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Data-driven control of discrete-time and continuous-time systems is of tremendous research interest. In this paper, we explore data-driven optimal control of continuous-time linear systems using input-output data. Based on a density result,…

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This paper considers the Linear Quadratic Regulator problem for linear systems with unknown dynamics, a central problem in data-driven control and reinforcement learning. We propose a method that uses data to directly return a controller…

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The problem of data-driven control is addressed here in the context of switched affine systems. This class of nonlinear systems is of particular importance when controlling many types of applications in electronic, biology, medicine, etc.…

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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…

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Various control schemes rely on a solution of a convex optimization problem involving a particular robust quadratic constraint, which can be reformulated as a linear matrix inequality using the well-known $\mathcal{S}$-lemma. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Goran Banjac , Jianzhe Zhen , Dick den Hertog , John Lygeros

We consider the problem of designing a state-feedback controller for a linear system, based only on noisy input-state data. We focus on input-state data corrupted by measurement errors, which, albeit less investigated, are as relevant as…

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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 this paper, we investigate a continuous-time linear quadratic control problem for systems with unknown matrices, where only input-output data are available. We propose an output-feedback learning framework based on a canonical nonminimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Weijian Li , Bowen Yi , Panos J. Antsaklis , Hai Lin

Output regulation is a fundamental problem in control theory, extensively studied since the 1970s. Traditionally, research has primarily addressed scenarios where the system model is explicitly known, leaving the problem in the absence of a…

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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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This paper presents a robust data-driven controller design based on the noisy input-output data without assumptions on the statistical properties of the noises. We start with the direct data-representation of system models that take…

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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…

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Linear control theory provides a rich source of inspiration and motivation for development in the matrix theory. Accordingly, in this paper, a generalization of Matrix Determinant Lemma to the finite sum of outer products of column vectors…

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In this paper, we address the problem of data-driven stabilization of continuous-time multi-input multi-output (MIMO) linear time-invariant systems using the input-output data collected from an experiment. Building on recent results for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Haihui Gao , Alessandro Bosso , Lei Wang , David Saussié , Bowen Yi

The objective of model reference control is to design a controller that regulates the system's behavior so as to match a specified reference model. This paper investigates necessary and sufficient conditions for model reference control from…

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We consider the problem of synthesizing a dynamic output-feedback controller for a linear system, using solely input-output data corrupted by measurement noise. To handle input-output data, an auxiliary representation of the original system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Lidong Li , Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Nima Monshizadeh

Recently, the fundamental lemma by Willems et al. has been extended towards stochastic LTI systems subject to process disturbances. Using this lemma requires previously recorded data of inputs, outputs, and disturbances. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Ruchuan Ou , Guanru Pan , Timm Faulwasser

In a recent paper we have shown how to learn controllers for unknown linear systems using finite-sized noisy data by solving linear matrix inequalities. In this note we extend this approach to deal with unknown nonlinear polynomial systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Meichen Guo , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

The Willems' fundamental lemma, which characterizes linear dynamics with measured trajectories, has found successful applications in controller design and signal processing, which has driven a broad research interest in its extension to…

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