{"title":"On computation of approximate solutions to large-scale backstepping kernel equations via continuum approximation","authors":"Jukka-Pekka Humaloja, Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105982","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105982","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We provide two methods for computation of continuum backstepping kernels that arise in control of continua (ensembles) of linear hyperbolic PDEs and which can approximate backstepping kernels arising in control of a large-scale, PDE system counterpart (with computational complexity that does not grow with the number of state components of the large-scale system). In the first method, we provide explicit formulae for the solution to the continuum kernels PDEs, employing a (triple) power series representation of the continuum kernel and establishing its convergence properties. In this case, we also provide means for reducing computational complexity by properly truncating the power series (in the powers of the ensemble variable). In the second method, we identify a class of systems for which the solution to the continuum (and hence, also an approximate solution to the respective large-scale) kernel equations can be constructed in closed form. We also present numerical examples to illustrate computational efficiency/accuracy of the approaches, as well as to validate the stabilization properties of the approximate control kernels, constructed based on the continuum.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 105982"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143182995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Zaki Almuzakki , Bayu Jayawardhana , Aneel Tanwani , Antonis I. Vakis
{"title":"Exponential stabilization of linear systems using nearest-action control with countable input set","authors":"Muhammad Zaki Almuzakki , Bayu Jayawardhana , Aneel Tanwani , Antonis I. Vakis","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105992","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105992","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies stabilization of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems when control actions can only be realized in <em>finitely</em> many directions where it is possible to actuate uniformly or logarithmically extended positive scaling factors in each direction. Furthermore, a nearest-action selection approach is used to map the continuous measurements to a realizable action where we show that the approach satisfies a <em>weak</em> sector condition for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Using the notion of input-to-state stability, under some assumptions imposed on the transfer function of the system, we show that the closed-loop system converges to the target ball exponentially fast. Moreover, when logarithmic extension for the scaling factors is realizable, the closed-loop system is able to achieve asymptotic stability instead of only practical stability. Finally, we present an example of the application that confirms our analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 105992"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143182999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The minimal hitting probability of continuous-time controlled Markov systems with countable states","authors":"Yanyun Li , Junping Li","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper concentrates on the minimal hitting probability of continuous-time controlled Markov systems (CTCMSs) with countable state and finite admissible action spaces. The existence of an optimal policy is first proved. In particular, for a special and important case of controlled branching processes (CBPs), it is proved that the minimal hitting probability is the unique solution to an improved optimal system of equations. Furthermore, a novel and precise improved-policy iteration algorithm of an optimal policy and the minimal hitting probability (minimal extinction probability) is presented for CBPs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 106002"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143182987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The delay feedback control for the McKean–Vlasov stochastic differential equations with common noise","authors":"Xing Chen , Xiaoyue Li , Chenggui Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105993","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105993","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since response lags are essential in the feedback loops and are required by most physical systems, it is more appropriate to stabilize McKean–Vlasov stochastic differential equations (MV-SDEs) with common noise through the implementation of delay feedback control mechanisms. The aim of this paper is to design delay feedback control functions such that the controlled system is bounded in infinite horizon and further exponentially stable in the mean square. The designed controller, which depends only on the system state is easier to implement than that in Wu et al. (2022) which was designed to depend on both system state and measure. The existence and uniqueness of the global solution of the controlled system is proved. The Itô formula in both state and measure is derived. The proposed delay feedback control strategies are rendered viable for effective stabilization of MV-SDEs with common noise. Furthermore, the moment Lyapunov exponent, which is intricately linked to the time delays, is meticulously estimated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 105993"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ge Guo , Xinxin Zhang , Renyongkang Zhang , Jian Kang
{"title":"Event-triggered predefined-time distributed optimization algorithm based on zero-gradient-sum","authors":"Ge Guo , Xinxin Zhang , Renyongkang Zhang , Jian Kang","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2025.106019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2025.106019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents an event-triggered distributed optimization (DO) algorithm for consensus constraints and strongly convex local cost functions. The algorithm is derived by means of the zero-gradient-sum mechanism and sliding mode control, which is free from any initial conditions or local minimization. In order to avoid continuous communication and measurement, our algorithm enables the interaction between agents solely at event-triggered instants, resulting in conserving communication resources. Importantly, the proposed method drives system to the optimal consensus state within a predefined time. