Journal Publications
9.- Safe and Dynamically-Feasible Motion Planning using Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions [pdf],
P. Mestres, C. Nieto-Granda, and J. Cortés,
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, submitted.
8.- Equilibria and Their Stability Do Not Depend on the Control Barrier Function in Safe Optimization-Based Control [pdf],
Y. Chen, P. Mestres, J. Cortés, and E. Dall’Anese,
Automatica, submitted.
7.- Converse Theorems for Certificates of Safety and Stability [pdf],
P. Mestres, and J. Cortés,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, submitted.
6.- Distributed Safe Navigation of Multi-Agent Systems using Control Barrier Function-Based Optimal Controllers [pdf],
P. Mestres, C. Nieto-Granda and J. Cortés,
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, to appear. To be presented at ICRA 2025.
5.- Regularity Properties of Optimization-Based Controllers [pdf],
P. Mestres, A. Allibhoy and J. Cortés,
European Journal of Control, to appear as Keynote Invited Paper.
4.- Feasibility Analysis and Regularity Characterization of Distributionally Robust Safe Stabilizing Controllers [pdf],
P. Mestres, K. Long, N. Atanasov and J. Cortés,
IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 8 (2024), pp. 91-96.
3.- Feasibility and Regularity Analysis of Safe Stabilizing Controllers under Uncertainty [pdf],
P. Mestres and J. Cortés,
Automatica, vol. 167, pp. 111800 (2024).
2.- Optimization-Based Safe Stabilizing Feedback with Guaranteed Region of Attraction [pdf],
P. Mestres and J. Cortés,
IEEE Control Systems Letters, (with joint submission to the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control) 7 (2023) 367-372.
1.- Resource-Aware Discretization of Accelerated Optimization Flows [pdf],
M. Vaquero, P. Mestres and J. Cortés,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68 (4) (2023).
Conference Publications
5.- Anytime Safe Reinforcement Learning,
P. Mestres, A. Marzabal and J. Cortés,
7th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference, submitted.
4.- Characterization of the Dynamical Properties of Safety Filters for Linear Planar Systems [pdf],
Y. Chen*, P. Mestres*, E. Dall’Anese and J. Cortés,
63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, to appear.
3.- Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems through Control Barrier Functions [pdf],
P. Mestres, K. Long, M. Leok, N. Atanasov and J. Cortés,
63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, to appear.
2.- Distributed and Anytime Algorithm for Network Optimization Problems with Separable Structure [pdf],
P. Mestres and J. Cortés,
62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, 2023, pp. 5457-5462.
1.- Safe Design for Controlling Epidemic Spreading under Heterogeneous Testing Capabilities [pdf],
P. Mestres and J. Cortés,
Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), Atlanta, Georgia, 2022, pp. 697-702.
* Equal contribution
Thesis
Bachelor’s: Discretization of Optimization Flows through State-Triggered Control [pdf]