[HTML][HTML] Optimization algorithms as robust feedback controllers

A Hauswirth, Z He, S Bolognani, G Hug… - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Mathematical optimization is one of the cornerstones of modern engineering research and
practice. Yet, throughout all application domains, mathematical optimization is, for the most …

Time-varying optimization of LTI systems via projected primal-dual gradient flows

G Bianchin, J Cortés, JI Poveda… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the problem of regulating, at every time, a linear dynamical system
to the solution trajectory of a time-varying constrained convex optimization problem. The …

Adaptive backstep** for distributed optimization

Z Qin, T Liu, ZP Jiang - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents an adaptive backstep** approach to distributed optimization for a
class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with each agent represented by the parametric strict …

Non-convex feedback optimization with input and output constraints

V Häberle, A Hauswirth, L Ortmann… - IEEE Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present a novel control scheme for feedback optimization. That is, we
propose a discrete-time controller that can steer a physical plant to the solution of a …

Control-barrier-function-based design of gradient flows for constrained nonlinear programming

A Allibhoy, J Cortés - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers the problem of designing a continuous-time dynamical system that
solves a constrained nonlinear optimization problem and makes the feasible set forward …

Regularity properties of optimization-based controllers

P Mestres, A Allibhoy, J Cortés - European Journal of Control, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper studies regularity properties of optimization-based controllers, which are
obtained by solving optimization problems where the parameter is the system state and the …

Sampled-data online feedback equilibrium seeking: Stability and tracking

G Belgioioso, D Liao-McPherson… - 2021 60th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a general framework for constructing feedback controllers that drive
complex dynamical systems to" efficient" steady-state (or slowly varying) operating points …

Learning and forgetting in systems neuroscience: A control perspective

EM Uzeda, MA Hafez, ME Broucke - Annual Reviews in Control, 2023 - Elsevier
A longstanding open problem of systems neuroscience is to understand how the brain
calibrates thousands of reflexes to achieve near instantaneous disturbance rejection. While …

Analysis and synthesis of low-gain integral controllers for nonlinear systems

JW Simpson-Porco - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Relaxed conditions are given for stability of a feedback system consisting of an
exponentially stable multi-input multi-output nonlinear plant and an integral controller …

Online optimization of switched LTI systems using continuous-time and hybrid accelerated gradient flows

G Bianchin, JI Poveda, E Dall'Anese - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies the design of feedback controllers to steer a switching linear dynamical
system to the solution trajectory of a time-varying convex optimization problem. We propose …