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This paper studies data-driven stabilization of a class of unknown polynomial systems using data corrupted by bounded noise. Existing work addressing this problem has focused on designing a controller and a Lyapunov function so that a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Huayuan Huang , M. Kanat Camlibel , Raffaella Carloni , Henk J. van Waarde

Adaptive Control Lyapunov Functions (aCLFs) were introduced 20 years ago, and provided a Lyapunov-based methodology for stabilizing systems with parameter uncertainty. The goal of this paper is to revisit this classic formulation in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Andrew J. Taylor , Aaron D. Ames

The performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) is susceptible to discrepancies between training and testing sample distributions. Prior studies have attempted to mitigating the impact of distribution shift by reconstructing node features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jielong Yang , Rui Ding , Feng Ji , Hongbin Wang , Linbo Xie

This paper studies the problem of constructing control Lyapunov functions (CLFs) and feedback stabilization strategies for deterministic nonlinear control systems described by ordinary differential equations. Many numerical methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Ivan Yegorov , Peter M. Dower , Lars Grüne

Autonomous systems often have complex and possibly unknown dynamics due to, e.g., black-box components. This leads to unpredictable behaviors and makes control design with performance guarantees a major challenge. This paper presents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 John Jackson , Luca Laurenti , Eric Frew , Morteza Lahijanian

Self-triggered control is an improvement on event-triggered control methods. Unlike the latter, self-triggered control does not require monitoring the behavior of the system constantly. Instead, self-triggered algorithms predict the events…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Fairouz Zobiri , Nacim Meslem , Brigitte Bidegaray-Fesquet

Designing accurate yet robust tracking controllers with tight performance guarantees for Lagrangian systems is challenging due to nonlinear modeling uncertainties and conservative stability criteria. This article proposes a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Giulio Evangelisti , Cosimo Della Santina , Sandra Hirche

This paper investigates the robust stabilisation of a class of fractional-order non-linear systems via fixed-order dynamic output feedback controller in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The systematic stabilisation algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Elyar Zavary , Mahdi Sojoodi

The introduction of unexpected system disturbances and new system dynamics does not allow guaranteed continuous system stability. In this research we present a novel approach for detecting early failure indicators of non-linear highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Amr Mahmoud , Youmna Ismaeil , Mohamed Zohdy

This paper addresses the challenge of safe stabilization, ensuring the system state reach the origin while avoiding unsafe regions. Existing approaches relying on smooth Lyapunov barrier functions often fail to guarantee a feasible…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Jianglin Lan , Eldert van Henten , Peter Groot Koerkamp , Congcong Sun

In this letter, we present a novel Gaussian Process Learning-based Probabilistic Optimal Power Flow (GP-POPF) for solving POPF under renewable and load uncertainties of arbitrary distribution. The proposed method relies on a non-parametric…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Parikshit Pareek , Hung D. Nguyen

This paper develops a dissipativity-based framework for synthesis of stabilizing controllers for discrete-time nonlinear systems subject to state/input constraints. Firstly, we revisit dissipation inequalities for discrete-time nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Mircea Lazar

In this work, we propose the design and analysis of a novel continuous robust controller for a class of multi--input multi--output (MIMO) nonlinear uncertain systems. The systems under consideration contains unstructured uncertainties in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-24 Baris Bidikli , Enver Tatlicioglu , Erkan Zergeroglu , Alper Bayrak

We present the stability analysis for the new regulation-triggered approach to adaptive control introduced in a companion paper. Due to the fact that the closed-loop system is hybrid, our proofs have essential differences from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

With a growing interest in data-driven control techniques, Model Predictive Control (MPC) provides an opportunity to exploit the surplus of data reliably, particularly while taking safety and stability into account. In many real-world and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Mayank Mittal , Marco Gallieri , Alessio Quaglino , Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian , Jan Koutník

We present a straightforward and efficient way to control unstable robotic systems using an estimated dynamics model. Specifically, we show how to exploit the differentiability of Gaussian Processes to create a state-dependent linearized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Ivan D. Jimenez Rodriguez , Ugo Rosolia , Aaron D. Ames , Yisong Yue

The Gaussian Process (GP) based Chance-Constrained Optimal Power Flow (CC-OPF) is an open-source Python code developed for solving economic dispatch (ED) problem in modern power grids. In recent years, integrating a significant amount of…

Computed-torque control requires a very precise dynamical model of the robot for compensating the manipulator dynamics. This allows reduction of the controller's feedback gains resulting in disturbance attenuation and other advantages.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Thomas Beckers , Jonas Umlauft , Sandra Hirche

We present $\mathcal{CL}_1$-$\mathcal{GP}$, a control framework that enables safe simultaneous learning and control for systems subject to uncertainties. The two main constituents are contraction theory-based $\mathcal{L}_1$…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Aditya Gahlawat , Arun Lakshmanan , Lin Song , Andrew Patterson , Zhuohuan Wu , Naira Hovakimyan , Evangelos Theodorou

The recent development of globally strict control Lyapunov functions (CLFs) for the challenging unicycle parking problem provides a foundation for pursuing optimality. We address this in the inverse optimal framework, thereby avoiding the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Kwang Hak Kim , Velimir Todorovski , Miroslav Krstić