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Recently, there has been growing interest in using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to solve differential equations. However, the preservation of structure, such as energy and stability, in a suitable manner has yet to be…

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Learning monotonic models with respect to a subset of the inputs is a desirable feature to effectively address the fairness, interpretability, and generalization issues in practice. Existing methods for learning monotonic neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Xingchao Liu , Xing Han , Na Zhang , Qiang Liu

Lagrangian Neural Networks (LNNs) are a powerful tool for addressing physical systems, particularly those governed by conservation laws. LNNs can parametrize the Lagrangian of a system to predict trajectories with nearly conserved energy.…

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Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs), as a novel category of modeling big data methods, cleverly link traditional neural networks and dynamical systems. However, it is challenging to ensure the dynamics system reaches a…

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Physical neural networks (PNNs) are a class of neural-like networks that leverage the properties of physical systems to perform computation. While PNNs are so far a niche research area with small-scale laboratory demonstrations, they are…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in control applications due to their powerful function approximation capabilities. However, many existing formulations focus primarily on tracking error convergence, often neglecting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Rebecca G. Hart , Omkar Sudhir Patil , Zachary I. Bell , Warren E. Dixon

Point-to-point and periodic motions are ubiquitous in the world of robotics. To master these motions, Autonomous Dynamic System (DS) based algorithms are fundamental in the domain of Learning from Demonstration (LfD). However, these…

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Learning stable dynamical systems from data is crucial for safe and reliable robot motion planning and control. However, extending stability guarantees to trajectories defined on Riemannian manifolds poses significant challenges due to the…

Learning for control of dynamical systems with formal guarantees remains a challenging task. This paper proposes a learning framework to simultaneously stabilize an unknown nonlinear system with a neural controller and learn a neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Ruikun Zhou , Thanin Quartz , Hans De Sterck , Jun Liu

While Hamiltonian mechanics provides a powerful inductive bias for neural networks modeling dynamical systems, Hamiltonian Neural Networks and their variants often fail to capture complex temporal dynamics spanning multiple timescales. This…

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Brains need to predict how the body reacts to motor commands. It is an open question how networks of spiking neurons can learn to reproduce the non-linear body dynamics caused by motor commands, using local, online and stable learning…

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Neural-based, data-driven analysis and control of dynamical systems have been recently investigated and have shown great promise, e.g. for safety verification or stability analysis. Indeed, not only do neural networks allow for an entirely…

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We investigate the use of discrete and continuous versions of physics-informed neural network methods for learning unknown dynamics or constitutive relations of a dynamical system. For the case of unknown dynamics, we represent all the…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful black-box function approximators which have been shown to yield improved performance compared to traditional neural network (NN) architectures. However, black-box algorithms do not incorporate known…

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Unknown nonlinear dynamics can limit the performance of model-based feedforward control. The aim of this paper is to develop a feedforward control framework for systems with unknown, typically nonlinear, dynamics. To address the unknown…

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Fluid-structure interaction is common in engineering and natural systems, where floating-body motion is governed by added mass, drag, and background flows. Modeling these dissipative dynamics is difficult: black-box neural models regress…

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Substitution of well-grounded theoretical models by data-driven predictions is not as simple in engineering and sciences as it is in social and economic fields. Scientific problems suffer most times from paucity of data, while they may…

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Training neural networks to satisfy universal constraints over continuous domains poses unique challenges. Common examples include Lyapunov Neural Networks (Lyapunov NNs) and Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), where analytical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Siteng Kang , Xinhua Zhang

The increasing demand on precision and throughput within high-precision mechatronics industries requires a new generation of feedforward controllers with higher accuracy than existing, physics-based feedforward controllers. As neural…

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