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 106019"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143182441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finite-time safe control of probabilistic Boolean networks: An event-triggered approach","authors":"Shao Shao , Linying Xiang , Fei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores finite-time safe control in probabilistic Boolean control networks (PBCNs) through event-triggered control (ETC), presenting necessary and sufficient conditions as a set-based testing framework for problem solvability under ETC. Despite the unsolvability of the safe control problem in PBCNs with non-intermittent feedback controllers, ETC offers a potential solution. The paper contributes an algorithm to calculate the feasible triggering set and corresponding feedback gain matrices. An illustrative example is included to highlight the practical effectiveness of the proposed approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 106012"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143182986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approximate linear programming for decentralized policy iteration in cooperative multi-agent Markov decision processes","authors":"Lakshmi Mandal , Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan , Shalabh Bhatnagar","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this work, we consider a ‘cooperative’ multi-agent Markov decision process (MDP) involving <span><math><mrow><mi>m</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mo>></mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> agents. At each decision epoch, all the <span><math><mi>m</mi></math></span> agents independently select actions in order to minimize a common long-term cost objective. In the policy iteration process of multi-agent setup, the number of actions grows exponentially with the number of agents, incurring huge computational costs. Thus, recent works consider decentralized policy improvement, where each agent improves its decisions unilaterally, assuming that the decisions of the other agents are fixed. However, exact value functions are considered in the literature, which is computationally expensive for a large number of agents with high dimensional state–action space. Thus, we propose approximate decentralized policy iteration algorithms, using approximate linear programming with function approximation to compute the approximate value function for decentralized policy improvement. Further, we consider (both) cooperative multi-agent finite and infinite horizon discounted MDPs and propose suitable algorithms in each case. Moreover, we provide theoretical guarantees for our algorithms and also demonstrate their advantages over existing state-of-the-art algorithms in the literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 106003"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143182988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maximum correntropy recursive three-step filter","authors":"Yike Zhang , Xinmin Song , Wei Xing Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recursive three-step filters are often used for state estimation of systems with unknown input direct feedthrough, that is, systems where the unknown input simultaneously affect the state equation and measurement equation. However, when the system is disturbed by non-Gaussian noise, especially heavy-tailed impulsive noise, the performance of such recursive three-step filters will deteriorate. This paper proposes a maximum correntropy recursive three-step filter that can effectively handle non-Gaussian measurement noise pollution. The derivation of this filter is based on the traditional recursive three-step filter and utilizes a maximum correntropy criterion and a fixed-point iterative algorithm to simultaneously estimate the unknown input and state. It is shown that when the kernel bandwidths approach infinity, the derived maximum correntropy recursive three-step filter will degenerate into the traditional recursive three-step filter. Finally, the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed algorithm are demonstrated through simulation experiments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 106006"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143182990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francesco Tedesco, Gianfranco Gagliardi, Alessandro Casavola
{"title":"Command governor schemes for dynamical systems subject to rate-bounded disturbances","authors":"Francesco Tedesco, Gianfranco Gagliardi, Alessandro Casavola","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.106015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper extends the well-known Command Governor (CG) scheme to the case of rate-bounded persistent disturbances acting as exogenous signals on the plant. The methodology is founded on a multimodal supervisory unit that, during online operations, effectively orchestrates the switching among various CG configurations. These configurations are pre-designed offline based on the magnitude of disturbance occurrences to satisfy the prescribed constraints. To achieve this, a customized notion of <em>transition dwell-time</em> is incorporated within the proposed supervisory framework to determine the necessary duration to facilitate safe transitions among operational modes without compromising constraint satisfaction. Simulation results on two different linear systems indicate that the multimodal CG architecture is markedly less conservative when compared to the traditional single CG scheme.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 106015"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving discrete observers via unreliable direct state reconstruction","authors":"Florian Meiners, Jürgen Adamy","doi":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105991","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105991","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Unknown differences between system states and observer estimates inherently result in, potentially large, initial errors. This paper deals with the mitigation of this problem in discrete LTI systems by using an approximation of the system state directly calculated from past and present values of its input and output. This information is used in a nonlinear modification of the classical linear state observer structure to reduce the transient error and deviations due to disturbances. We show the stability of this extension in the presence and absence of noise. Additionally, we prove the fulfillment of the separation principle. For the case of noisy measurement, we argue that there is a predictable ideal filter length if the noise variance is known. The ideas are subsequently illustrated in simulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49450,"journal":{"name":"Systems & Control Letters","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 105991"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}