English

Suppressing unknown disturbances to dynamical systems using machine learning

Systems and Control 2024-08-22 v5 Machine Learning Systems and Control

Abstract

Identifying and suppressing unknown disturbances to dynamical systems is a problem with applications in many different fields. Here we present a model-free method to identify and suppress an unknown disturbance to an unknown system based only on previous observations of the system under the influence of a known forcing function. We find that, under very mild restrictions on the training function, our method is able to robustly identify and suppress a large class of unknown disturbances. We illustrate our scheme with the identification of both deterministic and stochastic unknown disturbances to an analog electric chaotic circuit and with numerical examples where a chaotic disturbance to various chaotic dynamical systems is identified and suppressed.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2307.03690,
  title  = {Suppressing unknown disturbances to dynamical systems using machine learning},
  author = {Juan G. Restrepo and Clayton P. Byers and Per Sebastian Skardal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.03690},
  year   = {2024}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-28T11:24:41.816Z