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We develop a physics-informed learning framework for energy-shaping control of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems from trajectory data. The proposed approach co-learns a pH system model and an optimal energy-balancing passivity-based controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Ankur Kamboj , Biswadip Dey , Vaibhav Srivastava

Within a robotic context, we merge the techniques of passivity-based control (PBC) and reinforcement learning (RL) with the goal of eliminating some of their reciprocal weaknesses, as well as inducing novel promising features in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Riccardo Zanella , Gianluca Palli , Stefano Stramigioli , Federico Califano

Passivity-based control ensures system stability by leveraging dissipative properties and is widely applied in electrical and mechanical systems. Port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS), in particular, are well-suited for interconnection and damping…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Thomas Beckers , Leonardo Colombo

Feedback controllers for port-Hamiltonian systems reveal an intrinsic inverse optimality property since each passivating state feedback controller is optimal with respect to some specific performance index. Due to the nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Lukas Kölsch , Pol Jané Soneira , Felix Strehle , Sören Hohmann

Interconnection and damping assignment, passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) has proven to be a successful control technique for the stabilisation of many nonlinear systems. In this paper, we propose a method to robustify a system which has…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Joel Ferguson , Alejandro Donaire , Romeo Ortega , Richard H. Middleton

Although the stabilization of underactuated systems remains a challenging problem, the total energy shaping approach provides a general framework for addressing this objective. However, the practical implementation of this method is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 M. Reza J. Harandi , Mehrzad Namvar

Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-Based Control (IDA-PBC) is a nonlinear control technique that assigns a port-Hamiltonian (pH) structure to a controlled system using a state-feedback law. While IDA-PBC has been extensively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nicolò Botteghi , Owen Brook , Urban Fasel , Federico Califano

In this letter we propose a holistic analysis merging the techniques of passivity-based control (PBC) and control barrier functions (CBF). We constructively find conditions under which passivity of the closed-loop system is preserved under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Federico Califano

In this work we exploit the universal approximation property of Neural Networks (NNs) to design interconnection and damping assignment (IDA) passivity-based control (PBC) schemes for fully-actuated mechanical systems in the port-Hamiltonian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Santiago Sanchez-Escalonilla , Rodolfo Reyes-Baez , Bayu Jayawardhana

In this paper, we restructure the Neural Interconnection and Damping Assignment - Passivity Based Control (Neural IDA-PBC) design methodology, and we formally analyze its closed-loop properties. Neural IDA-PBC redefines the IDA-PBC design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Santiago Sanchez-Escalonilla , Samuele Zoboli , Bayu Jayawardhana

In this paper we present a method to robustify energy-shaping controllers for port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems by adding an integral action that rejects unknown additive disturbances. The proposed controller preserves the pH structure and, by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Joel Ferguson , Alejandro Donaire , Romeo Ortega , Richard H. Middleton

Total energy shaping through interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) provides a powerful and systematic framework for stabilizing underactuated mechanical systems. Despite its theoretical appeal,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 M. Reza J. Harandi , Mehrzad Namvar

Learning high-performance control policies that remain consistent with expert behavior is a fundamental challenge in robotics. Reinforcement learning can discover high-performing strategies but often departs from desirable human behavior,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Siwei Ju , Jan Tauberschmidt , Oleg Arenz , Peter van Vliet , Jan Peters

Economic model predictive control (EMPC) is a promising methodology for optimal operation of dynamical processes that has been shown to improve process economics considerably. However, EMPC performance relies heavily on the accuracy of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-10 Khalid Alhazmi , Fahad Albalawi , S. Mani Sarathy

We use a reinforcement learning approach to reduce entropy production in a closed quantum system brought out of equilibrium. Our strategy makes use of an external control Hamiltonian and a policy gradient technique. Our approach bears no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Sofia Sgroi , G. Massimo Palma , Mauro Paternostro

This paper proposes an extended interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control technique (IDA-PBC) to control the pressure dynamics in the fuel delivery subsystem (FDS) of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. The fuel cell…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Lalitesh Kumar , Jian Chen , Chengshuai Wu , Yuzhu Chen , Arjan van der Schaft

This paper proposes a composite learning backstepping control (CLBC) strategy based on modular backstepping and high-order tuners to achieve closed-loop exponential stability without high-gain feedback and PE. A novel composite learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Tian Shi , Shihua Li , Changyun Wen , Yongping Pan

Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-Based Control (IDA-PBC) is a well-established stabilization technique for affine nonlinear systems. However, its application is generally hindered by the requirement of solving a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Ziheng Jiao , Chengshuai Wu , Bo Fan , Meng Zhang , Romeo Ortega

Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) is an excellent method to stabilize mechanical systems in the Hamiltonian formalism. In this paper, several improvements are made on the IDA-PBC method. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-03 Dong Eui Chang

In this paper we propose a variation of the widely popular Interconnection-and-Damping-Assigment Passivity-Based Control (IDA-PBC) based on Poincare's Lemma to design output feedback globally stabilizing controllers for two dimensional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Rafael Cisneros , Leyan Fang , Wei He , Romeo Ortega
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