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The paper presents a novel approach to synthesize robust controllers for nonlinear systems along perturbed trajectories. The approach linearizes the system with respect to a reference trajectory. In contrast to existing methods rooted in…

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In this paper, we present an approach for designing correct-by-design controllers for cyber-physical systems composed of multiple dynamically interconnected uncertain systems. We consider networked discrete-time uncertain nonlinear systems…

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Robustness certification, which aims to formally certify the predictions of neural networks against adversarial inputs, has become an integral part of important tool for safety-critical applications. Despite considerable progress, existing…

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This paper aims at the safety-critical control synthesis of network systems such that the satisfaction of the safety constraints can be guaranteed. To handle the large state dimension of such systems, an assume-guarantee contract is used to…

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This paper studies the design of controllers for discontinuous dynamics that ensure the safety of non-smooth sets. The safe set is represented by arbitrarily nested unions and intersections of 0-superlevel sets of differentiable functions.…

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Stability is a very important property of any physical system. By a stable system, we broadly mean that small disturbances either in the system inputs or in the initial conditions do not lead to large changes in the overall behavior of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Ratnadip Adhikari

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…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance in mathematical reasoning tasks when guided by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. However, they tend to produce highly confident yet incorrect outputs, which poses significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zhenjiang Mao , Artem Bisliouk , Rohith Reddy Nama , Ivan Ruchkin

Run Time Assurance (RTA) Systems are online verification mechanisms that filter an unverified primary controller output to ensure system safety. The primary control may come from a human operator, an advanced control approach, or an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Kerianne Hobbs , Mark Mote , Matthew Abate , Samuel Coogan , Eric Feron

We offer a compositional data-driven scheme for synthesizing controllers that ensure global asymptotic stability (GAS) across large-scale interconnected networks, characterized by unknown mathematical models. In light of each network's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Mahdieh Zaker , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

The development of feedback controllers is undergoing a paradigm shift from $\textit{modelic}$ (model-driven) control to $\textit{datatic}$ (data-driven) control. Stability, as a fundamental property in control, is less well studied in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Yujie Yang , Zhilong Zheng , Shengbo Eben Li

We study the problem of system identification for stochastic continuous-time dynamics, based on a single finite-length state trajectory. We present a method for estimating the possibly unstable open-loop matrix by employing properly…

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This tutorial paper focuses on safe physics-informed machine learning in the context of dynamics and control, providing a comprehensive overview of how to integrate physical models and safety guarantees. As machine learning techniques…

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Safely controlling unknown dynamical systems is one of the biggest challenges in the field of control. Oftentimes, an approximate model of a system's dynamics exists which provides beneficial information for the selection of controls.…

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A fundamental challenge in learning an unknown dynamical system is to reduce model uncertainty by making measurements while maintaining safety. We formulate a mathematical definition of what it means to safely learn a dynamical system by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Abraar Chaudhry , Vikas Sindhwani , Stephen Tu

Robots deployed in unstructured, real-world environments operate under considerable uncertainty due to imperfect state estimates, model error, and disturbances. Given this real-world context, the goal of this paper is to develop controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Ryan K. Cosner , Preston Culbertson , Andrew J. Taylor , Aaron D. Ames

The application of machine learning on tabular data in specialized domains is severely limited by data scarcity. While generative models offer a solution, traditional methods falter in low-data regimes, and recent Large Language Models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Siyi Liu , Yujia Zheng , Yongqi Zhang

Recent advances in learning for control allow to synthesize vehicle controllers from learned system dynamics and maintain robust stability guarantees. However, no approach is well-suited for training linear time-invariant (LTI) controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Marc-Antoine Beaudoin , Benoit Boulet

We develop data-driven algorithms for reachability analysis and control of systems with a priori unknown nonlinear dynamics. The resulting algorithms not only are suitable for settings with real-time requirements but also provide provable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Franck Djeumou , Abraham P. Vinod , Eric Goubault , Sylvie Putot , Ufuk Topcu

The study of provable adversarial robustness has mostly been limited to classification tasks and models with one-dimensional real-valued outputs. We extend the scope of certifiable robustness to problems with more general and structured…

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