@inproceedings{3d066dab41eb435c88207b90c4ee067a,
title = "Biomolecular implementation of nonlinear system theoretic operators",
abstract = "— Synthesis of biomolecular circuits for controlling molecular-scale processes is an important goal of synthetic biology with a wide range of in vitro and in vivo applications, including biomass maximization, nanoscale drug delivery, and many others. In this paper, we present new results on how abstract chemical reactions can be used to implement com-monly used system theoretic operators such as the polynomial functions, rational functions and Hill-type nonlinearity. We first describe how idealised versions of multi-molecular reactions, catalysis, annihilation, and degradation can be combined to implement these operators. We then show how such chemical reactions can be implemented using enzyme-free, entropy-driven DNA reactions. Our results are illustrated through three applications: (1) implementation of a Stan-Sepulchre oscillator, (2) the computation of the ratio of two signals, and (3) a PI+antiwindup controller for regulating the output of a static nonlinear plant.",
keywords = "Chemicals, DNA, Steady-state, Degradation, Synthetic biology, Oscillators",
author = "Mathias Foo and Rucha Sawlekar and Jongmin Kim and Bates, {Declan G.} and Stan, {Guy Bart} and Vishwesh Kulkarni",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1109/ECC.2016.7810556",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-5090-2592-3",
series = "2016 European Control Conference, ECC 2016",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1824--1831",
booktitle = "2016 European Control Conference, ECC 2016",
address = "United States",
note = "2016 European Control Conference, ECC ; Conference date: 29-06-2016 Through 01-07-2016",
}