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Iterative learning control (ILC) techniques are capable of improving the tracking performance of control systems that repeatedly perform similar tasks by utilizing data from past iterations. The aim of this paper is to design a systematic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Tjeerd Ickenroth , Max van Haren , Johan Kon , Max van Meer , Jilles van hulst , Tom Oomen

A significant limitation of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is the stochastic uncertainty in actions generated during exploration-exploitation, which poses substantial safety risks during both training and deployment. In industrial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Runze Lin , Ziqi Zhuo , Junghui Chen , Lei Xie , Hongye Su

The repetitive tracking task for time-varying systems (TVSs) with non-repetitive time-varying parameters, which is also called non-repetitive TVSs, is realized in this paper using iterative learning control (ILC). A machine learning (ML)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Yiyang Chen , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous

Generally, the classic iterative learning control (ILC) methods focus on finding design conditions for repetitive systems to achieve the perfect tracking of any specified trajectory, whereas they ignore a fundamental problem of ILC: whether…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Deyuan Meng , Jingyao Zhang

The goal of this work is to enable a team of quadrotors to learn how to accurately track a desired trajectory while holding a given formation. We solve this problem in a distributed manner, where each vehicle has only access to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Andreas Hock , Angela P. Schoellig

Solving motion tasks autonomously and accurately is a core ability for intelligent real-world systems. To achieve genuine autonomy across multiple systems and tasks, key challenges include coping with unknown dynamics and overcoming the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Jan-Hendrik Ewering , Alessandro Papa , Simon F. G. Ehlers , Thomas Seel , Michael Meindl

Growing demands in today's industry results in increasingly stringent performance and throughput specifications. For accurate positioning of high-precision motion systems, feedforward control plays a crucial role. Nonetheless, conventional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Anantha Sai Hariharan Vinjarapu , Yorick Broens , Hans Butler , Roland Tóth

Highly dynamic tasks that require large accelerations and precise tracking usually rely on accurate models and/or high gain feedback. While kinematic optimization allows for efficient representation and online generation of hitting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Okan Koc , Guilherme Maeda , Jan Peters

As robots and other automated systems are introduced to unknown and dynamic environments, robust and adaptive control strategies are required to cope with disturbances, unmodeled dynamics and parametric uncertainties. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Karime Pereida , Rikky R. P. R. Duivenvoorden , Angela P. Schoellig

Iterative learning control (ILC) is capable of improving the tracking performance of repetitive control systems by utilizing data from past iterations. The aim of this paper is to achieve both task flexibility, which is often achieved by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Max van Haren , Kentaro Tsurumoto , Masahiro Mae , Lennart Blanken , Wataru Ohnishi , Tom Oomen

Before AI and neural nets, the excitement was about iterative learning control (ILC): the idea to train robots to perform repetitive tasks or train a system to reject quasi-periodic disturbances. The excitement waned after the discovery of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Shane Rupert Koscielniak

This work investigates robust monotonic convergent iterative learning control (ILC) for uncertain linear systems in both time and frequency domains, and the ILC algorithm optimizing the convergence speed in terms of $l_{2}$ norm of error…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Lanlan Su

This paper presents an iterative learning control (ILC) scheme for continuously operated repetitive systems for which no initial condition reset exists. To accomplish this, we develop a lifted system representation that accounts for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Maxwell Wu , Mitchell Cobb , James Reed , Kirti Mishra , Chris Vermillion , Kira Barton

This article focuses on making discrete-time Adaptive Iterative Learning Control (ILC) more effective using multiple estimation models. Existing strategies use the tracking error to adjust the parametric estimates. Our strategy uses the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Ram Padmanabhan , Rajini Makam , Koshy George

Fast execution of contact-rich manipulation is critical for practical deployment, yet providing fast demonstrations for imitation learning (IL) remains challenging: humans cannot demonstrate at high speed, and naively accelerating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Koki Yamane , Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez , Steven Oh , Masashi Hamaya , Sho Sakaino

Feedback control systems do not do what you ask. The concept of bandwidth is defined to tell what components of a command are reasonably well handled. Iterative Learning Control (ILC) seeks to converge to zero error following any given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Shuo Liu , Richard W. Longman

Robots executing iterative tasks in complex, uncertain environments require control strategies that balance robustness, safety, and high performance. This paper introduces a safe information-theoretic learning model predictive control…

For iterative learning control (ILC), one of the basic problems left to address is how to solve the contradiction between convergence conditions for the output tracking error and for the input signal (or error). This problem is considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Deyuan Meng , Jingyao Zhang

In Iterative Learning Control (ILC), a sequence of feedforward control actions is generated at each iteration on the basis of partial model knowledge and past measurements with the goal of steering the system toward a desired reference…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Efe C. Balta , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith , John Lygeros

Trial-varying disturbances are a key concern in Iterative Learning Control (ILC) and may lead to inefficient and expensive implementations and severe performance deterioration. The aim of this paper is to develop a general framework for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Tom Oomen , Cristian R. Rojas