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Tao, T. (author), Roy, Spandan (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Baldi, S. (author)In this work we propose a new practical synchronization protocol for multiple Euler Lagrange (EL) systems without structural linear-in-the-parameters (LIP) knowledge of the uncertainty and where the agents can be interconnected before control design by unknown state-dependent interconnection terms. This setting is meant to overcome two...journal article 2024
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Yue, Dongdong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Cao, Jinde (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)This article describes an extension of the well-known model reference adaptive control (MRAC) approach. The extension relies on explicitly involving the tracking error in the feedback control law: it is shown that including this term along with its appropriate extra adaptive gain allows one to handle possibly unstable reference dynamics....journal article 2024
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Yue, Dongdong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Cao, Jinde (author), Li, Qi (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)This paper addresses distributed adaptive optimal resource allocation problems over weight-balanced digraphs. By leveraging state-of-the-art adaptive coupling designs for multiagent systems, two adaptive algorithms are proposed, namely a directed-spanning-tree-based algorithm and a node-based algorithm. The benefits of these algorithms are...journal article 2023
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Baldi, S. (author), Roy, Spandan (author), Yang, Kang (author), Liu, Di (author)Effective design of autopilots for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is still a great challenge, due to unmodeled effects and uncertainties that these vehicles exhibit during flight. Unmodeled effects and uncertainties comprise longitudinal/lateral cross-couplings, as well as poor knowledge of equilibrium points (trimming points) of...journal article 2022
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Li, Peng (author), Liu, Di (author), Baldi, S. (author)Adaptive integral sliding mode control (AISMC) is an extension of adaptive sliding mode control which is a way to ensure sliding motion while handling system uncertainties. However, conventional AISMC formulations require to different extent a priori knowledge of the system uncertainty: either the upper bound of the uncertainty or of its time...journal article 2022
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Liu, Di (author), Besselink, Bart (author), Baldi, S. (author), Yu, Wenwu (author), Trentelman, Harry L. (author)Despite the progress in the field of longitudinal formations of automated vehicles, only recently an interpretation of longitudinal platooning has been given in the framework of disturbance decoupling, i.e. the problem of making a controlled output independent of a disturbance. The appealing feature of this interpretation is that the...journal article 2022
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Roy, S. (author), Baldi, S. (author), Ioannou, Petros A. (author)The control of underactuated Euler–Lagrange systems with uncertain and switched parameters is an important problem whose solution has many applications. The problem is challenging as standard adaptive control techniques do not extend to this class of systems due to structural constraints that lead to parameterization difficulties. This note...journal article 2022
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Wang, X. (author), Roy, Spandan (author), Fari, S. (author), Baldi, S. (author)The high maneuverability of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) exposes these systems to several dynamical and parametric uncertainties, severely affecting the fidelity of modeling and causing limited guidance autonomy. This article shows enhanced autonomy via adaptation mechanisms embedded in the guidance law: a vector-field method is...journal article 2022
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Lv, Maolong (author), Chen, Zhiyong (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Baldi, S. (author)Prescribed-performance control (PPC) for high-power dynamics with time-varying unknown control coefficients requires to address two open problems: (a) given a Nussbaum function, which properties hold for the power of the Nussbaum function? (b) to avoid high gains, how to design a switching gain that increases only when the tracking error is...journal article 2022
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Baldi, S. (author), Sun, Danping (author), Xia, Xin (author), Zhou, Guopeng (author), Liu, Di (author)This article presents an adaptive method for ArduPilot-based autopilots of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ArduPilot is a popular open-source unmanned vehicle software suite. We explore how to augment the PID loops embedded inside ArduPilot with a model-free adaptive control method. The adaptive augmentation, adopted for both...journal article 2022
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Yue, Dongdong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Cao, Jinde (author)In this paper, we revisit the problem of consensus disturbance rejection for multiagent systems over a digraph, but from a different perspective, i.e., the perspective of a directed spanning tree (DST). When the minimum nonzero real part of the Laplacian eigenvalues is available, we reproduce the sufficient lower bound for a static...conference paper 2022
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Tao, T. (author), Roy, S. (author), Baldi, S. (author)This work introduces a new single-stage adaptive controller for Euler-Lagrange systems with nonholonomic constraints. The proposed mechanism provides a simpler design philosophy compared to double-stage mechanisms (that address kinematics and dynamics in two steps), while achieving analogous stability properties, i.e. stability of both original...conference paper 2022
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Tao, T. (author), Roy, Spandan (author), Yuan, Shuai (author), Baldi, S. (author)In recent years, heuristics for adaptive solutions to load frequency control (LFC) in power systems have been proposed that include adapting the LFC targets or adapting the participation factor for the resources. However, stability guarantees for these adaptation ideas are missing, especially in the presence of switching/evolving topologies...journal article 2021
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Jain, V. (author), Liu, Di (author), Baldi, S. (author)While several synchronization-based protocols have been provided for formation-keeping of cooperative vehicles, the problem of synchronized merging is more challenging. Challenges associated to the merging scenario include the need for establishing bidirectional interaction (in place of unidirectional look-ahead interaction), and the need for...journal article 2021
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Tao, T. (author), Roy, S. (author), Baldi, S. (author)Multi-area load frequency control (LFC) selects and controls a few generators in each area of the power system in an effort to dampen inter-area frequency oscillations. To effectively dampen such oscillations, it is required to enhance and lower the control activity dynamically during operation, so as to adapt to changing circumstances....journal article 2021
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Yue, D. (author), Baldi, S. (author), Cao, Jinde (author), Li, Qi (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)In this article, the time-varying formation and time-varying formation tracking problems are solved for linear multiagent systems over digraphs without the knowledge of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix associated with the digraph. The solution to these problems relies on an approach that generalizes the directed spanning tree (DST)...journal article 2021
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Lv, Maolong (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Yu, Wenwu (author), Baldi, S. (author)This article addresses and solves the adaptive asymptotic tracking for a class of uncertain switched positive linear dynamics (also known in the literature as compartmental models) subject to dwell-time constraints. Compared to the state-of-the-art, the innovative feature of this method is to attain for the first time asymptotic set-point...journal article 2021
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Baldi, S. (author), Liu, Di (author), Jain, V. (author), Yu, Wenwu (author)In adaptive platooning strategies proposed in literature to handle uncertain and nonidentical uncertain vehicle dynamics (uncertain heterogeneous platoons) two aspects requiring proper design are neglected: bidirectional interaction among vehicles which might lead to loss of string stability, and engine saturation constraints which might lead...journal article 2021
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Azzollini, Ilario Antonio (author), Yu, Wenwu (author), Yuan, Shuai (author), Baldi, S. (author)A challenging task in network synchronization is steering the network toward a coherent solution, when the dynamics of the constituent systems are heterogeneous and uncertain. In this situation, synchronization can be achieved via adaptive protocols (with adaptive feedback gains or adaptive coupling gains, or both). However, as state-of-the...journal article 2021
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Yuan, S. (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Zhang, Lixian (author)This article investigates the stability of continuous-time switched linear systems with dwell-time constraints. A fresh insight into this established problem is provided via novel stability conditions that require the solution to a family of differential Lyapunov equations and algebraic Lyapunov equations. The proposed analysis, which leads...journal article 2021