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Port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems offer a highly structured and energy-based modular framework for control systems. Many pH systems exhibit non-polynomial non-linearities. We consider the problem of immersing such systems into a…

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This article proposes a distributed secondary control scheme that drives a dc microgrid to an equilibrium point where the generators share optimal currents, and their voltages have a weighted average of nominal value. The scheme does not…

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We consider the problem of designing a machine learning-based model of an unknown dynamical system from a finite number of (state-input)-successor state data points, such that the model obtained is also suitable for optimal control design.…

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This article presents an innovative approach to integrating port-Hamiltonian systems with neural network architectures, transitioning from deterministic to stochastic models. The study presents novel mathematical formulations and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Luca Di Persio , Matthias Ehrhardt , Sofia Rizzotto

In recent years, Neural Networks (NNs) have been employed to control nonlinear systems due to their potential capability in dealing with situations that might be difficult for conventional nonlinear control schemes. However, to the best of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Anran Li , John P. Swensen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Learning-based methods could provide solutions to many of the long-standing challenges in control. However, the neural networks (NNs) commonly used in modern learning approaches present substantial challenges for analyzing the resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Michael Everett

The modeling framework of port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems and their use in numerical simulation and control are discussed. The structure is ideal for automated network-based modeling since it is invariant under power-conserving…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Volker Mehrmann , Benjamin Unger

Stochastic port-Hamiltonian systems represent open dynamical systems with dissipation, inputs, and stochastic forcing in an energy based form. We introduce stochastic port-Hamiltonian neural networks, SPH-NNs, which parameterize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Luca Di Persio , Matthias Ehrhardt , Youness Outaleb

Control theory often takes the mathematical model of the to-be-control-led system for granted. In contrast, port-Hamiltonian systems theory bridges the gap between modelling and control for physical systems. It provides a unified framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Arjan van der Schaft

Despite the immense success of neural networks in modeling system dynamics from data, they often remain physics-agnostic black boxes. In the particular case of physical systems, they might consequently make physically inconsistent…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) training can be difficult due to vanishing and exploding gradients during weight optimization through backpropagation. To address this problem, we propose a general class of Hamiltonian DNNs (H-DNNs) that stem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Clara Lucía Galimberti , Luca Furieri , Liang Xu , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

This paper explores some variations of a hierarchical control framework that has been recently proposed. The framework is dedicated to control a network of interconnected subsystems such as the ones describing cryogenic processes or power…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-07 Xuan-Huy Pham , Mazen Alamir , François Bonne

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) can be difficult due to the occurrence of vanishing/exploding gradients during weight optimization. To avoid this problem, we propose a class of DNNs stemming from the time discretization of Hamiltonian…

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We present differentiable predictive control (DPC), a method for learning constrained neural control policies for linear systems with probabilistic performance guarantees. We employ automatic differentiation to obtain direct policy…

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Accurately learning the temporal behavior of dynamical systems requires models with well-chosen learning biases. Recent innovations embed the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms into neural networks and demonstrate a significant…

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Recent research shows that supervised learning can be an effective tool for designing near-optimal feedback controllers for high-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems. But the behavior of neural network controllers is still not well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

We establish a collection of closed-loop guarantees and propose a scalable optimization algorithm for distributionally robust model predictive control (DRMPC) applied to linear systems, convex constraints, and quadratic costs. Via standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Robert D. McAllister , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Solving nonlinear model predictive control problems in real time is still an important challenge despite of recent advances in computing hardware, optimization algorithms and tailored implementations. This challenge is even greater when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Benjamin Karg , Teodoro Alamo , Sergio Lucia

Hybrid machine learning combines physical knowledge with data-driven models to enhance interpretability and performance. In this context, Port-Hamiltonian Systems (PHS), which generalize Hamiltonian mechanics to describe open,…

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