This study investigates the efficacy of optimal semi-active dampers for achieving the best results in seismic response mitigation of adjacent buildings connected to each other by magnetorheological (MR) dampers under earthquakes. One of the challenges in the application of this study is to develop an effective optimal control strategy that can fully utilize the capabilities of the MR dampers. H...

This paper proposes a discrete-time repetitive optimal control of electrically driven robotic manipulators using an uncertainty estimator. The proposed control method can be used for performing repetitive motion, which covers many industrial applications of robotic manipulators. This kind of control law is in the class of torque-based control in which the joint torques are generated by permanen...

In this paper we consider a perturbed linear-quadratic control problem on a finite interval. The only difference from the traditional LQ-control problem is that the problem has an extra linear term in the cost function which makes it time-dependent. The major motivation for this extension comes from [4] where we consider applications of very efficient primal-dual interior-point algorithms to th...

We show that recently developed interior point methods for quadratic programming and linear complementarity problems can be put to use in solving discrete-time optimal control problems, with general pointwise constraints on states and controls. We describe interior point algorithms for a discrete time linear-quadratic regulator problem with mixed state/control constraints, and show how it can b...