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We introduce a method for learning provably stable deep neural network based dynamic models from observed data. Specifically, we consider discrete-time stochastic dynamic models, as they are of particular interest in practical applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Nathan P. Lawrence , Philip D. Loewen , Michael G. Forbes , Johan U. Backström , R. Bhushan Gopaluni

With a growing interest in data-driven control techniques, Model Predictive Control (MPC) provides an opportunity to exploit the surplus of data reliably, particularly while taking safety and stability into account. In many real-world and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Mayank Mittal , Marco Gallieri , Alessio Quaglino , Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian , Jan Koutník

We present a new method for learning control law that stabilizes an unknown nonlinear dynamical system at an equilibrium point. We formulate a system identification task in a self-supervised learning setting that jointly learns a controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-17 Priyabrata Saha , Magnus Egerstedt , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

We consider the method of Reduction of Dissipativity Domain to prove global Lyapunov stability of Discrete Time Recurrent Neural Networks. The standard and advanced criteria for Absolute Stability of these essentially nonlinear systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Nikita Barabanov , Jayant Singh

Learning control strategies with provable stability guarantees continues to be a challenging problem. In this work, we examine a family of training-time behaviors exhibited by existing neural Lyapunov control methods under specific…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yuan Zhong , Jiaxin Cheng , Hefu Ye , Yicong Zhou

This paper considers the problem of characterizing the stability region of a large-scale networked system comprised of dissipative nonlinear subsystems, in a distributed and computationally tractable way. One standard approach to estimate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Amit Jena , Tong Huang , S. Sivaranjani , Dileep Kalathil , Le Xie

In this paper, we study the stability problem of a stochastic, nonlinear, discrete-time system. We introduce a linear transfer operator-based Lyapunov measure as a new tool for stability verification of stochastic systems. Weaker…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Umesh Vaidya

This work presents an approach to synthesize a Lyapunov-like function to ensure incrementally input-to-state stability ($\delta$-ISS) property for an unknown discrete-time system. To deal with challenges posed by unknown system dynamics, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Ahan Basu , Bhabani Shankar Dey , Pushpak Jagtap

In the article$^a$, the authors introduced a time-varying Lyapunov function for the stability analysis of nonlinear systems whose motion is governed by standard Newton-Euler equations. The authors established asymptotic stability with the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Lekan Molu

When neural networks are used to model dynamics, properties such as stability of the dynamics are generally not guaranteed. In contrast, there is a recent method for learning the dynamics of autonomous systems that guarantees global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kenji Kashima , Ryota Yoshiuchi , Yu Kawano

We provide general methods for explicitly constructing strict Lyapunov functions for fully nonlinear slowly time-varying systems. Our results apply to cases where the given dynamics and corresponding frozen dynamics are not necessarily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Mazenc , Michael Malisoff

This technical note studies Lyapunov-like conditions to ensure a class of dynamical systems to exhibit predefined-time stability. The origin of a dynamical system is predefined-time stable if it is fixed-time stable and an upper bound of…

This paper addresses the problem of controlling the temporal dynamics of complex nonlinear network-coupled dynamical systems, specifically in terms of neurodynamics. Based on the Lyapunov direct method, we derive a control strategy with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Zhongye Xia , Weibin Li , Zhichao Liang , Kexin Lou , Quanying Liu

Nonlinear parameter-varying (NPV) systems are a class of nonlinear systems whose dynamics explicitly depend on time-varying external parameters, making them suitable for modeling real-world systems with dynamics variations. Traditional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 MD Abul Kashem Niloy , Adam Hallmark , Yikun Cheng , Pan Zhao

We present a technique for learning control Lyapunov-like functions, which are used in turn to synthesize controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems that can stabilize the system, or satisfy specifications such as remaining inside a safe…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Control Lyapunov function is a central tool in stabilization. It generalizes an abstract energy function -- a Lyapunov function -- to the case of controlled systems. It is a known fact that most control Lyapunov functions are non-smooth --…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Pavel Osinenko , Grigory Yaremenko , Georgiy Malaniya

We propose a novel flexible-step model predictive control algorithm for unknown linear time-invariant discrete-time systems. The goal is to asymptotically stabilize the system without relying on a pre-collected dataset that describes its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Markus Pietschner , Christian Ebenbauer , Bahman Gharesifard , Raik Suttner

This note studies (practical) asymptotic stability of nonlinear networked control systems whose protocols are not necessarily uniformly globally exponentially stable. In particular, we propose a Lyapunov-based approach to establish…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Seyed Hossein Mousavi , Navid Noroozi , Anton H. J. de Ruiter , Roman Geiselhart

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

We present a novel nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) scheme with relaxed stability criteria, based on the idea of generalized discrete-time control Lyapunov functions. These functions need to satisfy an average descent over a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Annika Fürnsinn , Christian Ebenbauer , Bahman Gharesifard