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Since batch algorithms suffer from lack of proficiency in confronting model mismatches and disturbances, this contribution proposes an adaptive scheme based on continuous Lyapunov function for online robot dynamic identification. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Pedram Agand , Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli

This paper considers the problem of real-time control and learning in dynamic systems subjected to parametric uncertainties. We propose a combination of a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based policy in the outer loop suitably chosen to ensure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Anuradha M. Annaswamy , Anubhav Guha , Yingnan Cui , Sunbochen Tang , Peter A. Fisher , Joseph E. Gaudio

To accommodate high network dynamics in real-time cooperative perception (CP), reinforcement learning (RL) based adaptive CP schemes have been proposed, to allow adaptive switchings between CP and stand-alone perception modes among…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Kaige Qu , Zixiong Qin , Weihua Zhuang

A method is presented to analyze the stability of feedback systems with neural network controllers. Two stability theorems are given to prove asymptotic stability and to compute an ellipsoidal inner-approximation to the region of attraction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 He Yin , Peter Seiler , Murat Arcak

A method is presented to learn neural network (NN) controllers with stability and safety guarantees through imitation learning (IL). Convex stability and safety conditions are derived for linear time-invariant plant dynamics with NN…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 He Yin , Peter Seiler , Ming Jin , Murat Arcak

We propose a method for data-driven practical stabilization of nonlinear systems with provable guarantees, based on the concept of Nonparametric Chain Policies (NCPs). The approach employs a normalized nearest-neighbor rule to assign, at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Roy Siegelmann , Enrique Mallada

Adaptive control is subject to stability and performance issues when a learned model is used to enhance its performance. This paper thus presents a deep learning-based adaptive control framework for nonlinear systems with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Hiroyasu Tsukamoto , Soon-Jo Chung , Jean-Jacques Slotine

Learning-based neural network (NN) control policies have shown impressive empirical performance. However, obtaining stability guarantees and estimates of the region of attraction of these learned neural controllers is challenging due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoyu Li , Xiangru Zhong , Bin Hu , Huan Zhang

Modern end-to-end learning systems can learn to explicitly infer control from perception. However, it is difficult to guarantee stability and robustness for these systems since they are often exposed to unstructured, high-dimensional, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Wei Xiao , Makram Chahine , Alexander Amini , Ramin Hasani , Daniela Rus

A critical goal of adaptive control is enabling robots to rapidly adapt in dynamic environments. Recent studies have developed a meta-learning-based adaptive control scheme, which uses meta-learning to extract nonlinear features…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Guanqi He , Yogita Choudhary , Guanya Shi

While stability analysis is a mainstay for control science, especially computing regions of attraction of equilibrium points, until recently most stability analysis tools always required explicit knowledge of the model or a high-fidelity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Matteo Tacchi , Yingzhao Lian , Colin Jones

Learning controllers merely based on a performance metric has been proven effective in many physical and non-physical tasks in both control theory and reinforcement learning. However, in practice, the controller must guarantee some notion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Arash Mehrjou , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Bernhard Schölkopf

Autonomous Dynamic System (DS)-based algorithms hold a pivotal and foundational role in the field of Learning from Demonstration (LfD). Nevertheless, they confront the formidable challenge of striking a delicate balance between achieving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yu Zhang , Yongxiang Zou , Haoyu Zhang , Xiuze Xia , Long Cheng

While conventional reinforcement learning focuses on designing agents that can perform one task, meta-learning aims, instead, to solve the problem of designing agents that can generalize to different tasks (e.g., environments, obstacles,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Xiaowu Sun , Wael Fatnassi , Ulices Santa Cruz , Yasser Shoukry

We present a learning-based predictive control methodology using the differentiable programming framework with probabilistic Lyapunov-based stability guarantees. The neural Lyapunov differentiable predictive control (NLDPC) learns the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Sayak Mukherjee , Ján Drgoňa , Aaron Tuor , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Draguna Vrabie

Neural network (NN) controllers achieve strong empirical performance on nonlinear dynamical systems, yet deploying them in safety-critical settings requires robustness to disturbances and uncertainty. We present a method for jointly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Neelay Junnarkar , Yasin Sonmez , Murat Arcak

Reinforcement learning (RL) excels in applications such as video games, but ensuring safety as well as the ability to achieve the specified goals remains challenging when using RL for real-world problems, such as human-aligned tasks where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Liqun Zhao , Keyan Miao , Konstantinos Gatsis , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the de facto method for achieving locomotion on humanoid robots in practice, yet stability analysis of the corresponding control policies is lacking. Recent work has attempted to merge control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Zachary Olkin , William D. Compton , Aaron D. Ames

This work presents several improvements to the closed-loop stability verification framework using semialgebraic sets and convex semidefinite programming to examine neural-network-based control systems regulating nonlinear dynamical systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Alvaro Detailleur , Guillaume Ducard , Christopher Onder

This paper addresses to Sliding Mode Learning Control (SMLC) of uncertain nonlinear systems with Lyapunov stability analysis. In the control scheme, a conventional control term is used to provide the system stability in compact space while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Erkan Kayacan