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13 papers
A New Solution Concept and Family of Relaxations for Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Tyler Westenbroek, Humberto Gonzalez, S. Shankar Sastry
We introduce a holistic framework for the analysis, approximation and control of the trajectories of hybrid dynamical systems which display event-triggered discrete jumps in the co…
On the Relaxation of Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Tyler Westenbroek, S. Shankar Sastry, Humberto Gonzalez
Hybrid dynamical systems have proven to be a powerful modeling abstraction, yet fundamental questions regarding the dynamical properties of these systems remain. In this paper, we…
Comfort-Aware Building Climate Control Using Distributed-Parameter Models
Runxin He, Humberto Gonzalez
Controlling Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system to maintain occupant's indoor thermal comfort is important to energy-efficient buildings and the development of…
Holistic Cyber-Physical Management for Dependable Wireless Control Systems
Yehan Ma, Dolvara Gunatilaka, Bo Li +2
Wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs) are gaining momentum in industrial process automation as a communication infrastructure for lowering deployment and maintenance costs. In…
Numerical Synthesis of Pontryagin Optimal Control Minimizers Using Sampling-Based Methods
Runxin He, Humberto Gonzalez
Optimal control remains as one of the most versatile frameworks in systems theory, enabling applications ranging from classical robust control to real-time safe operation of fleets…
Gradient-Based Estimation of Air Flow and Geometry Configurations in a Building Using Fluid Dynamic Adjoint Equations
Runxin He, Humberto Gonzalez
Real-time estimations of temperature distributions and geometric configurations are important to energy efficient buildings and the development of smarter cities. In this paper we…
Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems Using a Feedback Relaxed Control Formulation
Tyler Westenbroek, Humberto Gonzalez
We present a numerically tractable formulation for computing the optimal control of the class of hybrid dynamical systems whose trajectories are continuous. Our formulation, an ext…
Simultaneous Receding Horizon Estimation and Control of a Fencing Robot using a Single Camera
Ignacio de Erausquin, Humberto Gonzalez
We present a method for simultaneous Receding Horizon Estimation and Control of a robotic arm equipped with a sword in an adversarial situation. Using a single camera mounted on th…
Zoned HVAC Control via PDE-Constrained Optimization
Runxin He, Humberto Gonzalez
Efficiency, comfort, and convenience are three major aspects in the design of control systems for residential Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) units. In this paper…
Rapid Integration and Calibration of New Sensors Using the Berkeley Aachen Robotics Toolkit (BART)
Jan O. Biermeyer, Todd R. Templeton, Christian Berger +4
After the three DARPA Grand Challenge contests many groups around the world have continued to actively research and work toward an autonomous vehicle capable of accomplishing a mis…
Metrization and Simulation of Controlled Hybrid Systems
Samuel Burden, Humberto Gonzalez, Ramanarayan Vasudevan +2
The study of controlled hybrid systems requires practical tools for approximation and comparison of system behaviors. Existing approaches to these problems impose undue restriction…
Statistical Results on Filtering and Epi-convergence for Learning-Based Model Predictive Control
Anil Aswani, Humberto Gonzalez, S. Shankar Sastry +1
Learning-based model predictive control (LBMPC) is a technique that provides deterministic guarantees on robustness, while statistical identification tools are used to identify ric…
Provably Safe and Robust Learning-Based Model Predictive Control
Anil Aswani, Humberto Gonzalez, S. Shankar Sastry +1
Controller design faces a trade-off between robustness and performance, and the reliability of linear controllers has caused many practitioners to focus on the former. However, the…