Control Using Logic-Based Switching

Stephen A. Morse, PhD, Associate Director for Science, Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Hybrid dynamical systems, or HDS: The ultimate switching experience.- Complexity of hybrid system models.- Embedded system design and hybrid systems.- Hierarchical hybrid control systems.- The analysis of piecewise linear dynamical systems.- Hybrid controller design for multi-agent systems.- Logic and mathematical programming.- The possibility of indecision in intelligent control.- A notion of discontinuous feedback.- Multimode regulators for systems with state & control constraints and disturbance inputs.- Switching control of constrained linear systems.- Hybrid control for global stabilization of nonlinear systems.- A minimum energy approach to switching control for mechanical systems.- Lagrangian modeling and control of switch regulated DC-to-DC power converters.- Control of underactuated mechanical systems using switching and saturation.- Hybrid systems in automotive control applications.- Optimal hybrid control with applications to automotive powertrain systems.- Optimal asymptotic robust performance through logic-based switching.- Towards a general complexity-based theory of identification and adaptive control.- Focusing on the knowable.- An approach to switching control: Theory and application.- On the performance and complexity of a class of hybrid controller switching policies.- Parallel algorithms for adaptive control: Robust stability.