Almuatazbellah M. Boker

Yashodhan D. Hakke, Almuatazbellah M. Boker, Lamine Mili et al.

During disasters, cascading failures across power grids, communication networks, and social behavior amplify community fear and undermine cooperation. Existing cyber-physical-social (CPS) models simulate these coupled dynamics but lack mechanisms for active intervention. We extend the CPS resilience model of Valinejad and Mili (2023) with control channels for three agencies, communication, power, and emergency management, and formulate the resulting system as a three-player non-zero-sum differential game solved via online actor-critic reinforcement learning. Simulations based on Hurricane Harvey data show 70% mean fear reduction with improved infrastructure recovery; cross-validation in the case of Hurricane Irma (without refitting) achieves 50% fear reduction, confirming generalizability.

Almuatazbellah M. Boker, Hassan K. Khalil

We solve the problem of output feedback stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems, which may have unstable zero dynamics. We allow for any globally stabilizing full state feedback control scheme to be used as long as it satisfies a particular ISS condition. We show semi-global stability of the origin of the closed-loop system and also the recovery of the performance of an auxiliary system using a full-order observer. This observer is based on the use of an extended high-gain observer to provide estimates of the output and its derivatives plus a signal used by an extended Kalman filter to provide estimates of the remaining states. Finally, we provide a simulation example that illustrates the design procedure.