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Motion planning for autonomous driving must account for multi-modal uncertainty in both the intentions and trajectories of surrounding vehicles. Handling uncertainty in a worst-case manner guarantees robustness but often leads to excessive…
In this paper, we present a data-driven model predictive control (MPC) scheme that is capable of stabilizing unknown linear time-invariant systems under the influence of process disturbances. To this end, Willems' lemma is used to predict…
Control-based continuation (CBC) is a general and systematic method to explore the dynamic response of a physical system and perform bifurcation analysis directly during experimental tests. Although CBC has been successfully demonstrated on…
The growing scale and complexity of safety-critical control systems underscore the need to evolve current control architectures aiming for the unparalleled performances achievable through state-of-the-art optimization and machine learning…
In this paper we propose a stochastic model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for linear discrete-time systems affected by possibly unbounded additive disturbances and subject to probabilistic constraints. Constraints are treated in…
The problem of synthesizing stochastic explicit model predictive control policies is known to be quickly intractable even for systems of modest complexity when using classical control-theoretic methods. To address this challenge, we present…
We develop a tracking model predictive control (MPC) scheme for nonlinear systems using the linearized dynamics at the current state as a prediction model. Under reasonable assumptions on the linearized dynamics, we prove that the proposed…
This paper investigates the problem of data-driven stabilization for linear discrete-time switched systems with unknown switching dynamics. In the absence of noise, a data-based state feedback stabilizing controller can be obtained by…
Model-based methods are the dominant paradigm for controlling robotic systems, though their efficacy depends heavily on the accuracy of the model used. Deep neural networks have been used to learn models of robot dynamics from data, but…
This paper studies the robust optimal control design for uncertain nonlinear systems from a perspective of robust adaptive dynamic programming (robust-ADP). The objective is to fill up a gap in the past literature of ADP where dynamic…
This paper considers the problem of controlling a dynamical system when the state cannot be directly measured and the control performance metrics are unknown or partially known. In particular, we focus on the design of data-driven…
Robust control design for quantum systems has been recognized as a key task in the development of practical quantum technology. In this paper, we present a systematic numerical methodology of sampling-based learning control (SLC) for…
In the realm of control systems, model predictive control (MPC) has exhibited remarkable potential; however, its reliance on accurate models and substantial computational resources has hindered its broader application, especially within…
The performance of a conventional model-based controller significantly depends on the accuracy of the modeled dynamics. The model of a plant's dynamics is subjected to errors in estimating the numerical values of the physical parameters,…
The recently introduced energy-saving extension of the sub-optimal sliding mode control (SOSMC), which is known in the literature for the last two and half decades, incorporates a control-off mode that allows for saving energy during the…
This study proposes a coordinated ramp metering control framework in large networks based on scalable nonlinear traffic dynamics model discovery. Existing coordinated ramp metering control methods often require accurate traffic dynamics…
Reduced-order models have long been used to understand the behavior of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Naturally, reduced-order modeling techniques come at the price of computational accuracy for a decrease in computation…
We investigate stability analysis and controller design of unknown continuous-time systems under state-feedback with aperiodic sampling, using only noisy data but no model knowledge. We first derive a novel data-dependent parametrization of…
Non-equilibrium Markov State Modeling (MSM) has recently been proposed [Phys. Rev. E 94, 053001 (2016)] as a possible route to construct a physical theory of sliding friction from a long steady state atomistic simulation: the approach…
Projection-based model reduction has become a popular approach to reduce the cost associated with integrating large-scale dynamical systems so they can be used in many-query settings such as optimization and uncertainty quantification. For…