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This letter presents a framework for synthesizing a robust full-state feedback controller for systems with unknown nonlinearities. Our approach characterizes input-output behavior of the nonlinearities in terms of local norm bounds using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Sze Kwan Cheah , Diganta Bhattacharjee , Maziar S. Hemati , Ryan J. Caverly

Despite longstanding interest, controller synthesis remains challenging for networks of heterogeneous, nonlinear agents. Moreover, the requirements for computational scalability and information privacy have become increasingly critical.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Ingyu Jang , Leila J. Bridgeman

This manuscript discusses a scalable controller synthesis method for networked systems with a large number of identical subsystems based on the H-infinity control framework. The dynamics of the individual subsystems are described by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Pieter Appeltans , Wim Michiels

In this paper, we provide a direct data-driven approach to synthesize safety controllers for unknown linear systems affected by unknown-but-bounded disturbances, in which identifying the unknown model is not required. First, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Bingzhuo Zhong , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

We present a sound and automated approach to synthesize safe digital feedback controllers for physical plants represented as linear, time invariant models. Models are given as dynamical equations with inputs, evolving over a continuous…

The dramatic increase of autonomous systems subject to variable environments has given rise to the pressing need to consider risk in both the synthesis and verification of policies for these systems. This paper aims to address a few…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Prithvi Akella , Anushri Dixit , Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Joel W. Burdick , Aaron D. Ames

Synthetic datasets are important for evaluating and testing machine learning models. When evaluating real-life recommender systems, high-dimensional categorical (and sparse) datasets are often considered. Unfortunately, there are not many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Miha Malenšek , Blaž Škrlj , Blaž Mramor , Jure Demšar

This paper presents a systematic method for synthesizing a Control Barrier Function (CBF) that encodes predictive information into a CBF. Unlike other methods, the synthesized CBF can account for changes and time-variations in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Adrian Wiltz , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Synthesizing controllers directly from frequency-domain measurement data is a powerful tool in the linear time-invariant framework. Ever-increasing performance requirements necessitate extending these approaches to account for plant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Tom Bloemers , Roland Tóth , Tom Oomen

As the complexity of control systems increases, safety becomes an increasingly important property since safety violations can damage the plant and put the system operator in danger. When the system dynamics are unknown, safety-critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Luyao Niu , Hongchao Zhang , Andrew Clark

Many Embedded Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems, that is control systems whose controller consists of control software running on a microcontroller device. This motivates investigation on Formal Model Based Design approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Federico Mari , Igor Melatti , Ivano Salvo , Enrico Tronci

We present a controller synthesis algorithm for a discrete time reach-avoid problem in the presence of adversaries. Our model of the adversary captures typical malicious attacks envisioned on cyber-physical systems such as sensor spoofing,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Zhenqi Huang , Yu Wang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

We present a technique for learning control Lyapunov-like functions, which are used in turn to synthesize controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems that can stabilize the system, or satisfy specifications such as remaining inside a safe…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

The objective of this paper is to solve the controller synthesis problem for bisimulation equivalence in a wide variety of scenarios including discrete-event systems, nonlinear control systems, behavioral systems, hybrid systems and many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-22 Paulo Tabuada

This paper studies formal synthesis of controllers for continuous-space systems with unknown dynamics to satisfy requirements expressed as linear temporal logic formulas. Formal abstraction-based synthesis schemes rely on a precise…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Milad Kazemi , Rupak Majumdar , Mahmoud Salamati , Sadegh Soudjani , Ben Wooding

We consider a class of nonlinear control synthesis problems where the underlying mathematical models are not explicitly known. We propose a data-driven approach to stabilize the systems when only sample trajectories of the dynamics are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Hyungjin Choi , Umesh Vaidya , Yongxin Chen

This paper focuses on the controller synthesis for unknown, nonlinear systems while ensuring safety constraints. Our approach consists of two steps, a learning step that uses Gaussian processes and a controller synthesis step that is based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Pushpak Jagtap , George J. Pappas , Majid Zamani

We introduce the concept of structured synthesis for Markov decision processes where the structure is induced from finitely many pre-specified options for a system configuration. The resulting synthesis problem is in general a nonlinear…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Nils Jansen , Laura Humphrey , Jana Tumova , Ufuk Topcu

This paper presents a Lyapunov function based control strategy for networked control systems (NCS) affected by variable time delays and data loss. A special focus is put on the reduction of the computational complexity. A specific buffering…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Katarina Stanojevic , Martin Steinberger , Martin Horn

Synthetic control is a causal inference tool used to estimate the treatment effects of an intervention by creating synthetic counterfactual data. This approach combines measurements from other similar observations (i.e., donor pool ) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Saeyoung Rho , Rachel Cummings , Vishal Misra