in spark ignition (si) engines, the accurate control of air fuel ratio (afr) in the stoichiometric value is required to reduce emission and fuel consumption. the wide operating range, the inherent nonlinearities and the modeling uncertainties of the engine system are the main difficulties arising in the design of afr controller. in this paper, an optimization-based nonlinear control law is anal...

This paper addresses output regulation problem for general linear systems subject to input saturation by composite nonlinear feedback (CNF) control. The CNF control law is constructed based on a switch control law which solves the output regulation problem by introducing a nonlinear feedback part. The purpose of the nonlinear feedback part is to improve the transient performance of the output r...

In the control systems literature, it is well known that a separation principle holds locally for nonlinear control systems, when exponential feedback stabilizers and exponential observers are used. In this paper, we present a counterexample to show that the global separation principle need not hold for nonlinear control systems. Our example demonstrates that global stability might be lost when...

Uncertain switched linear systems are known as an important class of control systems. Performance of these systems is affected by uncertainties and its stabilization is a main concern of recent studies. Existing work on stabilization of these systems only provides asymptotical stabilization via designing switching strategy and state-feedback controller. In this paper, a new switching strate...

This article is devoted to the synthesis of composite control for nonlinear singularly perturbed system using feedback linearization (FL). The idea of this method consists in converting the original nonlinear system into a linear one by means of state feedback and coordinate transformation. Then, methods of control theory for linear systems are used for system design. If the original nonlinear ...

In this paper, an Output Feedback Model Predictive Control for nonlinear systems is presented. The proposed output feedback control consists of the well known robust controller NCGPC (Nonlinear Continuous Time Generalized Predictive Control) and an open loop observer (a simulated model in parallel) in order to estimate the output derivatives and a regulation filter used to account for plant/mod...

This paper presents design of nonlinear feedback controllers for two different models representing evacuation dynamics in one dimension. The models presented here are based on the laws of conservation of mass and momentum. The first model is the classical one equation model for a traffic flow based on conservation of mass with a prescribed relationship between density and velocity. The other mo...

In this paper a new nonlinear guidance law with finite time convergence is proposed. The second order integrated guidance and control loop is formulated considering a first order control loop dynamics. By transforming the state equations to the normal form, a finite time stabilizer feedback linearization technique is proposed to guarantee the finite time convergence of the system states to zero...