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Hyperparameter tuning is an important task of machine learning, which can be formulated as a bilevel program (BLP). However, most existing algorithms are not applicable for BLP with non-smooth lower-level problems. To address this, we…
A central problem in systems biology is to identify parameter values such that a biological model satisfies some behavioral constraints (\eg, time series). In this paper we focus on parameter synthesis for hybrid (continuous/discrete)…
The Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) framework provides a modeling and control design toolchain to address nonlinear (NL) system behavior via linear surrogate models. Despite major research effort on LPV data-driven modeling, a key…
Tube-based model predictive control (MPC) methods leverage tubes to bound deviations from a nominal trajectory due to uncertainties in order to ensure constraint satisfaction. This paper presents a novel tube-based MPC formulation based on…
Identifying the parameters of robotic systems, such as motor inertia or joint friction, is critical to satisfactory controller synthesis, model analysis, and observer design. Conventional identification techniques are designed primarily for…
The principal task to control dynamical systems is to ensure their stability. When the system is unknown, robust approaches are promising since they aim to stabilize a large set of plausible systems simultaneously. We study linear…
We consider the adaptive control problem for discrete-time, nonlinear stochastic systems with linearly parameterised uncertainty. Assuming access to a parameterised family of controllers that can stabilise the system in a bounded set within…
This paper addresses problems on the structural design of control systems taking explicitly into consideration the possible application to large-scale systems. We provide an efficient and unified framework to solve the following major…
In this work, we investigate the data-driven safe control synthesis problem for unknown dynamic systems. We first formulate the safety synthesis problem as a robust convex program (RCP) based on notion of control barrier function. To…
The application of an external field often renders empirical criteria for identifying liquid-gas phase transitions ambiguous. Here, we demonstrate that the finite-size scaling of the density profile provides a definitive criterion to…
The paper proposes an alternative way to achieve the Internal Model Principle (IMP) in contrast to the standard way, where a model of the signal one wishes to track/reject is directly substituted into the closed-loop. The proposed…
We have witnessed the emergence of several controller parameterizations and the corresponding synthesis methods, including Youla, system level, input-output, and many other new proposals. Meanwhile, under the same synthesis method, there…
This paper studies the identification of nonlinearly parameterized control systems in given experiments. Several identifiability criteria are established and an implementable algorithm is proposed for practicality with the convergence rate…
This paper develops a framework for synthesizing safety controllers for discrete-time stochastic linear control systems (dt-SLS) operating under communication imperfections. The control unit is remote and communicates with the sensor and…
This paper establishes problem-specific sample complexity lower bounds for linear system identification problems. The sample complexity is defined in the PAC framework: it corresponds to the time it takes to identify the system parameters…
We present a robust model predictive control method (MPC) for discrete-time linear time-delayed systems with state and control input constraints. The system is subject to both polytopic model uncertainty and additive disturbances. In the…
Signal Temporal Logic (STL) has gained popularity in recent years as a specification language for cyber-physical systems, especially in robotics. Beyond being expressive and easy to understand, STL is appealing because the synthesis…
Distributed deep learning (DDL) is a promising research area, which aims to increase the efficiency of training deep learning tasks with large size of datasets and models. As the computation capability of DDL nodes continues to increase,…
This paper develops an adaptive tracking controller for a class of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainty subject to state constraints. The system is characterized by a strict-feedback structure with unknown parameters entering both…
In this paper, a method is presented to synthesize neural network controllers such that the feedback system of plant and controller is dissipative, certifying performance requirements such as L2 gain bounds. The class of plants considered…