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Synthesizing safety controllers for general nonlinear systems is a highly challenging task, particularly when the system models are unknown, and input constraints are present. While some recent efforts have explored data-driven safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Behrad Samari , Abolfazl Lavaei

This paper develops a framework for synthesizing safety controllers for discrete-time stochastic linear control systems (dt-SLS) operating under communication imperfections. The control unit is remote and communicates with the sensor and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Omid Akbarzadeh , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Abolfazl Lavaei

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

Symbolic models have recently spurred the interest of the research community because they offer a correct-by-design approach to the control of embedded and cyber-physical systems. In this paper we address construction of symbolic models for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-15 Giordano Pola , Pierdomenico Pepe , Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

We present a scalable set-valued safety-preserving controller for constrained continuous-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems subject to additive, unknown but bounded disturbance or uncertainty. The approach relies upon a conservative…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Shahab Kaynama , Ian M. Mitchell , Meeko Oishi , Guy A. Dumont

Interconnected systems such as power systems and chemical processes are often required to satisfy safety properties in the presence of faults and attacks. Verifying safety of these systems, however, is computationally challenging due to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Luyao Niu , Abdullah Al Maruf , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

The combination of machine learning with control offers many opportunities, in particular for robust control. However, due to strong safety and reliability requirements in many real-world applications, providing rigorous statistical and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-10 Christian Fiedler , Carsten W. Scherer , Sebastian Trimpe

System level synthesis enables improved robust MPC formulations by allowing for joint optimization of the nominal trajectory and controller. This paper introduces a tailored algorithm for solving the corresponding disturbance feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Antoine P. Leeman , Johannes Köhler , Florian Messerer , Amon Lahr , Moritz Diehl , Melanie N. Zeilinger

This article shows that distributionally robust controller synthesis as investigated in \cite{taskesen2024distributionally} can be formulated as a convex linear matrix inequality (LMI) synthesis problem. To this end, we rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Dennis Gramlich , Shuhao Yan , Carsten W. Scherer , Christian Ebenbauer%

We consider optimal distributed controller synthesis for an interconnected system subject to communication constraints, in linear quadratic settings. Motivated by the problem of finite heavy duty vehicle platooning, we study systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Omid Khorsand , Assad Alam , Ather Gattami

In many synthesis problems, it can be essential to generate implementations which not only satisfy functional constraints but are also randomized to improve variety, robustness, or unpredictability. The recently-proposed framework of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Andreas Gittis , Eric Vin , Daniel J. Fremont

This paper develops a robust control synthesis method for uncertain linear systems with input saturation in the framework of integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). The system is reformulated as a linear fractional representation (LFR) that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Xu Zhang , Fen Wu

In this paper, we present the synthesis of secure-by-construction controllers that address safety and security properties simultaneously in cyber-physical systems. Our focus is on studying a specific security property called opacity, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Bingzhuo Zhong , Siyuan Liu , Marco Caccamo , Majid Zamani

In this paper, we propose a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme for linear time-invariant constrained systems which admit a separable structure. To exploit the merits of distributed computation algorithms, the stabilizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Georgios Darivianakis , Annika Eichler , John Lygeros

We present a new method for the automated synthesis of digital controllers with formal safety guarantees for systems with nonlinear dynamics, noisy output measurements, and stochastic disturbances. Our method derives digital controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Fedor Shmarov , Sadegh Soudjani , Nicola Paoletti , Ezio Bartocci , Shan Lin , Scott A. Smolka , Paolo Zuliani

This paper concerns a class of uncertain linear quantum systems subject to quadratic perturbations in the system Hamiltonian. A small gain approach is used to evaluate the performance of the given quantum system. In order to get improved…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Chengdi Xiang , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong

We consider the problem of designing a feedback controller which robustly regulates an LTI system to an optimal operating point in the presence of unmeasured disturbances. A general design framework based on so-called optimality models was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-18 John W. Simpson-Porco

We propose a convex controller synthesis framework for a large class of constrained linear systems, including those described by (deterministic and stochastic) partial differential equations and integral equations, commonly used in fluid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Lauren Conger , Antoine P. Leeman , Franca Hoffmann

This paper presents a synthesis method for robust, regret optimal control. The plant is modeled in discrete-time by an uncertain linear time-invariant (LTI) system. An optimal non-causal controller is constructed using the nominal plant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Jietian Liu , Peter Seiler

We introduce a compositional data-driven methodology with noisy data for designing fully-decentralized safety controllers applicable to large-scale interconnected networks, encompassing a vast number of subsystems with unknown mathematical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Omid Akbarzadeh , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei