Computing robust control invariant sets of constrained nonlinear systems: A graph algorithm approach

B Decardi-Nelson, J Liu - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
… initialize the algorithm from a robust control invariant set and gradually enlarge it (… approach
is the use of contractive sets. The former is not applicable to our algorithm since the feasible

Geometric properties of time-optimal controls with state constraints using strong observability

NT Woodford, MW Harris - … Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… , discretize the dynamics, enforce constraints at nodes of the … The feasible region is in the
circle and below the line. The … linear time-invariant time optimal control problems evolving …

Computing controlled invariant sets from data using convex optimization

M Korda - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2020 - SIAM
… , determining a control invariant set is a key element for recursively feasible model predictive
… Kashima, Controlled invariant feasibility—A general approach to enforcing strong feasibility

On the feasibility and continuity of feedback controllers defined by multiple control barrier functions

A Isaly, M Ghanbarpour, RG Sanfelice… - … on Automatic Control, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… that CBFs are a practical method for enforcing complex safety … In Section III, we show that
forward (pre-)invariance of the … set is stronger than required for forward invariance (Theorem 2…

Sufficient conditions for feasibility of optimal control problems using control barrier functions

W Xiao, CA Belta, CG Cassandras - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
… solution approach. We show how we can find a feasibility constraint for an optimal control
problem … After we find a feasibility constraint, we can enforce it through a CBF and take it as an …

Recursive feasibility of continuous-time model predictive control without stabilising constraints

W Esterhuizen, K Worthmann… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Remark 2: Note that in the discrete-time setting with dynamics xk+1 = f(xk, uk), a set S is
said to be control invariant if, for each x ∈ S, there exists u ∈ U(x) such that f(x, u) ∈ S holds. …

Systematic design of discrete-time control barrier functions using maximal output admissible sets

V Freire, MM Nicotra - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… and sufficient conditions for control invariance, b) we show … , c) we formulate a recursively
feasible DCBF-based constrained … for control invariance as opposed to the stronger necessary …

Pointwise feasibility of gaussian process-based safety-critical control under model uncertainty

F Castaneda, JJ Choi, B Zhang… - … Decision and Control …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Lyapunov Functions (CLFs) are popular tools for enforcing safety and stability of a controlled
system, respectively. They are commonly utilized to build constraints that can be incorpo…

Data-based guarantees of set invariance properties

A Bisoffi, C De Persis, P Tesi - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020 - Elsevier
… data-driven safe control using notions from set invariance (… λ-contractivity is a stronger property
than asymptotic stability, … is feasible if and only if the modelbased solution is feasible. The …

On the connectivity properties of feasible regions of optimal decentralized control problems

Y Bi, J Lavaei - IEEE Transactions on Control of Network …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… and develop a powerful criterion for the connectivity of their feasible regions. An … invariant.
At the end of this section, the difficulties of investigating the connectivity properties for general