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An interlaced method to learn and control nonlinear system dynamics from a set of demonstrations is proposed, under a constrained optimization framework for the unsupervised learning process. The nonlinear system is modelled as a mixture of…
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Algorithms for search of communities in networks usually consist discrete variations of links. Here we discuss a flow method, driven by a set of differential equations. Two examples are demonstrated in detail. First is a partition of a…
The paper describes a novel method for studying the stability of nonautonomous dynamical systems. This method based on the flow and divergence of the vector field with coupling to the method of Lyapunov functions. The necessary and…
We propose a conceptually novel method of reconstructing the topology of dynamical networks. By examining the correlation between the variable of one node and the derivative of another node, we derive a simple matrix equation yielding the…
This paper develops methods for proving Lyapunov stability of dynamical systems subject to disturbances with an unknown distribution. We assume only a finite set of disturbance samples is available and that the true online disturbance…
Systems that show different characteristics, such as finite-gain and passivity, depending on the nature of the inputs, are said to possess mixed input-output properties. In this paper, we provide a constructive method for characterizing…