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While stability analysis is a mainstay for control science, especially computing regions of attraction of equilibrium points, until recently most stability analysis tools always required explicit knowledge of the model or a high-fidelity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Matteo Tacchi , Yingzhao Lian , Colin Jones

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…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Hamed Rezaee , Ludovic Renson

Adaptive control is subject to stability and performance issues when a learned model is used to enhance its performance. This paper thus presents a deep learning-based adaptive control framework for nonlinear systems with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Hiroyasu Tsukamoto , Soon-Jo Chung , Jean-Jacques Slotine

We present a learning-based predictive control methodology using the differentiable programming framework with probabilistic Lyapunov-based stability guarantees. The neural Lyapunov differentiable predictive control (NLDPC) learns the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Sayak Mukherjee , Ján Drgoňa , Aaron Tuor , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Draguna Vrabie

Learning-based model predictive control (MPC) is an approach designed to reduce the computational cost of MPC. In this paper, a constrained deep neural network (DNN) design is proposed to learn MPC policy for nonlinear systems. Using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Farshid Asadi

Learned models and policies can generalize effectively when evaluated within the distribution of the training data, but can produce unpredictable and erroneous outputs on out-of-distribution inputs. In order to avoid distribution shift when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Katie Kang , Paula Gradu , Jason Choi , Michael Janner , Claire Tomlin , Sergey Levine

Achieving highly dynamic behaviors on humanoid robots, such as running, requires controllers that are both robust and precise, and hence difficult to design. Classical control methods offer valuable insight into how such systems can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zachary Olkin , Kejun Li , William D. Compton , Aaron D. Ames

Control of a dynamical system without the knowledge of dynamics is an important and challenging task. Modern machine learning approaches, such as deep neural networks (DNNs), allow for the estimation of a dynamics model from control inputs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Suruchi Sharma , Volodymyr Makarenko , Gautam Kumar , Stas Tiomkin

We propose a piecewise learning framework for controlling nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics. While model-based reinforcement learning techniques in terms of some basis functions are well known in the literature, when it comes to more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Milad Farsi , Yinan Li , Ye Yuan , Jun Liu

Learning-based control aims to construct models of a system to use for planning or trajectory optimization, e.g. in model-based reinforcement learning. In order to obtain guarantees of safety in this context, uncertainty must be accurately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-08 David D. Fan , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is effective at generating safe control strategies in constrained scenarios, at the cost of computational complexity. This is especially the case in robots that require high sampling rates and have limited…

Recent advancements in model-free deep reinforcement learning have enabled efficient agent training. However, challenges arise when determining the region of attraction for these controllers, especially if the region does not fully cover…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Armin Ghanbarzadeh , Esmaeil Najafi

While deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have achieved unprecedented successes in a range of challenging problems, their applicability has been mainly limited to simulation or game domains due to the high sample complexity of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Siyi Li , Tianbo Liu , Chi Zhang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Shaojie Shen

Learning-based methods are powerful in handling complex scenarios. However, it is still challenging to use learning-based methods under uncertain environments while stability, safety, and real-time performance of the system are desired to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zhixuan Wu , Rui Yang , Lei Zheng , Hui Cheng

Recent advances in learning-based control leverage deep function approximators, such as neural networks, to model the evolution of controlled dynamical systems over time. However, the problem of learning a dynamics model and a stabilizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Youngjae Min , Spencer M. Richards , Navid Azizan

This paper presents L-Learning, a novel data-driven control framework for robotics that integrates Lyapunov stability theory with Lagrangian mechanics to enhance trajectory tracking performance. While traditional control methods often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Quan Quan , Hao Li

A new framework is developed for control of constrained nonlinear systems with structured parametric uncertainties. Forward invariance of a safe set is achieved through online parameter adaptation and data-driven model estimation. The new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Brett T. Lopez , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine , Jonathan P. How

This paper introduces the concept of parameter-dependent (PD) control Lyapunov functions (CLFs) for gain-scheduled stabilization of nonlinear parameter-varying (NPV) systems. It shows that given a PD-CLF, a min-norm control law can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Pan Zhao

Neglecting complex aerodynamic effects hinders high-speed yet high-precision multirotor autonomy. In this paper, we present a computationally efficient learning-based model predictive controller that simultaneously optimizes a trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Babak Akbari , Melissa Greeff

Safety and stability are common requirements for robotic control systems; however, designing safe, stable controllers remains difficult for nonlinear and uncertain models. We develop a model-based learning approach to synthesize robust…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Charles Dawson , Zengyi Qin , Sicun Gao , Chuchu Fan