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In this work, we propose a rigorous method for implementing predictor feedback controllers in nonlinear systems with unknown and arbitrarily long actuator delays. To address the analytically intractable nature of the predictor, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Luke Bhan , Miroslav Krstic , Yuanyuan Shi

Backstepping is a mature and powerful Lyapunov-based design approach for a specific set of systems. Throughout the development over three decades, innovative theories and practices have extended backstepping to stabilization and tracking…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Zhengru Ren

This paper deals with the tracking control problem for a class of unknown pure feedback system with pure state constraints on the state variables and unknown time-varying bounded disturbances. An adaptive controller is presented for such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Pankaj Kumar Mishra , Nishchal K Verma

This paper considers the backstepping state feedback and observer design for hyperbolic and parabolic PDEs, which are bidirectionally interconnected in a general coupling structure. Both PDE subsystems consist of coupled scalar PDEs with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-23 Joachim Deutscher , Nicole Gehring , Nick Jung

We establish that stabilization of a class of linear, hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with a large (nevertheless finite) number of components, can be achieved via employment of a backstepping-based control law, which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Jukka-Pekka Humaloja , Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

Training a deep convolutional neural net typically starts with a random initialisation of all filters in all layers which severely reduces the forward signal and back-propagated error and leads to slow and sub-optimal training. Techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Brendan Ruff

We propose a novel fine-tuning method to achieve multi-operator learning through training a distributed neural operator with diverse function data and then zero-shot fine-tuning the neural network using physics-informed losses for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zecheng Zhang , Christian Moya , Lu Lu , Guang Lin , Hayden Schaeffer

Control Lyapunov functions are traditionally used to design a controller which ensures convergence to a desired state, yet deriving these functions for nonlinear systems remains a complex challenge. This paper presents a novel,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Luc McCutcheon , Bahman Gharesifard , Saber Fallah

We study the approximation of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs for short) with a constraint on the gains process. We first discretize the constraint by applying a so-called facelift operator at times of a grid. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Idris Kharroubi , Thomas Lim , Xavier Warin

In this work, we consider the problem of boundary stabilization for a quasilinear 2X2 system of first-order hyperbolic PDEs. We design a new full-state feedback control law, with actuation on only one end of the domain, which achieves H^2…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Jean-Michel Coron , Rafael Vazquez , Miroslav Krstic , Georges Bastin

Over the last decade, data-driven methods have surged in popularity, emerging as valuable tools for control theory. As such, neural network approximations of control feedback laws, system dynamics, and even Lyapunov functions have attracted…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Luke Bhan , Yuexin Bian , Miroslav Krstic , Yuanyuan Shi

A dynamic backstepping method is proposed to design controllers for nonlinear systems in the pure-feedback form, for which the traditional backstepping method suffers from solving the implicit nonlinear algebraic equation. The idea of this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Sheng Zhang , Wei-qi Qian

We provide a detailed proof of Proposition 3.1 in the paper titled ``Backstepping control of a class of space-time-varying linear parabolic PDEs via time invariant kernel functions''. In the paper titled ``Backstepping control of a class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-27 Qiaoling Chen , Jun Zheng , Guchuan Zhu

In this paper, a novel recurrent adaptive backstepping optimal control strategy for a single inverted pendulum system is studied. By this method, an inverted pendulum is stabilized using projection recurrent neural network-based adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Mohammad Sarbaz

Pre-training has been investigated to improve the efficiency and performance of training neural operators in data-scarce settings. However, it is largely in its infancy due to the inherent complexity and diversity, such as long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhongkai Hao , Chang Su , Songming Liu , Julius Berner , Chengyang Ying , Hang Su , Anima Anandkumar , Jian Song , Jun Zhu

Operator learning techniques have recently emerged as a powerful tool for learning maps between infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. Trained under appropriate constraints, they can also be effective in learning the solution operator of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Sifan Wang , Hanwen Wang , Paris Perdikaris

We present here the details of a backstepping transformation aiming at reformulating the dynamics of a nonlinear systems subject to unknown long input delay in a form which is suitable for Lyapunov stability analysis. The control law…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Delphine Bresch-Pietri , Miroslav Krstic

Systems modeled by partial differential equations (PDEs) are at least as ubiquitous as systems that are by nature finite-dimensional and modeled by ordinary differential equations (ODEs). And yet, systematic and readily usable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Rafael Vazquez , Jean Auriol , Federico Bribiesca-Argomedo , Miroslav Krstic

We present an event-triggered boundary control scheme for a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs using operator learning and backstepping method. Our first-of-its-kind contribution aims at learning the backstepping kernels, which inherently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Hongpeng Yuan , Ji Wang , Mamadou Diagne

For the quite extensively developed PDE backstepping methodology for coupled linear hyperbolic PDEs, we provide a generalization from finite collections of such PDEs, whose states at each location in space are vector-valued, to previously…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Valentin Alleaume , Miroslav Krstic