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Iterative learning control (ILC) is a control strategy for repetitive tasks wherein information from previous runs is leveraged to improve future performance. Optimization-based ILC (OB-ILC) is a powerful design framework for constrained…

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Autonomous drone racing presents a challenging control problem, requiring real-time decision-making and robust handling of nonlinear system dynamics. While iterative learning model predictive control (LMPC) offers a promising framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haocheng Zhao , Niklas Schlüter , Lukas Brunke , Angela P. Schoellig

This paper presents an iterative learning control (ILC) scheme for continuously operated repetitive systems for which no initial condition reset exists. To accomplish this, we develop a lifted system representation that accounts for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Maxwell Wu , Mitchell Cobb , James Reed , Kirti Mishra , Chris Vermillion , Kira Barton

Proximity operations of rigid bodies, such as spacecraft rendezvous and docking, require precise tracking of both position and attitude over finite time intervals. These operations are often repeated under uncertain conditions, with unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Fan Zhang , Deyuan Meng , Ying Tan

This work investigates robust monotonic convergent iterative learning control (ILC) for uncertain linear systems in both time and frequency domains, and the ILC algorithm optimizing the convergence speed in terms of $l_{2}$ norm of error…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Lanlan Su

In this paper, we investigate integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in a cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network, where each access point functions either as an ISAC transmitter or as a sensing receiver. We devote…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Guoqing Xia , Pei Xiao , Qu Luo , Bing Ji , Yue Zhang , Cicek Cavdar , Huiyu Zhou

Learning to solve complex manipulation tasks from visual observations is a dominant challenge for real-world robot learning. Although deep reinforcement learning algorithms have recently demonstrated impressive results in this context, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Eugenio Chisari , Tim Welschehold , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Control of legged robots is a challenging problem that has been investigated by different approaches, such as model-based control and learning algorithms. This work proposes a novel Imitating and Finetuning Model Predictive Control (IFM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Donghoon Youm , Hyunyoung Jung , Hyeongjun Kim , Jemin Hwangbo , Hae-Won Park , Sehoon Ha

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a method for reducing system tracking or estimation errors over multiple iterations by using information from past iterations. The disturbance observer (DOB) is used to estimate and mitigate disturbances…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Harsh Modi , Zhu Chen , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

This paper presents the application of an iterative learning control scheme to improve the position tracking performance for an articulated soft robotic arm during aggressive maneuvers. Two antagonistically arranged, inflatable bellows…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Matthias Hofer , Lukas Spannagl , Raffaello D'Andrea

For iterative learning control (ILC), one of the basic problems left to address is how to solve the contradiction between convergence conditions for the output tracking error and for the input signal (or error). This problem is considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Deyuan Meng , Jingyao Zhang

Generally, humanoid robots usually suffer significant impact force when walking or running in a non-predefined environment that could easily damage the actuators due to high stiffness. In recent years, the usages of passive, compliant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anh Khoa Lanh Luu , Van Tu Duong , Huy Hung Nguyen , Sang Bong Kim , Tan Tien Nguyen

Robots executing iterative tasks in complex, uncertain environments require control strategies that balance robustness, safety, and high performance. This paper introduces a safe information-theoretic learning model predictive control…

Model-based optimization approaches for monitoring and control, such as model predictive control and optimal state and parameter estimation, have been used for decades in many engineering applications. Models describing the dynamics,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Johannes Pohlodek , Bruno Morabito , Christian Schlauch , Pablo Zometa , Rolf Findeisen

Existing navigation systems mostly consider "success" when the robot reaches within 1m radius to a goal. This precision is insufficient for emerging applications where the robot needs to be positioned precisely relative to an object for…

Cross-coupled iterative learning control (ILC) can achieve high performance for manufacturing applications in which tracking a contour is essential for the quality of a product. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Leontine Aarnoudse , Johan Kon , Koen Classens , Max van Meer , Maurice Poot , Paul Tacx , Nard Strijbosch , Tom Oomen

Imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL) each offer distinct advantages for robotics policy learning: IL provides stable learning from demonstrations, and RL promotes generalization through exploration. While existing robot…

This paper presents a fundamental performance analysis of joint location and velocity estimation in a cell-free (CF) MIMO integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Unlike prior studies that primarily rely on continuous-time signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Guoqing Xia , Pei Xiao , Qu Luo , Bing Ji , Yue Zhang , Huiyu Zhou

Fast execution of contact-rich manipulation is critical for practical deployment, yet providing fast demonstrations for imitation learning (IL) remains challenging: humans cannot demonstrate at high speed, and naively accelerating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Koki Yamane , Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez , Steven Oh , Masashi Hamaya , Sho Sakaino

This paper reports on a new error-state Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach to connected matrix Lie groups for robot control. The linearized tracking error dynamics and the linearized equations of motion are derived in the Lie algebra.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Sangli Teng , Dianhao Chen , William Clark , Maani Ghaffari