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most citedSufficient conditions for forward invariance and contractivity in hybrid inclusions using barrier functions

52 citations · 60 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

eess.SY2026

Invariance is Compositional for Continuous-time Systems: From Sleekness to Lebesgue Density

Othman Cherkaoui Dekkaki, Sadek Belamfedel Alaoui, Olayo Reynaud +3

This work establishes the first bidirectional compositional invariance result: robust forward invariance of a global Cartesian product set is shown to be equivalent to robust forwa…

eess.SY2026

Complete Abstractions of Monotone Control Systems: From Model-based to Data-Driven Systems

Adnane Saoud, Anas Makdesi, Mohamed Maghenem +2

In this paper, we introduce the approximate strong upper alternating simulation (ASUAS), a new behavioral relation for transition systems. Building on this relation, we construct u…

math.OC2026

H-ISS Analysis and Boundary Control Design for Coupled Linear ODEs and Hyperbolic PDEs

Franthiescolly Vieira de Carvalho, Daniel Coutinho, Gustavo de Andrade +2

This paper considers the general problem of the design of boundary controllers for distributed parameter systems. The control objectives are the asymptotic stability of the closed-…

math.NA2026

Certified Reachable Sets for Nonlinear Reaction--Diffusion Systems

Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri, Mohamed Maghenem, Saad Benjelloun +1

Reachability analysis for dynamical systems seeks to compute a set containing all reachable states at a given time. Compared to ordinary differential equations (ODEs), the analysis…

eess.SY2026

Spectral Boundary Observer for Counter-Flow Heat Exchangers

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Mohamed Maghenem, Emmanuel Witrant

We consider a system of two coupled first-order linear hyperbolic partial differential equations modeling heat transport in a counter-flow heat exchanger: one equation describes th…

math.OC2026

Stabilization of the -D and -D Heat Equation via Modal Decomposition

Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri, Mohamed-Camil Belhadjoudja, Mohamed Maghenem +2

Modal decomposition has been used recently to achieve boundary stabilization of linear parabolic equations in the norm, in two and three dimensions. In one dimension, e…

math.OC2025

On the Perturbed Projection-Based Distributed Gradient-Descent Algorithm: A Fully-Distributed Adaptive Redesign

Tarek Bazizi, Mohamed Maghenem, Paolo Frasca +2

In this work, we revisit a classical distributed gradient-descent algorithm, introducing an interesting class of perturbed multi-agent systems. The state of each subsystem represen…

math.OC2025

An optimal-control framework for reaction diffusion systems with application to synthetic developmental biology

Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri, Hamza Faquir, Saad Benjelloun +3

Reaction-diffusion systems offer a powerful framework for understanding self-organized patterns in biological systems, yet controlling these patterns remains a significant challeng…

math.OC2025

Nagumo Theorem For Constrained Differential Inclusions: Transversal Intersection and Set-Map Regularity

Olayo Reynaud, Mohamed Maghenem, Adnane Saoud +2

We study a solution-independent condition certifying forward invariance of closed sets for constrained continuous-time systems. The proposed condition is only necessary in general,…

math.AP2025

Stabilization of Quasilinear Parabolic Equations by Cubic Feedback at Boundary with Estimated Region of Attraction

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, M Maghenem, E Witrant +1

For quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) that exhibit finite-time blow up in open loop, i.e., under null boundary conditions, we provide an estimate of the r…

math.AP2025

Boundary Control for Wildfire Mitigation

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Mohamed Maghenem, Emmanuel Witrant +1

In this paper, we propose a feedback control strategy to protect vulnerable areas from wildfires. We consider a system of coupled partial differential equations (PDEs) that models…

math.AP2025

Boundary Stabilization of Quasilinear Parabolic PDEs that Blow Up in Open Loop for Arbitrarily Small Initial Conditions

