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This paper studies the problem of steering the distribution of a linear time-invariant system from an initial normal distribution to a terminal normal distribution under no knowledge of the system dynamics. This data-driven control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Joshua Pilipovsky , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, we provide a direct data-driven approach to synthesize safety controllers for unknown linear systems affected by unknown-but-bounded disturbances, in which identifying the unknown model is not required. First, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Bingzhuo Zhong , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

Control using quantized feedback is a fundamental approach to system synthesis with limited communication capacity. In this paper, we address the stabilization problem for unknown linear systems with logarithmically quantized feedback, via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Feiran Zhao , Xingchen Li , Keyou You

In this work, we compare the direct and indirect approaches to data-driven predictive control of stochastic linear time-invariant systems. The distinction between the two approaches lies in the fact that the indirect approach involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Vishaal Krishnan , Fabio Pasqualetti

As a useful and efficient alternative to generic model-based control scheme, data-driven predictive control is subject to bias-variance trade-off and is known to not perform desirably in face of uncertainty. Through the connection between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Malika Sader , Yibo Wang , Dexian Huang , Chao Shang , Biao Huang

The data-driven linear quadratic regulator (ddLQR) is a widely studied control method for unknown dynamical systems with disturbance. Existing approaches, both indirect, i.e., those that identify a model followed by model-based design, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Thierry Schwaller , Feiran Zhao , Florian Dörfler

We propose a purely data-driven model predictive control (MPC) scheme to control unknown linear time-invariant systems with guarantees on stability and constraint satisfaction in the presence of noisy data. The scheme predicts future…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-25 Julian Berberich , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Data-driven predictive control methods based on the Willems' fundamental lemma have shown great success in recent years. These approaches use receding horizon predictive control with nonparametric data-driven predictors instead of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Mingzhou Yin , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

For a parameter-unknown linear descriptor system, this paper proposes data-driven methods to testify the system's type and controllability and then to stabilize it. First, a data-based condition is developed to identify whether this unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Jiabao He , Xuan Zhang , Feng Xu , Junbo Tan , Xueqian Wang

Parametric prediction error methods constitute a classical approach to the identification of linear dynamic systems with excellent large-sample properties. A more recent regularized approach, inspired by machine learning and Bayesian…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Johan Wågberg , Dave Zachariah , Thomas B. Schön

This paper considers the problem of controlling a dynamical system when the state cannot be directly measured and the control performance metrics are unknown or partially known. In particular, we focus on the design of data-driven…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Liliaokeawawa Cothren , Gianluca Bianchin , Emiliano Dall'Anese

On the wave of recent advances in data-driven predictive control, we present an explicit predictive controller that can be constructed from a batch of input/output data only. The proposed explicit law is build upon a regularized implicit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Valentina Breschi , Andrea Sassella , Simone Formentin

We address the problem of learning the parameters of a stable linear time invariant (LTI) system or linear dynamical system (LDS) with unknown latent space dimension, or order, from a single time--series of noisy input-output data. We focus…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Tuhin Sarkar , Alexander Rakhlin , Munther A. Dahleh

The fundamental lemma from behavioral systems theory yields a data-driven non-parametric system representation that has shown great potential for the data-efficient control of unknown linear and weakly nonlinear systems, even in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Johannes Teutsch , Sebastian Ellmaier , Sebastian Kerz , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

In a paper by Willems and coauthors it was shown that persistently exciting data can be used to represent the input-output behavior of a linear system. Based on this fundamental result, we derive a parametrization of linear feedback systems…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for nonlinear discrete-time systems with parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach constructs a data-consistent closed-loop representation that enables…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Amir Modares , Bahare Kiumarsi , Hamidreza Modares

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Zhaohua Yang , Yuxing Zhong , Nachuan Yang , Xiaoxu Lyu , Ling Shi

In this work, we study data-driven stabilization of linear time-invariant systems using prior knowledge of system-theoretic properties, specifically stabilizability and controllability. To formalize this, we extend the concept of data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Amir Shakouri , Henk J. van Waarde , Tren M. J. T. Baltussen , W. P. M. H. Heemels

This paper studies finite-horizon robust tracking control for discrete-time linear systems, based on input-output data. We leverage behavioral theory to represent system trajectories through a set of noiseless historical data, instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Liang Xu , Mustafa Sahin Turan , Baiwei Guo , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

This paper considers the optimal control for hybrid systems whose trajectories transition between distinct subsystems when state-dependent constraints are satisfied. Though this class of systems is useful while modeling a variety of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Pengcheng Zhao , Shankar Mohan , Ram Vasudevan