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This paper presents a safe model predictive control (SMPC) framework designed to ensure the satisfaction of hard constraints for systems perturbed by an external disturbance. Such safety guarantees are ensured, despite the disturbance, by…

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We propose a robust model predictive control (MPC) method for discrete-time linear systems with polytopic model uncertainty and additive disturbances. Optimizing over linear time-varying (LTV) state feedback controllers has been…

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The design of tracking controllers that closely follow a reference trajectory while ensuring safety and robustness against disturbances is a challenging problem in the control of autonomous systems. In this work, we propose a neural…

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Robust data-driven controllers typically rely on datasets from previous experiments, which embed information on the variability of the system parameters across past operational conditions. Complementarily, data collected online can…

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We propose a data-driven tracking model predictive control (MPC) scheme to control unknown discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. The scheme uses a purely data-driven system parametrization to predict future trajectories based on…

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This paper is concerned with the robust tracking control of linear uncertain systems, whose unknown system parameters and disturbances are bounded within ellipsoidal sets. We propose an adaptive robust control that can actively learn the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Xuehui Ma , Shiliang Zhang , Yushuai Li , Fucai Qian , Tingwen Huang

This paper studies the online control synthesis problem for uncertain discrete-time systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Different from existing techniques, this work proposes an approach based on STL, reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Pian Yu , Yulong Gao , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The robust disturbance rejection controller has been the subject of intensive research due to its undeniable importance for automation. Modern control theory tends to use model-based approaches versus model-free approaches, especially when…

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Motivated by the goal of learning controllers for complex systems whose dynamics change over time, we consider the problem of designing control laws for systems that switch among a finite set of unknown discrete-time linear subsystems under…

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We propose a novel approach to design a robust Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for constrained uncertain linear systems. The uncertain system is modeled as linear parameter varying with additive disturbance. Set bounds for the system…

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This paper proposes an Adaptive Learning Model Predictive Control strategy for uncertain constrained linear systems performing iterative tasks. The additive uncertainty is modeled as the sum of a bounded process noise and an unknown…

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In this paper, we propose a deep learning based control synthesis framework for fast and online computation of controllers that guarantees the safety of general nonlinear control systems with unknown dynamics in the presence of input…

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This paper addresses the offset-free tracking problem for nonlinear systems described by a class of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). To compensate for constant disturbances and guarantee offset-free tracking in the presence of model-plant…

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This paper presents a robust adaptive learning Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for linear systems with parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances performing iterative tasks. The approach refines the parameter estimates…

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We consider the online control problem with an unknown linear dynamical system in the presence of adversarial perturbations and adversarial convex loss functions. Although the problem is widely studied in model-based control, it remains…

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We develop a tracking model predictive control (MPC) scheme for nonlinear systems using the linearized dynamics at the current state as a prediction model. Under reasonable assumptions on the linearized dynamics, we prove that the proposed…

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This paper deals with the tracking control problem for a class of unknown pure feedback system with pure state constraints on the state variables and unknown time-varying bounded disturbances. An adaptive controller is presented for such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Pankaj Kumar Mishra , Nishchal K Verma

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