Understanding and controlling complex systems

Project Information

UCoCoS

Grant agreement ID: 675080

DOI

10.3030/675080

Project closed

EC signature date 20 November 2015

Start date 1 April 2016

End date 31 March 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 1 537 619,76

EU contribution

€ 1 537 619,76

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (3)

Software package

Integrate software developed in Deliverable 4 in publicly available software package (KUL).

Experiments on mobile robot ESR2

Experiments robot/sensor network scenario, to be integrated in the Inria Equipex FIT IoT-Lab

Experiments on mobile robots ESR5

Experimental validation of controller design tools on robotics platform at ECL-Inria

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

ESR’s webpages for broad audience

Dissemination of ESR’s research findings through website aimed at a broad audience. Due: month 36 ESR2, ESR5 - month 42 (other ESRs)

UCoCos Website

UCOCOS Website online

Documents, reports (4)

First conference paper ESRs

First conference paper for each ESR submitted. Result of research in W P1,2,3

UCoCos final Report

Final reporting of the UCoCos programme.

First journal paper ESRs

First journal paper for each ESR submitted. Result of research in W P1,2,3

Other conference and journal papers of ESRs

Conference and journal papers submitted as listed in Table 4.1 of Annex 1 Part B Result of research in W P1,2,3

Other (3)

Three UCoCos Training courses

Three training courses organized which are complimentary for ESRs. Preliminary themes and intended lecturers are: A) Theme: Lyapunov methods for delay systems B) Theme: model reduction of large-scale systems C) Theme: hybrid systems, Lecturer Due: months 18 ,30, 42

UCoCos session at European Control conference

Session organized at European Control Conference (around July).

Four UCoCos workshops

Workshop organized around months 12, 24, 36 and 48.

Publications

Thesis and dissertations (6)

Networked dynamical systems: an input-output approach towards stability and synchronization analysis

Author(s): Jijju Thomas
Published in: 2021, ISBN 978-90-386-5260-3
Publisher: Centrale Lille

A study of partial synchronization in networks of delay-coupled systems

Author(s): Libo Su
Published in: 2021, ISBN 978-90-386-5266-5
Publisher: KU Leuven

Distributed and finite-time estimation in networked systems

Author(s): Haik Silm
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Centrale Lille

Network control and estimation under restrictions on channel capacity

Author(s): Quentin Voortman
Published in: 2021, ISBN 978-90-386-5328-0
Publisher: Eindhoven University of Technology

Design tools for the robust decentralized control of large-scale systems with time-delays

Author(s): Deesh Dileep
Published in: 2020, Page(s) 1-184
Publisher: Acco

Numerical methods for pattern and bifurcation analysis in complex networks

Author(s): Kirill Rogov
Published in: 2021, ISBN 978-90-386-5305-1
Publisher: Eindhoven University of Technology

Peer reviewed articles (24)

Asynchronously Sampled Decentralized LTI Systems

Author(s): Jijju Thomas, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, Nathan van de Wouw, Jean-Pierre Richard
Published in: Automatica, Issue 129, 2021, Page(s) Article 109607, ISSN 0005-1098
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109603

Dissipativity-based Framework for Stability Analysis of Aperiodically Sampled Nonlinear Systems with Time-varying Delay

Author(s): Jijju Thomas, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, Nathan van de Wouw, Jean-Pierre Richard
Published in: Automatica, Issue 129, 2021, Page(s) Article 109619, ISSN 0005-1098
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109632

Observer synthesis under time-varying sampling for Lipschitz nonlinear systems

Author(s): Lucien Etienne, Laurentiu Hetel, Denis Efimov, Mihaly Petreczky
Published in: Automatica, Issue 85, 2017, Page(s) 433-440, ISSN 0005-1098
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2017.07.050

Data-Rate Constrained Observers of Nonlinear Systems

Author(s): Quentin Voortman, Alexander Pogromsky, Alexey Matveev, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: Entropy, Issue 21/3, 2019, Page(s) 282, ISSN 1099-4300
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/e21030282

Observation of nonlinear systems via finite capacity channels, Part II: Restoration entropy and its estimates

Author(s): Alexey S. Matveev, Alexander Yu. Pogromsky
Published in: Automatica, Issue 103, 2019, Page(s) 189-199, ISSN 0005-1098
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2019.01.019

Design of robust decentralised controllers for MIMO plants with delays through network structure exploitation

Author(s): Deesh Dileep, Ruben Van Parys, Goele Pipeleers, Laurentiu Hetel, Jean-Pierre Richard, Wim Michiels
Published in: International Journal of Control, 2018, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 0020-7179
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/00207179.2018.1554268

A Subspace Method for Large-Scale Eigenvalue Optimization

Author(s): Fatih Kangal, Karl Meerbergen, Emre Mengi, Wim Michiels
Published in: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Issue 39/1, 2018, Page(s) 48-82, ISSN 0895-4798
Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
DOI: 10.1137/16m1070025

Control design and experimental validation for flexible multi-body systems pre-compensated by inverse shapers

