This paper presents a new supervisory control scheme, which is based on a control-relevant switching logic. Unlike most of the existing switching methods considering only estimator performance, the proposed scheme takes both estimator and controller performance into account. As an index to the controller performance, an iISS (integral-Input-to-State Stability) Lyapunov function is employed; it ...

We analyze the null controllability for heat equations in the presence of switching controls. The switching pattern is a priori unknown so that the control has to be designed in a robust manner, based only on the past dynamics, so to fulfill the final control requirement, regardless of what the future dynamics is. We prove that such a robust control strategy actually exists when the switching c...

This paper is concerned with stability analysis of a networked control system, wherein communication from the controller to the plant input is through a digital channel subject to packet-dropouts and finite level quantization. No acknowledgments of receipt are available to the controller. To alleviate the effect of packet-dropouts, the controller transmits tentative plant input sequences. Withi...

Switched systems have numerous applications in control of real systems as mechanical systems, automotive industry, aircraft and air traffic control, switching power converters, and many other fields. Optimal control problems of switching systems require the decision of both the optimal solutions and switching sequences. The stochastic optimal control problem of linear switching systems with qua...