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We provide novel sufficient conditions for stability of nonlinear and time-varying impulsive systems. These conditions generalize, extend, and strengthen many existing results. Different types of input-to-state stability (ISS), as well as…

Recurrent Neural networks (RNN) have shown promising potential for learning dynamics of sequential data. However, artificial neural networks are known to exhibit poor robustness in presence of input noise, where the sequential architecture…

Incremental stability properties are considered for certain systems of forced, nonlinear differential equations with a particular positivity structure. An incremental stability estimate is derived for pairs of input/state/output…

The present work provides two alternatives to formulate time-discounted incremental input/output-to-state stability (i-IOSS) as a suitable detectability notion for general nonlinear systems with non-additive disturbances. Both formulations…

In this work, we address the need for efficient and formally stable Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) in environments with limited computational resources by analyzing the stability of the Minimal Gated Unit (MGU) network, a lightweight…

This paper introduces recurrent equilibrium networks (RENs), a new class of nonlinear dynamical models} for applications in machine learning, system identification and control. The new model class admits ``built in'' behavioural guarantees…

Recurrent neural networks are a widely used class of neural architectures. They have, however, two shortcomings. First, they are often treated as black-box models and as such it is difficult to understand what exactly they learn as well as…

Owing to their superior modeling capabilities, gated Recurrent Neural Networks, such as Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) and Long Short-Term Memory networks (LSTMs), have become popular tools for learning dynamical systems. This paper aims to…

Incremental stability is a property of dynamical systems that ensures the convergence of trajectories with respect to each other rather than a fixed equilibrium point or a fixed trajectory. In this paper, we introduce a related stability…

This paper proposes a control strategy consisting of a robust controller and an Echo State Network (ESN) based control law for stabilizing a class of uncertain nonlinear discrete-time systems subject to persistent disturbances. Firstly, the…

This paper presents a method that learns a regionally stable recurrent neural network model from a set of input-output data generated by an unknown dynamical system. Relying on generalized sector conditions on the deadzone activation…

In this paper, the incremental stability of interconnected switched nonlinear systems is discussed. The nature of switching considered is state-dependent. The incremental stability of the switched interconnected system is a stronger…

We introduce MinimalRNN, a new recurrent neural network architecture that achieves comparable performance as the popular gated RNNs with a simplified structure. It employs minimal updates within RNN, which not only leads to efficient…

A recurrent neural network (RNN) possesses the echo state property (ESP) if, for a given input sequence, it ``forgets'' any internal states of the driven (nonautonomous) system and asymptotically follows a unique, possibly complex…

This paper presents versions of integral input-to-state stability and integral input-to-integral-state stability for nonlinear sampled-data systems, under the low measurement rate constraint. In particular, we compensate the lack of…

This paper addresses the problem of resilient state estimation and attack reconstruction for bounded-error nonlinear discrete-time systems with nonlinear observations/ constraints, where both sensors and actuators can be compromised by…

This paper addresses the offset-free tracking problem for nonlinear systems described by a class of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). To compensate for constant disturbances and guarantee offset-free tracking in the presence of model-plant…

This paper deals with strong versions of input-to-state stability and integral input-to-state stability of infinite-dimensional linear systems with an unbounded input operator. We show that infinite-time admissibility with respect to inputs…

This work primarily focuses on synthesizing a controller that guarantees an unknown continuous-time system to be incrementally input-to-state stable ($\delta$-ISS). In this context, the notion of $\delta$-ISS control Lyapunov function…

In this paper, we show that, under mild assumptions, input-output behavior of a continous-time recurrent neural network (RNN) can be represented by a rational or polynomial nonlinear system. The assumptions concern the activation function…