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For a partially unknown linear systems, we present a systematic control design approach based on generated data from measurements of closed-loop experiments with suitable test controllers. These experiments are used to improve the achieved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Tobias Holicki , Carsten W. Scherer , Sebastian Trimpe

We consider a class of nonlinear control synthesis problems where the underlying mathematical models are not explicitly known. We propose a data-driven approach to stabilize the systems when only sample trajectories of the dynamics are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Hyungjin Choi , Umesh Vaidya , Yongxin Chen

This article presents novel methods for synthesizing distributionally robust stabilizing neural controllers and certificates for control systems under model uncertainty. A key challenge in designing controllers with stability guarantees for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Kehan Long , Jorge Cortes , Nikolay Atanasov

Stability enforcement remains a challenge in data-driven control paradigms, where no parametrised model of the system is available. For instance, the system's instabilities can be estimated in order to enforce a closed-loop stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Basile Bouteau , Pauline Kergus , Pierre Vuillemin

We propose an output feedback control-based motion planning technique for agents to enable them to converge to a specified polynomial trajectory while imposing a set of safety constraints on our controller to avoid collisions within the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Akua Dickson , Christos G. Cassandras , Roberto Tron

The design of a control architecture for providing the desired motion along with the realization of the joint limitation of a robotic system is still an open challenge in control and robotics. This paper presents a torque control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Venus Pasandi , Daniele Pucci

This paper addresses the critical challenge of developing data-driven certificates for the stability and safety of unmodeled dynamical systems by leveraging a tree data structure and an upper bound of the system's Lipschitz constant.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Amy K. Strong , Ali Kashani , Claus Danielson , Leila J. Bridgeman

This work presents a computationally efficient approach to data-driven robust contracting controller synthesis for polynomial control-affine systems based on a sum-of-squares program. In particular, we consider the case in which a system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Hamza El-Kebir , Melkior Ornik

This paper studies data-driven stabilization of a class of unknown polynomial systems using data corrupted by bounded noise. Existing work addressing this problem has focused on designing a controller and a Lyapunov function so that a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Huayuan Huang , M. Kanat Camlibel , Raffaella Carloni , Henk J. van Waarde

Modern nonlinear control theory seeks to endow systems with properties such as stability and safety, and has been deployed successfully across various domains. Despite this success, model uncertainty remains a significant challenge in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Andrew J. Taylor , Victor D. Dorobantu , Sarah Dean , Benjamin Recht , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames

Control barrier certificates have proven effective in formally guaranteeing the safety of the control systems. However, designing a control barrier certificate is a time-consuming and computationally expensive endeavor that requires expert…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Alireza Nadali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

This paper investigates the safety guaranteed problem in spacecraft inspection missions, considering multiple position obstacles and logical attitude forbidden zones. In order to address this issue, we propose a control strategy based on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Kun Wang , Tao Meng , Jiakun Lei , Weijia Wang

We present a new data-driven method to provide probabilistic stability guarantees for black-box switched linear systems. By sampling a finite number of observations of trajectories, we construct approximate Lyapunov functions and deduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Anne Rubbens , Zheming Wang , Raphaël M. Jungers

We consider tracking control of linear minimum phase systems with known arbitrary relative degree which are subject to possible output measurement losses. We provide a control law which guarantees the evolution of the tracking error within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Thomas Berger , Lukas Lanza

This paper offers a direct data-driven approach for learning robust control barrier certificates (R-CBCs) and robust safety controllers (R-SCs) for discrete-time input-affine polynomial systems with unknown dynamics under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Omid Akbarzadeh , MohammadHossein Ashoori , Abolfazl Lavaei

Stability analysis tools are essential to understanding and controlling any engineering system. Recently sum-of-squares (SOS) based methods have been used to compute Lyapunov based estimates for the region-of-attraction (ROA) of polynomial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Soumya Kundu , Marian Anghel

We propose a control design method for linear time-invariant systems that iteratively learns to satisfy unknown polyhedral state constraints. At each iteration of a repetitive task, the method constructs an estimate of the unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Charlott Vallon , Francesco Borrelli

In this paper an approximation of the set of multivariable and $L_2$ integrable trajectories of the control system described by Urysohn type integral equation is considered. It is assumed that the system is affine with respect to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Nesir Huseyin , Anar Huseyin , Khalik G. Guseinov

This paper proposes a novel control framework for handling (potentially coupled) multiple time-varying output constraints for uncertain nonlinear systems. First, it is shown that the satisfaction of multiple output constraints boils down to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Farhad Mehdifar , Lars Lindemann , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Continuous-time control of multiple quadrotors in constrained environments under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is critical due to their nonlinear dynamics, safety constraints, and the requirement to ensure continuous-time…

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