Author(s): Dan Pilbauer, Wim Michiels, Jaroslav Bušek, David Osta, Tomáš Vyhlídal
Published in: Systems & Control Letters, Issue 113, 2018, Page(s) 93-100, ISSN 0167-6911
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2018.01.002

A scalable design method for stabilising decentralised controllers for networks of delay-coupled systems

Author(s): D. Dileep, F. Borgioli, L. Hetel, J.-P. Richard, W. Michiels
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 51/33, 2018, Page(s) 68-73, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.12.095

A Lyapunov approach to stability analysis of partial synchronization in delay-coupled networks

Author(s): Libo Su, Yanling Wei, Wim Michiels, Erik Steur, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 51/33, 2018, Page(s) 198-204, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Eslevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.12.094

Continuous Time Observers of Nonlinear Systems with Data-Rate Constraints

Author(s): Quentin Voortman, Alexander Pogromsky, Alexey Matveev, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 51/33, 2018, Page(s) 192-197, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.12.116

Pattern Prediction in Networks of Diffusively Coupled Nonlinear Systems

Author(s): K. Rogov, A. Pogromsky, E. Steur, W. Michiels, H. Nijmeijer
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 51/33, 2018, Page(s) 62-67, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.12.093

Comprehending Complexity: Data-Rate Constraints in Large-Scale Networks

Author(s): Alexey S. Matveev, Anton V. Proskurnikov, Alexander Pogromsky, Emilia Fridman
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Issue 64/10, 2019, Page(s) 4252-4259, ISSN 0018-9286
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tac.2019.2894369

Computing Delay Lyapunov Matrices and $\mathcal{H}_2$ Norms for Large-scale Problems

Author(s): Wim Michiels, Bin Zhou
Published in: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Issue 40/3, 2019, Page(s) 845-869, ISSN 0895-4798
Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
DOI: 10.1137/18m1209842

Robust partial synchronization of delay-coupled networks

Author(s): Libo Su, Yanling Wei, Wim Michiels, Erik Steur, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, Issue 30/1, 2020, Page(s) 013126, ISSN 1054-1500
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5111745

Design of L 2 stable fixed-order decentralised controllers in a network of sampled-data systems with time-delays

Author(s): Deesh Dileep, Jijju Thomas, Laurentiu Hetel, Nathan van de Wouw, Jean-Pierre Richard, Wim Michiels
Published in: European Journal of Control, 2020, ISSN 0947-3580
Publisher: Lavoisier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2020.02.002

Pattern Analysis in Networks of Diffusively Coupled Lur’e Systems

Author(s): Kirill Rogov, Alexander Pogromsky, Erik Steur, Wim Michiels, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Issue 29/14, 2019, Page(s) 1950200, ISSN 0218-1274
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
DOI: 10.1142/s0218127419502006

Optimization of the H2 Norm for Time-Delay Systems, with Application to Control Design and Model Approximation

Author(s): Marco A. Gomez, Alexey Egorov, Sabine Mondie, Wim Michiels
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Issue Vol.64, Issue 2, 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 0018-9286
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tac.2018.2836019

Output homogenization and Synchronization of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent networks

Author(s): Yanling Wei, Wim Michiels
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 2019, ISSN 2168-2216
Publisher: IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity

A note on distributed finite-time observers

Author(s): Haik Silm, Rosane Ushirobira, Denis Efimov, Jean-Pierre Richard, Wim Michiels
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Issue 64(2), 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 0018-9286
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tac.2018.2838042

Stability Analysis of Equilibria of Linear Delay Complementarity Systems

Author(s): J. J. Benjamin Biemond, Wim Michiels, Nathan van de Wouw
Published in: IEEE Control Systems Letters, Issue 1/1, 2017, Page(s) 158-163, ISSN 2475-1456
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2017.2711428

Robust stability optimization for linear delay systems in a probabilistic framework

Author(s): Luca Fenzi, Wim Michiels
Published in: Linear Algebra and its Applications, Issue 526, 2017, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 0024-3795
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2017.03.020

A simple finite-time distributed observer design for linear time-invariant systems

Author(s): Haik Silm, Denis Efimov, Wim Michiels, Rosane Ushirobira, Jean-Pierre Richard
Published in: Systems & Control Letters, 2020, ISSN 0167-6911
Publisher: Elsevier BV

Distributed observers with time-varying delays

Author(s): Haik Silm, Rosane Ushirobira, Denis Efimov, Emilia Fridman, Jean-Pierre Richard, Wim Michiels
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Issue 66 (11(), 2021, Page(s) 5354 - 5361, ISSN 0018-9286
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tac.2020.3044271

Conference proceedings (17)

Exponential Synchronization of Nonlinear Oscillators Under Sampled-Data Coupling

Author(s): Jijju Thomas; Erik Steur; Christophe Fiter; Laurentiu Hetel; Nathan van de Wouw
Published in: Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Issue 14, 2020, ISBN 978-1-7281-7447-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cdc42340.2020.9303910

A distributed finite-time observer for linear systems

Author(s): Haik Silm, Rosane Ushirobira, Denis Efimov, Jean-Pierre Richard, Wim Michiels
Published in: 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2017, Page(s) 1731-1736, ISBN 978-1-5090-2873-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2017.8263900

