Related papers: Computing Dynamic Output Feedback Laws
The computation of feedback control using Dynamic Programming equation is a difficult task due the curse of dimensionality. The tree structure algorithm is one the methods introduced recently that mitigate this problem. The method computes…
This paper considers the relaxed version of the transport problem for general nonlinear control systems, where the objective is to design time-varying feedback laws that transport a given initial probability measure to a target probability…
We consider the classic problem of pole placement by state feedback. We offer an eigenstructure assignment algorithm to obtain a novel parametric form for the pole-placing feedback matrix that can deliver any set of desired closed-loop…
We present a homotopic approach to solving challenging, optimization-based motion planning problems. The approach uses Homotopy Optimization, which, unlike standard continuation methods for solving homotopy problems, solves a sequence of…
The goal of this paper is to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems numerically, in which the state process is governed by an It\^o type stochastic differential equation with control process entering both in the drift and the…
Symmetries of nonlinear control systems in state representation are considered. To this end, a geometric approach to ordinary differential equations is advocated. Invariant feedback laws for systems with Lie symmetries, i.e. feedback laws…
We propose a policy iteration algorithm for solving the multiplicative noise linear quadratic output feedback design problem. The algorithm solves a set of coupled Riccati equations for estimation and control arising from a partially…
The present paper addresses the problem of existence of an (output) feedback law to the purposes of asymptotically steering to zero a given controlled variable, while keeping all state variables bounded, for any initial conditions in a…
This paper investigates the disturbance decoupling problem by dynamic output feedback in the general case of systems with possible input-output feedthrough matrices. In particular, we aim to extend the geometric condition based on…
- In this paper we introduce a new method to solve fixed-delay optimal control problems which exploits numerical homotopy procedures. It is known that solving this kind of problems via indirect methods is complex and computationally…
In this work, we derive dynamic output-feedback controllers that render the closed-loop system externally positive. We begin by expressing the class of discrete-time, linear, time-invariant systems and the class of dynamic controllers in…
Model predictive control is a prominent approach to construct a feedback control loop for dynamical systems. Due to real-time constraints, the major challenge in MPC is to solve model-based optimal control problems in a very short amount of…
From a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) discrete-time linear system, we collect input-output data affected by noise in the form of an unknown exosignal and, from these data points (without knowledge of the system model), we design a feedback…
Real-time scheduling algorithms proposed in the literature are often based on worst-case estimates of task parameters. The performance of an open-loop scheme can be degraded significantly if there are uncertainties in task parameters, such…
We revisit the static coverage control problem for placement of vehicles with simple motion on the real line, under the assumption that the cost is a polynomial function of the locations of the vehicles. The main contribution of this paper…
In this paper, we propose symbolic decision trees as surrogate models for approximating model predictive control laws. The proposed approach learns simultaneously the partition of the input domain (splitting logic) as well as local…
Model predictive control (MPC) of hybrid dynamical systems is challenging because the associated optimization problem is nonsmooth and the resulting feedback law is discontinuous. This paper develops real-time MPC algorithms for nonlinear…
Control laws for continuous-time dynamical systems are most often implemented via digital controllers using a sample-and-hold technique. Numerical discretization of the continuous system is an integral part of subsequent analysis. Feedback…
This paper proposes a unifying design framework for dynamic feedback controllers that track solution trajectories of time-varying generalized equations, such as local minimizers of nonlinear programs or competitive equilibria (e.g., Nash)…
In this chapter, we present some recent progresses on the numerics for stochastic distributed parameter control systems, based on the \emph{finite transposition method} introduced in our previous works. We first explain how to reduce the…