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Voltage control generally requires accurate information about the grid's topology in order to guarantee network stability. However, accurate topology identification is a challenging problem for existing methods, especially as the grid is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Christopher Yeh , Jing Yu , Yuanyuan Shi , Adam Wierman

In this paper, we propose a learning approach to analyze dynamic systems with asymmetric information structure. Instead of adopting a game theoretic setting, we investigate an online quadratic optimization problem driven by system noises…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Cheng Tan , Wing Shing Wong

Voltage control generally requires accurate information about the grid's topology in order to guarantee network stability. However, accurate topology identification is challenging for existing methods, especially as the grid is subject to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Christopher Yeh , Jing Yu , Yuanyuan Shi , Adam Wierman

We investigate the real-time voltage regulation problem in distribution systems employing online feedback optimization (OFO) with short-range communication between physical neighbours. OFO does not need an accurate grid model nor estimated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Sen Zhan , Nikolaos G. Paterakis , Wouter van den Akker , Anne van der Molen , Johan Morren , Han Slootweg

Imitation learning enables the synthesis of controllers for complex objectives and highly uncertain plant models. However, methods to provide stability guarantees to imitation learned controllers often rely on large amounts of data and/or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Amy K. Strong , Ethan J. LoCicero , Leila J. Bridgeman

We consider online convex optimization with time-varying constraints and conduct performance analysis using two stringent metrics: dynamic regret with respect to the online solution benchmark, and hard constraint violation that does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Juncheng Wang , Bingjie Yan , Yituo Liu

Classical PID control is widely applied in an engineering system, with parameter regulation relying on a method like Trial - Error Tuning or the Ziegler - Nichols rule, mainly for a Single - Input Single - Output (SISO) system. However, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Zimao Sheng , Hong'an Yang

While reinforcement learning (RL) has been central to the recent success of large language models (LLMs), RL optimization is notoriously unstable, especially when compared to supervised fine-tuning (SFT). In this work, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hongzhan Chen , Tao Yang , Yuhua Zhu , Shiping Gao , Xiaojun Quan , Ting Yao

The dynamic competition against intelligent jammer systems presents a significant challenge to modern radar. Traditional active anti-jamming strategy learning methods often suffer from low sample efficiency and fail to fully exploit the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Liangqi Liu , Wenqiang Pu , Yingru Li , Zhi-Quan Luo

Smooth behaviors are preferable for many contact-rich manipulation tasks. Impedance control arises as an effective way to regulate robot movements by mimicking a mass-spring-damping system. Consequently, the robot behavior can be determined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Changhao Wang , Zhian Kuang , Xiang Zhang , Masayoshi Tomizuka

We study the task of $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially private online convex optimization (OCO). In the online setting, the release of each distinct decision or iterate carries with it the potential for privacy loss. This problem has a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Naman Agarwal , Satyen Kale , Karan Singh , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

This paper addresses the distributed online control problem over a network of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems (with possibly unknown dynamics) in the presence of adversarial perturbations. There exists a global network cost that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

This paper studies the problem of online stabilization of an unknown discrete-time linear time-varying (LTV) system under bounded non-stochastic (potentially adversarial) disturbances. We propose a novel control algorithm based on convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Jing Yu , Varun Gupta , Adam Wierman

Due to more volatile generation, flexibility will become more important in transmission grids. One potential source of this flexibility can be distribution grids. A flexibility request from the transmission grid to a distribution grid then…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Lukas Ortmann , Fabian Böhm , Florian Klein-Helmkamp , Andreas Ulbig , Saverio Bolognani , Florian Dörfler

We propose an algorithm based on online convex optimization for controlling discrete-time linear dynamical systems. The algorithm is data-driven, i.e., does not require a model of the system, and is able to handle a priori unknown and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Marko Nonhoff , Matthias A. Müller

In this paper, we broaden the horizon of online convex optimization (OCO), and consider multi-objective OCO, where there are $K$ distinct loss function sequences, and an algorithm has to choose its action at time $t$, before the $K$ loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Rahul Vaze , Sumiran Mishra

For constrained linear systems with bounded disturbances and parametric uncertainty, we propose a robust adaptive model predictive control strategy with online parameter estimation. Constraints enforcing persistently exciting closed loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Xiaonan Lu , Mark Cannon

In many dynamic systems, decisions on system operation are updated over time, and the decision maker requires an online learning approach to optimize its strategy in response to the changing environment. When the loss and constraint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Juncheng Wang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Gary Boudreau

We approach the fundamental problem of obstacle avoidance for robotic systems via the lens of online learning. In contrast to prior work that either assumes worst-case realizations of uncertainty in the environment or a stationary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 David Snyder , Meghan Booker , Nathaniel Simon , Wenhan Xia , Daniel Suo , Elad Hazan , Anirudha Majumdar

We study a challenging form of Smoothed Online Convex Optimization, a.k.a. SOCO, including multi-step nonlinear switching costs and feedback delay. We propose a novel machine learning (ML) augmented online algorithm, Robustness-Constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Pengfei Li , Jianyi Yang , Adam Wierman , Shaolei Ren