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In Willems' behavioral systems theory, a dynamical system is identified with the set of all trajectories compatible with its laws of motion. In the linear time-invariant setting this trajectory set is a linear subspace, and its algebraic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Victor M. Preciado

Data-driven control based on the fundamental lemma by Willems et al. is frequently considered for deterministic LTI systems subject to measurement noise. However, besides measurement noise, stochastic disturbances might also directly affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Guanru Pan , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser

In this paper, a method to represent every input-output trajectory of a continuous-time linear system in terms of previously collected data is presented. This corresponds to a continuous-time version of the well-known Willems' lemma. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

We present a stochastic constrained output-feedback data-driven predictive control scheme for linear time-invariant systems subject to bounded additive disturbances. The approach uses data-driven predictors based on an extension of Willems'…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Johannes Teutsch , Sebastian Kerz , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

Willems' fundamental lemma asserts that all trajectories of a linear time-invariant system can be obtained from a finite number of measured ones, assuming that controllability and a persistency of excitation condition hold. We show that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Yue Yu , Shahriar Talebi , Henk J. van Waarde , Ufuk Topcu , Mehran Mesbahi , Behçet Açıkmeşe

Willems et al.'s fundamental lemma asserts that all trajectories of a linear system can be obtained from a single given one, assuming that a persistency of excitation condition holds. This result has profound implications for system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Henk J. van Waarde , Claudio De Persis , M. Kanat Camlibel , Pietro Tesi

Recently, the fundamental lemma by Willems et al. has been extended towards stochastic LTI systems subject to process disturbances. Using this lemma requires previously recorded data of inputs, outputs, and disturbances. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Ruchuan Ou , Guanru Pan , Timm Faulwasser

We illustrate a novel version of Willems' lemma for data-based representation of continuous-time systems. The main novelties compared to previous works are two. First, the proposed framework relies only on measured input-output trajectories…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller , Paolo Rapisarda

In this paper we investigate data-driven predictive control of discrete-time linear descriptor systems. Specifically, we give a tailored variant of Willems' fundamental lemma, which shows that for descriptor systems the non-parametric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Philipp Schmitz , Timm Faulwasser , Karl Worthmann

The fundamental lemma by Willems and coauthors facilitates a parameterization of all trajectories of a linear time-invariant system in terms of a single, measured one. This result plays an important role in data-driven simulation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Jeremy Coulson , Henk van Waarde , Florian Dörfler

The Willems' fundamental lemma, which characterizes linear dynamics with measured trajectories, has found successful applications in controller design and signal processing, which has driven a broad research interest in its extension to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Yingzhao Lian , Colin N. Jones

Data-driven control uses a past signal trajectory to characterise the input-output behaviour of a system. Willems' lemma provides a data-based prediction model allowing a control designer to bypass the step of identifying a state-space or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-25 Roy S. Smith , Mohamed Abdalmoaty , Mingzhou Yin

Willems' Fundamental Lemma provides a powerful data-driven parametrization of all trajectories of a controllable linear time-invariant system based on one trajectory with persistently exciting (PE) input. In this paper, we present a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Julian Berberich , Andrea Iannelli , Alberto Padoan , Jeremy Coulson , Florian Dörfler , Frank Allgöwer

Data-driven control of discrete-time and continuous-time systems is of tremendous research interest. In this paper, we explore data-driven optimal control of continuous-time linear systems using input-output data. Based on a density result,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Philipp Schmitz , Timm Faulwasser , Paolo Rapisarda , Karl Worthmann

The fundamental lemma by Jan C. Willems and co-authors enables the representation of all input-output trajectories of a linear time-invariant system by measured input-output data. This result has proven to be pivotal for data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Guanru Pan , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser

Based on the Fundamental Lemma by Willems et al., the entire behaviour of a Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) system can be characterised by a single data sequence of the system as long the input is persistently exciting. This is an essential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Chris Verhoek , Roland Tóth , Sofie Haesaert , Anne Koch

We develop an information-theoretic formulation of stochastic dynamics in which the fundamental stochastic variable is the total action connecting spacetime points, rather than individual paths. By maximizing Shannon entropy over a joint…

In the data-based setting, analysis and control design of dynamical systems using measured data are typically based on overlapping trajectory segments of the input and output variables. This could lead to complex designs because the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Yitao Yan , Jie Bao , Biao Huang

Data-driven predictive control methods based on the Willems' fundamental lemma have shown great success in recent years. These approaches use receding horizon predictive control with nonparametric data-driven predictors instead of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Mingzhou Yin , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

The paper investigates data-driven output-feedback predictive control of linear systems subject to stochastic disturbances. The scheme relies on the recursive solution of a suitable data-driven reformulation of a stochastic Optimal Control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Guanru Pan , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser
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