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In this paper, a discrete-time I&I-based adaptive IDA-PBC controller for uncertain nonlinearly parameterized port-controlled Hamiltonian systems (PCH), where the parameter uncertainties are assumed in the energy function, is constructed. A…

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We present a gradient-based identification algorithm to identify the system matrices of a linear port-Hamiltonian system from given input-output time data. Aiming for a direct structure-preserving approach, we employ techniques from optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Michael Günther , Birgit Jacob , Claudia Totzeck

Equipping approximate dynamic programming (ADP) with inputconstraints has a tremendous significance. This enables ADP to be applied tothe systems with actuator limitations, which is quite common for dynamicalsystems. In a conventional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Xuefeng Bao , Zhi-Hong Mao , Nitin Sharma

We present the Physics-Informed Optimal Homotopy Analysis Method (PI-OHAM) for solving nonlinear differential equations. PI-OHAM, based on classical HAM, employs a physics-informed residual loss to optimize convergence-control parameters…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ziya Uddin

We consider the infinite-horizon discounted optimal control problem formalized by Markov Decision Processes. We focus on several approximate variations of the Policy Iteration algorithm: Approximate Policy Iteration, Conservative Policy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Bruno Scherrer

High-resolution simulations of particle-based kinetic plasma models typically require a high number of particles and thus often become computationally intractable. This is exacerbated in multi-query simulations, where the problem depends on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Jan S. Hesthaven , Cecilia Pagliantini , Nicolò Ripamonti

This paper proposes an actor-critic algorithm for controlling the temperature of a battery pack using a cooling fluid. This is modeled by a coupled 1D partial differential equation (PDE) with a controlled advection term that determines the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Amartya Mukherjee , Jun Liu

We study finite-horizon continuous-time policy evaluation from discrete closed-loop trajectories under time-inhomogeneous dynamics. The target value surface solves a backward parabolic equation, but the Bellman baseline obtained from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-11 Yaowei Zheng , Richong Zhang , Shenxi Wu , Shirui Bian , Haosong Zhang , Li Zeng , Xingjian Ma , Yichi Zhang

In this paper, we consider state and control path-dependent stochastic zero-sum differential games, where the dynamics and the running cost include both state and control paths of the players. Using the notion of nonanticipative strategies,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Jun Moon

This article investigates the core mechanisms of indirect data-driven control for unknown systems, focusing on the application of policy iteration (PI) within the context of the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) optimal control problem.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Bowen Song , Andrea Iannelli

We present a policy search method for learning complex feedback control policies that map from high-dimensional sensory inputs to motor torques, for manipulation tasks with discontinuous contact dynamics. We build on a prior technique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Yevgen Chebotar , Mrinal Kalakrishnan , Ali Yahya , Adrian Li , Stefan Schaal , Sergey Levine

We consider the problem of data-driven predictive control for an unknown discrete-time linear time-periodic (LTP) system of known period. Our proposed strategy generalizes both Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) and Subspace Predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Ruiqi Li , John W. Simpson-Porco , Stephen L. Smith

Optimal control problems driven by evolutionary partial differential equations arise in many industrial applications and their numerical solution is known to be a challenging problem. One approach to obtain an optimal feedback control is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Gerhard Kirsten , Luca Saluzzi

This paper proposes efficient policy iteration and value iteration algorithms for the continuous-time linear quadratic regulator problem with unmeasurable states and unknown system dynamics, from the perspective of direct data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Jun Xie , Yuan-Hua Ni , Yiqin Yang , Bo Xu

Recent control algorithms for Markov decision processes (MDPs) have been designed using an implicit analogy with well-established optimization algorithms. In this paper, we adopt the quasi-Newton method (QNM) from convex optimization to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Mohammad Amin Sharifi Kolarijani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Adaptive optimal control of nonlinear dynamic systems with deterministic and known dynamics under a known undiscounted infinite-horizon cost function is investigated. Policy iteration scheme initiated using a stabilizing initial control is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Ali Heydari

We consider off-policy temporal-difference (TD) learning in discounted Markov decision processes, where the goal is to evaluate a policy in a model-free way by using observations of a state process generated without executing the policy. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Huizhen Yu , A. Rupam Mahmood , Richard S. Sutton

This paper considers linear-quadratic control of a non-linear dynamical system subject to arbitrary cost. I show that for this class of stochastic control problems the non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation can be transformed into a…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. J. Kappen

This paper addresses the problem of learning the optimal control policy for a nonlinear stochastic dynamical system with continuous state space, continuous action space and unknown dynamics. This class of problems are typically addressed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Ran Wang , Karthikeya Parunandi , Dan Yu , Dileep Kalathil , Suman Chakravorty

The classical Dynamic Programming (DP) approach to optimal control problems is based on the characterization of the value function as the unique viscosity solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. The DP scheme for the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone , Luca Saluzzi