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In this paper, we introduce a learning-based vision dynamics approach to nonlinear model predictive control for autonomous vehicles, coined LVD-NMPC. LVD-NMPC uses an a-priori process model and a learned vision dynamics model used to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Sorin Grigorescu , Cosmin Ginerica , Mihai Zaha , Gigel Macesanu , Bogdan Trasnea

We derive direct data-driven dissipativity analysis methods for Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems using a single sequence of input-scheduling-output data. By means of constructing a semi-definite program subject to linear matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Chris Verhoek , Julian Berberich , Sofie Haesaert , Frank Allgöwer , Roland Tóth

This paper presents the Task-Parameter Nexus (TPN), a learning-based approach for online determination of the (near-)optimal control parameters of model-based controllers (MBCs) for tracking tasks. In TPN, a deep neural network is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Sheng Cheng , Ran Tao , Yuliang Gu , Shenlong Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Naira Hovakimyan

This work considers artificial feed-forward neural networks as parametric approximators in optimal control of discrete-time systems. Two different approaches are introduced to take polytopic input constraints into account. The first…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Lukas Markolf , Olaf Stursberg

The framework of linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems has shown to be a powerful tool for the design of controllers for complex nonlinear systems using linear tools. In this work, we derive novel methods that allow to synthesize LPV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Chris Verhoek , Roland Tóth , Hossam S. Abbas

Deep neural networks have excelled on a wide range of problems, from vision to language and game playing. Neural networks very gradually incorporate information into weights as they process data, requiring very low learning rates. If the…

The concept of a recently proposed Forward-Forward learning algorithm for fully connected artificial neural networks is applied to a single multi output perceptron for classification. The parameters of the system are trained with respect to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 K. Fredrik Karlsson

The Forward-Forward algorithm is an alternative learning method which consists of two forward passes rather than a forward and backward pass employed by backpropagation. Forward-Forward networks employ layer local loss functions which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Reece Adamson

Feedforward steering control is a key component of hierarchical control architectures for autonomous racing. The goal is to reduce steering corrections from the feedback controllers by predicting the vehicle's inverse lateral dynamics. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Georg Jank , Mattia Piccinini , Sebastian Wenk , Phillip Pitschi , Johannes Betz , Boris Lohmann

Linear parameter-varying (LPV) models form a powerful model class to analyze and control a (nonlinear) system of interest. Identifying a LPV model of a nonlinear system can be challenging due to the difficulty of selecting the scheduling…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Maarten Schoukens , Roland Tóth

This paper investigates the design of a robust output-feedback linear parameter-varying (LPV) gain-scheduled controller for the speed regulation of a surface permanent magnet synchronous motor (SPMSM). Motor dynamics is defined in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Shahin Tasoujian , Jaecheol Lee , Karolos Grigoriadis , Matthew Franchek

Feedforward neural networks are widely used as universal predictive models to fit data distribution. Common gradient-based learning, however, suffers from many drawbacks making the training process ineffective and time-consuming.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Grzegorz Dudek

Learning for model based control can be sample-efficient and generalize well, however successfully learning models and controllers that represent the problem at hand can be challenging for complex tasks. Using inaccurate models for learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sarah Bechtle , Bilal Hammoud , Akshara Rai , Franziska Meier , Ludovic Righetti

This work presents a novel resolution-invariant model order reduction strategy for multifidelity applications. We base our architecture on a novel neural network layer developed in this work, the graph feedforward network, which extends the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Oisín M. Morrison , Federico Pichi , Jan S. Hesthaven

Effective hyper-parameter tuning is essential to guarantee the performance that neural networks have come to be known for. In this work, a principled approach to choosing the learning rate is proposed for shallow feedforward neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Thulasi Tholeti , Sheetal Kalyani

We address the problem of learning feedback control where the controller is a network constructed solely of deterministic spiking neurons. In contrast to previous investigations that were based on a spike rate model of the neuron, the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-27 Tae Seung Kang , Arunava Banerjee

Performative prediction is a framework for learning models that influence the data they intend to predict. We focus on finding classifiers that are performatively stable, i.e. optimal for the data distribution they induce. Standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Mehrnaz Mofakhami , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Gauthier Gidel

Learning to make decisions from observed data in dynamic environments remains a problem of fundamental importance in a number of fields, from artificial intelligence and robotics, to medicine and finance. This paper concerns the problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-04 Jack Umenberger , Thomas B. Schön

Recent works on parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) show the potential to adapt a pre-trained Vision Transformer to downstream recognition tasks with only a few learnable parameters. However, since they usually insert new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Taolin Zhang , Jiawang Bai , Zhihe Lu , Dongze Lian , Genping Wang , Xinchao Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

In this paper, we focus on the problem about direct way to design a stable controller for nonlinear system. A framework of learning controller with Lyapunov-based constraint is proposed, which is intended to transform designing and analyis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Me Le , Chi Yanxun , Li Zhiwei , Xu Dongfu , Zhang Yulong