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Quantum control is concerned with the realisation of desired dynamics in quantum systems, serving as a linchpin for advancing quantum technologies and fundamental research. Analytic approaches and standard optimisation algorithms do not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Jan Ole Ernst , Aniket Chatterjee , Tim Franzmeyer , Axel Kuhn

Quantum devices require precisely calibrated analog signals, a process that is complex and time-consuming. Many calibration strategies exist, and all require careful analysis and tuning to optimize system availability. To enable rigorous…

Controller design faces a trade-off between robustness and performance, and the reliability of linear controllers has caused many practitioners to focus on the former. However, there is renewed interest in improving system performance to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Anil Aswani , Humberto Gonzalez , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire Tomlin

Learning the unknown Hamiltonian governing the dynamics of a quantum many-body system is a challenging task. In this manuscript, we propose a possible strategy based on repeated measurements on a single time-dependent state. We prove that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Davide Rattacaso , Gianluca Passarelli , Procolo Lucignano

We propose Kernel Predictive Control (KPC), a learning-based predictive control strategy that enjoys deterministic guarantees of safety. Noise-corrupted samples of the unknown system dynamics are used to learn several models through the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Emilio T. Maddalena , Paul Scharnhorst , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones

Large-scale quantum devices provide insights beyond the reach of classical simulations. However, for a reliable and verifiable quantum simulation, the building blocks of the quantum device require exquisite benchmarking. This benchmarking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Agnes Valenti , Guliuxin Jin , Julian Léonard , Sebastian D. Huber , Eliska Greplova

Iterative learning control (ILC) improves the performance of a repetitive system by learning from previous trials. ILC can be combined with Model Predictive Control (MPC) to mitigate non-repetitive disturbances, thus improving overall…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

This paper studies the learning-to-control problem under process and sensing uncertainties for dynamical systems. In our previous work, we developed a data-based generalization of the iterative linear quadratic regulator (iLQR) to design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Ran Wang , Raman Goyal , Suman Chakravorty

We address a wide spectrum of quantum control strategies, including various open-loop protocols and advanced adaptive methods. These methodologies apply to few-qubit scenarios and naturally scale to larger N-qubit systems. We benchmark them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Atta ur Rahman , M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , Cong-feng Qiao

In this paper, we present Quantum-Inspired Model Predictive Control (QIMPC), an approach that uses Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) to learn control polices in MPC problems. The viability of the approach is tested in five experiments: A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan , Jamal Al-Karaki

For discrete-time linear systems subject to parametric uncertainty described by random variables, we develop a sampling-based Stochastic Model Predictive Control algorithm. Unlike earlier results employing a scenario approximation, we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Matthias Lorenzen , Fabrizio Dabbene , Roberto Tempo , Frank Allgöwer

Efficiently controlling linear Gaussian quantum (LGQ) systems is a significant task in both the study of fundamental quantum theory and the development of modern quantum technology. Here, we propose a general quantum-learning-control method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Yu-Hong Liu , Yexiong Zeng , Qing-Shou Tan , Daoyi Dong , Franco Nori , Jie-Qiao Liao

Quantum machine learning is an approach that aims to improve the performance of machine learning methods by leveraging the properties of quantum computers. In quantum circuit learning (QCL), a supervised learning method that can be…

The development of quantum control methods is an essential task for emerging quantum technologies. In general, the process of optimizing quantum controls scales very unfavorably in system size due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Jun Li

Control of multi-level quantum systems is sensitive to implementation errors in the control field and uncertainties associated with system Hamiltonian parameters. A small variation in the control field spectrum or the system Hamiltonian can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andy Koswara , Raj Chakrabarti

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

An incoherent control scheme for state control of locally controllable quantum systems is proposed. This scheme includes three steps: (1) amplitude amplification of the initial state by a suitable unitary transformation, (2) projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Daoyi Dong , Chenbin Zhang , Herschel Rabitz , Alexander Pechen , Tzyh-Jong Tarn

Learning-based control has attracted significant attention in recent years, especially for plants that are difficult to model based on first-principles. A key issue in learning-based control is how to make efficient use of data as the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Kaikai Zheng , Dawei Shi , Sandra Hirche , Yang Shi

As robotic systems move from highly structured environments to open worlds, incorporating uncertainty from dynamics learning or state estimation into the control pipeline is essential for robust performance. In this paper we present a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Robert Dyro , James Harrison , Apoorva Sharma , Marco Pavone

Class imbalance remains a critical challenge in semi-supervised learning (SSL), especially when distributional mismatches between labeled and unlabeled data lead to biased classification. Although existing methods address this issue by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Senmao Tian , Xiang Wei , Shunli Zhang