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Ashutosh Jindal

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arXiv2025

Numerical Discretization Schemes that Preserve Flatness

Differential flatness serves as a powerful tool for controlling continuous time nonlinear systems in problems such as motion planning and trajectory tracking. A similar notion, called difference flatness, exists for discrete-time systems. Although many control systems evolve in continuous time, control implementation is performed digitally, requiring discretization. It is well known in the literature that discretization does not necessarily preserve structural properties, and it has been established that, in general, flatness is not preserved under discretization (whether exact or approximate). In this paper, inspired by our previous work [1] and based on the notion of discretization maps, we construct numerical schemes that preserve flatness.

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arXiv2024

Constructing Dynamic Feedback Linearizable Discretizations

Dynamic feedback linearization-based methods allow us to design control algorithms for a fairly large class of nonlinear systems in continuous time. However, this feature does not extend to their sampled counterparts, i.e., for a given dynamically feedback linearizable continuous time system, its numerical discretization may fail to be so. In this article, we present a way to construct discretization schemes (accurate up to first order) that result in schemes that are feedback linearizable. This result is an extension of our previous work, where we had considered only static feedback linearizable systems. The result presented here applies to a fairly general class of nonlinear systems, in particular, our analysis applies to both endogenous and exogenous types of feedback. While the results in this article are presented on a control affine form of nonlinear systems, they can be readily modified to general nonlinear systems.

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arXiv2023

Implicit Function Theorem: Estimates on the size of the domain

In this article, we present explicit estimates of the size of the domain on which the Implicit Function Theorem and the Inverse Function Theorem are valid. For maps that are twice continuously differentiable, these estimates depend upon the magnitude of the first-order derivatives evaluated at the point of interest, and a bound on the second-order derivatives over a region of interest. One of the key contributions of this article is that the estimates presented require minimal numerical computation. In particular, these estimates are arrived at without any intermediate optimization procedures. We then present three applications in optimization and systems and control theory where the computation of such bounds turns out to be important. First, in electrical networks, the power flow operations can be written as Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs (QCQPs), and we utilize our bounds to compute the size of permissible power variations to ensure stable operations of the power system network. Second, the robustness margin of positive definite solutions to the Algebraic Riccati Equation (frequently encountered in control problems) subject to perturbations in the system matrices are computed with the aid of our bounds. Finally, we employ these bounds to provide quantitative estimates of the size of the domains for feedback linearization of discrete-time control systems.

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arXiv2023

Constructing Feedback Linearizable Discretizations for Continuous-Time Systems using Retraction Maps

Control laws for continuous-time dynamical systems are most often implemented via digital controllers using a sample-and-hold technique. Numerical discretization of the continuous system is an integral part of subsequent analysis. Feedback linearizability of such sampled systems is dependent upon the choice of discretization map or technique. In this article, for feedback linearizable continuous-time systems, we utilize the idea of retraction maps to construct discretizations that are feedback linearizable as well. We also propose a method to functionally compose discretizations to obtain higher-order integrators that are feedback linearizable.

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