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Sparked by the Willems' fundamental lemma, a class of data-driven control methods has been developed for LTI systems. At the same time, the Koopman operator theory attempts to cast a nonlinear control problem into a standard linear one…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Yingzhao Lian , Renzi Wang , Colin N. Jones

We present a stochastic constrained output-feedback data-driven predictive control scheme for linear time-invariant systems subject to bounded additive disturbances. The approach uses data-driven predictors based on an extension of Willems'…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Johannes Teutsch , Sebastian Kerz , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

We present a direct data-driven approach to synthesize robust control invariant (RCI) sets and their associated gain-scheduled feedback control laws for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems subjected to bounded disturbances. A data-set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Manas Mejari , Ankit Gupta , Dario Piga

In this letter, we discuss the problem of optimal control for affine systems in the context of data-driven linear programming. First, we introduce a unified framework for the fixed point characterization of the value function, Q-function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Andrea Martinelli , Matilde Gargiani , Marina Draskovic , John Lygeros

This article proposes an approach to design output-feedback controllers for unknown continuous-time linear time-invariant systems using only input-output data from a single experiment. To address the lack of state and derivative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Alessandro Bosso , Marco Borghesi , Andrea Iannelli , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Andrew R. Teel

Willems' fundamental lemma and system level synthesis both characterize a linear dynamic system by its input/output sequences. In this work, we extend the application of the fundamental lemma from deterministic to uncertain LTI systems and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Yinghao Lian , Colin N. Jones

This paper studies worst-case robust optimal tracking using noisy input-output data. We utilize behavioral system theory to represent system trajectories, while avoiding explicit system identification. We assume that the recent output data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Liang Xu , Mustafa Sahin Turan , Baiwei Guo , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

In a recent paper we have shown that data collected from linear systems excited by persistently exciting inputs during low-complexity experiments, can be used to design state- and output-feedback controllers, including optimal Linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

Based on the Fundamental Lemma by Willems et al., the entire behaviour of a Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) system can be characterised by a single data sequence of the system as long the input is persistently exciting. This is an essential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Chris Verhoek , Roland Tóth , Sofie Haesaert , Anne Koch

This paper presents a novel framework for stabilizing nonlinear systems represented in state-dependent form. We first reformulate the nonlinear dynamics as a state-dependent parameter-varying model and synthesize a stabilizing controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Lidong Li , Rui Huang , Lin Zhao

A powerful result from behavioral systems theory known as the fundamental lemma allows for predictive control akin to Model Predictive Control (MPC) for linear time invariant (LTI) systems with unknown dynamics purely from data. While most…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Sebastian Kerz , Johannes Teutsch , Tim Brüdigam , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

Data-driven predictive control based on the fundamental lemma by Willems et al. is frequently considered for deterministic LTI systems subject to measurement noise. However, little has been done on data-driven stochastic control. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Guanru Pan , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser

This paper develops a data-driven stabilization method for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems with theoretical guarantees and no need for signal derivatives. The framework, based on linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Alessandro Bosso , Marco Borghesi , Andrea Iannelli , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Andrew R. Teel

This paper studies data-driven iterative learning control (ILC) for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems with unknown dynamics, output disturbances and input box-constraints. Our main contributions are: 1) using a non-parametric data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-25 Jia Wang , Leander Hemelhof , Ivan Markovsky , Panagiotis Patrinos

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Wenjie Liu , Yifei Li , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Keyou You , Lihua Xie , Jie Chen

We present a data-driven optimal control framework that can be viewed as a generalization of the path integral (PI) control approach. We find iterative feedback control laws without parameterization based on probabilistic representation of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Yunpeng Pan , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Michail Kontitsis

Considering discrete-time linear time-varying systems with unknown dynamics, controllers guaranteeing bounded closed-loop trajectories, optimal performance and robustness to process and measurement noise are designed via convex feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Benita Nortmann , Thulasi Mylvaganam

We consider the problem of data-driven predictive control for an unknown discrete-time linear time-periodic (LTP) system of known period. Our proposed strategy generalizes both Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) and Subspace Predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Ruiqi Li , John W. Simpson-Porco , Stephen L. Smith

This paper presents a tractable tube-based robust data-driven predictive control scheme that uses only a single finite noisy input-state trajectory of an unknown discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) system. A simplex constraint is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Chi Wang , David Angeli

In this paper we investigate data-driven predictive control of discrete-time linear descriptor systems. Specifically, we give a tailored variant of Willems' fundamental lemma, which shows that for descriptor systems the non-parametric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Philipp Schmitz , Timm Faulwasser , Karl Worthmann