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We construct two error feedback controllers for robust output tracking and disturbance rejection of a regular linear system with nonsmooth reference and disturbance signals. We show that for sufficiently smooth signals the output converges…

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We consider the problem of designing robust state-feedback controllers for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems, based directly on measured data. The proposed design procedures require no model knowledge, but only a single open-loop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Julian Berberich , Anne Romer , Carsten W. Scherer , Frank Allgöwer

We provide a comprehensive review and practical implementation of a recently developed model predictive control (MPC) framework for controlling unknown systems using only measured data and no explicit model knowledge. Our approach relies on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Julian Berberich , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

A feedback controller is proposed to perform output reference tracking with prescribed performance for nonlinear continuous-time systems of relative degree two. The controller is of sampled-data type, i.e., measurements are available only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Lukas Lanza

We present a robust data-driven control scheme for an unknown linear system model with bounded process and measurement noise. Instead of depending on a system model in traditional predictive control, a controller utilizing data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Amr Alanwar , Yvonne Stürz , Karl Henrik Johansson

For an unknown linear system, starting from noisy open-loop input-state data collected during a finite-length experiment, we directly design a linear feedback controller that guarantees robust invariance of a given polyhedral set of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

This paper proposes a robust control design method using reinforcement-learning for controlling partially-unknown dynamical systems under uncertain conditions. The method extends the optimal reinforcement-learning algorithm with a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Phuong D. Ngo , Fred Godtliebsen

A new framework is developed for control of constrained nonlinear systems with structured parametric uncertainties. Forward invariance of a safe set is achieved through online parameter adaptation and data-driven model estimation. The new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Brett T. Lopez , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine , Jonathan P. How

The design of direct data-based controllers has become a fundamental part of control theory research in the last few years. In this paper, we consider three classes of data-based state feedback control problems for linear systems. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

We consider the design of state feedback control laws for both the switching signal and the continuous input of an unknown switched linear system, given past noisy input-state trajectories measurements. Based on Lyapunov-Metzler…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Mattia Bianchi , Sergio Grammatico , Jorge Cortés

This paper presents an indirect data-driven output feedback controller synthesis for nonlinear systems, leveraging Structured State-space Models (SSMs) as surrogate models. SSMs have emerged as a compelling alternative in modelling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Muhammad Zakwan , Vaibhav Gupta , Alireza Karimi , Efe C. Balta , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

We introduce a novel notion of invariance feedback entropy to quantify the state information that is required by any controller that enforces a given subset of the state space to be invariant. We establish a number of elementary properties,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Mahendra Singh Tomar , Matthias Rungger , Majid Zamani

Data-driven control offers a powerful alternative to traditional model-based methods, particularly when accurate system models are unavailable or prohibitively complex. While existing data-driven control methods primarily aim to construct…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Janina Schaa , Thomas Berger

This paper presents a robust data-driven controller design based on the noisy input-output data without assumptions on the statistical properties of the noises. We start with the direct data-representation of system models that take…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Chin-Yao Chang , Andrey Bernstein

For a partially unknown linear systems, we present a systematic control design approach based on generated data from measurements of closed-loop experiments with suitable test controllers. These experiments are used to improve the achieved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Tobias Holicki , Carsten W. Scherer , Sebastian Trimpe

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

We present a stochastic constrained output-feedback data-driven predictive control scheme for linear time-invariant systems subject to bounded additive disturbances. The approach uses data-driven predictors based on an extension of Willems'…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Johannes Teutsch , Sebastian Kerz , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

We study tracking control for uncertain nonlinear multi-input, multi-output systems modelled by $r$-th order functional differential equations (encompassing systems with arbitrary strict relative degree) in the presence of input…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Thomas Berger

We address the problem of designing a stabilizing closed-loop control law directly from input and state measurements collected in an open-loop experiment. In the presence of noise in data, we have that a set of dynamics could have generated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

We address the problem of verifying closed-loop contraction in nonlinear control systems whose controller and contraction metric are both parameterized by neural networks. By leveraging interval analysis and interval bound propagation, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Alexander Davydov