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In this work, we propose a compositional scheme for the safety controller synthesis of interconnected discrete-time stochastic systems with Markovian switching signals. Our proposed approach is based on a notion of so-called control storage…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Abolfazl Lavaei , Emilio Frazzoli

This work aims to synthesize a controller that ensures that an unknown discrete-time system is incrementally input-to-state stable ($\delta$-ISS). In this work, we introduce the notion of $\delta$-ISS control Lyapunov function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Ahan Basu , Bhabani Shankar Dey , Pushpak Jagtap

We consider interconnections of n nonlinear subsystems in the input-to-state stability (ISS) framework. For each subsystem an ISS Lyapunov function is given that treats the other subsystems as independent inputs. A gain matrix is used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-13 Sergey N. Dashkovskiy , Björn S. Rüffer , Fabian R. Wirth

Incremental input-to-state stability (delta-ISS) offers a robust framework to ensure that small input variations result in proportionally minor deviations in the state of a nonlinear system. This property is essential in practical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Mahdieh Zaker , David Angeli , Abolfazl Lavaei

This paper addresses the robust stability of a boundary controlled system coupling two partial differential equations (PDEs), namely beam and string equations, in the presence of boundary and in-domain disturbances under the framework of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Jun Zheng , Hugo Lhachemi , Guchuan Zhu , David Saussi

This paper develops a direct data-driven framework for infinite networks with unknown nonlinear polynomial subsystems, enabling the synthesis of controllers that ensure the entire network is uniformly globally asymptotically stable (UGAS).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mahdieh Zaker , Andrii Mironchenko , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

Stability certification and identifying a safe and stabilizing initial set are two important concerns in ensuring operational safety, stability, and robustness of dynamical systems. With the advent of machine-learning tools, these issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Soumyabrata Talukder , Ratnesh Kumar

Input-to-state stability (ISS) unifies global asymptotic stability with respect to variations of initial conditions with robustness with respect to external disturbances. First, we present Lyapunov characterizations for input-to-state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Andrii Mironchenko

This work focuses on a compositional data-driven approach to verify incremental global asymptotic stability (delta-GAS) over interconnected homogeneous networks of degree one with unknown mathematical dynamics. Our proposed approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Mahdieh Zaker , David Angeli , Abolfazl Lavaei

Deep learning methods have demonstrated significant potential for addressing complex nonlinear control problems. For real-world safety-critical tasks, however, it is crucial to provide formal stability guarantees for the designed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Han Wang , Keyan Miao , Diego Madeira , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Before 2025, no open-source system existed that could learn Lyapunov stability certificates directly from noisy, real-world flight data. This work addresses that gap by proposing a data-driven approach that learns Lyapunov functions from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Zhe Shen

While there has been increasing interest in using neural networks to compute Lyapunov functions, verifying that these functions satisfy the Lyapunov conditions and certifying stability regions remain challenging due to the curse of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Jun Liu , Yiming Meng , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , Ruikun Zhou

This paper addresses the critical challenge of developing data-driven certificates for the stability and safety of unmodeled dynamical systems by leveraging a tree data structure and an upper bound of the system's Lipschitz constant.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Amy K. Strong , Ali Kashani , Claus Danielson , Leila J. Bridgeman

Neural-network-based controllers (NNCs) can represent complex, highly nonlinear control laws, but verifying the closed-loop stability of dynamical systems using them remains challenging. This work presents contributions to a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Alvaro Detailleur , Dalim Wahby , Guillaume Ducard , Christopher Onder

This paper is concerned with a compositional approach for the construction of control barrier certificates for large-scale interconnected stochastic systems while synthesizing hybrid controllers against high-level logic properties. Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Mahathi Anand , Abolfazl Lavaei , Majid Zamani

We propose an automatic and formally sound method for synthesising Lyapunov functions for the asymptotic stability of autonomous non-linear systems. Traditional methods are either analytical and require manual effort or are numerical but…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Alessandro Abate , Daniele Ahmed , Mirco Giacobbe , Andrea Peruffo

Learning algorithms have shown considerable prowess in simulation by allowing robots to adapt to uncertain environments and improve their performance. However, such algorithms are rarely used in practice on safety-critical systems, since…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Spencer M. Richards , Felix Berkenkamp , Andreas Krause

This paper addresses characterizations of integral input-to-state stability (iISS) for hybrid systems. In particular, we give a Lyapunov characterization of iISS unifying and generalizing the existing theory for pure continuous-time and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Navid Noroozi , Alireza Khayatian , Roman Geiselhart

We develop tools for investigation of input-to-state stability (ISS) of infinite-dimensional control systems. We show that for certain classes of admissible inputs the existence of an ISS-Lyapunov function implies the input-to-state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Sergey Dashkovskiy , Andrii Mironchenko

This paper presents a novel framework for analyzing Incremental-Input-to-State Stability ($\delta$ISS) based on the idea of using rewards as "test functions." Whereas control theory traditionally deals with Lyapunov functions that satisfy a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Daniel Pfrommer , Max Simchowitz , Ali Jadbabaie