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Over the past decades, the Koopman operator has been widely applied in data-driven control, yet its theoretical foundations remain underexplored. This paper establishes a unified framework to address the robust stabilization problem in…

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Real-world control applications in complex and uncertain environments require adaptability to handle model uncertainties and robustness against disturbances. This paper presents an online, output-feedback, critic-only, model-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Tochukwu Elijah Ogri , S. M. Nahid Mahmud , Zachary I. Bell , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

We generalize the system level synthesis framework to systems defined by bounded causal linear operators, and use this parameterization to make connections between robust system level synthesis and classical results from the robust control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Nikolai Matni , Anish A. Sarma

A learning-based safety filter is developed for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems with unknown models subject to Gaussian noises with unknown covariance. Safety is characterized using polytopic constraints on the states and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Farhad Farokhi , Alex S. Leong , Mohammad Zamani , Iman Shames

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 focuses on designing completely decentralized load frequency control (LFC) for multi-area power systems to achieve global optimized performance. To this end, a new concept of integrated design is introduced for designing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Xianxian Zhao , Jianglin Lan

This paper presents a novel load frequency control (LFC) design using integral-based decentralize fixed-order perturbed dynamic output tracking scheme in a delay dependent nonlinear interconnected multi-area power system via LMI approach.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Ali Azarbahram , Mahdi Sojoodi , Mahmoud-Reza Haghifam

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

This paper addresses the problem of robust and optimal control for the class of nonlinear quadratic systems subject to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties and disturbances, and in presence of some amplitude constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Merola Alessio , Cosentino Carlo , Colacino Domenico , Amato Francesco

In this paper we present a Learning Model Predictive Control (LMPC) strategy for linear and nonlinear time optimal control problems. Our work builds on existing LMPC methodologies and it guarantees finite time convergence properties for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

Nonlinear dynamical behaviours in engineering applications can be approximated by linear-parameter varying (LPV) representations, but obtaining precise model knowledge to develop a control algorithm is difficult in practice. In this paper,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Renjie Ma , Su Zhang , Wenjie Liu , Zhijian Hu , Peng Shi

We propose a novel feedback controller for a class of uncertain higher-order nonlinear systems, subject to delays in both state measurement and control input signals. Building on the prescribed performance control framework, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Thomas Berger , Lampros N. Bikas , Jan Hachmeister , George A. Rovithakis

The Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) framework has been introduced with the intention to provide stability and performance guarantees for analysis and controller synthesis for Nonlinear (NL) systems via convex methods. By extending results of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Patrick J. W. Koelewijn , Roland Tóth , Henk Nijmeijer , Siep Weiland

Real-time adaptation is imperative to the control of robots operating in complex, dynamic environments. Adaptive control laws can endow even nonlinear systems with good trajectory tracking performance, provided that any uncertain dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Spencer M. Richards , Navid Azizan , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Marco Pavone

Koopman operator theory yields powerful tools for modeling, analysis, and control of nonlinear dynamical systems. Prominently, linear time-invariant (LTI) Koopman representations have been proposed to enable the application of linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Johannes Heeg , Karl Worthmann

In this work, we investigate the problem of simultaneously learning and controlling a system subject to adversarial choices of disturbances and system parameters. We study the problem for a scalar system with $l_\infty$-norm bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Dimitar Ho , Nikolai Matni , John C. Doyle

Real-time adaptation is imperative to the control of robots operating in complex, dynamic environments. Adaptive control laws can endow even nonlinear systems with good trajectory tracking performance, provided that any uncertain dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Spencer M. Richards , Navid Azizan , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Marco Pavone

Linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) commonly appear in systems, stability, and control applications. Many analysis and synthesis problems in these areas can be solved as feasibility or optimization problems subject to LMI constraints.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Ryan James Caverly , James Richard Forbes

We present a method for finding optimal controllers for unknown, time-varying, dynamic systems which can be re-initialized from a given initial condition repeatedly, in which the performance measure is available for sampling with noise, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Alexander Scheinker , David Scheinker

The increasing ease of obtaining and processing data together with the growth in system complexity has sparked the interest in moving from conventional model-based control design towards data-driven concepts. Since in many engineering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Juan G. Rueda-Escobedo , Emilia Fridman , Johannes Schiffer