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Journal Articles

[J1] Conical Transition Graphs for Analysis of Asymptotic Stability in Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Paul K. Wintz and Ricardo G. Sanfelice
Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, vol. 60, art. no. 101660, 2026. 
Extended journal version of the 2024 ADHS conference paper of the same title.

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Conference Papers

[C5] Relaxed Lyapunov Conditions for Compact Sets in Dynamical Systems
Paul K. Wintz and Ricardo G. Sanfelice
Proceedings of the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 1246–1251, 2025. 

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[C4] SHARC: Simulator for Hardware Architecture and Real-time Control
Paul K. Wintz*, Yasin Sonmez*, Paul Griffioen, Mingsheng Xu, Surim Oh, Heiner Litz, Ricardo G. Sanfelice, and Murat Arcak
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), pp. 1–11, 2025. 
*Equal contribution.

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[C3] Conical Transition Graphs for Analysis of Asymptotic Stability in Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Paul K. Wintz and Ricardo G. Sanfelice
IFAC-PapersOnLine (8th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, ADHS), vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 159–164, 2024. 

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[C2] Forward Invariance-Based Hybrid Control Using Uncertified Controllers
Paul K. Wintz and Ricardo G. Sanfelice
Proceedings of the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 864–869, 2023. 
  • Shortlisted for the Outstanding Student Paper Prize from the CSS Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems.

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[C1] Global Asymptotic Stability of Nonlinear Systems while Exploiting Properties of Uncertified Feedback Controllers via Opportunistic Switching
Paul K. Wintz, Ricardo G. Sanfelice, and João P. Hespanha
Proceedings of the 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 1549–1554, 2022. 

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Theses

[T2] Safety and Asymptotic Stability while Exploiting Uncertified Controllers via Uniting Feedback
Paul K. Wintz
Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2025. 

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[T1] Optimal Control of a Noncircular Wheel
Paul K. Wintz
M.S. thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020. 

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