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This article focuses on making discrete-time Adaptive Iterative Learning Control (ILC) more effective using multiple estimation models. Existing strategies use the tracking error to adjust the parametric estimates. Our strategy uses the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Ram Padmanabhan , Rajini Makam , Koshy George

Iterative Learning Control (ILC) is useful in spacecraft application for repeated high precision scanning maneuvers. Repetitive Control (RC) produces effective active vibration isolation based on frequency response. This paper considers ILC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Shuo Liu , Richard W. Longman , Benjamas Panomruttanarug

When robots operate in unknown environments small errors in postions can lead to large variations in the contact forces, especially with typical high-impedance designs. This can potentially damage the surroundings and/or the robot. Series…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Nathan Banka , W. Tony Piaskowy , Joseph Garbini , Santosh Devasia

High-quality and representative data is essential for both Imitation Learning (IL)- and Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based motion planning tasks. For real robots, it is challenging to collect enough qualified data either as demonstrations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Sha Luo , Lambert Schomaker

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a method for reducing system tracking or estimation errors over multiple iterations by using information from past iterations. The disturbance observer (DOB) is used to estimate and mitigate disturbances…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Harsh Modi , Zhu Chen , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

Various spacecraft have sensors that repeatedly perform a prescribed scanning maneuver, and one may want high precision. Iterative Learning Control (ILC) records previous run tracking error, adjusts the next run command, aiming for zero…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Richard W. Longman , Shuo Liu , Tarek A. Elsharhawy

Robust and adaptive control strategies are needed when robots or automated systems are introduced to unknown and dynamic environments where they are required to cope with disturbances, unmodeled dynamics, and parametric uncertainties. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Karime Pereida , Dave Kooijman , Rikky R. P. R. Duivenvoorden , Angela P. Schoellig

This work improves the positioning precision of lightweight robots with series elastic actuators (SEAs). Lightweight SEA robots, along with low-impedance control, can maneuver without causing damage in uncertain, confined spaces such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Leon Yan , Nathan Banka , Parker Owan , Walter Tony Piaskowy , Joseph Garbini , Santosh Devasia

Iterative learning control (ILC) improves the performance of a repetitive system by learning from previous trials. ILC can be combined with Model Predictive Control (MPC) to mitigate non-repetitive disturbances, thus improving overall…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

This paper presents an iterative learning control (ILC) scheme for continuously operated repetitive systems for which no initial condition reset exists. To accomplish this, we develop a lifted system representation that accounts for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Maxwell Wu , Mitchell Cobb , James Reed , Kirti Mishra , Chris Vermillion , Kira Barton

This paper studies data-driven iterative learning control (ILC) for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems with unknown dynamics, output disturbances and input box-constraints. Our main contributions are: 1) using a non-parametric data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-25 Jia Wang , Leander Hemelhof , Ivan Markovsky , Panagiotis Patrinos

Iterative learning control (ILC) techniques are capable of improving the tracking performance of control systems that repeatedly perform similar tasks by utilizing data from past iterations. The aim of this paper is to design a systematic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Tjeerd Ickenroth , Max van Haren , Johan Kon , Max van Meer , Jilles van hulst , Tom Oomen

Feedback control systems do not do what you ask. The concept of bandwidth is defined to tell what components of a command are reasonably well handled. Iterative Learning Control (ILC) seeks to converge to zero error following any given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Shuo Liu , Richard W. Longman

Solving motion tasks autonomously and accurately is a core ability for intelligent real-world systems. To achieve genuine autonomy across multiple systems and tasks, key challenges include coping with unknown dynamics and overcoming the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Jan-Hendrik Ewering , Alessandro Papa , Simon F. G. Ehlers , Thomas Seel , Michael Meindl

A significant limitation of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is the stochastic uncertainty in actions generated during exploration-exploitation, which poses substantial safety risks during both training and deployment. In industrial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Runze Lin , Ziqi Zhuo , Junghui Chen , Lei Xie , Hongye Su

Cross-coupled iterative learning control (ILC) can achieve high performance for manufacturing applications in which tracking a contour is essential for the quality of a product. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Leontine Aarnoudse , Johan Kon , Koen Classens , Max van Meer , Maurice Poot , Paul Tacx , Nard Strijbosch , Tom Oomen

Iterative Learning Control (ILC) enables high control performance through learning from measured data, using only limited model knowledge in the form of a nominal parametric model. Robust stability requires robustness to modeling errors,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Lennart Blanken , Tom Oomen

This paper develops a Closed-Loop Error Learning Control (CLELC) algorithm for feedback linearizable systems with experimental validation on a mobile robot. Traditional feedback and feedforward controllers are designed based on the nominal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Erkan Kayacan

Proximity operations of rigid bodies, such as spacecraft rendezvous and docking, require precise tracking of both position and attitude over finite time intervals. These operations are often repeated under uncertain conditions, with unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Fan Zhang , Deyuan Meng , Ying Tan

Exoskeleton robots have become a promising tool in neurorehabilitation, offering effective physical therapy and recovery monitoring. The success of these therapies relies on precise motion control systems. Although computed torque control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 SK Hasan