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Control design for general nonlinear robotic systems with guaranteed stability and/or safety in the presence of model uncertainties is a challenging problem. Recent efforts attempt to learn a controller and a certificate (e.g., a Lyapunov…

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A Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) for linear system in presented. The proposed controller is an extension of the LMPC [1] and it aims to decrease the computational burden. The control scheme is reference-free and is able to…

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