Publications related to H∞ Controller Design for Spectral MIMO Models by Convex Optimization

Preserving the positivity of the deformation gradient determinant in intergrid interpolation by combining RBFs and SVD: Application to cardiac electromechanics

The accurate, robust and efficient transfer of the deformation gradient tensor between meshes of different resolution is crucial in cardiac electromechanics simulations. This paper presents a novel method that combines rescaled localized Radial Basis Funct ...

Elsevier Science Sa2023

Unified Green's function approach for spectral and thermodynamic properties from algorithmic inversion of dynamical potentials

Nicola Marzari, Tommaso Chiarotti, Andrea Ferretti

Dynamical potentials appear in many advanced electronic-structure methods, including self-energies from many-body perturbation theory, dynamical mean-field theory, electronic-transport formulations, and many embedding approaches. Here, we propose a novel t ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Testing For The Rank Of A Covariance Operator

Victor Panaretos

How can we discern whether the covariance operator of a stochastic pro-cess is of reduced rank, and if so, what its precise rank is? And how can we do so at a given level of confidence? This question is central to a great deal of methods for functional dat ...

INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS-IMS2022

A combined Control by Interconnection—Model Predictive Control design for constrained Port-Hamiltonian systems

Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu

This paper proposes a Control by Interconnection design, for a class of constrained Port-Hamiltonian systems, which is based on an associated Model Predictive Control optimization problem. This associated optimization problem allows to consider both state ...

2022

Kernel methods and Model predictive approaches for Learning and Control

Sanket Sanjay Diwale

Data-driven modeling and feedback control play a vital role in several application areas ranging from robotics, control theory, manufacturing to management of assets, financial portfolios and supply chains. Many such problems in one way or another are rela ...

EPFL2019

A data-driven approach to model-reference control with applications to particle accelerator power converters

Alireza Karimi, Achille Nicoletti, Michele Martino

A new model-reference data-driven approach is presented which uses the frequency response data of a system in order to avoid the problem of unmodeled dynamics associated with low-order parametric models. It is shown that a convex optimization problem can b ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Robust control of systems with sector nonlinearities via convex optimization: A data-driven approach

Alireza Karimi, Achille Nicoletti

In this paper, a new data-driven method for designing robust controllers is proposed for systemswith sector-bounded nonlinearities and multimodel uncertainties. The results from the circle criterion are used to generate necessary and sufficient convex cons ...

WILEY2019

A Data-Driven Frequency-Domain Approach for Robust Controller Design via Convex Optimization

Achille Nicoletti

The objective of this dissertation is to develop data-driven frequency-domain methods for designing robust controllers through the use of convex optimization algorithms. Many of today's industrial processes are becoming more complex, and modeling accurate ...

EPFL2018

Robust Controller Design For Linear Systems With Nonlinear Distortions: A Data-Driven Approach

Alireza Karimi, Achille Nicoletti

The extensive use of frequency-domain tools for analyzing and controlling linear systems have become indispensable for the control systems engineer. However, due to the increased performance demands on today's industrial systems, the effects of certain non ...

Elsevier2018

Fixed-order loop shaping robust controller design for parametric models to damp inter-area oscillations

Alireza Karimi

The inter-area oscillations are common in power systems and can occur due to the changes in the load or generating power especially in long transmission lines. This paper presents the design of a robust fixed order loop shaping controller to damp out the i ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

A Data-driven Approach to Robust Control of Multivariable Systems by Convex Optimization

Alireza Karimi, Christoph Manuel Kammer

The frequency-domain data of a multivariable system in different operating points is used to design a robust controller with respect to the measurement noise and multimodel uncertainty. The controller is fully parametrized in terms of matrix polynomial fun ...

2017

Charge transport in superionic and melted AgI under a magnetic field studied via molecular dynamics

Sara Bonella, Luca Gagliardi

Charge transport in AgI subject to an external magnetic field is studied via computer simulations. We demonstrate that a recently developed algorithm can effectively complement problematic experiments to detect the ionic Hall effect, and identify previousl ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

ALS Scheme using Extent-based Constraints for the Analysis of Chemical Reaction Systems

Michael Amrhein, Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter

Multivariate curve resolution via alternating least squares (ALS) is used to resolve the concentration profiles C and the pure component spectra E of S species from the multivariate absorbance data A, assuming the bilinear model ...

2016

Design of a Fixed-Order Robust Controller Using Loop Shaping Method for Damping Inter-Area Oscillations in Power Systems

Alireza Karimi

The inter-area oscillations are common in power system and can occur due to the changes in the load or generation power especially in long transmission lines. This paper presents the design of a robust fixed-order loop shaping controller to damp out the in ...

Ieee2016

Moment-sum-of-squares hierarchies for set approximation and optimal control

Milan Korda

This thesis uses the idea of lifting (or embedding) a nonlinear controlled dynamical system into an infinite-dimensional space of measures where this system is equivalently described by a linear equation. This equation and problems involving it are subsequ ...

EPFL2016

From Fixed-Order Gain-Scheduling to Fixed-Structure LPV Controller Design

Zlatko Emedi

This thesis focuses on the development of some fixed-order controller design methods in the gain-scheduling/Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) framework. Gain-scheduled controllers designed using frequency-domain Single Input Single Output (SISO) models are co ...

EPFL2014

Soft Constrained Model Predictive Control With Robust Stability Guarantees

Colin Neil Jones, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

Soft constrained model predictive control (MPC) is frequently applied in practice in order to ensure feasibility of the optimization during online operation. Standard techniques offer global feasibility by relaxing state or output constraints, but cannot e ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Proof of the Outage Probability Conjecture for MISO Channels

Emmanuel Abbé, Emre Telatar

It is conjectured that the covariance matrices minimizing the outage probability under a power constraint for multiple-input multiple-output channels with Gaussian fading are diagonal with either zeros or constant values on the diagonal. In the multiple-in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Numerical simulation of precipitation in multicomponent Ni-base alloys

Alain Jacot, Charles-André Gandin, Luc Rougier, Paolo Di Napoli

A comprehensive particle size distribution model has been developed for the simulation of gamma' precipitation in multicomponent Ni alloys. Nucleation, growth and coarsening of the precipitates are described by a particle size distribution. The growth rate ...

Elsevier2013

H-Infinity Gain-Scheduled Controller Design for Rejection of Time-Varying Disturbances with Application to an Active Suspension System

Alireza Karimi, Zlatko Emedi

A new method for H-infinity gain-scheduled controller design by convex optimization is proposed that uses only frequency-domain data. The method is based on loop shaping in the Nyquist diagram with constraints on the weighted infinity norm of closed-loop t ...

2013