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Establishing stability certificates for closed-loop systems under reinforcement learning (RL) policies is essential to move beyond empirical performance and offer guarantees of system behavior. Classical Lyapunov methods require a strict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kehan Long , Jorge Cortés , Nikolay Atanasov

Reinforcement learning (RL) is promising for complicated stochastic nonlinear control problems. Without using a mathematical model, an optimal controller can be learned from data evaluated by certain performance criteria through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Minghao Han , Yuan Tian , Lixian Zhang , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

Reinforcement Learning (RL) and its integration with deep learning have achieved impressive performance in various robotic control tasks, ranging from motion planning and navigation to end-to-end visual manipulation. However, stability is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Minghao Han , Lixian Zhang , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

This paper develops a robust control synthesis method for uncertain linear systems with input saturation in the framework of integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). The system is reformulated as a linear fractional representation (LFR) that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Xu Zhang , Fen Wu

This paper addresses the problem of online inverse reinforcement learning for nonlinear systems with modeling uncertainties while in the presence of unknown disturbances. The developed approach observes state and input trajectories for an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Ryan Self , Moad Abudia , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Practical stabilization of input-affine systems in the presence of measurement errors and input constraints is considered in this brief note. Assuming that a Lyapunov function and a stabilizing control exist for an input-affine system, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Patrick Schmidt , Pavel Osinenko , Stefan Streif

We develop a predictor-feedback control design for multi-input nonlinear systems with distinct input delays, of arbitrary length, in each individual input channel. Due to the fact that different input signals reach the plant at different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis , Miroslav Krstic

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Vivek Sharma , Pan Zhao , Naira Hovakimyan

This paper considers a wide class of smooth continuous dynamic nonlinear systems (control objects) with a measurable vector of state. The problem is to find a special function (Lyapunov function), which in the framework of the second…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 A. M. Zenkin , A. A. Peregudin , A. A. Bobtsov

Safety is a fundamental requirement for autonomous systems operating in critical domains. Control barrier functions (CBFs) have been used to design safety filters that minimally alter nominal controls for such systems to maintain their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yuxuan Yang , Hussein Sibai

Converse optimality theory addresses an optimal control problem conversely where the system is unknown and the value function is chosen. Previous work treated this problem both in continuous and discrete time and non-extensively considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Rania Tafat , Thomas Göhrt , Stefan Streif

The paper describes a novel method for studying the stability of nonautonomous dynamical systems. This method based on the flow and divergence of the vector field with coupling to the method of Lyapunov functions. The necessary and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Igor Furtat

This paper is concerned with model reference adaptive controller design for a class of nonlinear fractional order systems. Recent works on this topic rarely include direct methods and they are mostly based on indirect methods where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Seyed Mohammad Moein Mousavi , Mohammad T. H. Beheshti , Amin Ramezani

In this paper we introduce a new method to design control laws for non-linear underactuated systems. Our method produces an infinite dimensional family of control laws, whereas most control techniques only produce a finite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dave Auckly , Lev Kapitanski , Warren White

We propose a learning-based method for Lyapunov stability analysis of piecewise affine dynamical systems in feedback with piecewise affine neural network controllers. The proposed method consists of an iterative interaction between a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Shaoru Chen , Mahyar Fazlyab , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas , Victor M. Preciado

Design and analysis of stabilizing controllers with safety guarantees for nonlinear systems have received considerable attention in recent years. Control Lyapunov-barrier functions (CLBFs) provide a powerful framework for simultaneously…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Yiming Meng , Jun Liu

Control Lyapunov functions are a central tool in the design and analysis of stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems. Constructing such functions, however, remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we investigate physics-informed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Jun Liu , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , Ruikun Zhou , Yiming Meng

The paper deals with the control and regulation by integral controllers forthe nonlinear systems governed by scalar quasi-linear hyperbolic partial differentialequations. Both the control input and the measured output are located on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Vincent Andrieu , Ngoc-Tu Trinh , Cheng-Zhong Xu

We consider the problem of designing output feedback controllers that use measurements from a set of landmarks to navigate through a cell-decomposable environment using duality, Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions (CLF, CBF), and Linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Mahroo Bahreinian , Mehdi Kermanshah , Roberto Tron

In this paper, we develop and analyze an integral fixed-time sliding mode control method for a scenario in which the system model is only partially known, utilizing Gaussian processes. We present two theorems on fixed-time convergence. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Chaimae El Mortajinea , Moussa Labbadib , Adnane Saoudc , Mostafa Bouzia