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We propose new methods for learning control policies and neural network Lyapunov functions for nonlinear control problems, with provable guarantee of stability. The framework consists of a learner that attempts to find the control and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Ya-Chien Chang , Nima Roohi , Sicun Gao

The search for Lyapunov functions is a crucial task in the analysis of nonlinear systems. In this paper, we present a physics-informed neural network (PINN) approach to learning a Lyapunov function that is nearly maximal for a given stable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jun Liu , Yiming Meng , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , Ruikun Zhou

Learning-based neural network (NN) control policies have shown impressive empirical performance in a wide range of tasks in robotics and control. However, formal (Lyapunov) stability guarantees over the region-of-attraction (ROA) for NN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Lujie Yang , Hongkai Dai , Zhouxing Shi , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Russ Tedrake , Huan Zhang

The lack of stability guarantee restricts the practical use of learning-based methods in core control problems in robotics. We develop new methods for learning neural control policies and neural Lyapunov critic functions in the model-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ya-Chien Chang , Sicun Gao

This paper presents a new method for synthesizing stochastic control Lyapunov functions for a class of nonlinear stochastic control systems. The technique relies on a transformation of the classical nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Yoke Peng Leong , Matanya B. Horowitz , Joel W. Burdick

We provide a systematic investigation of using physics-informed neural networks to compute Lyapunov functions. We encode Lyapunov conditions as a partial differential equation (PDE) and use this for training neural network Lyapunov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Jun Liu , Yiming Meng , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , Ruikun Zhou

While there has been increasing interest in using neural networks to compute Lyapunov functions, verifying that these functions satisfy the Lyapunov conditions and certifying stability regions remain challenging due to the curse of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Jun Liu , Yiming Meng , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , Ruikun Zhou

Infinite-time nonlinear optimal regulation control is widely utilized in aerospace engineering as a systematic method for synthesizing stable controllers. However, conventional methods often rely on linearization hypothesis, while recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Han Wang , Di Wu , Lin Cheng , Shengping Gong , Xu Huang

While ensuring stability for linear systems is well understood, it remains a major challenge for nonlinear systems. A general approach in such cases is to compute a combination of a Lyapunov function and an associated control policy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Junlin Wu , Andrew Clark , Yiannis Kantaros , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Neural-based, data-driven analysis and control of dynamical systems have been recently investigated and have shown great promise, e.g. for safety verification or stability analysis. Indeed, not only do neural networks allow for an entirely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Virginie Debauche , Alec Edwards , Raphael M. Jungers , Alessandro Abate

We present a new method for learning control law that stabilizes an unknown nonlinear dynamical system at an equilibrium point. We formulate a system identification task in a self-supervised learning setting that jointly learns a controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-17 Priyabrata Saha , Magnus Egerstedt , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

The aim of this work is to develop a deep learning method for solving high-dimensional stochastic control problems based on the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation and physics-informed learning. Our approach is to parameterize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Zhe Jiao , Wantao Jia , Weiqiu Zhu

Learning for control of dynamical systems with formal guarantees remains a challenging task. This paper proposes a learning framework to simultaneously stabilize an unknown nonlinear system with a neural controller and learn a neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Ruikun Zhou , Thanin Quartz , Hans De Sterck , Jun Liu

Safety and stability are common requirements for robotic control systems; however, designing safe, stable controllers remains difficult for nonlinear and uncertain models. We develop a model-based learning approach to synthesize robust…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Charles Dawson , Zengyi Qin , Sicun Gao , Chuchu Fan

Designing control policies for stabilization tasks with provable guarantees is a long-standing problem in nonlinear control. A crucial performance metric is the size of the resulting region of attraction, which essentially serves as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jiarui Wang , Mahyar Fazlyab

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

This paper presents a novel method to synthesize stochastic control Lyapunov functions for a class of nonlinear, stochastic control systems. In this work, the classical nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman partial differential equation is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Yoke Peng Leong , Matanya B. Horowitz , Joel W. Burdick

Deep learning methods have been widely used in robotic applications, making learning-enabled control design for complex nonlinear systems a promising direction. Although deep reinforcement learning methods have demonstrated impressive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Zili Wang , Sean B. Andersson , Roberto Tron

We present a technique for learning control Lyapunov-like functions, which are used in turn to synthesize controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems that can stabilize the system, or satisfy specifications such as remaining inside a safe…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Hadi Ravanbakhsh , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Neural-network-based controllers (NNCs) can represent complex, highly nonlinear control laws, but verifying the closed-loop stability of dynamical systems using them remains challenging. This work presents contributions to a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Alvaro Detailleur , Dalim Wahby , Guillaume Ducard , Christopher Onder
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