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We introduce a method to deal with the data-driven control design of nonlinear systems. We derive conditions to design controllers via (approximate) nonlinearity cancellation. These conditions take the compact form of data-dependent…

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This paper studies the data-driven control of unknown linear-threshold network dynamics to stabilize the state to a reference value. We consider two types of controllers: (i) a state feedback controller with feed-forward reference input and…

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This paper develops a direct data-driven framework for constructing reduced-order models (ROMs) of discrete-time linear dynamical systems with unknown dynamics and process disturbances. The proposed scheme enables controller synthesis on…

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We present a data-driven nonlinear predictive control approach for the class of discrete-time multi-input multi-output feedback linearizable nonlinear systems. The scheme uses a non-parametric predictive model based only on input and noisy…

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This work proposes a data-driven regulator design that drives the output of a nonlinear system asymptotically to a time-varying reference and rejects time-varying disturbances. The key idea is to design a data-driven feedback controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Yixuan Liu , Meichen Guo

We present an extension of Willems' Fundamental Lemma to the class of multi-input multi-output discrete-time feedback linearizable nonlinear systems, thus providing a data-based representation of their input-output trajectories. Two sources…

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This paper considers the Linear Quadratic Regulator problem for linear systems with unknown dynamics, a central problem in data-driven control and reinforcement learning. We propose a method that uses data to directly return a controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

We study data-driven stabilization of continuous-time systems in autoregressive form when only noisy input-output data are available. First, we provide an operator-based characterization of the set of systems consistent with the data. Next,…

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We consider the problem of synthesizing a dynamic output-feedback controller for a linear system, using solely input-output data corrupted by measurement noise. To handle input-output data, an auxiliary representation of the original system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Lidong Li , Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Nima Monshizadeh

Given the recent surge of interest in data-driven control, this paper proposes a two-step method to study robust data-driven control for a parameter-unknown linear time-invariant (LTI) system that is affected by energy-bounded noises.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Jiabao He , Xuan Zhang , Feng Xu , Junbo Tan , Xueqian Wang

In this paper, we present a data-driven output feedback controller for nonlinear systems that achieves practical output regulation, using noise-free input/output measurement data. The proposed controller is based on (i) an inverse model of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Yeongjun Jang , Hamin Chang , Heein Park , Hyeonyeong Jang , Takashi Tanaka , Hyungbo Shim

This paper studies finite-horizon robust tracking control for discrete-time linear systems, based on input-output data. We leverage behavioral theory to represent system trajectories through a set of noiseless historical data, instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Liang Xu , Mustafa Sahin Turan , Baiwei Guo , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

In a recent paper we have shown that data collected from linear systems excited by persistently exciting inputs during low-complexity experiments, can be used to design state- and output-feedback controllers, including optimal Linear…

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In this paper we propose dynamic output-feedback controller synthesis methods for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. The synthesis goal is either to achieve dissipativity with respect to a given quadratic supply rate, or to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Pietro Kristović , Andrej Jokić , Mircea Lazar

This article proposes an approach to design output-feedback controllers for unknown continuous-time linear time-invariant systems using only input-output data from a single experiment. To address the lack of state and derivative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Alessandro Bosso , Marco Borghesi , Andrea Iannelli , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Andrew R. Teel

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 data-based conditions for enforcing contractivity via feedback control and obtain desired asymptotic properties of the closed-loop system. We focus on unknown nonlinear control systems whose vector fields are expressible via a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Zhongjie Hu , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

As we transition towards the deployment of data-driven controllers for black-box cyberphysical systems, complying with hard safety constraints becomes a primary concern. Two key aspects should be addressed when input-output data are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Luca Furieri , Baiwei Guo , Andrea Martin , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

In this paper we develop new data informativity based controller synthesis methods that extend existing frameworks in two relevant directions: a more general noise characterization in terms of cross-covariance bounds and informativity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Tom R. V. Steentjes , Mircea Lazar , Paul M. J. Van den Hof

The goal of this paper is to provide a tutorial on the so-called informativity framework for direct data-driven analysis and control. This framework achieves certified data-based analysis and control by assessing system properties and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Henk J. van Waarde , Jaap Eising , M. Kanat Camlibel , Harry L. Trentelman