M C Belhadjoudja, M Maghenem, E Witrant +1

We propose a novel framework for stabilization, with an estimate of the region of attraction, of quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) that exhibit finite-tim…

eess.SY2024

Inverse Optimal Cardano-Lyapunov Feedback for PDEs with Convection

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Miroslav Krstic, Mohamed Maghenem +1

We consider the problem of inverse optimal control design for systems that are not affine in the control. In particular, we consider some classes of partial differential equations…

eess.SY2024

From Sontag s to Cardano-Lyapunov Formula for Systems Not Affine in the Control: Convection-Enabled PDE Stabilization

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Miroslav Krstic, Mohamed Maghenem +1

We propose the first generalization of Sontag s universal controller to systems not affine in the control, particularly, to PDEs with boundary actuation. We assume that the system…

eess.SY2024★ 1 cited

Adaptive Boundary Control of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation Under Intermittent Sensing

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Mohamed Maghenem, Emmanuel Witrant +1

We study in this paper boundary stabilization, in the L2 sense, of the perturbed Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (KS) equation subject to intermittent sensing. We assume that we measure the s…

math.OC2023

Global Uniform Ultimate Boundedness of Semi-Passive Systems Interconnected over Directed Graphs

Anes Lazri, Mohamed Maghenem, Elena Panteley +1

We analyse the solutions of networked heterogeneous nonlinear systems. We assume that the closed-loop interconnected systems form a network with an underlying connected directed gr…

math.OC2023

On the Intelligent Proportional Controller Applied to Linear Systems

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Mohamed Maghenem, Emmanuel Witrant

We analyze in this paper the effect of the well known intelligent proportional controller on the stability of linear control systems. Inspired by the literature on neutral time del…

math.OC2023

Reconstructing Indistinguishable Solutions Via Set-Valued KKL Observer

Pauline Bernard, Mohamed Maghenem

KKL observer design consists in finding a smooth change of coordinates transforming the system dynamics into a linear filter of the output. The state of the original system is then…

math.OC2023

Hybrid Persistency of Excitation in Adaptive Estimation for Hybrid Systems

Adnane Saoud, Mohamed Maghenem, Antonio Loría +1

We propose a framework to analyze stability for a class of linear non-autonomous hybrid systems, where the continuous evolution of solutions is governed by an ordinary differential…

math.OC2022

On a Strong Robust-Safety Notion for Differential Inclusions

Mohamed Maghenem, Diana Karaki

A dynamical system is strongly robustly safe provided that it remains safe in the presence of a continuous and positive perturbation, named robustness margin, added to both the arg…

math.OC2022

A Converse Robust-Safety Theorem for Differential Inclusions

Mohamed Maghenem, Masoumeh Ghanbarpour

This paper establishes the equivalence between robust safety and the existence of a barrier function certificate for differential inclusions. More precisely, for a robustly-safe di…

math.OC2022★ 2 cited

Sufficient Conditions for Robust Safety in Differential Inclusions Using Barrier Functions

Mohamed Maghenem, Masoumeh Ghanbarpour, Adnane Saoud

In this brief paper we introduce a robust-safety notion for differential inclusions, and we propose a general framework to certify such a notion in terms of barrier functions. Whil…

math.OC2022

Singular-Perturbations-Based Analysis of Dynamic Consensus in Directed Networks of Heterogeneous Nonlinear Systems

Mohamed Maghenem, Elena Panteley, Antonio Loria

We analyze networked heterogeneous nonlinear systems, with diffusive coupling and interconnected over a generic static directed graph. Due to the network's hetereogeneity, complete…

math.OC2022★ 2 cited

On Observer-based Asymptotic Stabilization of Non-uniformly Observable Systems via Hybrid and Smooth Control: a Case Study

Mohamed Maghenem, William Pasillas-Lépine, Antonio Loría +1

For systems that are not observable at the very equilibrium of interest to be stabilized, output-feedback stabilization is considerably challenging. In this paper we solve this con…