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There are multiple ways in which a stochastic system can be out of statistical equilibrium. It might be subject to time-varying forcing; or be in a transient phase on its way towards equilibrium; it might even be in equilibrium without us…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Péter Koltai , Hao Wu , Frank Noé , Christof Schütte

In this work, we propose explicit state-space based fault detection, isolation and estimation filters that are data-driven and are directly identified and constructed from only the system input-output (I/O) measurements and through…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Esmaeil Naderi , Khashayar Khorasani

Continuous-time Markov decision processes are an important class of models in a wide range of applications, ranging from cyber-physical systems to synthetic biology. A central problem is how to devise a policy to control the system in order…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Ezio Bartocci , Luca Bortolussi , Tomǎš Brázdil , Dimitrios Milios , Guido Sanguinetti

In this work we provide a computationally tractable procedure for designing affine control policies, applied to constrained, discrete-time, partially observable, linear systems subject to set bounded disturbances, stochastic noise and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Georgios Kotsalis , Guanghui Lan

We consider reinforcement learning in changing Markov Decision Processes where both the state-transition probabilities and the reward functions may vary over time. For this problem setting, we propose an algorithm using a sliding window…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Pratik Gajane , Ronald Ortner , Peter Auer

Reactive (memoryless) policies are sufficient in completely observable Markov decision processes (MDPs), but some kind of memory is usually necessary for optimal control of a partially observable MDP. Policies with finite memory can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Nicolas Meuleau , Leonid Peshkin , Kee-Eung Kim , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

This paper is concerned with a discounted optimal control problem of partially observed forward-backward stochastic systems with jumps on infinite horizon. The control domain is convex and a kind of infinite horizon observation equation is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Yueyang Zheng , Jingtao Shi

A Markov decision process-based state switching is devised, implemented, and analyzed for proximity operations of various autonomous vehicles. The framework contains a pose estimator along with a multi-state guidance algorithm. The unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Deep Parikh , Ali Hasnain Khowaja , Manoranjan Majji

This paper explores the problem of selecting sensor nodes for a general class of nonlinear dynamical networks. In particular, we study the problem by utilizing altered definitions of observability and open-loop lifted observers. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Mohamad H. Kazma , Sebastian A. Nugroho , Aleksandar Haber , Ahmad F. Taha

Reinforcement learning algorithms typically rely on the assumption that the environment dynamics and value function can be expressed in terms of a Markovian state representation. However, when state information is only partially observable,…

A new formulation of Stochastic Model Predictive Output Feedback Control is presented and analyzed as a translation of Stochastic Optimal Output Feedback Control into a receding horizon setting. This requires lifting the design into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Martin A Sehr , Robert R Bitmead

We present a new data-driven method to provide probabilistic stability guarantees for black-box switched linear systems. By sampling a finite number of observations of trajectories, we construct approximate Lyapunov functions and deduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Anne Rubbens , Zheming Wang , Raphaël M. Jungers

We consider continuous-time, finite-horizon, optimal quadratic control of semi-Markov jump linear systems (S-MJLS), and develop principled approximations through Markov-like representations for the holding-time distributions. We adopt a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Saeid Jafari , Ketan Savla

As saturated output observations are ubiquitous in practice, identifying stochastic systems with such nonlinear observations is a fundamental problem across various fields. This paper investigates the asymptotically efficient identification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Lantian Zhang , Lei Guo

Split conformal prediction has recently sparked great interest due to its ability to provide formally guaranteed uncertainty sets or intervals for predictions made by black-box neural models, ensuring a predefined probability of containing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 António Farinhas , Chrysoula Zerva , Dennis Ulmer , André F. T. Martins

This paper proposes a novel robust Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for linear discrete-time systems affected by model uncertainty described by interval matrices. The key feature of the proposed method is a bound on the uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Renato Quartullo , Andrea Garulli , Mirko Leomanni

We propose a unified framework for robustly and adaptively stabilizing large-scale networked uncertain Markovian jump linear systems (MJLS) under external disturbances and mode switches that can change the network's topology. Adaptation is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 SooJean Han , Minwoo M. Kim , Ieun Choo

This paper addresses the design of a state observer for networked systems with random delays and dropouts. The model of plant and network covers the cases of multiple sensors, out-of-sequence and buffered measurements. The measurement…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Daniel Dolz , Daniel E. Quevedo , Ignacio Peñarrocha , Roberto Sanchis

We consider both discrete and continuous "uncertain horizon" deterministic control processes, for which the termination time is a random variable. We examine the dynamic programming equations for the value function of such processes,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-06 June Andrews , Alexander Vladimirsky

This paper investigates the problem of consensus-based distributed control of linear time-invariant multi-channel systems subject to unknown inputs. A distributed observer-based control framework is proposed, within which observer nodes and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Ganghui Cao , Xunyuan Yin