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In this paper, we develop a unified framework for studying constrained robust optimal control problems with adjustable uncertainty sets. In contrast to standard constrained robust optimal control problems with known uncertainty sets, we…

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Adaptive tracking control for rigid body dynamics is of critical importance in control and robotics, particularly for addressing uncertainties or variations in system model parameters. However, most existing adaptive control methods are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jiawei Tang , Shilei Li , Ling Shi

We consider the problem of adaptive control of a class of feedback linearizable plants with matched parametric uncertainties whose states are accessible, subject to state constraints, which often arise due to safety considerations. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Peter A. Fisher , Johannes Autenrieb , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

Perfect tracking control for real-world Euler-Lagrange systems is challenging due to uncertainties in the system model and external disturbances. The magnitude of the tracking error can be reduced either by increasing the feedback gains or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Thomas Beckers , Dana Kulić , Sandra Hirche

Modern engineering systems, such as autonomous vehicles, flexible robotics, and intelligent aerospace platforms, require controllers that are robust to uncertainties, adaptive to environmental changes, and safety-aware under real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Patrick Kostelac , Xuerui Wang , Anahita Jamshidnejad

The deployment of multimodal models in high-stakes domains, such as self-driving vehicles and medical diagnostics, demands not only strong predictive performance but also reliable mechanisms for detecting failures. In this work, we address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Moru Liu , Hao Dong , Olga Fink , Mario Trapp

We present a novel adaptive cruise control (ACC) system namely SAINT-ACC: {S}afety-{A}ware {Int}elligent {ACC} system (SAINT-ACC) that is designed to achieve simultaneous optimization of traffic efficiency, driving safety, and driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lokesh Das , Myounggyu Won

Sample-based learning model predictive control (LMPC) strategies have recently attracted attention due to their desirable theoretical properties and their good empirical performance on robotic tasks. However, prior analysis of LMPC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Brijen Thananjeyan , Ashwin Balakrishna , Ugo Rosolia , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Aaron Ames , Ken Goldberg

MPC (Model Predictive Control) techniques, with constraints, are applied to a nonlinear vehicle model for the development of an ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control) system for transitional manoeuvres. The dynamic model of the vehicle is developed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Zeeshan Ali Memon , Mukhtiar Ali Unar , Dur Muhammad Pathan

The paper discusses an adaptive strategy to effectively control nonlinear manipulation motions of a dual arm robot (DAR) under system uncertainties including parameter variations, actuator nonlinearities and external disturbances. It is…

Maintaining safety under adaptation has long been considered to be an important capability for autonomous systems. As these systems estimate and change the ego-model of the system dynamics, questions regarding how to develop safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Charles Noren , Weiye Zhao , Changliu Liu

In this paper, the control problem for underactuated systems in the presence of external disturbances and model uncertainties is considered. An adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller (AFSMC) is proposed to solve the problem, satisfying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Mohammad Mahdi Azimi , Hamid Reza Koofigar , Mehdi Edrisi

This article introduces a novel framework for data-driven linear quadratic regulator (LQR) design. First, we introduce a reinforcement learning paradigm for on-policy data-driven LQR, where exploration and exploitation are simultaneously…

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This thesis presents fuzzy-L1 adaptive controller and Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) with Prescribed Performance Function (PPF) as two adaptive approaches for high nonlinear systems as two original contribution to the literature.…

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Safety-critical perception systems require both reliable uncertainty quantification and principled abstention mechanisms to maintain safety under diverse operational conditions. We present a novel dual-threshold conformalization framework…

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This article proposes a periodic event-triggered adaptive barrier control policy for the trajectory tracking problem of perturbed Euler-Lagrangian systems with state, input, and temporal (SIT) constraints. In particular, an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Chidre Shravista Kashyap , Karnan A , Pushpak Jagtap , Jishnu Keshavan

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

In this paper we consider distributed adaptive stabilization for uncertain multivariable linear systems with a time-varying diagonal matrix gain. We show that uncertain multivariable linear systems are stabilizable by diagonal matrix high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Zhiyong Sun , Anders Rantzer , Zhongkui Li , Anders Robertsson

More adaptive controllers for robot manipulators are needed, which can deal with large model uncertainties. This paper presents a novel active inference controller (AIC) as an adaptive control scheme for industrial robots. This scheme is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Corrado Pezzato , Riccardo Ferrari , Carlos Hernandez

Designing accurate yet robust tracking controllers with tight performance guarantees for Lagrangian systems is challenging due to nonlinear modeling uncertainties and conservative stability criteria. This article proposes a…

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