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Practical deployments of coordinated fleets of mobile robots in different environments have revealed the benefits of maintaining small distances between robots, especially as they move at higher speeds. However, this is counter-intuitive in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Namya Bagree , Charles Noren , Damanpreet Singh , Matthew Travers , Bhaskar Vundurthy

In this paper, we investigate the adaptive control problem for robot manipulators with both the uncertain kinematics and dynamics. We propose two adaptive control schemes to realize the objective of task-space trajectory tracking…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Hanlei Wang

Predicting the response of an observed system to a known input is a fruitful first step to accurately control the system's dynamics. Despite the recent advances in fully data-driven algorithms, the most interpretable way to reach this goal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Laurent Pagnier , Melvyn Tyloo , Akshita Jindal , Pragati Thakur , Kyle C. A. Wedgwood

We present a set-oriented graph-based computational framework for continuous-time optimal transport over nonlinear dynamical systems. We recover provably optimal control laws for steering a given initial distribution in phase space to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Piyush Grover

Real-world robots are becoming increasingly complex and commonly act in poorly understood environments where it is extremely challenging to model or learn their true dynamics. Therefore, it might be desirable to take a task-specific…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Somil Bansal , Roberto Calandra , Ted Xiao , Sergey Levine , Claire J. Tomlin

A traffic system is a random and complex large system, which is difficult to conduct repeated modelling and control research in a real traffic environment. With the development of automatic driving technology, the requirements for testing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Junfeng Li , Changqing Yan

We propose a method to compute optimal control paths for autonomous vehicles deployed for the purpose of inferring a velocity field. In addition to being advected by the flow, the vehicles are able to effect a fixed relative speed with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Damon McDougall , Richard Moore

In this paper, we study the optimal control of a mixed-autonomy platoon driving on a single lane to smooth traffic flow. The platoon consists of autonomous vehicles, whose acceleration is controlled, and human-driven vehicles, whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Arwa Alanqary , Alexandre M. Bayen , Xiaoqian Gong , Anish Gollakota , Alexander Keimer , Ashish Pandian

This paper concerns the numerical procedure for solving hybrid optimal control problems with sliding modes. A sliding mode is coped with differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) and that guarantees accurate tracking of the sliding motion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Radoslaw Pytlak , Damian Suski

Modern networks increasingly rely on machine learning models for real-time insights, including traffic classification, application quality of experience inference, and intrusion detection. However, existing approaches prioritize prediction…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Johann Hugon , Paul Schmitt , Anthony Busson , Francesco Bronzino

An optimal control problem described by the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation can be developed into a problem that can be solved by general computational fluid dynamics packages. We describe how this formulation would allow a classical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 J. Pratt , M. Schneider , A. Perloff

Most recent advances in machine learning and analytics for process control pose the question of how to naturally integrate new data-driven methods with classical process models and control. We propose a process modeling framework enabling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Michael R. Wartmann , B. Erik Ydstie

Sequential Model-based Bayesian Optimization has been successful-ly applied to several application domains, characterized by complex search spaces, such as Automated Machine Learning and Neural Architecture Search. This paper focuses on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Antonio Candelieri , Bruno Galuzzi , Ilaria Giordani , Francesco Archetti

We present a numerically tractable formulation for computing the optimal control of the class of hybrid dynamical systems whose trajectories are continuous. Our formulation, an extension of existing relaxed-control techniques for switched…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Tyler Westenbroek , Humberto Gonzalez

This article concerns an optimal crowd motion control problem in which the crowd features a structure given by its organization into N groups (participants) each one spatially confined in a set. The overall optimal control problem consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Tan H. Cao , Nathalie T. Khalil , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Fernando Lobo Pereira

We consider the speed planning problem for a robotic manipulator. In particular, we present an algorithm for finding the time-optimal speed law along an assigned path that satisfies velocity and acceleration constraints and respects the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli , Andrea Minari , Akos Nagy , Istvan Vajk

We apply advanced methods of control theory to open quantum systems and we determine finite-time processes which are optimal with respect to thermodynamic performances. General properties and necessary conditions characterizing optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Alberto Carlini , Vittorio Giovannetti

Trajectory optimization is a fundamental stochastic optimal control problem. This paper deals with a trajectory optimization approach for dynamical systems subject to measurement noise that can be fitted into linear time-varying stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Prakash Mallick , Zhiyong Chen

The main steps of automatic control methodology include the hierarchical representation of management system and the formal definitions of input variables, object and goal of control of each management level. A Petri net model of individual…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 V. Zaborovski , S. Yegorov , Y. Podgurski , Y. Shemanin

Multi-robot systems are essential for environmental monitoring, particularly for tracking spatial phenomena like pollution, soil minerals, and water salinity, and more. This study addresses the challenge of deploying a multi-robot team for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Federico Pratissoli , Mattia Mantovani , Amanda Prorok , Lorenzo Sabattini