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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 this work we address the problem of performing a repetitive task when we have uncertain observations and dynamics. We formulate this problem as an iterative infinite horizon optimal control problem with output feedback. Previously, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Lukas Brunke , Siqi Zhou , Angela P. Schoellig

Hybrid systems have steadily grown in popularity over the last few decades because they ease the task of modeling complicated nonlinear systems. Legged locomotion, robotic manipulation, and additive manufacturing are representative examples…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Isaac A. Spiegel

Autonomous drone racing presents a challenging control problem, requiring real-time decision-making and robust handling of nonlinear system dynamics. While iterative learning model predictive control (LMPC) offers a promising framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haocheng Zhao , Niklas Schlüter , Lukas Brunke , Angela P. Schoellig

We study the performance of the certainty equivalent controller on Linear Quadratic (LQ) control problems with unknown transition dynamics. We show that for both the fully and partially observed settings, the sub-optimality gap between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Horia Mania , Stephen Tu , Benjamin Recht

Achieving precise control of robotic tool paths is often challenged by inherent system misalignments, unmodeled dynamics, and actuation inaccuracies. This work introduces an Iterative Learning Control (ILC) strategy to enable precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yasamin Foroutani , Yasamin Mousavi-Motlagh , Aya Barzelay , Tsu-Chin Tsao

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

A Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) for linear system in presented. The proposed controller is an extension of the LMPC [1] and it aims to decrease the computational burden. The control scheme is reference-free and is able to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

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

Learning-based control methods for industrial processes leverage the repetitive nature of the underlying process to learn optimal inputs for the system. While many works focus on linear systems, real-world problems involve nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Samuel Balula , Efe C. Balta , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

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

The stability and convergence of an Iterative Learning Controller (ILC) may be assessed either by directly iterating the equations for a variety of inputs, or by finding the eigenvalues of the iterated system, or by forming the Z-transform…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Shane Rupert Koscielniak

This work presents a novel Learning Model Predictive Control (LMPC) strategy for autonomous racing at the handling limit that can iteratively explore and learn unknown dynamics in high-speed operational domains. We start from existing LMPC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Haoru Xue , Edward L. Zhu , John M. Dolan , Francesco Borrelli

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

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

In this paper, we study a tracking control problem for linear time-invariant systems, with model parametric uncertainties, under input and states constraints. We apply the idea of modular design introduced in Benosman et al. 2014, to solve…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Anantharaman Subbaraman , Mouhacine Benosman

A robust Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) for uncertain systems performing iterative tasks is presented. At each iteration of the control task the closed-loop state, input and cost are stored and used in the controller design.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Ugo Rosolia , Xiaojing Zhang , Francesco Borrelli

Control of legged robots is a challenging problem that has been investigated by different approaches, such as model-based control and learning algorithms. This work proposes a novel Imitating and Finetuning Model Predictive Control (IFM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Donghoon Youm , Hyunyoung Jung , Hyeongjun Kim , Jemin Hwangbo , Hae-Won Park , Sehoon Ha

This paper introduces a novel model-free and a partially model-free algorithm for inverse optimal control (IOC), also known as inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), aimed at estimating the cost function of continuous-time nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Hamed Jabbari Asl , Eiji Uchibe

Inexact methods for model predictive control (MPC), such as real-time iterative schemes or time-distributed optimization, alleviate the computational burden of exact MPC by providing suboptimal solutions. While the asymptotic stability of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Aren Karapetyan , Efe C. Balta , Andrea Iannelli , John Lygeros