Introduction This paper proposes the concept of autonomous drug-encapsulated nanoparticle (ADENP) as a novel non-invasive approach to prevent atherosclerosis. ADENP consists of three simple units of sensor, controller (computing), and actuator. The hardware complexity of ADENP is much lower than most of the nanorobots, while the performance is maintained by the synergism in the swarm architectu...

This paper presents an overview of the state art for safety-critical optimal control autonomous systems. Optimal methods are well studied, but become computationally infeasible real-time applications when there multiple hard safety constraints involved. To guarantee such constraints, it has been shown that optimizing quadratic costs while stabilizing affine systems to desired (sets of) states s...