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The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller is known to be inherently fragile to model misspecifications common in real-world situations. We consider discrete-time partially observable stochastic linear systems and provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Marta Fochesato , Lucia Falconi , Mattia Zorzi , Augusto Ferrante , John Lygeros

As we transition towards the deployment of data-driven controllers for black-box cyberphysical systems, complying with hard safety constraints becomes a primary concern. Two key aspects should be addressed when input-output data are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Luca Furieri , Baiwei Guo , Andrea Martin , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Robust controller synthesis attracts reviving research interest, driven by the rise of learning-based systems where uncertainty and perturbation are ubiquitous. Facing an uncertain situation, a robustly stabilizing controller should…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Shih-Hao Tseng

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

We consider controller design for robust output tracking and disturbance rejection for continuous-time periodic linear systems with periodic reference and disturbance signals. As our main results we present four different controllers: A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Lassi Paunonen

We propose an approach to synthesize linear feedback controllers for linear systems in polygonal environments. Our method focuses on designing a robust controller that can account for uncertainty in measurements. Its inputs are provided by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Mehdi Kermanshah , Calin Belta , Roberto Tron

The robust disturbance rejection controller has been the subject of intensive research due to its undeniable importance for automation. Modern control theory tends to use model-based approaches versus model-free approaches, especially when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Atta Oveisi

Robust stabilization conditions for uncertain switched affine systems subject to a unitary input delay are presented. They are obtained through the Lyapunov framework and a min-switching state-feedback predictive control law. The result…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Gerson Portilla , Carolina Albea , Alexandre Seuret

This paper addresses the design of robust dynamic output feedback control for highly uncertain systems in which the unknown disturbance might be excited by the derivative of the control input. This context appears in many industrial…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Mazen Alamir , Jean Dobrowolski , Amgad tarek Mohammed

We formalize synthesis of shared control protocols with correctness guarantees for temporal logic specifications. More specifically, we introduce a modeling formalism in which both a human and an autonomy protocol can issue commands to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Nils Jansen , Murat Cubuktepe , Ufuk Topcu

This paper is concerned with the robust tracking control of linear uncertain systems, whose unknown system parameters and disturbances are bounded within ellipsoidal sets. We propose an adaptive robust control that can actively learn the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Xuehui Ma , Shiliang Zhang , Yushuai Li , Fucai Qian , Tingwen Huang

Autonomous systems increasingly rely on machine learning techniques to transform high-dimensional raw inputs into predictions that are then used for decision-making and control. However, it is often easy to maliciously manipulate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinghan Yang , Hunmin Kim , Wenbin Wan , Naira Hovakimyan , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

The linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem has reemerged as an important theoretical benchmark for reinforcement learning-based control of complex dynamical systems with continuous state and action spaces. In contrast with nearly all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Benjamin Gravell , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Tyler Summers

This paper addresses the problem of robust and optimal control for the class of nonlinear quadratic systems subject to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties and disturbances, and in presence of some amplitude constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Merola Alessio , Cosentino Carlo , Colacino Domenico , Amato Francesco

We investigate robust model-free reinforcement learning algorithms designed for environments that may be dynamic or even adversarial. Traditional state-based policies often struggle to accommodate the challenges imposed by the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Udaya Ghai , Arushi Gupta , Wenhan Xia , Karan Singh , Elad Hazan

Recent advances in learning for control allow to synthesize vehicle controllers from learned system dynamics and maintain robust stability guarantees. However, no approach is well-suited for training linear time-invariant (LTI) controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Marc-Antoine Beaudoin , Benoit Boulet

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

This paper is devoted to the development of adaptive control schemes for uncertain discrete-time systems, which guarantee robust, global, exponential convergence to the desired equilibrium point of the system. The proposed control scheme…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Iasson Karafyllis , Maria Kontorinaki , Markos Papageorgiou

This letter presents a framework for synthesizing a robust full-state feedback controller for systems with unknown nonlinearities. Our approach characterizes input-output behavior of the nonlinearities in terms of local norm bounds using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Sze Kwan Cheah , Diganta Bhattacharjee , Maziar S. Hemati , Ryan J. Caverly

When designing controllers for safety-critical systems, practitioners often face a challenging tradeoff between robustness and performance. While robust control methods provide rigorous guarantees on system stability under certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Priya L. Donti , Melrose Roderick , Mahyar Fazlyab , J. Zico Kolter