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We tackle the data-driven chance-constrained density steering problem using the Gromov-Wasserstein metric. The underlying dynamical system is an unknown linear controlled recursion, with the assumption that sufficiently rich input-output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Haruto Nakashima , Siddhartha Ganguly , Kenji Kashima

Patterns arise spontaneously in a range of systems spanning the sciences, and their study typically focuses on mechanisms to understand their evolution in space-time. Increasingly, there has been a transition towards controlling these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-17 Vishaal Krishnan , Sumit Sinha , L. Mahadevan

Reliable autonomous navigation requires adapting the control policy of a mobile robot in response to dynamics changes in different operational conditions. Hand-designed dynamics models may struggle to capture model variations due to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Abdullah Altawaitan , Jason Stanley , Sambaran Ghosal , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) is an exciting framework used for control of safety-critical systems with nonlinear and possibly uncertain dynamics. However, HJR suffers from the curse of dimensionality, with computation times growing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Dylan Hirsch , Sylvia Herbert

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for linear systems possessing a known strict-feedback structure, but with most plant parameters, external disturbances, and input delay being unknown. By leveraging Koopman operator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Zhenxu Zhao , Ji Wang , Weiyao Lan

Data-driven predictive control promises model-free wave-dampening strategies for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) in mixed traffic flow. However, its performance relies on data quality, which suffers from unknown noise and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Shuai Li , Chaoyi Chen , Haotian Zheng , Jiawei Wang , Qing Xu , Keqiang Li

Fast and Safe Tracking (FaSTrack) is a modular framework that provides safety guarantees while planning and executing trajectories in real time via value functions of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability. These value functions are computed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Hyun Joe Jeong , Zheng Gong , Somil Bansal , Sylvia Herbert

This work presents a method of efficiently computing inner and outer approximations of forward reachable sets for nonlinear control systems with changed dynamics and diminished control authority, given an a priori computed reachable set for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Hamza El-Kebir , Ani Pirosmanishvili , Melkior Ornik

As a core part of autonomous driving systems, motion planning has received extensive attention from academia and industry. However, real-time trajectory planning capable of spatial-temporal joint optimization is challenged by nonholonomic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhichao Han , Yuwei Wu , Tong Li , Lu Zhang , Liuao Pei , Long Xu , Chengyang Li , Changjia Ma , Chao Xu , Shaojie Shen , Fei Gao

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful approach for multimodal motion planning in autonomous driving. However, their practical deployment is typically hindered by the inherent difficulty in enforcing vehicle dynamics and a critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Rui Yang , Lei Zheng , Ruoyu Yao , Jun Ma

We consider the problem of verifying safety for continuous-time dynamical systems. Developing upon recent advancements in data-driven verification, we use only a finite number of sampled trajectories to learn a barrier certificate, namely a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Luke Rickard , Alessandro Abate , Kostas Margellos

This paper addresses the problem of secure data reconstruction for unknown systems, where data collected from the system are susceptible to malicious manipulation. We aim to recover the real trajectory without prior knowledge of the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Jiaqi Yan , Ivan Markovsky , John Lygeros

Learning-based motion planning can quickly generate near-optimal trajectories. However, it often requires either large training datasets or costly collection of human demonstrations. This work proposes an alternative approach that quickly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Dominik Urbaniak , Alejandro Agostini , Pol Ramon , Jan Rosell , Raúl Suárez , Michael Suppa

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for computing robust backward reachable sets from noisy data for unknown constrained linear systems subject to bounded disturbances. In particular, we develop an algorithm for obtaining zonotopic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Mehran Attar , Walter Lucia

A new method of deriving reduced models of Hamiltonian dynamical systems is developed using techniques from optimization and statistical estimation. Given a set of resolved variables that define a model reduction, the quasi-equilibrium…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 Bruce Turkington , Petr Plechac

We present a new machine learning technique which calculates a real-valued, time independent, finite dimensional Hamiltonian matrix from only experimental data. A novel cost function is given along with a proof that the cost function has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Jordan Burns , David Maughan , Yih Sung

Recently there have been a lot of interests in introducing UAVs for a wide range of applications, making ensuring safety of multi-vehicle systems a highly crucial problem. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is a promising tool for analyzing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Jennifer C. Shih , Laurent El Ghaoui

Safe trajectory planning for high-performance automated vehicles in an environment with both static and moving obstacles is a challenging problem. Part of the challenge is developing a formulation that can be solved in real-time while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Huckleberry Febbo , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Jeffrey L. Stein , Tulga Ersal

This paper proposes a fully data-driven approach for optimal control of nonlinear control-affine systems represented by a stochastic diffusion. The focus is on the scenario where both the nonlinear dynamics and stage cost functions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Nicolas Hoischen , Petar Bevanda , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche , Boris Houska

Autonomous coverage of a specified area by robots operating in close proximity with each other has many potential applications such as real-time monitoring of rapidly changing environments, and search and rescue; however, coordination and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Juan Chacon , Mo Chen , Razvan Fetecau