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There is a growing interest in data-driven control of nonlinear systems over the last years. In contrast to related works, this paper takes a step back and aims to solve the output matching problem, a problem closely related to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Leander Hemelhof , Ivan Markovsky , Panagiotis Patrinos

For the application of MPC design in on-line regulation or tracking control problems, several studies have attempted to develop an accurate model, and realize adequate uncertainty description of linear or non-linear plants of the processes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Yuanqiang Zhou , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi , Zhongxue Gan

In this paper, we present a data-driven controller design method for continuous-time nonlinear systems, using no model knowledge but only measured data affected by noise. While most existing approaches focus on systems with polynomial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Robin Strässer , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer

This paper presents a new robust data-driven predictive control scheme for unknown linear time-invariant systems by using input-state-output or input-output data based on whether the state is measurable. To remove the need for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Kaijian Hu , Tao Liu

This paper proposes a data-driven motion-planning framework for nonlinear systems that constructs a sequence of overlapping invariant polytopes. Around each randomly sampled waypoint, the algorithm identifies a convex admissible region and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Babak Esmaeili , Hamidreza Modares , Stefano Di Cairano

This paper studies optimal control problems of unknown linear systems subject to stochastic disturbances of uncertain distribution. Uncertainty about the stochastic disturbances is usually described via ambiguity sets of probability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Guanru Pan , Timm Faulwasser

This paper introduces and analyzes an improved Q-learning algorithm for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. The proposed method does not require any knowledge of the system dynamics, and it enjoys significant efficiency advantages…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Victor G. Lopez , Mohammad Alsalti , Matthias A. Müller

Our ability to manipulate the behavior of complex networks depends on the design of efficient control algorithms and, critically, on the availability of an accurate and tractable model of the network dynamics. While the design of control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Giacomo Baggio , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

Control of complex systems involves both system identification and controller design. Deep neural networks have proven to be successful in many identification tasks, however, from model-based control perspective, these networks are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Yize Chen , Yuanyuan Shi , Baosen Zhang

This paper proposes Select-Data-driven Predictive Control (Select-DPC), a new method for controlling nonlinear systems using output-feedback for which data are available but an explicit model is not. At each timestep, Select-DPC employs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Joshua Näf , Keith Moffat , Jaap Eising , Florian Dörfler

The data-driven techniques have been developed to deal with the output regulation problem of unknown linear systems by various approaches. In this paper, we first extend an existing algorithm from single-input single-output linear systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Liquan Lin , Jie Huang

This paper studies the finite-horizon linear quadratic regulation problem where the dynamics of the system are assumed to be unknown and the state is accessible. Information on the system is given by a finite set of input-state data, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Monica Rotulo , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

This paper presents a novel robust trajectory optimization method for constrained nonlinear dynamical systems subject to unknown bounded disturbances. In particular, we seek optimal control policies that remain robustly feasible with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Arshiya Taj Abdul , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We introduce a method to deal with the data-driven control design of nonlinear systems. We derive conditions to design controllers via (approximate) nonlinearity cancellation. These conditions take the compact form of data-dependent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Claudio De Persis , Monica Rotulo , Pietro Tesi

The fundamental lemma from behavioral systems theory yields a data-driven non-parametric system representation that has shown great potential for the data-efficient control of unknown linear and weakly nonlinear systems, even in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Johannes Teutsch , Sebastian Ellmaier , Sebastian Kerz , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

Optimal control of bilinear systems has been a well-studied subject in the areas of mathematical and computational optimal control. However, effective methods for solving emerging optimal control problems involving an ensemble of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Shuo Wang , Jr-Shin Li

Selecting the best hyperparameters for a particular optimization instance, such as the learning rate and momentum, is an important but nonconvex problem. As a result, iterative optimization methods such as hypergradient descent lack global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Xinyi Chen , Elad Hazan

The theory of covariance control and covariance steering (CS) deals with controlling the dispersion of trajectories of a dynamical system, under the implicit assumption that accurate prior knowledge of the system being controlled is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Joshua Pilipovsky , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, we study a class of finite-time control problems for discrete-time positive linear systems with time-varying state parameters. Although several interesting control problems appearing in population biology, economics, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Chengyan Zhao , Masaki Ogura , Kenji Sugimoto

This paper proposes a fully data-driven approach for optimal control of nonlinear control-affine systems represented by a stochastic diffusion. The focus is on the scenario where both the nonlinear dynamics and stage cost functions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Nicolas Hoischen , Petar Bevanda , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche , Boris Houska