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In this paper a nonlinear Euler-Poisson-Darboux system is considered. In a first part, we proved the genericity of the hypergeometric functions in the development of exact solutions for such a system in some special cases leading to Bessel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Anouar Ben Mabrouk

We propose a method for training ordinary differential equations by using a control-theoretic Lyapunov condition for stability. Our approach, called LyaNet, is based on a novel Lyapunov loss formulation that encourages the inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez , Aaron D. Ames , Yisong Yue

We present a method for the steady state optimization of nonlinear delay differential equations. The method ensures stability and robustness, where a system is called robust if it remains stable despite uncertain parameters. Essentially, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Jonas Otten , Martin Mönnigmann

In this article, we propose a Lyapunov stability approach to analyze the convergence of the density operator of a quantum system. In analog to the classical probability measure for Markovian processes, we show that the set of invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Muhammad F. Emzir , Matthew J. Woolley , Ian R. Petersen

We consider constrained bilinear optimal control of second-order linear evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) with a reaction term on the half line, where control arises as a time-dependent reaction coefficient and constraints are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Zhexian Li , Felipe de Barros , Ketan Savla

This work is concerned with the stability properties of linear stochastic differential equations with random (drift and diffusion) coefficient matrices, and the stability of a corresponding random transition matrix (or exponential…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Adrian N. Bishop , Pierre Del Moral

This paper introduces the concept of parameter-dependent (PD) control Lyapunov functions (CLFs) for gain-scheduled stabilization of nonlinear parameter-varying (NPV) systems. It shows that given a PD-CLF, a min-norm control law can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Pan Zhao

This article presents a modeling framework for a class of multiphase chemical systems based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Compartmental modeling is used to establish the dynamic properties of liquid-vapor systems operating far from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-15 Aaron Romo-Hernandez , Nicolas Hudon , B. Erik Ydstie , Denis Dochain

Despite Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) exhibiting intrinsic robustness, existing methods often impose Lyapunov stability for formal guarantees. However, these methods still face a fundamental accuracy-robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chaoyang Luo , Yan Zou , Nanjing Huang

Starting from a finite family of continuously differentiable positive definite functions, we study conditions under which a function obtained by max-min combinations is a Lyapunov function, establishing stability for two kinds of nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Matteo Della Rossa , Aneel Tanwani , Luca Zaccarian

Inspired by the widespread concept of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals of complete type, this article proposes an alternative class of functionals, termed Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals of robust type. Their construction aims at improving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Tessina H. Scholl

Estimating the Region of Attraction (RoA) for nonlinear dynamical systems is a fundamental problem in control theory, with direct implications for stability analysis and safe controller design. Traditional approaches rely on analytically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Adel Bechihi , Aristotelis Kapnopoulos

We develop a finite-dimensional sensitivity framework for studying stability in learning systems whose states include representations, parameters, and update variables. The central object is the \emph{Learning Stability Profile}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ronald Katende

This paper is devoted to the study of acceleration methods for an inequality constrained convex optimization problem by using Lyapunov functions. We first approximate such a problem as an unconstrained optimization problem by employing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Juan Liu , Nan-Jing Huang , Xian-Jun Long , Xue-song Li

Finding separable certificates of stability is important for tractability of analysis methods for large-scale networked systems. In this paper we consider the question of when a nonlinear system which is contracting, i.e. all solutions are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Ian R. Manchester , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

Complex-valued bidirectional associative memory (BAM) neural networks with fractional-order dynamics and delays can exhibit transient instabilities that degrade synchronization and short-horizon predictability. This paper develops a unified…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yazhini Muruganantham , Andrei Velichko , Samidurai Rajendran

This letter proposes a mass-matrix differential-algebraic equation (DAE) formulation for transient stability simulation. This formulation has two prominent advantages: compatible with a multitude of implicit DAE solvers and can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Hantao Cui , Fangxing Li , Joe H. Chow

We propose a piecewise learning framework for controlling nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics. While model-based reinforcement learning techniques in terms of some basis functions are well known in the literature, when it comes to more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Milad Farsi , Yinan Li , Ye Yuan , Jun Liu

We introduce a novel approach based on stochastic optimization to find the optimal sampling distribution for the data-driven stability analysis of switched linear systems. Our goal is to address limitations of existing approaches, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Alexis Vuille , Guillaume O. Berger , Raphaël M. Jungers

Neural network controllers have the potential to improve the performance of feedback systems compared to traditional controllers, due to their ability to act as general function approximators. However, quantifying their safety and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Matthew Newton , Antonis Papachristodoulou