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This paper presents a vehicle lateral controller based on spiking neural networks capable of replicating the behavior of a model-based controller but with the additional ability to perform online adaptation. By making use of neural…
Dynamical systems can be used to model a broad class of physical processes, and conservation laws give rise to system properties like passivity or port-Hamiltonian structure. An important problem in practical applications is to steer…
We consider nonlinear event systems with quantized state information and design a globally stabilizing controller from which only the minimal required number of control value changes along the feedback trajectory to a given initial…
This paper presents a comparative study of three advanced control strategies for a single-machine infinite-bus (SMIB) system: the nonlinear feedback linearizing controller (NFLC), the integral-NFLC (INFLC), and the…
Neuromorphic engineering is a rapidly developing field that aims to take inspiration from the biological organization of neural systems to develop novel technology for computing, sensing, and actuating. The unique properties of such systems…
The objective of this research is to enable safety-critical systems to simultaneously learn and execute optimal control policies in a safe manner to achieve complex autonomy. Learning optimal policies via trial and error, i.e., traditional…
This paper studies the problem of stabilizing a self-triggered control system with quantized output. Employing a standard observer-based state feedback control law, a self-triggering mechanism that dictates the next sampling time based on…
Optimal control provides a principled framework for transforming dynamical system models into intelligent decision-making, yet classical computational approaches are often too expensive for real-time deployment in dynamic or uncertain…
We will present a new general framework for robust and adaptive control that allows for distributed and scalable learning and control of large systems of interconnected linear subsystems. The control method is demonstrated for a linear…
In this manuscript, we present a high-fidelity physics-based truth model of a Single Machine Infinite Bus (SMIB) system. We also present reduced-order control-oriented nonlinear and linear models of a synchronous generator-turbine system…
Two ways of designing low-order discrete-time (i.e. digital) controls for low-order plant (i.e. process) models are considered in this tutorial. The first polynomial method finds the controller coefficients that place the poles of the…
The increasing integration of power electronic devices is driving the development of more advanced tools and methods for the modeling, analysis, and control of modern power systems to cope with the different time-scale oscillations. In this…
We present a new type of feedback linearization that is tailored for mechanical control systems. We call it a mechanical feedback linearization. Its basic feature is preservation of the mechanical structure of the system. For mechanical…
In this paper, we first study the leader-following output synchronization problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems over jointly connected switching networks. Our approach integrates the output-based adaptive…
In this paper, a model reference adaptive control architecture is proposed for uncertain nonlinear systems to achieve prescribed performance guarantees. Specifically, a general nonlinear reference model system is considered that captures an…
For an unknown linear system, starting from noisy open-loop input-state data collected during a finite-length experiment, we directly design a linear feedback controller that guarantees robust invariance of a given polyhedral set of the…
Adaptive control is a control method that has an adaptation mechanism that reacts to model uncertainties. The control method is used to realized synchronization of a new chaotic system in a unidirectional master-slave topology. The master…
This paper formulates adaptive controller design as a minimax dual control problem. The objective is to design a controller that minimizes the worst-case performance over a set of uncertain systems. The uncertainty is described by a set of…
We present a controller for a power electronic system composed of a fuel cell (FC) connected to a boost converter which feeds a resistive load. The controller aims to regulate the output voltage of the converter regardless of the…
Optimization with preference feedback is an active research area with many applications in engineering systems where humans play a central role, such as building control and autonomous vehicles. While most existing studies focus on…