Publications

Journal Papers/Manuscripts

1. E. Somathilake, B. Rathnayake, and M. Diagne
   "Output feedback periodic-event and self-triggered control of coupled 2x2 linear hyperbolic PDEs"
   Under review in Automatica
2. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
   "Global exponential stabilization of 2x2 linear hyperbolic PDEs via dynamic event-triggered backstepping control"
   Provisionally accepted for publication in Automatica
   
3. P. Zhang^*, B. Rathnayake^*, M. Diagne, and M. Krstic (*equal contributions)
   "Performance-barrier event-triggered PDE control of traffic flow"
   To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025
   
4. B. Rathnayake, M. Diagne, J. Cortes, and M. Krstic
   "Performance-barrier event-triggered control of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs"
   Automatica, vol. 174, pp. 112181, 2025
   
5. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
   "Observer-based periodic event-triggered and self-triggered boundary control of a class of parabolic PDEs"
   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 8836-8843, 2024
   
6. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
   "Observer-based event-triggered boundary control of the one- phase Stefan problem"
   International Journal of Control , vol. 97, no. 12, pp. 2975-2986, 2024
   
7. B. Rathnayake, M. Diagne, and I. Karafyllis
   "Sampled-data and event-triggered boundary control of a class of reaction–diffusion PDEs with collocated sensing and actuation"
   Automatica, vol. 137, pp. 110026, 2022
   
8. B. Rathnayake, M. Diagne, N. Espitia, and I. Karafyllis
   "Observer-based event-triggered boundary control of a class of reaction–diffusion PDEs"
   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 2905-2917, 2022
   

Conference Papers/Submissions

1. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
   "Observer-based event-triggered control of 2x2 linear hyperbolic PDEs with switching dynamic triggering"
   Submitted to European Control Conference (ECC) 2025
   
2. B. Rathnayake, A. Zlotnik, S. Tokareva, and M. Diagne
   "Setpoint tracking and disturbance attenuation for gas pipeline flow subject to uncertainties using backstepping"
   Accepted for publication in the proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC) 2025
   
3. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
   "Sampled-data boundary control of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs: A Lyapunov-based approach"
   Accepted for publication in the proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC) 2025
   
4. Eranda Somathilake, Bhathiya Rathnayake, and Mamadou Diagne
   "Sampled-data boundary control of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs: A Lyapunov-based approach"
   Accepted for publication in the proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC) 2025
   
5. P. Zhang, B. Rathnayake, M. Diagne, and M. Krstic
   "Performance-barrier periodic event-triggered PDE control of traffic flow"
   Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024
   
6. P. Zhang, B. Rathnayake, M. Diagne, and M. Krstic
   "Performance-barrier-based event-triggered boundary control of congested ARZ traffic PDEs"
   IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 182–187, 2024
   
7. B. Rathnayake, M. Diagne, J. Cortes, and M. Krstic
   "Performance-barrier-based event-triggered boundary control of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs"
   American Control Conference (ACC) 2024
   
8. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
   "Self-triggered boundary control of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs"
   Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2023
   
9. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
   "Observer-based periodic event-triggered boundary control of the one-phase Stefan problem"
   IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 11415–11422, 2023
   
10. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
    "Periodic event-triggered boundary control of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs"
    American Control Conference (ACC) 2023
    
11. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
    "Event-based boundary control of the Stefan problem: A dynamic triggering approach"
    Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2022
    
12. B. Rathnayake and M. Diagne
    "Event-based boundary control of one-phase Stefan problem: A static triggering approach"
    American Control Conference (ACC) 2022
    
13. B. Rathnayake, M. Diagne, and I. Karafyllis
    "Sampled-data boundary control of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs with collocated sensing and actuation"
    Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2021
    
14. B. Rathnayake, M. Diagne, N. Espitia, and I. Karafyllis
    "Event-triggered output-feedback boundary control of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs"
    American Control Conference (ACC) 2021