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Inspired by a concrete industry problem we consider the input synthesis problem for hybrid systems: given a hybrid system that is subject to input from outside (also called disturbance or noise), find an input sequence that steers the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Takumi Akazaki , Ichiro Hasuo , Kohei Suenaga

The synthetic control method estimates the causal effect by comparing the treated unit's outcomes to a weighted average of control units that closely match its pre-treatment outcomes, assuming the relationship between treated and control…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-07 Taehyeon Koo , Zijian Guo

Dynamic surface control (DSC) method uses high gain filters to avoid the "explosion of complexity" issue inherent in backstepping based controller designs. As a result, the closed loop system and filter dynamics possess time scale…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-03 M M Rayguru , I N kar

Motivated by large-scale but computationally constrained settings, e.g., the Internet of Things, we present a novel data-driven distributed control algorithm that is synthesized directly from trajectory data. Our method, data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Carmen Amo Alonso , Fengjun Yang , Nikolai Matni

This paper addresses the problem of collaborative formation control for multi-agent systems with limited resources. We consider a team of robots tasked with achieving a desired formation from an arbitrary initial configuration. To reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Evangelos Psomiadis , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for generative tasks, producing high-quality outputs across diverse domains. However, how the generated data responds to the initial noise perturbation in diffusion models remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Bowen Song , Zecheng Zhang , Zhaoxu Luo , Jason Hu , Wei Yuan , Jing Jia , Zhengxu Tang , Guanyang Wang , Liyue Shen

The abstraction of dynamical systems is a powerful tool that enables the design of feedback controllers using a correct-by-design framework. We investigate a novel scheme to obtain data-driven abstractions of discrete-time stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Rudi Coppola , Andrea Peruffo , Licio Romao , Alessandro Abate , Manuel Mazo

Recent years have witnessed the rapid advancement of understanding the control mechanism of networked dynamical systems (NDSs), which are governed by components such as nodal dynamics and topology. This paper reveals that the critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Yushan Li , Jianping He , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We present a lazy version of multi-layered abstraction-based controller synthesis (ABCS) for continuous-time nonlinear dynamical systems against safety specifications. State-of-the-art multi-layered ABCS uses pre-computed finite-state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Kyle Hsu , Rupak Majumdar , Kaushik Mallik , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

In this study, we address the problem of chaotic synchronization over a noisy channel by introducing a novel Deep Chaos Synchronization (DCS) system using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Conventional Deep Learning (DL) based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Majid Mobini , Georges Kaddoum

We employ supervisory controllers to safely coordinate high-level discrete(-event) behavior of distributed components of complex systems. Supervisory controllers observe discrete-event system behavior, make a decision on allowed activities,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-09-10 Jasen Markovski

In this paper, we propose a compositional framework for the synthesis of safety controllers for networks of partially-observed discrete-time stochastic control systems (a.k.a. continuous-space POMDPs). Given an estimator, we utilize a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Niloofar Jahanshahi , Abolfazl Lavaei , Majid Zamani

We consider a supervisory control problem of a discrete event system (DES) under partial observation, where a control specification is given by a fragment of linear temporal logic. We design an on-line supervisor that dynamically computes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-30 Ami Sakakibara , Toshimitsu Ushio

Delay is omnipresent in modern control systems, which can prompt oscillations and may cause deterioration of control performance, invalidate both stability and safety properties. This implies that safety or stability certificates obtained…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Gaogao Yan , Li Jiao , Shuling Wang , Naijun Zhan

Structured output feedback controller synthesis is an exciting recent concept in modern control design, which bridges between theory and practice in so far as it allows for the first time to apply sophisticated mathematical design paradigms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-29 P. Apkarian , D. Noll

In this paper, first of all, we introduce the basic concepts of generating function in combinatorics and some combinatorial identities. In order to facilitate the understanding of m-order time optimal control synthesis function of discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Qianghui Xiao , Yang Zhang

In the game-theoretic approach to controller synthesis, we model the interaction between a system to be controlled and its environment as a game between these entities, and we seek an appropriate (e.g., winning or optimal) strategy for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Mickael Randour

Controllers are often designed based on a reduced or simplified model of the plant dynamics. In this context, we investigate whether it is possible to synthesize a stabilizing event-triggered feedback law for networked control systems (NCS)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Mahmoud Abdelrahim , Romain Postoyan , Jamal Daafouz

This paper presents an automatic formal controller synthesis method for nonlinear sampled-data systems with safety and reachability specifications. Fundamentally, the presented method is not restricted to polynomial systems and controllers.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Cees F. Verdier , Manuel Mazo

In this paper, we study a safe control design for dynamical systems in the presence of uncertainty in a dynamical environment. The worst-case error approach is considered to formulate robust Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) in an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Vahid Hamdipoor , Nader Meskin , Christos G. Cassandras