Flexible manufacturing has been the trend in area of modern chemical process nowadays. One essential characteristics flexible is to track time-varying target trajectories (e.g. diversity and quantity products). A possible tool achieve targets contraction theory. However, theory was developed for continuous time systems there lacks analysis synthesis tools discrete-time systems. This article dev...

This article addresses the design of a discrete-time flatness-based tracking control for gantry crane and demonstrates practical applicability approach by measurement results. The required sampled-data model is derived an Euler-discretization with prior state transformation in such way that flatness continuous-time system preserved. Like case, controller performed two steps. First, exactly line...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>The paradigm of discounting future costs is a common feature economic applications optimal control. In this paper, we provide several results for such discounted control aimed at replicating the now well-known in standard, undiscounted, setting whereby (strict) dissipativity, turnpike properties, and near-optimality closed-loop systems using model predictive a...