
We present a novel methodology for designing output-feedback backstepping boundary controllers for an unstable 1-D diffusion-reaction partial differential equation with spatially-varying reaction. Using "folding" transforms the parabolic…
The concept of input-to-state stability (ISS) proposed in the late 1980s is one of the central notions in robust nonlinear control. ISS has become indispensable for various branches of nonlinear systems theory, such as robust stabilization…
We prove a small-gain theorem for interconnections of $n$ nonlinear heterogeneous input-to-state stable (ISS) control systems of a general nature, covering partial, delay and ordinary differential equations. Furthermore, for the same class…
A small-gain approach is proposed to analyze closed-loop stability of linear diffusion-reaction systems under finite-dimensional observer-based state feedback control. For this, the decomposition of the infinite-dimensional system into a…
Although the stabilization of underactuated systems remains a challenging problem, the total energy shaping approach provides a general framework for addressing this objective. However, the practical implementation of this method is…
End-to-end learning of dynamical systems with black-box models, such as neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs), provides a flexible framework for learning dynamics from data without prescribing a mathematical model for the dynamics.…
The design of controllers from data for nonlinear systems is a challenging problem. In a recent paper, De Persis, Rotulo and Tesi, "Learning controllers from data via approximate nonlinearity cancellation," IEEE Transactions on Automatic…
We study the ability of neural networks to calculate feedback control signals that steer trajectories of continuous time non-linear dynamical systems on graphs, which we represent with neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs).…
The extended state observer (ESO) plays an important role in the design of feedback control for nonlinear systems. However, its high-gain nature creates a challenge in engineering practice in cases where the output measurement is corrupted…
Optimal nonlinear damping control was recently introduced for the second-order SISO systems, showing some advantages over a classical PD feedback controller. This paper summarizes the main theoretical developments and properties of the…