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We present a new method for learning control law that stabilizes an unknown nonlinear dynamical system at an equilibrium point. We formulate a system identification task in a self-supervised learning setting that jointly learns a controller…

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Accurate dynamics models are critical for the design of predictive controller for autonomous mobile robots. Physics-based models are often too simple to capture relevant real-world effects, while data-driven models are data-intensive and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Abdullah Altawaitan , Nikolay Atanasov

A comprehensive approach addressing identification and control for learningbased Model Predictive Control (MPC) for linear systems is presented. The design technique yields a data-driven MPC law, based on a dataset collected from the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Enrico Terzi , Lorenzo Fagiano , Marcello Farina , Riccardo Scattolini

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

We present a differentiable predictive control (DPC) methodology for learning constrained control laws for unknown nonlinear systems. DPC poses an approximate solution to multiparametric programming problems emerging from explicit nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Jan Drgona , Aaron Tuor , Soumya Vasisht , Elliott Skomski , Draguna Vrabie

This paper proposes an adaptive tracking control with prescribed performance function for distributive cooperative control of highly nonlinear multi-agent systems. The use of such approach confines the tracking error within a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

We present a data-driven nonlinear predictive control approach for the class of discrete-time multi-input multi-output feedback linearizable nonlinear systems. The scheme uses a non-parametric predictive model based only on input and noisy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Mohammad Alsalti , Victor G. Lopez , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer , Matthias A. Müller

This paper presents a framework for the design and analysis of an $\mathcal{L}_1$ adaptive controller with a switching reference system. The use of a switching reference system allows the desired behavior to be scheduled across the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Steven Snyder , Pan Zhao , Naira Hovakimyan

The output regulation problem for unknown linear systems has been studied using state-based and output-based internal model approaches in the special case with no disturbances. This paper further investigates the output regulation problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Haoyan Lin , Jie Huang

The data-driven techniques have been developed to deal with the output regulation problem of unknown linear systems by various approaches. In this paper, we first extend an existing algorithm from single-input single-output linear systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Liquan Lin , Jie Huang

In response to the continuously changing feedstock supply and market demand for products with different specifications, the processes need to be operated at time-varying operating conditions and targets (e.g., setpoints) to improve the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Lai Wei , Ryan McCloy , Jie Bao

We propose a reference-free learning model predictive controller for periodic repetitive tasks. We consider a problem in which dynamics, constraints and stage cost are periodically time-varying. The controller uses the closed-loop data to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Nicola Scianca , Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

Research on control using models based on machine-learning methods has now shifted to the practical engineering stage. Achieving high performance and theoretically guaranteeing the safety of the system is critical for such applications. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Ryuta Moriyasu , Masayuki Kusunoki , Kenji Kashima

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

The aim of this paper is to propose a new data-driven control scheme for multi-input-multi-output linear time-invariant systems whose system model are completely unknown. Using a non-minimal input-output realization, the proposed method can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Nam H. Jo , Hyungbo Shim

We study supervisory switching control for partially-observed linear dynamical systems. The objective is to identify and deploy the best controller for the unknown system by periodically selecting among a collection of $N$ candidate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Haoyuan Sun , Ali Jadbabaie

We present a novel approach to shared control of human-machine systems. Our method assumes no a priori knowledge of the system dynamics. Instead, we learn both the dynamics and information about the user's interaction from observation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Alexander Broad , Todd Murphey , Brenna Argall

The problem of online change point detection is to detect abrupt changes in properties of time series, ideally as soon as possible after those changes occur. Existing work on online change point detection either assumes i.i.d data, focuses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Lei Xin , George Chiu , Shreyas Sundaram

Online learning algorithms for dynamical systems provide finite time guarantees for control in the presence of sequentially revealed cost functions. We pose the classical linear quadratic tracking problem in the framework of online…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Aren Karapetyan , Diego Bolliger , Anastasios Tsiamis , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

We present data-based conditions for enforcing contractivity via feedback control and obtain desired asymptotic properties of the closed-loop system. We focus on unknown nonlinear control systems whose vector fields are expressible via a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Zhongjie Hu , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi