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System identification is a key enabling component for the implementation of quantum technologies, including quantum control. In this paper, we consider the class of passive linear input-output systems, and investigate several basic…
We examine the problem of two-point boundary optimal control of nonlinear systems over finite-horizon time periods with unknown model dynamics by employing reinforcement learning. We use techniques from singular perturbation theory to…
Port-Hamiltonian systems have gained a lot of attention in recent years due to their inherent valuable properties in modeling and control. In this paper, we are interested in constructing linear port-Hamiltonian systems from time-domain…
We discuss structure-preserving model order reduction for port-Hamiltonian systems based on an approximation of the full-order state by a linear combination of ansatz functions which depend themselves on the state of the reduced-order…
We present an approach to approximate reachable sets for linear systems with bounded L-infinity controls in finite time. Our first approach investigates the boundaries of these sets and reveals an exact characterization for single-input,…
Port-based network modeling of multi-physics problems leads naturally to a formulation as port-Hamiltonian differential-algebraic system. In this way, the physical properties are directly encoded in the structure of the model. Since the…
Stability and stabilization of linear port-Hamiltonian systems on infinite-dimensional spaces are investigated. This class is general enough to include models of beams and waves as well as transport and Schr\"odinger equations with boundary…
We investigate the existence of solutions of reversible and irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems. To this end, we utilize the associated exergy, a function that is composed of the system's Hamiltonian and entropy, to prove global existence…
The anisotropic and heterogeneous $N$-dimensional wave equation, controlled and observed at the boundary, is considered as a port-Hamiltonian system. A recent structure-preserving mixed Galerkin method is applied, leading directly to a…
We present an Imitation Learning approach for the control of dynamical systems with a known model. Our policy search method is guided by solutions from MPC. Typical policy search methods of this kind minimize a distance metric between the…
Bounded-rate multi-mode systems are hybrid systems that can switch among a finite set of modes. Its dynamics is specified by a finite number of real-valued variables with mode-dependent rates that can vary within given bounded sets. Given…
We present a novel model-order reduction (MOR) method for linear time-invariant systems that preserves passivity and is thus suited for structure-preserving MOR for port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems. Our algorithm exploits the well-known…
This paper addresses planning and control of robot motion under uncertainty that is formulated as a continuous-time, continuous-space stochastic optimal control problem, by developing a topology-guided path integral control method. The path…
We present the first review of methods to overapproximate the set of reachable states of linear time-invariant systems subject to uncertain initial states and input signals for short time horizons. These methods are fundamental to…
This paper develops a new approach to small time local attainability of smooth manifolds of any dimension, possibly with boundary and to prove H\"older continuity of the minimum time function. We give explicit pointwise conditions of any…
Generic Hamiltonian systems have a mixed phase space, where classically disjoint regions of regular and chaotic motion coexist. We present an iterative method to construct an integrable approximation, which resembles the regular dynamics of…
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…
We present quadratically convergent algorithms to compute the extremal value of a real parameter for which a given rational transfer function of a linear time-invariant system is passive. This problem is formulated for both continuous-time…
We discuss structure-preserving time discretization for nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems with state-dependent mass matrix. Such systems occur, for instance, in the context of structure-preserving nonlinear model order reduction for…
This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…