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Control theory of dynamical systems offers a powerful framework for tackling challenges in deep neural networks and other machine learning architectures. We show that concepts such as simultaneous and ensemble controllability offer new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Enrique Zuazua

An iterative learning algorithm is presented for continuous-time linear-quadratic optimal control problems where the system is externally symmetric with unknown dynamics. Both finite-horizon and infinite-horizon problems are considered. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Hamed Taghavian , Florian Dorfler , Mikael Johansson

This paper presents a strictly convex chance-constrained stochastic control framework that accounts for uncertainty in control specifications such as reference trajectories and operational constraints. By jointly optimizing control inputs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Teruki Kato , Ryotaro Shima , Kenji Kashima

Despite the significant advances in identifying the driver nodes and energy requiring in network control, a framework that incorporates more complicated dynamics remains challenging. Here, we consider the conformity behavior into network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-26 Zu-Yu Qian , Cheng Yuan , Jie Zhou , Shi-Ming Chen , Sen Nie

Neural networks are powerful tools for data-driven modeling of complex dynamical systems, enhancing predictive capability for control applications. However, their inherent nonlinearity and black-box nature challenge control designs that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Xiao Li , Tianhao Wei , Changliu Liu , Anouck Girard , Ilya Kolmanovsky

This brief paper further investigates the locally and globally adaptive synchronization of an uncertain complex dynamical network. Several network synchronization criteria are deduced. Especially, our hypotheses and designed adaptive…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-11-17 Jin Zhou , Junan Lu , Jinhu Lu

In this paper, we consider the problem of set-point tracking for a discrete-time plant with unknown plant parameters belonging to a convex and compact uncertainty set. We carry out parameter estimation for an associated auxiliary plant, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Mohamad T. Shahab

Modern nonlinear control theory seeks to endow systems with properties such as stability and safety, and has been deployed successfully across various domains. Despite this success, model uncertainty remains a significant challenge in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Andrew J. Taylor , Victor D. Dorobantu , Sarah Dean , Benjamin Recht , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames

This paper demonstrates many immediate connections between adaptive control and optimization methods commonly employed in machine learning. Starting from common output error formulations, similarities in update law modifications are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Joseph E. Gaudio , Travis E. Gibson , Anuradha M. Annaswamy , Michael A. Bolender , Eugene Lavretsky

Neural networks have proven practical for a synergistic combination of advanced control techniques. This work analyzes the implementation of rectified linear unit neural networks to achieve constrained control in differentially flat…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Huu-Thinh Do , Ionela Prodan , Florin Stoican

This paper introduces a novel adaptive ensemble framework that synergistically combines XGBoost and neural networks through sophisticated meta-learning. The proposed method leverages advanced uncertainty quantification techniques and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Arthur Sedek

Robust control is a core approach for controlling systems with performance guarantees that are robust to modeling error, and is widely used in real-world systems. However, current robust control approaches can only handle small system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Dimitar Ho , Hoang M. Le , John C. Doyle , Yisong Yue

Control of underactuated dynamical systems has been studied for decades in robotics, and is now emerging in other fields such as neuroscience. Most of the advances have been in model based control theory, which has limitations when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Bharat Monga , Jeff Moehlis

Mobile robots are ubiquitous. Such vehicles benefit from well-designed and calibrated control algorithms ensuring their task execution under precise uncertainty bounds. Yet, in tasks involving humans in the loop, such as elderly or mobility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Cristian Axenie , Matteo Saveriano

Control of network systems with uncertain local dynamics has remained an open problem for a long time. In this paper, a distributed minimax adaptive control algorithm is proposed for such networks whose local dynamics has an uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Venkatraman Renganathan , Anders Rantzer , Olle Kjellqvist

Recent success in deep reinforcement learning for continuous control has been dominated by model-free approaches which, unlike model-based approaches, do not suffer from representational limitations in making assumptions about the world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Muhammad Burhan Hafez , Cornelius Weber , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

Besides parametric uncertainties and disturbances, the unmodeled dynamics and time delay at the input are often present in practical systems, which cannot be ignored in some cases. This paper aims to solve output feedback tracking control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Quan Quan , Hai Lin , Kai-Yuan Cai

This work applies universal adaptive control to control barrier functions to achieve forward invariance of a safe set despite the presence of unmatched parametric uncertainties. The approach combines two ideas. The first is to construct a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Brett T. Lopez , Jean-Jacques Slotine

Most uncertainty-aware robotic systems collapse prediction uncertainty into a single scalar score and use it to trigger uniform corrective responses. This aggregation obscures whether uncertainty arises from corrupted observations or from…

A novel method for control of dynamical systems, proposed in the paper, ensures an output signal belonging to the given set at any time. The method is based on a special change of coordinates such that the initial problem with given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Igor Furtat