Contraction theory for nonlinear stability analysis and learning-based control: A tutorial overview

H Tsukamoto, SJ Chung, JJE Slotine - Annual Reviews in Control, 2021 - Elsevier
Contraction theory is an analytical tool to study differential dynamics of a non-autonomous
(ie, time-varying) nonlinear system under a contraction metric defined with a uniformly …

Prescribed-time output-feedback control of stochastic nonlinear systems

W Li, M Krstic - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present prescribed-time output-feedback-stabilizing designs for stochastic nonlinear
strict-feedback systems. We first propose a new nonscaling output-feedback control scheme …

Event-triggered fuzzy bipartite tracking control for network systems based on distributed reduced-order observers

H Liang, X Guo, Y Pan, T Huang - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the distributed observer-based event-triggered bipartite tracking control
problem for stochastic nonlinear multiagent systems with input saturation. First, different from …

Review and new theoretical perspectives on active disturbance rejection control for uncertain finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional systems

ZH Wu, HC Zhou, BZ Guo, F Deng - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
The active disturbance rejection control (AD RC), first proposed by **gqing Han in late
1980s, is a powerful control technology being able to deal with external disturbances and …

Practical prescribed time tracking control over infinite time interval involving mismatched uncertainties and non-vanishing disturbances

Y Cao, J Cao, Y Song - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
Most existing prescribed time control methods are valid for finite time intervals rather than
infinite time intervals, and can only achieve regulation under vanishing or no uncertainties …

Event-triggered adaptive neural fault-tolerant control of underactuated MSVs with input saturation

G Zhu, Y Ma, Z Li, R Malekian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the tracking control problem of marine surface vessels (MSVs) in the
presence of uncertain dynamics and external disturbances. The facts that actuators are …

Stochastic nonlinear prescribed-time stabilization and inverse optimality

W Li, M Krstic - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We solve the prescribed-time mean-square stabilization and inverse optimality control
problems for stochastic strict-feedback nonlinear systems by develo** a new nonscaling …

Adaptive fixed-time stabilization for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems

Q Meng, Q Ma, Y Shi - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the problem of fixed-time stabilization for a class of nonlinear systems
with parameteric uncertainties, where the nonlinear functions are constrained by an …

Command filter-based adaptive neural finite-time control for stochastic nonlinear systems with time-varying full-state constraints and asymmetric input saturation

Y Li, B Niu, G Zong, J Zhao, X Zhao - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article studies a tracking control problem for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems with
time-varying full-state constraints and asymmetric input saturation. Firstly, the Gauss Error …

Adaptive finite-time stabilization of stochastic nonlinear systems subject to full-state constraints and input saturation

H Min, S Xu, Z Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the adaptive finite-time tracking control is studied for state constrained
stochastic nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties and input saturation. To this end …