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We take a divide and conquer approach to design controllers for reachability problems given large-scale linear systems with polyhedral constraints on states, controls, and disturbances. Such systems are made of small subsystems with coupled…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Kasra Ghasemi , Sadra Sadraddini , Calin Belta

We introduce anticipation: a method for constructing a controllable generative model of a temporal point process (the event process) conditioned asynchronously on realizations of a second, correlated process (the control process). We…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-29 John Thickstun , David Hall , Chris Donahue , Percy Liang

Technological advances allow manufacturers to collect and access data from a production system effectively. The objective of data collection is to deploy the collected data in developing decision support systems for performance evaluation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Nima Manafzadeh Dizbin

We study output reference tracking for unknown continuous-time systems with arbitrary relative degree. The control objective is to keep the tracking error within predefined time-varying bounds while measurement data is only available at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Philipp Schmitz , Lukas Lanza , Karl Worthmann

We present a controller synthesis algorithm for reach-avoid problems for piecewise linear discrete-time systems. Our algorithm relies on SMT solvers and in this paper we focus on piecewise constant control strategies. Our algorithm…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Zhenqi Huang , Yu Wang , Sayan Mitra , Geir E. Dullerud , Swarat Chaudhuri

In this paper, we propose a novel method for addressing Optimal Control Problems (OCPs) with input-affine dynamics and cost functions. This approach adopts a Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy, wherein a controller is synthesized to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Morgan Jones , Yuanbo Nie , Matthew M. Peet

This paper is about a real-time model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for a particular class of model based controllers, whose objective consists of a nominal tracking objective and an additional learning objective. Here, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Xuhui Feng , Boris Houska

Continuous-time generative models have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and synthesis. However, controlling the composition of multiple pre-trained models remains an open challenge. Current approaches largely treat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Riccardo Barbano , Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta , Runchang Li , Francisco Vargas

General purpose correct-by-construction synthesis methods are limited to systems with low dimensionality or simple specifications. In this work we consider highly symmetrical counting problems and exploit the symmetry to synthesize provably…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Petter Nilsson , Necmiye Ozay

The paper is devoted to the study of a new class of optimal control problems governed by discontinuous constrained differential inclusions of the sweeping type with involving the duration of the dynamic process into optimization. We develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

We develop a new method which extends Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) to incorporate the effect of control to extract low-order models from high-dimensional, complex systems. DMD finds spatial-temporal coherent modes, connects local-linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Joshua L. Proctor , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

Controller synthesis techniques for continuous systems with respect to temporal logic specifications typically use a finite-state symbolic abstraction of the system model. Constructing this abstraction for the entire system is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Kaushik Mallik , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Sadegh Soudjani , Rupak Majumdar

We study the optimal control of discrete time mean filed dynamical systems under partial observations. We express the global law of the filtered process as a controlled system with its own dynamics. Following a dynamic programming approach,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Jeremy Chichportich , Idris Kharroubi

Mixed-frequency data, where variables are observed at different temporal resolutions, commonly occur in economic and financial studies. Classical synthetic control methods (SCM) are ill-suited for such data, often necessitating aggregation…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-13 Lu Zhang , Shijin Gong , Xinyu Zhang

This paper addresses data-driven control of continuous-time systems. We develop a framework based on synthesis operators associated with input and state trajectories. A key advantage of the proposed method is that it does not require the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Masashi Wakaiki

The problem of multi-hypothesis testing with controlled sensing of observations is considered. The distribution of observations collected under each control is assumed to follow a single-parameter exponential family distribution. The goal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Aditya Deshmukh , Srikrishna Bhashyam , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

We present a robust model predictive control method (MPC) for discrete-time linear time-delayed systems with state and control input constraints. The system is subject to both polytopic model uncertainty and additive disturbances. In the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Shaoru Chen , Ning-Yuan Li , Victor M. Preciado , Nikolai Matni

H-infinity optimal control and estimation are addressed for a class of systems governed by partial differential equations with bounded input and output operators. Diffusion equations are an important example in this class. Explicit formulas…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Carolina Bergeling , Kirsten A. Morris , Anders Rantzer

This note presents a method that provides optimal monotone conditional error functions for a large class of adaptive two stage designs. The presented method builds on a previously developed general theory for optimal adaptive two stage…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-08 Werner Brannath , Morten Dreher , Martin Scharpenberg

This paper presents a novel distributed model predictive control (MPC) formulation without terminal cost and a corresponding distributed synthesis approach for distributed linear discrete-time systems with coupled constraints. The proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Xiaoyu Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Changxin Liu , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter