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The identification of a nonlinear dynamic model is an open topic in control theory, especially from sparse input-output measurements. A fundamental challenge of this problem is that very few to zero prior knowledge is available on both the…
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We propose a formulation for nonlinear recurrent models that includes simple parametric models of recurrent neural networks as a special case. The proposed formulation leads to a natural estimator in the form of a convex program. We provide…
A version of the Dynamical Systems Gradient Method for solving ill-posed nonlinear monotone operator equations is studied in this paper. A discrepancy principle is proposed and justified. A numerical experiment was carried out with the new…
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We study the problem of nonepisodic reinforcement learning (RL) for nonlinear dynamical systems, where the system dynamics are unknown and the RL agent has to learn from a single trajectory, i.e., without resets. We propose Nonepisodic…
A version of the Dynamical Systems Method (DSM) for solving ill-posed nonlinear equations with monotone operators in a Hilbert space is studied in this paper. An a posteriori stopping rule, based on a discrepancy-type principle is proposed…
Dynamic models of the battery performance are an essential tool throughout the development process of automotive drive trains. The present study introduces a method making a large data set suitable for modeling the electrical impedance.…
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We propose a method to reconstruct sparse signals degraded by a nonlinear distortion and acquired at a limited sampling rate. Our method formulates the reconstruction problem as a nonconvex minimization of the sum of a data fitting term and…
Nonlinear control-affine systems described by ordinary differential equations with bounded measurable input functions are considered. The solvability of general boundary value problems for these systems is formulated in the sense of…
We propose a novel direct transcription and solution method for solving nonlinear, continuous-time dynamic optimization problems. Instead of forcing the dynamic constraints to be satisfied only at a selected number of points as in direct…