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The dominant way to control a robot manipulator uses hand-crafted differential equations leveraging some form of inverse kinematics / dynamics. We propose a simple, versatile joint-level controller that dispenses with differential equations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Visak Kumar , David Hoeller , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Jonathan Tremblay , Stan Birchfield

Model predictive control is a well established control technology for trajectory tracking. Its use requires the availability of an accurate model of the plant, but obtaining such a model is often time consuming and costly. Data-Enabled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Margarita A. Guerrero , Braghadeesh Lakshminarayanan , Cristian R. Rojas

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

Deep learning techniques have been widely applied, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields of study. This survey focuses on deep learning solutions that target learning control policies for robotics applications. We carry out…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Lei Tai , Jingwei Zhang , Ming Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) and its variants, such as extended DMD (EDMD), are broadly used to fit simple linear models to dynamical systems known from observable data. As DMD methods work well in several situations but perform poorly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-06 George Haller , Bálint Kaszás

This paper presents a data-driven method to find a closed-loop optimal controller, which minimizes a specified infinite-horizon cost function for systems with unknown dynamics. Suppose the closed-loop optimal controller can be parameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Wenjian Hao , Paulo C. Heredia , Shaoshuai Mou

We propose a data-driven control method for systems with aleatoric uncertainty, for example, robot fleets with variations between agents. Our method leverages shared trajectory data to increase the robustness of the designed controller and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Alexander von Rohr , Dmitrii Likhachev , Sebastian Trimpe

In this paper, we discuss the development and deployment of a robust autonomous system capable of performing various tasks in the maritime domain under unknown dynamic conditions. We investigate a data-driven approach based on modular…

Modelling robot dynamics accurately is essential for control, motion optimisation and safe human-robot collaboration. Given the complexity of modern robotic systems, dynamics modelling remains non-trivial, mostly in the presence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-11 David Jorge , Gabriella Pizzuto , Michael Mistry

Model-based representations recently stand out as a promising framework that embeds latent dynamics information into the representations for downstream off-policy actor-critic learning. It implicitly combines the advantages of both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiafei Lyu , Zichuan Lin , Scott Fujimoto , Kai Yang , Yangkun Chen , Saiyong Yang , Zongqing Lu , Deheng Ye

In this letter, we investigate learning forward dynamics models and multi-step prediction of state variables (long-term prediction) for contact-rich manipulation. The problems are formulated in the context of model-based reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Shahbaz Abdul Khader , Hang Yin , Pietro Falco , Danica Kragic

This paper proposes a robust control design method using reinforcement-learning for controlling partially-unknown dynamical systems under uncertain conditions. The method extends the optimal reinforcement-learning algorithm with a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Phuong D. Ngo , Fred Godtliebsen

This paper investigates the data-driven predictive control problems for a class of continuous-time industrial processes with completely unknown dynamics. The proposed approach employs the data-driven technique to get the system matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Yuanqiang Zhou , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi

This paper introduces a Data-Fused Model Predictive Control (DFMPC) framework that combines physics-based models with data-driven representations of unknown dynamics. Leveraging Willems' Fundamental Lemma and an artificial equilibrium…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Davide Gorbani , Mohamed Elobaid , Giuseppe L'Erario , Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed , Daniele Pucci

Koopman Model Predictive Control (KMPC) and Data-EnablEd Predictive Control (DeePC) use linear models to approximate nonlinear systems and integrate them with predictive control. Both approaches have recently demonstrated promising…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Xu Shang , Zhaojian Li , Yang Zheng

Recent efforts in the development of autonomous driving technology have induced great advancements in perception, planning and control systems. Model predictive control is one of the most popular advanced control methods, but its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Matheus Wagner , Julio E. Normey-Rico

Data-driven control offers a powerful alternative to traditional model-based methods, particularly when accurate system models are unavailable or prohibitively complex. While existing data-driven control methods primarily aim to construct…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Janina Schaa , Thomas Berger

Nonlinear dynamical systems with input delays pose significant challenges for prediction, estimation, and control due to their inherent complexity and the impact of delays on system behavior. Traditional linear control techniques often fail…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Patrik Valábek , Marek Wadinger , Michal Kvasnica , Martin Klaučo

We develop a new generalization of Koopman operator theory that incorporates the effects of inputs and control. Koopman spectral analysis is a theoretical tool for the analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems. Moreover, Koopman is intimately…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Joshua L. Proctor , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

Traditional dynamic models of continuum robots are in general computationally expensive and not suitable for real-time control. Recent approaches using learning-based methods to approximate the dynamic model of continuum robots for control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Xinran Wang , Nicolas Rojas