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Data-driven predictive control (DPC) is a feedback control method for systems with unknown dynamics. It repeatedly optimizes a system's future trajectories based on past input-output data. We develop a numerical method that computes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Yue Yu , Ruihan Zhao , Sandeep Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

In this article, we propose a data-enabled economic predictive control method for a class of nonlinear systems, which aims to optimize the economic operational performance while handling hard constraints on the system outputs. Two lifting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Mingxue Yan , Xuewen Zhang , Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Xunyuan Yin

We study damping of inter-area oscillations in transmission grids using voltage-source-converter-based high-voltage direct-current (VSC-HVDC) links. Conventional power oscillation damping controllers rely on system models that are difficult…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Giacomo Mastroddi , Jan Poland , Mats Larsson , Keith Moffat

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

Optimal Control for legged robots has gone through a paradigm shift from position-based to torque-based control, owing to the latter's compliant and robust nature. In parallel to this shift, the community has also turned to Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shivam Sood , Ge Sun , Peizhuo Li , Guillaume Sartoretti

Cooperative control of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) promises great benefits for mixed traffic. Most existing research focuses on model-based control strategies, assuming that car-following dynamics of human-driven vehicles are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Jiawei Wang , Yang Zheng , Qing Xu , Keqiang Li

Self-triggered control, a well-documented technique for reducing the communication overhead while ensuring desired system performance, is gaining increasing popularity. However, existing methods for self-triggered control require explicit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Wenjie Liu , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Francesco Bullo , Jie Chen

In this paper, we present an iterative Model Predictive Control (MPC) design for piecewise nonlinear systems. We consider finite time control tasks where the goal of the controller is to steer the system from a starting configuration to a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Ugo Rosolia , Aaron D. Ames

Data preparation, which aims to transform heterogeneous and noisy raw tables into analysis-ready data, remains a major bottleneck in data science. Recent approaches leverage large language models (LLMs) to automate data preparation from…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Meihao Fan , Ju Fan , Yuxin Zhang , Shaolei Zhang , Xiaoyong Du , Jie Song , Peng Li , Fuxin Jiang , Tieying Zhang , Jianjun Chen

Model-based reinforcement learning attempts to use an available or learned model to improve the data efficiency of reinforcement learning. This work proposes a one-step lookback approach that jointly learns the deep incremental model and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Cong Li

In this letter, we propose a simple yet effective singular value decomposition (SVD) based strategy to reduce the optimization problem dimension in data-enabled predictive control (DeePC). Specifically, in the case of linear time-invariant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Kaixiang Zhang , Yang Zheng , Chao Shang , Zhaojian Li

Autonomous drone racing presents a challenging control problem, requiring real-time decision-making and robust handling of nonlinear system dynamics. While iterative learning model predictive control (LMPC) offers a promising framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haocheng Zhao , Niklas Schlüter , Lukas Brunke , Angela P. Schoellig

Iterative optimization algorithms depend on access to information about the objective function. In a differentiable programming framework, this information, such as gradients, can be automatically derived from the computational graph. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vincent Roulet , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Maryam Fazel , Zaid Harchaoui

The goal of this work is to enable a team of quadrotors to learn how to accurately track a desired trajectory while holding a given formation. We solve this problem in a distributed manner, where each vehicle has only access to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Andreas Hock , Angela P. Schoellig

Iterative Learning Control (ILC) can achieve perfect tracking performance for mechatronic systems. The aim of this paper is to present an ILC design tutorial for industrial mechatronic systems. First, a preliminary analysis reveals the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Tom Oomen

Data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) has recently attracted attention as a promising approach for controlling systems directly from raw data, without requiring an explicit identification step. However, DeePC has not yet been extended to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Gianluca Giacomelli , Victor G. Lopez , Simone Formentin , Matthias A. Müller , Valentina Breschi

The fundamental lemma by Jan C. Willems and co-authors enables the representation of all input-output trajectories of a linear time-invariant system by measured input-output data. This result has proven to be pivotal for data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Guanru Pan , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser

This paper proposes an Adaptive Learning Model Predictive Control strategy for uncertain constrained linear systems performing iterative tasks. The additive uncertainty is modeled as the sum of a bounded process noise and an unknown…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Xiaojing Zhang , Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

We propose a control design method for linear time-invariant systems that iteratively learns to satisfy unknown polyhedral state constraints. At each iteration of a repetitive task, the method constructs an estimate of the unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Charlott Vallon , Francesco Borrelli

Trajectory optimization considers the problem of deciding how to control a dynamical system to move along a trajectory which minimizes some cost function. Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) is an optimal control method which utilizes a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-10 David D. Fan , Evangelos A. Theodorou