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A desirable property of control systems is to be robust to inputs, that is small perturbations of the inputs of a system will cause only small perturbations on its outputs. But it is not clear whether this property is maintained at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Eric Goubault , Sylvie Putot

This paper considers enforcing safety and stability of dynamical systems in the presence of model uncertainty. Safety and stability constraints may be specified using a control barrier function (CBF) and a control Lyapunov function (CLF),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Kehan Long , Yinzhuang Yi , Jorge Cortes , Nikolay Atanasov

Robust control theory has been successfully applied to numerous real-world problems using a small set of devices called {\it controllers}. However, the real systems represented by networks contain unreliable components and modern robust…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-23 Jose C. Nacher , Tatsuya Akutsu

The ever increasing complexity of real-time control systems results in significant deviations in the timing of sensing and actuation, which may lead to degraded performance or even instability. In this paper we present a method to analyze…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Maximilian Gaukler , Günter Roppenecker , Peter Ulbrich

Aiming at the difficulty of stability analysis in practical application of existing control methods, a controller strategy based on lyapunov stability theory is proposed to realize stable control for any control method. In order to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-15 Ma Le , Cui Kaige , Yan Yiming , Wu Xiaoyue , Gao Nan

This article presents novel methods for synthesizing distributionally robust stabilizing neural controllers and certificates for control systems under model uncertainty. A key challenge in designing controllers with stability guarantees for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Kehan Long , Jorge Cortes , Nikolay Atanasov

Quantum computation has made considerable progress in the last decade with multiple emerging technologies providing proof-of-principle experimental demonstrations of such calculations. However, these experimental demonstrations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Samudra Dasgupta , Travis S. Humble

The implementation of reliable and efficient geometric algorithms is a challenging task. The reason is the following conflict: On the one hand, computing with rounded arithmetic may question the reliability of programs while, on the other…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Ralf Osbild

Control science is a core representative of the third industrial revolution and is so important to modern civilization. Control systems are the main subject of control science and may involve many aspects of consideration, such as hardware…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Hao Li

A fundamental concept in control theory is that of controllability, where any system state can be reached through an appropriate choice of control inputs. Indeed, a large body of classical and modern approaches are designed for controllable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Yonathan Efroni , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Cyril Zhang

Counterfactual explanations are widely used to interpret machine learning predictions by identifying minimal changes to input features that would alter a model's decision. However, most existing counterfactual methods have not been tested…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Leonidas Christodoulou , Chang Sun

Safety assurance is critical in the planning and control of robotic systems. For robots operating in the real world, the safety-critical design often needs to explicitly address uncertainties and the pre-computed guarantees often rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hao Zhou , Yanze Zhang , Wenhao Luo

Data-driven control in unknown environments requires a clear understanding of the involved uncertainties for ensuring safety and efficient exploration. While aleatoric uncertainty that arises from measurement noise can often be explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Neha Das , Jonas Umlauft , Armin Lederer , Thomas Beckers , Sandra Hirche

Model mismatch often poses challenges in model-based controller design. This paper investigates model predictive control (MPC) of uncertain linear systems with input constraints, focusing on stability and closed-loop infinite-horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Changrui Liu , Shengling Shi , Bart De Schutter

Deep learning methods have demonstrated significant potential for addressing complex nonlinear control problems. For real-world safety-critical tasks, however, it is crucial to provide formal stability guarantees for the designed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Han Wang , Keyan Miao , Diego Madeira , Antonis Papachristodoulou

This paper presents several results on performance analysis for a class of uncertain linear quantum systems subject to either quadratic or non-quadratic perturbations in the system Hamiltonian. Also, coherent guaranteed cost controllers are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 Chengdi Xiang , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong

In the past decades, most work in the area of data analysis and machine learning was focused on optimizing predictive models and getting better results than what was possible with existing models. To what extent the metrics with which such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-06 Nicolas Dewolf

Rather than discussing the isolated merits of a nominative theory of uncertainty, this paper focuses on a class of problems, referred to as Dynamic Classification Problem (DCP), which requires the integration of many theories, including a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Piero P. Bonissone

An approach to stabilization of control systems with ultimately wide ranges of uncertainly disturbed parameters is offered. The method relies on using of nonlinear structurally stable functions from catastrophe theory as controllers.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-20 Viktor Ten

This work is concerned with practical stabilization of nonlinear systems by means of inf-convolution-based sample-and-hold control. It is a fairly general stabilization technique based on a generic non-smooth control Lyapunov function (CLF)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Patrick Schmidt , Pavel Osinenko , Stefan Streif