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Robust learning from noisy demonstrations is a practical but highly challenging problem in imitation learning. In this paper, we first theoretically show that robust imitation learning can be achieved by optimizing a classification risk…

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Inductive reasoning, a cornerstone of human cognition, enables generalization from limited data but hasn't yet been fully achieved by large language models (LLMs). While modern LLMs excel at reasoning tasks, their ability to maintain stable…

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This paper studies the data-driven control of unknown linear-threshold network dynamics to stabilize the state to a reference value. We consider two types of controllers: (i) a state feedback controller with feed-forward reference input and…

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The paper investigates data-driven output-feedback predictive control of linear systems subject to stochastic disturbances. The scheme relies on the recursive solution of a suitable data-driven reformulation of a stochastic Optimal Control…

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Data-driven predictive control based on the fundamental lemma by Willems et al. is frequently considered for deterministic LTI systems subject to measurement noise. However, little has been done on data-driven stochastic control. In this…

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Many robot control scenarios involve assessing system robustness against a task specification. If either the controller or environment are composed of "black-box" components with unknown dynamics, we cannot rely on formal verification to…

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We will present a new general framework for robust and adaptive control that allows for distributed and scalable learning and control of large systems of interconnected linear subsystems. The control method is demonstrated for a linear…

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Reliable optimal control is challenging when the dynamics of a nonlinear system are unknown and only infrequent, noisy output measurements are available. This work addresses this setting of limited sensing by formulating a Bayesian prior…

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This paper presents an approach towards guaranteed trajectory tracking for nonlinear control-affine systems subject to external disturbances based on robust control contraction metrics (CCM) that aims to minimize the $\mathcal L_\infty$…

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In this paper, two robust model predictive control (MPC) schemes are proposed for tracking control of nonholonomic systems with bounded disturbances: tube-MPC and nominal robust MPC (NRMPC). In tube-MPC, the control signal consists of a…

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We demonstrate that direct data-driven control of nonlinear systems can be successfully accomplished via a behavioral approach that builds on a Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) system concept. An LPV data-driven representation is used as a…

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In this work, we introduce a novel data-driven model-reference control design approach for unknown linear systems with fully measurable state. The proposed control action is composed by a static feedback term and a reference tracking block,…

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Output feedback control design for linear time-invariant systems in the presence of sporadic measurements and exogenous perturbations is addressed. To cope with the sporadic availability of measurements of the output, a hybrid dynamic…

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This paper focuses on the data-driven optimal structured controller design for discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, considering both the $H_2$ performance and the $H_\infty$ performance. Specifically, we consider three…

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In many real-world dynamical systems, obtaining precise models of system uncertainty remains a challenge. It may be difficult to estimate noise distributions or robustness bounds, especially when the distributions/robustness bounds vary…

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This paper proposes a data-driven framework to solve time-varying optimization problems associated with unknown linear dynamical systems. Making online control decisions to regulate a dynamical system to the solution of an optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Gianluca Bianchin , Miguel Vaquero , Jorge Cortes , Emiliano Dall'Anese

From a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) discrete-time linear system, we collect input-output data affected by noise in the form of an unknown exosignal and, from these data points (without knowledge of the system model), we design a feedback…

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