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Output reference tracking can be improved by iteratively learning from past data to inform the design of feedforward control inputs for subsequent tracking attempts. This process is called iterative learning control (ILC). This article…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Isaac A Spiegel , Nard Strijbosch , Tom Oomen , Kira Barton

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a powerful technique for high performance tracking in the presence of modeling errors for optimal control applications. There is extensive prior work showing its empirical effectiveness in applications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Anirudh Vemula , Wen Sun , Maxim Likhachev , J. Andrew Bagnell

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

Robust and adaptive control strategies are needed when robots or automated systems are introduced to unknown and dynamic environments where they are required to cope with disturbances, unmodeled dynamics, and parametric uncertainties. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Karime Pereida , Dave Kooijman , Rikky R. P. R. Duivenvoorden , Angela P. Schoellig

As robots and other automated systems are introduced to unknown and dynamic environments, robust and adaptive control strategies are required to cope with disturbances, unmodeled dynamics and parametric uncertainties. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Karime Pereida , Rikky R. P. R. Duivenvoorden , Angela P. Schoellig

Iterative Learning Control (ILC) can achieve perfect tracking performance for mechatronic systems. The aim of this paper is to present an ILC design tutorial for industrial mechatronic systems. First, a preliminary analysis reveals the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Tom Oomen

Cross-coupled iterative learning control (ILC) can achieve high performance for manufacturing applications in which tracking a contour is essential for the quality of a product. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Leontine Aarnoudse , Johan Kon , Koen Classens , Max van Meer , Maurice Poot , Paul Tacx , Nard Strijbosch , Tom Oomen

This paper proposes a robust control strategy that integrates Iterative Learning Control (ILC) with a simple lateral neural network to enhance the trajectory tracking performance of a linear Lorentz force actuator under friction and model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Ali Mashhadireza , Ali Sadighi

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a method for reducing system tracking or estimation errors over multiple iterations by using information from past iterations. The disturbance observer (DOB) is used to estimate and mitigate disturbances…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Harsh Modi , Zhu Chen , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

This article focuses on making discrete-time Adaptive Iterative Learning Control (ILC) more effective using multiple estimation models. Existing strategies use the tracking error to adjust the parametric estimates. Our strategy uses the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Ram Padmanabhan , Rajini Makam , Koshy George

Highly dynamic tasks that require large accelerations and precise tracking usually rely on accurate models and/or high gain feedback. While kinematic optimization allows for efficient representation and online generation of hitting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Okan Koc , Guilherme Maeda , Jan Peters

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a control strategy for repetitive tasks wherein information from previous runs is leveraged to improve future performance. Optimization-based ILC (OB-ILC) is a powerful design framework for constrained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Dominic Liao-McPherson , Efe C. Balta , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

Various spacecraft have sensors that repeatedly perform a prescribed scanning maneuver, and one may want high precision. Iterative Learning Control (ILC) records previous run tracking error, adjusts the next run command, aiming for zero…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Richard W. Longman , Shuo Liu , Tarek A. Elsharhawy

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

Iterative Learning Control (ILC) enables high control performance through learning from measured data, using only limited model knowledge in the form of a nominal parametric model. Robust stability requires robustness to modeling errors,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Lennart Blanken , Tom Oomen

Learning control policies for multi-robot systems (MRS) remains a major challenge due to long-term coordination and the difficulty of obtaining realistic training data. In this work, we address both limitations within an imitation learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jesús Roche , Eduardo Sebastián , Eduardo Montijano

This paper presents a scalable and adaptive control framework for legged robots that integrates Iterative Learning Control (ILC) with a biologically inspired torque library (TL), analogous to muscle memory. The proposed method addresses key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jing Cheng , Yasser G. Alqaham , Zhenyu Gan , Amit K. Sanyal

Before AI and neural nets, the excitement was about iterative learning control (ILC): the idea to train robots to perform repetitive tasks or train a system to reject quasi-periodic disturbances. The excitement waned after the discovery of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Shane Rupert Koscielniak

An inherent assumption of perfect tracking in iterative learning control (ILC) is that there exists an ILC input such that the generated output can track the desired trajectory reference. This assumption may fail in practice, which gives…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Zhihe Zhuang , Rodrigo A. González , Hongfeng Tao , Wojciech Paszke , Tom Oomen

Iterative Learning Control (ILC) is a technique for adaptive feed-forward control of electro-mechanical plant that either performs programmed periodic behavior or rejects quasi-periodic disturbances. For example, ILC can suppress…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Shane Koscielniak
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