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Uniform Exponential Stability Analysis of Impulsive Linear Time-Invariant Systems on Banach and Hilbert Spaces: Non-Coercive and Coercive Stability Conditions
Corentin Briat, Francesco Ferrante, Christophe Prieur
We consider the uniform exponential stability analysis of infinite-dimensional impulsive systems defined on a Banach or Hilbert space, whose flow is governed by a fixed -semig…
Output Regulation of Stochastic Sampled-Data Systems with Post-processing Internal Model
Himadri Basu, Francesco Ferrante, Mirko Fiacchini
This paper deals with the output regulation problem (ORP) of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system in the presence of sporadically sampled measurement streams with the inter-samplin…
Unknown Input Observer Design for a class of Semilinear Hyperbolic Systems with Dynamic Boundary Conditions
Andrea Cristofaro, Francesco Ferrante
The problem of unknown input observer design is considered for coupled PDE/ODE systems subject to incremental sector bounded nonlinearities and unknown boundary inputs. Assuming av…
On DoS Resiliency Analysis of Networked Control Systems: Trade-Off Between Jamming Actions and Network Delays
Roberto Merco, Francesco Ferrante, Pierluigi Pisu
This letter deals with the problem of quantifying resiliency of Networked Control Systems (NCSs) to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and variable network delays. Internal exponentia…
Control Design under Actuator Saturation and Multi-Rate Sampling
Francesco Ferrante, Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Sophie Tarbouriech
The problem of designing a stabilizing feedback controller in the presence of saturating actuators and multi-rate (asynchronous) aperiodic state measurements is studied. Specifical…
Velocity Stabilization of a Wave Equation with a Nonlinear Dynamic Boundary Condition
Nicolas Vanspranghe, Francesco Ferrante, Christophe Prieur
This paper deals with a one-dimensional wave equation with a nonlinear dynamic boundary condition and a Neumann-type boundary control acting on the other extremity. We consider a c…
Stabilization of the wave equation through nonlinear Dirichlet actuation
Nicolas Vanspranghe, Francesco Ferrante, Christophe Prieur
In this paper, we consider the problem of nonlinear (in particular, saturated) stabilization of the high-dimensional wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The wave dyna…
Stability Analysis of a Class of Discontinuous Discrete-Time Systems
Francesco Ferrante, Giorgio Valmorbida
The stability analysis of a class of discontinuous discrete-time systems is studied in this paper. The system under study is modeled as a feedback interconnection of a linear syste…
Sampled-data control design for systems with quantized actuators
Francesco Ferrante, Sophie Tarbouriech
This paper deals with the problem of designing a sampled-data state feedback control law for continuous-time linear control systems subject to uniform input quantization. The sampl…
Robust Output Feedback Control Design in the Presence of Sporadic Measurements
Roberto Merco, Francesco Ferrante, Ricardo G. Sanfelice +1
Output feedback control design for linear time-invariant systems in the presence of sporadic measurements and exogenous perturbations is addressed. To cope with the sporadic availa…
Design of saturated boundary control for hyperbolic systems with in-domain disturbances
Suha Shreim, Francesco Ferrante, Christophe Prieur
Boundary feedback control design is studied for 1D hyperbolic systems with an in-domain disturbance and a boundary feedback controller under the effect of actuator saturation. Nonl…
Anti-windup-like Compensator Synthesis for Discrete-Time Quantized Control Systems
Samer AlSamadi, Francesco Ferrante, Sophie Tarbouriech
This paper addresses the problem of designing an anti-windup like compensator for discrete-time linear control systems with quantized input. The proposed compensator provides a cor…
Leader-Follower Synchronization of a Network of Boundary-Controlled Parabolic Equations With In-Domain Coupling
Abbas Kabalan, Francesco Ferrante, Giacomo Casadei +2
In this letter, we study the leader-synchronization problem for a class of partial differential equations with boundary control and in-domain coupling. We describe the problem in a…
On sensor quantization in linear control systems: Krasovskii solutions meet semidefinite programming
Francesco Ferrante, Frédéric Gouaisbaut, Sophie Tarbouriech
Stability and stabilization for linear state feedback control systems in the presence of sensor quantization are studied. As the closed-loop system is described by a discontinuous…
Robust interaction control of a dielectric elastomer actuator with variable stiffness
Gianluca Rizzello, Francesco Ferrante, David Naso +1
This paper presents an interaction control algorithm for a dielectric elastomer membrane actuator. The proposed method permits efficient exploitation of the controllable stiffness…
Synchronization of Identical Boundary-Actuated Semilinear Infinite-Dimensional Systems
Francesco Ferrante, Giacomo Casadei, Christophe Prieur
This paper deals with synchronization of a class of infinite-dimensional systems. The considered network is described by a collection of semilinear Lipschitz boundary-actuated infi…
A Hybrid Dynamical Modeling Framework for Shape Memory Alloy Wire Actuated Structures
Michele A. Mandolino, Francesco Ferrante, Gianluca Rizzello
In this paper, a hybrid model for single-crystal Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) wire actuators is presented. The result is based on a mathematical reformulation of the Müller-Achenbach-S…
A Hybrid Controller for DOS-Resilient String-Stable Vehicle Platoons
Roberto Merco, Francesco Ferrante, Pierluigi Pisu
This paper deals with the design of resilient Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) for homogeneous vehicle platoons in which communication is vulnerable to Denial-of-Service…
On Angular Speed Estimation of Rigid Bodies
Francesco Ferrante, Gildas Besançon
The problem of estimating the angular speed of a solid body from attitude measurements is addressed. To solve this problem, we propose an observer whose dynamics are not constraine…
Observer Design for Linear Aperiodic Sampled-Data Systems: A Hybrid Systems Approach
Francesco Ferrante, Alexandre Seuret
Observer design for linear systems with aperiodic sampled-data measurements is addressed. To solve this problem, a novel hybrid observer is designed. The main peculiarity of the pr…
Observer Design for Systems of Conservation Laws with Lipschitz Nonlinear Boundary Dynamics
Francesco Ferrante, Andrea Cristofaro
The problem of state estimation for a system of coupled hyperbolic PDEs and ODEs with Lipschitz nonlinearities with boundary measurements is considered. An infinite dimensional obs…
On the Design of Structured Stabilizers for LTI Systems
Francesco Ferrante, Fabrizio Dabbene, Chiara Ravazzi
Designing a static state-feedback controller subject to structural constraint achieving asymptotic stability is a relevant problem with many applications, including network decentr…
Output Regulation of Linear Aperiodic Sampled-Data Systems
Himadri Basu, Francesco Ferrante, Se Young Yoon
This paper deals with the output regulation problem of a linear time-invariant system in the presence of sporadically available measurement streams. A regulator with a continuous i…
Boundary stabilization of systems of high order PDEs arising from flexible robotics
Andrea Cristofaro, Francesco Ferrante
The problem of stabilization of a system of coupled PDEs of the forth-order by means of boundary control is investigated. The considered setup arises from the classical Euler-Berno…