English
Related papers

Related papers: Data-Driven Optimal Control of Bilinear Systems

200 papers

This paper studies the data-driven synthesis of linear quadratic integral (LQI) controllers for continuous-time systems. The objective is to achieve optimal state-feedback control with integral action for reference tracking using only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Armin Gießler , Pol Jané-Soneira , Sören Hohmann

Data-driven control of discrete-time and continuous-time systems is of tremendous research interest. In this paper, we explore data-driven optimal control of continuous-time linear systems using input-output data. Based on a density result,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Philipp Schmitz , Timm Faulwasser , Paolo Rapisarda , Karl Worthmann

A new data-enabled control technique for uncertain linear time-invariant systems, recently conceived by Coulson et\ al., builds upon the direct optimization of controllers over input/output pairs drawn from a large dataset. We adopt an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Filippo Fabiani , Paul J. Goulart

In this paper we propose an end-to-end algorithm for indirect data-driven control for bilinear systems with stability guarantees. We consider the case where the collected i.i.d. data is affected by probabilistic noise with possibly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Nicolas Chatzikiriakos , Robin Strässer , Frank Allgöwer , Andrea Iannelli

Data-driven control offers a powerful alternative to traditional model-based methods, particularly when accurate system models are unavailable or prohibitively complex. While existing data-driven control methods primarily aim to construct…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Janina Schaa , Thomas Berger

In this paper, we present a state-feedback controller design method for bilinear systems. To this end, we write the bilinear system as a linear fractional representation by interpreting the state in the bilinearity as a structured…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Robin Strässer , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer

We establish an algorithm to learn feedback maps from data for a class of robust model predictive control (MPC) problems. The algorithm accounts for the approximation errors due to the learning directly at the synthesis stage, ensuring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Siddhartha Ganguly , Shubham Gupta , Debasish Chatterjee

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

Data-driven control benefits from rich datasets, but constructing such datasets becomes challenging when gathering data is limited. We consider an offline experiment design approach to gathering data where we design a control input to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Sean Anderson , João Pedro Hespanha

This paper is concerned with a bilinear control problem for enhancing convection-cooling via an incompressible velocity field. Both optimal open-loop control and closed-loop feedback control designs are addressed. First and second order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Weiwei Hu , Jun Liu , Zhu Wang

Control invariant set is critical for guaranteeing safe control and the problem of computing control invariant set for linear discrete-time system is revisited in this paper by using a data-driven approach. Specifically, sample points on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Jun Xu , Fanglin Chen

We consider the problem of learning a realization of a partially observed dynamical system with linear state transitions and bilinear observations. Under very mild assumptions on the process and measurement noises, we provide a finite time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yahya Sattar , Yassir Jedra , Sarah Dean

This note aims to provide a systematic investigation of direct data-driven control, enriching the existing literature not by adding another isolated result, but rather by offering a unifying, versatile, and broad framework that enables the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Nima Monshizadeh , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

This paper presents a data-driven optimal control policy for a micro flapping wing unmanned aerial vehicle. First, a set of optimal trajectories are computed off-line based on a geometric formulation of dynamics that captures the nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Tejaswi K. C. , Taeyoung Lee

This paper investigates the data-driven predictive control problems for a class of continuous-time industrial processes with completely unknown dynamics. The proposed approach employs the data-driven technique to get the system matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Yuanqiang Zhou , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi

We propose the application of Koopman operator theory for the design of stabilizing feedback controller for a nonlinear control system. The proposed approach is data-driven and relies on the use of time-series data generated from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-24 Bowen Huang , Xu Ma , Umesh Vaidya

In this paper, we provide a direct data-driven approach to synthesize safety controllers for unknown linear systems affected by unknown-but-bounded disturbances, in which identifying the unknown model is not required. First, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Bingzhuo Zhong , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

This paper proposes a robust control design method using reinforcement-learning for controlling partially-unknown dynamical systems under uncertain conditions. The method extends the optimal reinforcement-learning algorithm with a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Phuong D. Ngo , Fred Godtliebsen

We present a data-driven algorithm for efficiently computing stochastic control policies for general joint chance constrained optimal control problems. Our approach leverages the theory of kernel distribution embeddings, which allows…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Adam J. Thorpe , Thomas Lew , Meeko M. K. Oishi , Marco Pavone

In this paper, we study the use of state-of-the-art nonlinear system identification techniques for the optimal control of nonlinear systems. We show that the nonlinear systems identification problem is equivalent to estimating the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Aayushman Sharma , Suman Chakravorty