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Data-driven control offers a powerful alternative to traditional model-based methods, particularly when accurate system models are unavailable or prohibitively complex. While existing data-driven control methods primarily aim to construct…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Janina Schaa , Thomas Berger

The Willems' fundamental lemma, which characterizes linear dynamics with measured trajectories, has found successful applications in controller design and signal processing, which has driven a broad research interest in its extension to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Yingzhao Lian , Colin N. Jones

In this paper, we explore the role of tensor algebra in balanced truncation (BT) based model reduction/identification for high-dimensional multilinear/linear time invariant systems. In particular, we employ tensor train decomposition (TTD),…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Can Chen , Amit Surana , Anthony Bloch , Indika Rajapakse

This paper presents a novel operator-theoretic approach for optimal control of nonlinear stochastic systems within reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Our learning framework leverages data samples of system dynamics and stage cost functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Petar Bevanda , Nicolas Hoischen , Tobias Wittmann , Jan Brüdigam , Sandra Hirche , Boris Houska

In this paper, nonlinear model reduction for power systems is performed by the balancing of empirical controllability and observability covariances that are calculated around the operating region. Unlike existing model reduction methods,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Junjian Qi , Jianhui Wang , Hui Liu , Aleksandar D. Dimitrovski

This work presents a control-oriented identification scheme for efficient control design and stability analysis of nonlinear systems. Neural networks are used to identify a discrete-time nonlinear state-space model to approximate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Maxime Thieffry , Alexandre Hache , Mohamed Yagoubi , Philippe Chevrel

In a recent paper we have shown that data collected from linear systems excited by persistently exciting inputs during low-complexity experiments, can be used to design state- and output-feedback controllers, including optimal Linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

In this work, we consider the problem of learning nonlinear operators that correspond to discrete-time nonlinear dynamical systems with inputs. Given an initial state and a finite input trajectory, such operators yield a finite output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Mircea Lazar

Nonlinear balanced truncation is a model order reduction technique that reduces the dimension of nonlinear systems in a manner that accounts for either open- or closed-loop observability and controllability aspects of the system. Two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Boris Kramer , Serkan Gugercin , Jeff Borggaard

Structured reduced-order modeling is a central component in the computer-aided design of control systems in which cheap-to-evaluate low-dimensional models with physically meaningful internal structures are computed. In this work, we develop…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Sean Reiter , Steffen W. R. Werner

Research in modern data-driven dynamical systems is typically focused on the three key challenges of high dimensionality, unknown dynamics, and nonlinearity. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has emerged as a cornerstone for modeling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-27 Peter J. Baddoo , Benjamin Herrmann , Beverley J. McKeon , Steven L. Brunton

A key assumption in the theory of nonlinear adaptive control is that the uncertainty of the system can be expressed in the linear span of a set of known basis functions. While this assumption leads to efficient algorithms, it limits…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Nicholas M. Boffi , Stephen Tu , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

Theory and methods to obtain parametric reduced-order models by moment matching are presented. The definition of the parametric moment is introduced, and methods (model-based and data-driven) for the approximation of the parametric moment…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Hanqing Zhang , Junyu Mao , Mohammad Fahim Shakib , Giordano Scarciotti

Nonlinear contraction theory is a comparatively recent dynamic control system design tool based on an exact differential analysis of convergence, in essence converting a nonlinear stability problem into a linear time-varying stability…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Winfried Lohmiller , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

In analyzing and assessing the condition of dynamical systems, it is necessary to account for nonlinearity. Recent advances in computation have rendered previously computationally infeasible analyses readily executable on common computer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Thomas Simpson , Nikolaos Dervilis , Eleni Chatzi

This paper proposes a novel Kernelized Data-Driven Predictive Control (KDPC) scheme for robust, offset-free tracking of nonlinear systems. Our computationally efficient hybrid approach separates the prediction: (1) kernel ridge regression…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Mahmood Mazare , Hossein Ramezani

Kernel-based methods enjoy powerful generalization capabilities in handling a variety of learning tasks. When such methods are provided with sufficient training data, broadly-applicable classes of nonlinear functions can be approximated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

We consider the problem of discounted optimal state-feedback regulation for general unknown deterministic discrete-time systems. It is well known that open-loop instability of systems, non-quadratic cost functions and complex nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Alexandros Tanzanakis , John Lygeros

This paper develops an interpretable, non-intrusive reduced-order modeling technique using regularized kernel interpolation. Existing non-intrusive approaches approximate the dynamics of a reduced-order model (ROM) by solving a data-driven…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Alejandro N Diaz , Shane A McQuarrie , John T Tencer , Patrick J Blonigan

We derive novel deterministic bounds on the approximation error of data-based bilinear surrogate models for unknown nonlinear systems. The surrogate models are constructed using kernel-based extended dynamic mode decomposition to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Robin Strässer , Manuel Schaller , Julian Berberich , Karl Worthmann , Frank Allgöwer