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Learning-based control methods utilize run-time data from the underlying process to improve the controller performance under model mismatch and unmodeled disturbances. This is beneficial for optimizing industrial processes, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Efe C. Balta , Kira Barton , Dawn M. Tilbury , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

In this paper, we present a learning-based tracking controller based on Gaussian processes (GP) for collision avoidance of multi-agent systems where the agents evolve in the special Euclidean group in the space SE(3). In particular, we use…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Omayra Yago Nieto , Alexandre Anahory Simoes , Juan I. Giribet , Leonardo J. Colombo

This paper presents L-Learning, a novel data-driven control framework for robotics that integrates Lyapunov stability theory with Lagrangian mechanics to enhance trajectory tracking performance. While traditional control methods often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Quan Quan , Hao Li

This paper presents a learning-based tracking control framework for cooperative transport of a rigid payload by multiple aerial manipulators under rigid grasp constraints. A unified geometric model is developed, yielding a coupled…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Omayra Yago Nieto , Leonardo Colombo

A key challenge with controlling complex dynamical systems is to accurately model them. However, this requirement is very hard to satisfy in practice. Data-driven approaches such as Gaussian processes (GPs) have proved quite effective by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Mouhyemen Khan , Akash Patel , Abhijit Chatterjee

Due to the increasing complexity of technical systems, accurate first principle models can often not be obtained. Supervised machine learning can mitigate this issue by inferring models from measurement data. Gaussian process regression is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Armin Lederer , Jonas Umlauft , Sandra Hirche

We propose a method to encourage safety in Model Predictive Control (MPC)-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) via Gaussian Process (GP) regression. This framework consists of 1) a parametric MPC scheme that is employed as model-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Filippo Airaldi , Bart De Schutter , Azita Dabiri

This article addresses the output regulation problem for a class of nonlinear systems using a data-driven approach. An output feedback controller is proposed that integrates a traditional control component with a data-driven learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Telema Harry , Martin Guay , Shimin Wang , Richard D. Braatz

For autonomous mobile robots, uncertainties in the environment and system model can lead to failure in the motion planning pipeline, resulting in potential collisions. In order to achieve a high level of robust autonomy, these robots should…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Nicholas Mohammad , Jacob Higgins , Nicola Bezzo

Model-based controllers can offer strong guarantees on stability and convergence by relying on physically accurate dynamic models. However, these are rarely available for high-dimensional mechanical systems such as deformable objects or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Katharina Friedl , Noémie Jaquier , Seungyeon Kim , Jens Lundell , Danica Kragic

This tutorial provides a systematic introduction to Gaussian process learning-based model predictive control (GP-MPC), an advanced approach integrating Gaussian process (GP) with model predictive control (MPC) for enhanced control in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Jie Wang , Youmin Zhang

Computed-torque control requires a very precise dynamical model of the robot for compensating the manipulator dynamics. This allows reduction of the controller's feedback gains resulting in disturbance attenuation and other advantages.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Thomas Beckers , Jonas Umlauft , Sandra Hirche

We study in this paper the problem of adaptive trajectory tracking control for a class of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties. We propose to use a modular approach, where we first design a robust nonlinear state feedback which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Mouhacine Benosman , Amir-massoud Farahmand , Meng Xia

Learning uncertain dynamics models using Gaussian process~(GP) regression has been demonstrated to enable high-performance and safety-aware control strategies for challenging real-world applications. Yet, for computational tractability,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Manish Prajapat , Amon Lahr , Johannes Köhler , Andreas Krause , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Data-driven Model Predictive Control (MPC), where the system model is learned from data with machine learning, has recently gained increasing interests in the control community. Gaussian Processes (GP), as a type of statistical models, are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Truong X. Nghiem

In this work, we present a learning-based nonlinear $H^\infty$ control algorithm that guarantee system performance under learned dynamics and disturbance estimate. The Gaussian Process (GP) regression is utilized to update the nominal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Wei Sun , Theodore B. Trafalis

Many robotic tasks, such as human-robot interactions or the handling of fragile objects, require tight control and limitation of appearing forces and moments alongside sensible motion control to achieve safe yet high-performance operation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Janine Matschek , Johanna Bethge , Rolf Findeisen

In Gaussian Process (GP) dynamical model learning for robot control, particularly for systems constrained by computational resources like small quadrotors equipped with low-end processors, analyzing stability and designing a stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Wenhan Cao , Alexandre Capone , Rishabh Yadav , Sandra Hirche , Wei Pan

Flocking control of multi-agents system is challenging for agents with partially unknown dynamics. This paper proposes an online learning-based controller to stabilize flocking motion of double-integrator agents with additional unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Manuela Gamonal , Thomas Beckers , George J. Pappas , Leonardo J. Colombo

Trial-and-error based reinforcement learning (RL) has seen rapid advancements in recent times, especially with the advent of deep neural networks. However, the majority of autonomous RL algorithms require a large number of interactions with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Sanket Kamthe , Marc Peter Deisenroth