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We present a differentiable predictive control (DPC) methodology for learning constrained control laws for unknown nonlinear systems. DPC poses an approximate solution to multiparametric programming problems emerging from explicit nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Jan Drgona , Aaron Tuor , Soumya Vasisht , Elliott Skomski , Draguna Vrabie

Deep learning has enjoyed much recent success, and applying state-of-the-art model learning methods to controls is an exciting prospect. However, there is a strong reluctance to use these methods on safety-critical systems, which have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 David D. Fan , Jennifer Nguyen , Rohan Thakker , Nikhilesh Alatur , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This paper addresses the problem of composite synchronization and learning control in a network of multi-agent robotic manipulator systems with heterogeneous nonlinear uncertainties under a leader-follower framework. A novel two-layer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Emadodin Jandaghi , Dalton L. Stein , Adam Hoburg , Paolo Stegagno , Mingxi Zhou , Chengzhi Yuan

Reinforcement learning-based controller design methods often require substantial data in the initial training phase. Moreover, the training process tends to exhibit strong randomness and slow convergence. It often requires considerable time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Chenxu Ke , Congling Tian , Kaichen Xu , Ye Li , Lingcong Bao

This paper proposes a new robust data-driven control method for linear systems with bounded disturbances, where the system model and disturbances are unknown. Due to disturbances, accurately determining the true system becomes challenging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Kaijian Hu , Tao Liu

Pursuit-evasion is the problem of capturing mobile targets with one or more pursuers. We use deep reinforcement learning for pursuing an omni-directional target with multiple, homogeneous agents that are subject to unicycle kinematic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cristino de Souza , Rhys Newbury , Akansel Cosgun , Pedro Castillo , Boris Vidolov , Dana Kulic

This paper presents a novel model-reference reinforcement learning control method for uncertain autonomous surface vehicles. The proposed control combines a conventional control method with deep reinforcement learning. With the conventional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Qingrui Zhang , Wei Pan , Vasso Reppa

The lack of stability guarantee restricts the practical use of learning-based methods in core control problems in robotics. We develop new methods for learning neural control policies and neural Lyapunov critic functions in the model-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ya-Chien Chang , Sicun Gao

We present a new method for learning control law that stabilizes an unknown nonlinear dynamical system at an equilibrium point. We formulate a system identification task in a self-supervised learning setting that jointly learns a controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-17 Priyabrata Saha , Magnus Egerstedt , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

While ensuring stability for linear systems is well understood, it remains a major challenge for nonlinear systems. A general approach in such cases is to compute a combination of a Lyapunov function and an associated control policy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Junlin Wu , Andrew Clark , Yiannis Kantaros , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Machine learning techniques have demonstrated their effectiveness in achieving autonomy and optimality for nonlinear and high-dimensional dynamical systems. However, traditional black-box machine learning methods often lack formal stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Kun Wang , Roberto Armellin , Adam Evans , Harry Holt , Zheng Chen

Stability enforcement remains a challenge in data-driven control paradigms, where no parametrised model of the system is available. For instance, the system's instabilities can be estimated in order to enforce a closed-loop stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Basile Bouteau , Pauline Kergus , Pierre Vuillemin

Model-based reinforcement learning is an effective approach for controlling an unknown system. It is based on a longstanding pipeline familiar to the control community in which one performs experiments on the environment to collect a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Bruce D. Lee , Ingvar Ziemann , George J. Pappas , Nikolai Matni

Object-centric world models (OCWM) aim to decompose visual scenes into object-level representations, providing structured abstractions that could improve compositional generalization and data efficiency in reinforcement learning. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Stefano Ferraro , Akihiro Nakano , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo

In this work, we introduce a novel data-driven model-reference control design approach for unknown linear systems with fully measurable state. The proposed control action is composed by a static feedback term and a reference tracking block,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Valentina Breschi , Claudio De Persis , Simone Formentin , Pietro Tesi

Modern nonlinear control theory seeks to endow systems with properties such as stability and safety, and has been deployed successfully across various domains. Despite this success, model uncertainty remains a significant challenge in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Andrew J. Taylor , Victor D. Dorobantu , Sarah Dean , Benjamin Recht , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames

Deep learning methods have been widely used in robotic applications, making learning-enabled control design for complex nonlinear systems a promising direction. Although deep reinforcement learning methods have demonstrated impressive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Zili Wang , Sean B. Andersson , Roberto Tron

Infinite-time nonlinear optimal regulation control is widely utilized in aerospace engineering as a systematic method for synthesizing stable controllers. However, conventional methods often rely on linearization hypothesis, while recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Han Wang , Di Wu , Lin Cheng , Shengping Gong , Xu Huang

In this work we present a system identification procedure based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for human posture control models. A usual approach to the study of human posture control consists in the identification of parameters for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Vittorio Lippi , Thomas Mergner , Christoph Maurer

We develop an indirect-adaptive model predictive control algorithm for uncertain linear systems subject to constraints. The system is modeled as a polytopic linear parameter varying system where the convex combination vector is constant but…

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