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In this work, we study model-based reinforcement learning (RL) in unknown stabilizable linear dynamical systems. When learning a dynamical system, one needs to stabilize the unknown dynamics in order to avoid system blow-ups. We propose an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Sahin Lale , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Babak Hassibi , Anima Anandkumar

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for nonlinear discrete-time systems with parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach constructs a data-consistent closed-loop representation that enables…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Amir Modares , Bahare Kiumarsi , Hamidreza Modares

Feedback-based control is the de-facto standard when it comes to controlling classical stochastic systems and processes. However, standard feedback-based control methods are challenged by quantum systems due to measurement induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kai Meinerz , Simon Trebst , Mark Rudner , Evert van Nieuwenburg

A major challenge in modern reinforcement learning (RL) is efficient control of dynamical systems from high-dimensional sensory observations. Learning controllable embedding (LCE) is a promising approach that addresses this challenge by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Brandon Cui , Yinlam Chow , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is applied to control a nonlinear, chaotic system governed by the one-dimensional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (KS) equation. DRL uses reinforcement learning principles for the determination of optimal control…

In this paper, we directly design a state feedback controller that stabilizes a class of uncertain nonlinear systems solely based on input-state data collected from a finite-length experiment. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Alessandro Luppi , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

We study constrained reinforcement learning (CRL) from a novel perspective by setting constraints directly on state density functions, rather than the value functions considered by previous works. State density has a clear physical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Zengyi Qin , Yuxiao Chen , Chuchu Fan

Practitioners often rely on compute-intensive domain randomization to ensure reinforcement learning policies trained in simulation can robustly transfer to the real world. Due to unmodeled nonlinearities in the real system, however, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Gabriel I. Fernandez , Colin Togashi , Dennis W. Hong , Lin F. Yang

The integration of Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for constrained decision-making and adaptive control. MPC offers structured optimization, explicit constraint handling,…

An approach to stabilization of control systems with ultimately wide ranges of uncertainly disturbed parameters is offered. The method relies on using of nonlinear structurally stable functions from catastrophe theory as controllers.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-20 Viktor Ten

This paper concerns identification of uncontrolled or closed loop nonlinear systems using a set of trajectories that are generated by the system in a domain of attraction. The objective is to ensure that the trajectories of the identified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Moad Abudia , Joel A. Rosenfeld , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Complex mechanical systems such as vehicle powertrains are inherently subject to multiple nonlinearities and uncertainties arising from parametric variations. Modeling errors are therefore unavoidable, making the transfer of control systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Heisei Yonezawa , Ansei Yonezawa , Itsuro Kajiwara

While reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to enable robots to autonomously acquire a wide range of skills, in practice, RL usually requires manual, per-task engineering of reward functions, especially in real world settings where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Tianhe Yu , Gleb Shevchuk , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

In this paper, we have proposed a resilient reinforcement learning method for discrete-time linear systems with unknown parameters, under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The proposed method is based on policy iteration that learns the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Sayan Chakraborty , Weinan Gao , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Zhong-Ping Jiang

Linearising the dynamics of nonlinear mechanical systems is an important and open research area. A common approach is feedback linearisation, which is a nonlinear control method that transforms the input-output response of a nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Merijn Floren , Koen Classens , Tom Oomen , Jean-Philippe Noël

The paper deals with the data-based design of state-feedback controllers that solve the output regulation problem for a class of nonlinear systems. Inspired by recent developments in model-based output regulation design techniques and in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Zhongjie Hu , Claudio De Persis , John W. Simpson-Porco , Pietro Tesi

This study proposes a feedback linearisation based on the back-stepping method with simple implementation and unique design process to design a non-linear controller with a goal of improving both steady-state and transient stability. The…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-28 E. Babaei , S. A. KH. Mozaffari Niapour , Mehrdad Tabarraie

The fundamental lemma from behavioral systems theory yields a data-driven non-parametric system representation that has shown great potential for the data-efficient control of unknown linear and weakly nonlinear systems, even in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Johannes Teutsch , Sebastian Ellmaier , Sebastian Kerz , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

One approach for feedback control using high dimensional and rich sensor measurements is to classify the measurement into one out of a finite set of situations, each situation corresponding to a (known) control action. This approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Hasan A. Poonawala , Niklas Lauffer , Ufuk Topcu

This paper presents an indirect data-driven output feedback controller synthesis for nonlinear systems, leveraging Structured State-space Models (SSMs) as surrogate models. SSMs have emerged as a compelling alternative in modelling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Muhammad Zakwan , Vaibhav Gupta , Alireza Karimi , Efe C. Balta , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate