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Inference-time LLM alignment methods, particularly activation steering, offer an alternative to fine-tuning by directly modifying activations during generation. Existing methods, however, often rely on non-anticipative interventions that…

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We present a data-driven framework for strategy synthesis for partially-known switched stochastic systems. The properties of the system are specified using linear temporal logic (LTL) over finite traces (LTLf), which is as expressive as LTL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 John Jackson , Luca Laurenti , Eric Frew , Morteza Lahijanian

We consider the problem of discounted optimal state-feedback regulation for general unknown deterministic discrete-time systems. It is well known that open-loop instability of systems, non-quadratic cost functions and complex nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Alexandros Tanzanakis , John Lygeros

Recent works have approached the data-driven design of dynamic output-feedback controllers for discrete-time LTI systems by constructing non-minimal state vectors composed of past inputs and outputs. Depending on the system's complexity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Mohammad Alsalti , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

We present a data-driven method to synthesize robust control invariant (RCI) sets for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems subject to unknown but bounded disturbances. A finite-length data set consisting of state, input, and scheduling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Manas Mejari , Sampath Kumar Mulagaleti , Alberto Bemporad

This letter presents a data-driven framework for the design of stabilizing controllers from input-output data in the continuous-time, linear, and time-invariant domain. Rather than relying on measurements or reliable estimates of input and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Corrado Possieri

Nonlinear control-affine systems with time-varying vector fields are considered in the paper. We propose a unified control design scheme with oscillating inputs for solving the trajectory tracking and stabilization problems. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Victoria Grushkovskaya , Alexander Zuyev

This paper presents a controller design and optimization framework for nonlinear dynamic systems to track a given reference signal in the presence of disturbances when the task is repeated over a finite-time interval. This novel framework…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Jiapeng Xu , Ying Tan , Xiang Chen

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

This paper studies finite-horizon robust tracking control for discrete-time linear systems, based on input-output data. We leverage behavioral theory to represent system trajectories through a set of noiseless historical data, instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Liang Xu , Mustafa Sahin Turan , Baiwei Guo , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

A central challenge in neuroscience is understanding how neural system implements computation through its dynamics. We propose a nonlinear time series model aimed at characterizing interpretable dynamics from neural trajectories. Our model…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-28 Yuan Zhao , Il Memming Park

Learning-based control methods for industrial processes leverage the repetitive nature of the underlying process to learn optimal inputs for the system. While many works focus on linear systems, real-world problems involve nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Samuel Balula , Efe C. Balta , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

In this study, we are concerned with autonomous driving missions when a static obstacle blocks a given reference trajectory. To provide a realistic control design, we employ a model predictive control (MPC) utilizing nonlinear state-space…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Maryam Nezami , Dimitrios S. Karachalios , Georg Schildbach , Hossam S. Abbas

Solving nonlinear model predictive control problems in real time is still an important challenge despite of recent advances in computing hardware, optimization algorithms and tailored implementations. This challenge is even greater when…

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Recent efforts in the development of autonomous driving technology have induced great advancements in perception, planning and control systems. Model predictive control is one of the most popular advanced control methods, but its…

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This paper presents a generalizable methodology for data-driven identification of nonlinear dynamics that bounds the model error in terms of the prediction horizon and the magnitude of the derivatives of the system states. Using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-03 Giorgos Mamakoukas , Maria L. Castano , Xiaobo Tan , Todd D. Murphey

Novel vehicular communication methods are mostly analyzed simulatively or analytically as real world performance tests are highly time-consuming and cost-intense. Moreover, the high number of uncontrollable effects makes it practically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Benjamin Sliwa , Christian Wietfeld

In this paper, we present an approach to identify linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems with a state-space (SS) model structure in an innovation form where the coefficient functions have static and affine dependency on the scheduling…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Pepijn B. Cox , Roland Tóth

We consider the problem of estimating missing values in trajectories of linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems. We solve this interpolation problem for the class of shifted-affine LPV systems. Conditions for the existence and uniqueness of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Chris Verhoek , Ivan Markovsky , Roland Tóth

Nonlinear dynamical systems are ubiquitous in nature and they are hard to forecast. Not only they may be sensitive to small perturbations in their initial conditions, but they are often composed of processes acting at multiple scales.…

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