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Robust model predictive control (MPC) is a well-known control technique for model-based control with constraints and uncertainties. In classic robust tube-based MPC approaches, an open-loop control sequence is computed via periodically…
In recent years data-driven analysis of dynamical systems has attracted a lot of attention and transfer operator techniques, namely, Perron-Frobenius and Koopman operators are being used almost ubiquitously. Since data is always obtained in…
This paper presents Learning-based Autonomous Guidance with RObustness and Stability guarantees (LAG-ROS), which provides machine learning-based nonlinear motion planners with formal robustness and stability guarantees, by designing a…
This paper considers the stabilization of unknown switched linear systems using data. Instead of a full system model, we have access to a finite number of trajectories of each of the different modes prior to the online operation of the…
We consider the problem of designing robust state-feedback controllers for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems, based directly on measured data. The proposed design procedures require no model knowledge, but only a single open-loop…
Real-world control applications in complex and uncertain environments require adaptability to handle model uncertainties and robustness against disturbances. This paper presents an online, output-feedback, critic-only, model-based…
We propose a computational approach to estimate the stability domain of quadratic-bilinear reduced-order models (ROMs), which are low-dimensional approximations of large-scale dynamical systems. For nonlinear ROMs, it is not only important…
In this paper we present a switching control strategy to incrementally stabilize a class of nonlinear dynamical systems. Exploiting recent results on contraction analysis of switched Filippov systems derived using regularization, sufficient…
We present a novel robust control framework for continuous-time, perturbed nonlinear dynamical systems with uncertainty that depends nonlinearly on both the state and control inputs. Unlike conventional approaches that impose structural…
We study the local stability of nonlinear systems in the Lur'e form with static nonlinear feedback realized by feedforward neural networks (FFNNs). By leveraging positivity system constraints, we employ a localized variant of the Aizerman…
We propose a data-driven framework for learning reduced-order moment dynamics from PDE-governed systems using Neural ODEs. In contrast to derivative-based methods like SINDy, which necessitate densely sampled data and are sensitive to…
The synthesis of robust invariant sets for nonlinear systems has traditionally been hindered by the inherent non convexity and a strict reliance on exact analytical models. This paper presents a purely data-driven framework to compute…
In this work, we present a Lyapunov framework for establishing stability with respect to a compact set for a nested interconnection of nonlinear dynamical systems ordered from slow to fast according to their convergence rates, where each of…
A non-overshooting quasi-continuous sliding mode control with sub-optimal damping was recently introduced in Ruderman and Efimov (2025) for perturbed second-order systems. The present work proposes an essential modification of the nonlinear…
In this paper, an asymptotic stability proof for a class of methods for inexact nonlinear model predictive control is presented. General Q-linearly convergent online optimization methods are considered and an asymptotic stability result is…
In this paper we present a general tool to handle the presence of zero dynamics which are asymptotically but not locally exponentially stable in problems of robust nonlinear stabilization by output feedback. We show how it is possible to…
This paper presents a novel framework for stabilizing nonlinear systems represented in state-dependent form. We first reformulate the nonlinear dynamics as a state-dependent parameter-varying model and synthesize a stabilizing controller…
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been recognized as a promising tool to address the challenges in real-time control of power systems. However, its deployment in real-world power systems has been hindered by a lack of formal stability…
Featuring the fast response and flexibility in control allocation, an electric vehicle with in-wheel motors is a good platform for implementing advanced vehicle dynamics control. Among many active safety functions of an in-wheel motor…