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We present a finite-time framework for identifying stable and unstable linear time-invariant (LTI) systems from a single closed-loop input-output trajectory. The method does not require knowledge of the stabilizing controller, an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ahmad Al-Tawaha , Ming Jin , Khaled F. Aljanaideh

Robust controller synthesis attracts reviving research interest, driven by the rise of learning-based systems where uncertainty and perturbation are ubiquitous. Facing an uncertain situation, a robustly stabilizing controller should…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Shih-Hao Tseng

The paper studies digital redesign of linear time-invariant analog controllers under intermittent sampling. The sampling pattern is only assumed to be uniformly bounded, but otherwise irregular and unknown a priori. The contribution of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Leonid Mirkin

The dual Youla method for closed loop identification is known to have several practically important merits. Namely, it provides an accurate plant model irrespective of noise models, and fits inherently to handle unstable plants by using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Toshiharu Sugie , Ichiro Maruta

We consider the problem of stabilization of a linear system, under state and control constraints, and subject to bounded disturbances and unknown parameters in the state matrix. First, using a simple least square solution and available…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Edouard Leurent , Denis Efimov , Odalric-Ambrym Maillard

In this paper, a novel online, output-feedback, critic-only, model-based reinforcement learning framework is developed for safety-critical control systems operating in complex environments. The developed framework ensures system stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Tochukwu Elijah Ogri , Muzaffar Qureshi , Zachary I. Bell , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

We consider the problem of estimating the state transition matrix of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system, given access to multiple independent trajectories sampled from the system. Several recent papers have conducted a non-asymptotic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Vinay Kanakeri , Aritra Mitra

This paper considers a finite sample perspective on the problem of identifying an LTI system from a finite set of possible systems using trajectory data. To this end, we use the maximum likelihood estimator to identify the true system and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Nicolas Chatzikiriakos , Andrea Iannelli

This paper investigates the problem of robust model predictive control (RMPC) of linear-time-invariant (LTI) discrete-time systems subject to structured uncertainty and bounded disturbances. Typically, the constrained RMPC problem with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-18 Anastasis Georgiou , Furqan Tahir , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Simos A. Evangelou

We study the problem of stabilizing an unknown partially observable linear time-invariant (LTI) system. For fully observable systems, leveraging an unstable/stable subspace decomposition approach, state-of-art sample complexity is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Ziyi Zhang , Yorie Nakahira , Guannan Qu

We present a robust synthesis algorithm for uncertain linear time-varying (LTV) systems on finite horizons. The uncertain system is described as an interconnection of a known LTV system and a perturbation. The input-output behavior of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Jyot Buch , Peter Seiler

Neural networks have demonstrated remarkable success in modeling nonlinear dynamical systems. However, identifying these systems from closed-loop experimental data remains a challenge due to the correlations induced by the feedback loop.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Mahrokh G. Boroujeni , Laura Meroi , Leonardo Massai , Clara L. Galimberti , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

This paper addresses the problems of stabilization, robust control, and observer design for nonlinear systems. We build upon recently a proposed method based on contraction theory and convex optimization, extending the class of systems to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Ian R. Manchester , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

A new approach for robust Hinfty filtering for a class of Lipschitz nonlinear systems with time-varying uncertainties both in the linear and nonlinear parts of the system is proposed in an LMI framework. The admissible Lipschitz constant of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Masoud Abbaszadeh , Horacio J. Marquez

This paper presents a synthesis method for robust, regret optimal control. The plant is modeled in discrete-time by an uncertain linear time-invariant (LTI) system. An optimal non-causal controller is constructed using the nominal plant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Jietian Liu , Peter Seiler

The framework of linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems has shown to be a powerful tool for the design of controllers for complex nonlinear systems using linear tools. In this work, we derive novel methods that allow to synthesize LPV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Chris Verhoek , Roland Tóth , Hossam S. Abbas

Standard H-infinity/H2 robust control and analysis tools operate on uncertain parameters assumed to vary independently within prescribed bounds. This paper extends their capabilities in the presence of constraints coupling these parameters…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Ervan Kassarian , Francesco Sanfedino , Daniel Alazard , Andrea Marrazza

Stabilizing an unknown dynamical system is one of the central problems in control theory. In this paper, we study the sample complexity of the learn-to-stabilize problem in Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems on a single trajectory. Current…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Yang Hu , Adam Wierman , Guannan Qu

We consider the problem of designing a feedback controller which robustly regulates an LTI system to an optimal operating point in the presence of unmeasured disturbances. A general design framework based on so-called optimality models was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-18 John W. Simpson-Porco

This article shows that distributionally robust controller synthesis as investigated in \cite{taskesen2024distributionally} can be formulated as a convex linear matrix inequality (LMI) synthesis problem. To this end, we rely on…

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