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This work presents a novel Learning Model Predictive Control (LMPC) strategy for autonomous racing at the handling limit that can iteratively explore and learn unknown dynamics in high-speed operational domains. We start from existing LMPC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Haoru Xue , Edward L. Zhu , John M. Dolan , Francesco Borrelli

The purpose of this work is the design and analysis of a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for the so-called pointwise tracking optimal control problem. This linear-quadratic optimal control problem entails the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin , Abner J. Salgado

This paper presents a new parameter estimation algorithm for the adaptive control of a class of time-varying plants. The main feature of this algorithm is a matrix of time-varying learning rates, which enables parameter estimation error…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Joseph E. Gaudio , Anuradha M. Annaswamy , Eugene Lavretsky , Michael A. Bolender

Thompson Sampling (TS) is an efficient method for decision-making under uncertainty, where an action is sampled from a carefully prescribed distribution which is updated based on the observed data. In this work, we study the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Taylan Kargin , Sahin Lale , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar , Babak Hassibi

This paper presents a control framework that combines model-based optimal control and reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve versatile and robust legged locomotion. Our approach enhances the RL training process by incorporating on-demand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Dongho Kang , Jin Cheng , Miguel Zamora , Fatemeh Zargarbashi , Stelian Coros

Faults are endemic to all systems. Adaptive fault-tolerant control maintains degraded performance when faults occur as opposed to unsafe conditions or catastrophic events. In systems with abrupt faults and strict time constraints, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Ibrahim Ahmed , Marcos Quinones-Grueiro , Gautam Biswas

Autonomous vehicles are the upcoming solution to most transportation problems such as safety, comfort and efficiency. The steering control is one of the main important tasks in achieving autonomous driving. Model predictive control (MPC) is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Yassine Kebbati , Vicenç Puig , Naima Ait-Oufroukh , Vincent Vigneron , Dalil Ichalal

Firstly, a new state feedback model reference adaptive control approach is developed for uncertain systems with gain scheduled reference models in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) setting. Specifically, adaptive state feedback for output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Mehrdad Pakmehr , Tansel Yucelen

In this paper, the attitude tracking problem is considered using the rotation matrices. Due to the inherent topological restriction, it is impossible to achieve global attractivity with any continuous attitude control system on $SO(3)$.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Jieqiang Wei , Christos Verginis , Junfeng Wu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

Current model-free adaptive control (MFAC) method has no been analysed in linear system and is not straightforward for the practical engineers to understand accurately. This correspondence presents a family of MFAC based on a modified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Feilong Zhang

The model-free control approach is an advanced control law that requires few information about the process to control. Since its introduction in 2008, numerous applications have been successfully considered, highlighting attractive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Loïc Michel

Deploying learned control policies in real-world environments poses a fundamental challenge. When system dynamics change unexpectedly, performance degrades until models are retrained on new data. We introduce Reflexive World Models (RWM), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Carlos Stein Brito , Daniel McNamee

The recent advancement in vehicular networking technology provides novel solutions for designing intelligent and sustainable vehicle motion controllers. This work addresses a car-following task, where the feedback linearisation method is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Sheng Yu , Xiao Pan , Anastasis Georgiou , Boli Chen , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Simos A. Evangelou

Following the tracking-by-attention paradigm, this paper introduces an object-centric, transformer-based framework for tracking in 3D. Traditional model-based tracking approaches incorporate the geometric effect of object- and ego motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Simon Doll , Niklas Hanselmann , Lukas Schneider , Richard Schulz , Markus Enzweiler , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Multi-agent systems (MASs) can autonomously learn to solve previously unknown tasks by means of each agent's individual intelligence as well as by collaborating and exploiting collective intelligence. This article considers a group of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Michael Meindl , Fabio Molinari , Dustin Lehmann , Thomas Seel

This paper presents the application of a Distributed Model Reference Adaptive Control (DMRAC) strategy for robust multi-agent synchronization of a network of drones. The proposed approach enables the development of controllers capable of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Miguel F. Arevalo-Castiblanco , Yejin Wi , Marzia Cescon and , Cesar A. Uribe

We present an online multi-task learning approach for adaptive nonlinear control, which we call Online Meta-Adaptive Control (OMAC). The goal is to control a nonlinear system subject to adversarial disturbance and unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Guanya Shi , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Michael O'Connell , Soon-Jo Chung , Yisong Yue

In this paper we study an event based control algorithm for trajectory tracking in nonlinear systems. The desired trajectory is modelled as the solution of a reference system with an exogenous input and it is assumed that the desired…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Pavankumar Tallapragada , Nikhil Chopra

An iterative learning based economic model predictive controller (ILEMPC) is proposed for repetitive tasks in this paper. Compared with existing works, the initial feasible trajectory of the proposed ILEMPC is not restricted to be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Yushen Long , Lihua Xie , Shuai Liu

Driven by the flexible manufacturing trend in the process control industry and the uncertain nature of chemical process models, this article aims to achieve offset-free tracking for a family of uncertain nonlinear systems (e.g., using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Lai Wei , Ryan McCloy , Jie Bao