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Humanoid robots are envisioned to adapt demonstrated motions to diverse real-world conditions while accurately preserving motion patterns. Existing motion prior approaches enable well adaptability with a few motions but often sacrifice…

In this paper, we propose a chance constrained stochastic model predictive control scheme for reference tracking of distributed linear time-invariant systems with additive stochastic uncertainty. The chance constraints are reformulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Christoph Mark , Steven Liu

In this paper, we study the use of robust model independent bounded extremum seeking (ES) feedback control to improve the robustness of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) controllers for a class of nonlinear time-varying systems. DRL has the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Shaifalee Saxena , Alan Williams , Rafael Fierro , Alexander Scheinker

We introduce a type of safe extremum seeking (ES) controller, which minimizes an unknown objective function while also maintaining practical positivity of an unknown barrier function. We show semi-global practical asymptotic stability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Alan Williams , Miroslav Krstic , Alexander Scheinker

In this paper, we propose a novel sampling control framework based on the emulation technique where the sampling error is regarded as an auxiliary input to the emulated system. Utilizing the supremum norm of sampling error, the design of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Lijun Zhu , Zhiyong Chen

We consider the problem of online control of systems with time-varying linear dynamics. This is a general formulation that is motivated by the use of local linearization in control of nonlinear dynamical systems. To state meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Paula Gradu , Elad Hazan , Edgar Minasyan

In [22] a form of extremum seeking for control (ESC) was developed for the stabilization of uncertain nonlinear systems. In ESC the extremum seeker itself controls the systems through feedback rather than fine tuning a controller. The ESC…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Alexander Scheinker , David Scheinker

Learn-to-Fly (L2F) is a new framework that aims to replace the traditional iterative development paradigm for aerial vehicles with a combination of real-time aerodynamic modeling, guidance, and learning control. To ensure safe learning of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Steven Snyder , Pan Zhao , Naira Hovakimyan

We use Reinforcement Meta-Learning to optimize an adaptive integrated guidance, navigation, and control system suitable for exoatmospheric interception of a maneuvering target. The system maps observations consisting of strapdown seeker…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Brian Gaudet , Roberto Furfaro , Richard Linares , Andrea Scorsoglio

A finite horizon optimal tracking problem is considered for linear dynamical systems subject to parametric uncertainties in the state-space matrices and exogenous disturbances. A suboptimal solution is proposed using a model predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Anilkumar Parsi , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

We provide a method to design adaptive controllers for nonlinear systems using model predictive control (MPC). By combining a certainty-equivalent MPC formulation with least-mean-square parameter adaptation, we obtain an adaptive controller…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Johannes Köhler

In this paper we develop a multiple model reference adaptive controller (MMRAC) with blending. The systems under consideration are non-square, i.e., the number of inputs is not equal to the number of states; multi-input, linear,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Alex Lovi , Baris Fidan , Christopher Nielsen

The tracking method based on the extreme learning machine (ELM) is efficient and effective. ELM randomly generates input weights and biases in the hidden layer, and then calculates and computes the output weights by reducing the iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jing Zhang , Huibing Wang , Yonggong Ren

In this paper, we present Asynchronous implementation of Deep Neural Network-based Model Reference Adaptive Control (DMRAC). We evaluate this new neuro-adaptive control architecture through flight tests on a small quadcopter. We demonstrate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Girish Joshi , Jasvir Virdi , Girish Chowdhary

In this study, we propose a novel extended target tracking algorithm which is capable of representing the extent of dynamic objects as an ellipsoid with a time-varying orientation angle. A diagonal positive semi-definite matrix is defined…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-21 Barkın Tuncer , Emre Özkan

Current model-free adaptive control (MFAC) can hardly deal with the time delay problem in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To solve this problem, a novel model-free adaptive predictive control (MFAPC) method is proposed.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Feilong Zhang

Sample-based learning model predictive control (LMPC) strategies have recently attracted attention due to their desirable theoretical properties and their good empirical performance on robotic tasks. However, prior analysis of LMPC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Brijen Thananjeyan , Ashwin Balakrishna , Ugo Rosolia , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Aaron Ames , Ken Goldberg

Dynamic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) allows large language models (LLMs) to fetch external knowledge on demand, offering greater adaptability than static RAG. A central challenge in this setting lies in determining the optimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Bo Li , Tian Tian , Zhenghua Xu , Hao Cheng , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

This note presents the design and analysis of an adaptive controller for a class of linear plants in the presence of output feedback. This controller makes use of a closed-loop reference model as an observer, and guarantees global stability…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Travis E. Gibson , Zheng Qu , Anuradha M. Annaswamy , Eugene Lavretsky

Underactuated systems like sea vessels have degrees of motion that are insufficiently matched by a set of independent actuation forces. In addition, the underlying trajectory-tracking control problems grow in complexity in order to decide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Mohammed Abouheaf , Wail Gueaieb , Md. Suruz Miah , Davide Spinello