Comparison of the Time-Delay Margin of a Distributed and Centralized Observer

Author(s): Haik Silm, Rosane Ushirobira, Denis Efimov, Wim Michiels, Jean-Pierre Richard, Emilia Fridman
Published in: 2018 European Control Conference (ECC), 2018, Page(s) 1963-1968, ISBN 978-3-9524-2698-2
Publisher: European Control Association
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2018.8550324

Design of robust structurally constrained controllers for MIMO plants with time-delays

Author(s): Deesh Dileep, Wim Michiels, Laurentiu Hetel, Jean-Pierre Richard
Published in: 2018 European Control Conference (ECC), 2018, Page(s) 1566-1571, ISBN 978-3-9524-2698-2
Publisher: European Control Association
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2018.8550386

Design of a distributed finite-time observer using observability decompositions

Author(s): Haik Silm, Rosane Ushirobira, Denis Efimov, Wim Michiels, Jean-Pierre Richard
Published in: 2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC), 2019, Page(s) 1816-1821, ISBN 978-3-907144-00-8
Publisher: European Control Association
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2019.8795622

A Data Rate Constrained Observer for Discrete Nonlinear Systems

Author(s): Quentin Voortman, Alexander Yu. Pogromsky, Alexey S. Matveev, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2018, Page(s) 3355-3360, ISBN 978-1-5386-1395-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2018.8619714

Distributed finite-time observers over complete communication graphs

Author(s): Haik Silm, Rosane Ushirobira, Denis Efimov, Jean-Pierre Richard, Wim Michiels
Published in: Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems, 2018
Publisher: Elsevier

${L}_{2}$-Stability Criterion for Systems with Decentralized Asynchronous Controllers

Author(s): Jijju Thomas, Laurentiu Hetel, Christophe Fiter, Nathan van de Wouw, Jean-Pierre Richard
Published in: 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2018, Page(s) 6638-6643, ISBN 978-1-5386-1395-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2018.8619094

Dissipativity based stability criterion for aperiodic sampled-data systems subject to time-delay

Author(s): Jijju Thomas, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, Nathan van de Wouw, Jean-Pierre Richard
Published in: Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems (IFAC CHAOS 2018), 2018
Publisher: Elsevier

Pattern analysis in networks of delayed coupled nonlinear systems

Author(s): Kirill Rogov, Alexander Yu. Pogromsky, Erik Steur, Wim Michiels, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: Proceedings of the 2020 European Control Conference, 2020
Publisher: IFAC papers online/European Control Association

Stability analysis for a class of linear hyperbolic systems of balance laws with sampled-data control

Author(s): Xinyong Wang Ying Tang, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel
Published in: Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress 2020, Berlin, Germany, 2020
Publisher: IFAC-papers online - Elsevier

Achieving an $\mathcal{L}_{2}$ string stable one vehicle look-ahead platoon with heterogeneity in time-delays

Author(s): Deesh Dileep, Mauro Fusco, Jan Verhaegh, Laurentiu Hetel, Jean-Pierre Richard, Wim Michiels
Published in: 2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC), 2019, Page(s) 1220-1226, ISBN 978-3-907144-00-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2019.8796064

Consensus of Nonlinear Systems with Data-Rate Constraints

Author(s): Quentin Voortman, Alexander Yu. Pogromsky,  Alexey Matveev, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020
Publisher: Elsevier

Event-triggered data-efficient observers of perturbed systems

Author(s): Quentin Voortman, Denis Efimov, Alexander Yu. Pogromsky, Jean-Pierre Richard, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020
Publisher: Elsevier

Computing partial synchronization manifolds of delay-coupled systems

Author(s): Libo Su, Wim Michiels, Erik Steur, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, 2017, Page(s) 1-10, ISBN 978-963-12-9168-1
Publisher: European Mechanics Society

A probabilistic approach towards robust stability optimization, with application to vibration control

Author(s): Luca Fenzi, Dan Pilbauer, Wim Michiels
Published in: European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, 2017, Page(s) 1 -10, ISBN 978-963-12-9168-1
Publisher: European Mechanics Society

Synchronization of Perturbed Linear Systems with Data-Rate Constraints

Author(s): Quentin Voortman, Denis Efimov, Alexander Pogromsky, Jean-Pierre Richard, Henk Nijmeijer
Published in: Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021, ISBN 978-1-7281-7447-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cdc42340.2020.9304275

Book chapters (2)

A Comparison of Shaper-Based and Shaper-Free Architectures for Feedforward Compensation of Flexible Modes

Author(s): Dan Pilbauer, Wim Michiels, Tomáš Vyhlídal
Published in: Delays and Interconnections: Methodology, Algorithms and Applications, Issue 10, 2019, Page(s) 233-247, ISBN 978-3-030-11553-1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11554-8_15

Delays Effects in Dynamical Systems and Networks: Analysis and Control Interpretations

Author(s): Wim Michiels
Published in: Nonlinear Systems, Issue 470, 2017, Page(s) 123-136, ISSN 0170-8643
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30357-4_6