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ArticleIFAC-PapersOnLine2022

Feedback control of social distancing for COVID-19 via elementary formulae.

Michel Fliess, Cédric Join, Alberto d'Onofrio

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Article in IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michel FliessÉcole polytechnique, LIX (CNRS, UMR 7161), 91128 Palaiseau, France.
Cédric JoinUniversité de Lorraine, BP 239 CRAN (CNRS, UMR 7039), 54506 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
Alberto d'OnofrioInstitut Camille Jordan, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social distancing has been enacted in order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Like many authors, we adopt the classic epidemic SIR model, where the infection rate is the control variable. Its differential flatness property yields elementary closed-form formulae for open-loop social distancing scenarios, where, for instance, the increase of the number of uninfected people may be taken into account. Those formulae might therefore be useful to decision makers. A feedback loop stemming from model-free control leads to a remarkable robustness with respect to severe uncertainties and mismatches. Although an identification procedure is presented, a good knowledge of the recovery rate is not necessary for our control strategy.

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algebraic differentiatorBiomedical controlCOVID-19flatness-based controlidentifiabilitymodel-free controlrobustnessSIR modelsocial distancing

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PMID38620984
PMCPMC9507116

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