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This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for linear systems possessing a known strict-feedback structure, but with most plant parameters, external disturbances, and input delay being unknown. By leveraging Koopman operator…

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We present a new method for the automated synthesis of digital controllers with formal safety guarantees for systems with nonlinear dynamics, noisy output measurements, and stochastic disturbances. Our method derives digital controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Fedor Shmarov , Sadegh Soudjani , Nicola Paoletti , Ezio Bartocci , Shan Lin , Scott A. Smolka , Paolo Zuliani

This paper addresses the problem of optimally controlling nonlinear systems with norm-bounded disturbances and parametric uncertainties while robustly satisfying constraints. The proposed approach jointly optimizes a nominal nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Antoine P. Leeman , Jerome Sieber , Samir Bennani , Melanie N. Zeilinger

In this paper, a method is presented to synthesize neural network controllers such that the feedback system of plant and controller is dissipative, certifying performance requirements such as L2 gain bounds. The class of plants considered…

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Considering discrete-time linear time-varying systems with unknown dynamics, controllers guaranteeing bounded closed-loop trajectories, optimal performance and robustness to process and measurement noise are designed via convex feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Benita Nortmann , Thulasi Mylvaganam

We study the constrained linear quadratic regulator with unknown dynamics, addressing the tension between safety and exploration in data-driven control techniques. We present a framework which allows for system identification through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Sarah Dean , Stephen Tu , Nikolai Matni , Benjamin Recht

This paper addresses data-driven control of continuous-time systems. We develop a framework based on synthesis operators associated with input and state trajectories. A key advantage of the proposed method is that it does not require the…

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In an open-loop experiment, an input sequence is applied to an unknown linear time-invariant system (in continuous or discrete time) affected also by an unknown-but-bounded disturbance sequence (with an energy or instantaneous bound); the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

The control of complex systems faces a trade-off between high performance and safety guarantees, which in particular restricts the application of learning-based methods to safety-critical systems. A recently proposed framework to address…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Predictive control, which is based on a model of the system to compute the applied input optimizing the future system behavior, is by now widely used. If the nominal models are not given or are very uncertain, data-driven model predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Hoang Hai Nguyen , Maurice Friedel , Rolf Findeisen

This paper presents a data-driven nonlinear safe control design approach for discrete-time systems under parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances. We first characterize a new control structure from which a data-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Amir Modares , Bosen Lian , Hamidreza Modares

This work proposes a robust data-driven predictive control approach for unknown nonlinear systems in the presence of bounded process and measurement noise. Data-driven reachable sets are employed for the controller design instead of using…

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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

Safe control with guarantees generally requires the system model to be known. It is far more challenging to handle systems with uncertain parameters. In this paper, we propose a generic algorithm that can synthesize and verify safe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Simin Liu , Kai S. Yun , John M. Dolan , Changliu Liu

Control using quantized feedback is a fundamental approach to system synthesis with limited communication capacity. In this paper, we address the stabilization problem for unknown linear systems with logarithmically quantized feedback, via…

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In this paper, we deal with data-driven predictive control of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. Specifically, we show for the first time how explicit predictive laws can be learnt directly from data, without needing to identify the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Andrea Sassella , Valentina Breschi , Simone Formentin

Safety is closely related to set invariance for dynamical systems. However, synthesizing a safe invariant set and at the same time synthesizing the associated safe controller still remains challenging. In this note we introduce a simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Han Wang , Kostas Margellos , Antonis Papachristodoulou

This paper presents a novel direct data-driven control framework for solving the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) under disturbances and noisy state measurements. The system dynamics are assumed unknown, and the LQR solution is learned…

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We consider the problem of safety verification and safety-aware controller synthesis for systems with sector bounded nonlinearities. We aim to keep the states of the system within a given safe set under potential actuator and sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Yankai Lin , Michelle S. Chong , Carlos Murguia

We consider the problem of designing finite-horizon safe controllers for a dynamical system for which no explicit analytical model exists and limited data only along a single trajectory of the system are available. Given samples of the…

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